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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · March 3, 1881 · Chapter 133

Chapter 133.

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CHAP. 133.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes.March 3, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Sundry civil expenses. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings.Public buildings. Courthouse and post-office, Austin, Texas : For completion of building,Austin. sewerage, and approaches, thirty-three thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Albany, New York : For continuationAlbany. of building, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Post-office and subtreasury, Boston, Boston.Massachusetts : For continuation of building three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Courthouse and subtreasury, Chicago,Chicago.
Illinois: For painting, fencing, and to complete work on grounds and interior finish of buildings, twenty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Cincinnati, Ohio : For continuationCincinnati. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Fall River, Massachusetts: For completionFall River. of building and approaches, including heating apparatus, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Hartford, Connecticut : For completion Hartford.of building and approaches, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Courthouse and post-office, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: For completionHarrisburg. of building, seventy thousand dollars. Courthouse and post-office, Kansas City, Missouri : For continuationKansas City. of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. Courthouse and post-office. Little Rock, Arkansas : For approachesLittle Bock. (fencing, grading, and paving), eighteen thousand dollars. Customhouse, Courthouse, and post-office, Memphis, Tennessee: For continuationMemphis. of building, one hundred thousand dollars.
Customhouse and post-office, New Orleans, Louisiana: For completionNew Orleans. of entrance and sidewalk, forty thousand dollars. Courthouse and post-office, New York, New York: For approaches in rearNew York. (coping and fence), fifteen thousand dollars. Barge-office building, New York, New York: For completion of building, one hundred thousand dollars. Customhouse, Courthouse, and post-office, Nashville, Tennessee : ForNashville. approaches (grading, fencing and paving), fifteen thousand dollars.
Post-office and Courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : For continuationPhiladelphia.*Proviso*. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars : *Provided*, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the amount hereby appropriated, shall be expended in completing immediately and fitting up for use the rooms in said building intended for occupancy by the United States courts and the officers connected therewith. Courthouse and post-office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
For continuationPittsburgh. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri ; For continuation Saint Louis.of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For a post-office and other offices in Baltimore. Maryland, on the siteBaltimore. purposed by the United States for that object, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury according to the plans and estimates made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the 436 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 133. 1881. Postmaster-General, and the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. the cost of said building shall not exceed the amount of said estimates. Courthouse and post office, Topeka, Kansas: For continuation ofTopeka.*Proviso*. building, ninety thousand dollars : *Provided*, That the roof of said building shall be iron-framed and fireproof, and that the limit of cost for the entire building be extended twenty thousand dollars to cover increased cost therefor.
Courthouse and post-office, Utica, New York: For approaches (grading,Utica. fencing, and paving), twenty thousand dollars. Building for Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DistrictWashington City. of Columbia : For outbuilding for office and wagon-house, five thousand dollars. Customhouse and Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio: For continuation of Toledo.*Proviso*.budding, one hundred thousand dollars : *Provided*, That the total cost of the building, with the additional land authorized to be purchased, in the city of Toledo, Ohio, shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollar’s ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to sell the public building and other structures standing on the lots now owned by the United States as a building site in the said city, and apply the fund realized from such sale to the construction of the new building authorized to be erected ; and the amount so applied shall be deducted from the sum limited herein to be expended on this improvement.
Courthouse and post-office Montgomery, Alabama: For continuationMontgomery, Ala. of building, forty thousand dollars. Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia : For annual repairs, Repairs of Treasury building, Washington City.Repairs of public buildings.and general repairs to roof, forty thousand dollars. Repair's and preservation of public buildings : For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the repair and preservation of public buildings in Alaska, eight thousand dollars. For fireproof extension of the Government Printing Office building,Government Printing Office building. and a stable, including heating apparatus and plumbing, to be erected on property now belonging to the government, upon plans approved by the Architect of the Capitol, forty thousand dollars, the work to be done under his direction ; said appropriation to be available during the present fiscal year ; and any expenditure on a plan that shall cost a greater sum to complete it shall be deemed unlawful. light-houses and fog-signals.Light-houses and fog-signals.
Fog-signals on lightships: For substituting steam fog-signal machinery Steam fog-signals.for the caloric engines now in use on lightships numbers forty-one and forty-two, fifteen thousand dollars. Steam-tender for service on the Atlantic coast : For building a steam-tenderSteam-tender. for general use on the Atlantic coast, fifty-five thousand dollars. Stamford Harbor Light Station, Connecticut: For completing theStamford Harbor lighthouse.1880, ch. 235, *ante*, 263. lighthouse in Stamford Harbor, Connecticut, the appropriation of seven thousand dollars made by the act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, for the establishment of a light on Forked Rock, Stamford Harbor, Connecticut, being hereby made available for establishing a light on such point in Stamford Harbor as the lighthouse Board may select, twenty-three thousand dollars.
Staten Island Depot, New York: For repairs to the wharf and dredgingStaten Island Depot. of the basin at the general depot of the lighthouse establishment on Staten Island, New York, five thousand dollars. Stannard’s Rock Light Station, Michigan : For completing the erectionStannard’s Rock Light Station. of a lighthouse on Stannard’s Rock, Lake Superior, Michigan, seventy-three thousand dollars. Tillamook Head Light Station, Oregon: For completing the erectionTillamook Head Light Station. of a first-order lighthouse and steam fog-signal on the rock off Tillamook 437 Head, Oregon, twenty-five thousand dollars, the same.to be immediately available.
Point Conception Light Station, California: For rebuilding stationPoint Conception Light Station. and purchasing land for site of lighthouse at Point Conception, California, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars shall be used for purchase of the site; and no portion of the residue of said appropriation shall be expended until the title to the said site is vested in the United States. For the erection of a lighthouse and fog-bell on Whale Rock, at theWhale Rock, Narragansett Bay. entrance of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the construction and establishment of a light ship on Five FathomFive Fathom Bank. Bank, in Delaware Bay, fifty thousand dollars. For the purpose of lighting the Savannah River between the mouthSavannah River. of said river and the city of Savannah, Georgia, sixty thousand dollars. For commencing a light-station on Sanabel Island, Punta Rossa Harbor,Sanabel Island. Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For the erection of a lighthouse and fog-bell on Bloody Point Bar,Bloody Point Bar.
Kent Island, Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the establishment of a bell-buoy on Graham Shoals, in the StraitsGraham Shoals. of Mackinaw, two thousand dollars. For reestablishing a light at Bass River Harbor, Massachusetts, four Bass River Harbor.hundred dollars. For a fourth-order light on Sherwood Point, Green Bay, Wisconsin,Sherwood Point, Green Bay. twelve thousand dollars. For range-lights on Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, eleven thousand dollars.Sturgeon Bay.
For completing the Capo Henry lighthouse Station, Virginia,Cape Henry lighthouse Station. twenty-five thousand dollars. The money heretofore appropriated for establishing a fog-signal onSandy or West Point, Puget Sound. Sandy or West Point, Puget Sound, shall be applicable to the establishment and construction of both a lighthouse and fog-signal at that point. life-saving stations. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as follows Life-Saving Service.: On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one, of Massachusetts, one, at one thousand dollars each ; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars ; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, five hundred dollars.
For salary of one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one at one thousand dollars ; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one at one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the houses of refuge on the coast of Florida, one thousand dollars ; and of one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand dollars, and of one on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Eric, one thousand dollars.
For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and life boat stations, as follows : One on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, and of one on the coast of Lake Michigan, at one thousand dollars each. For salary of one hundred and ninety-six keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, at four hundred dollars each, seventy-eight thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of crews of experienced surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service, rendered upon each occasion of disaster, at such 438 rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine ; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise ; fuel for stations and houses of refuge ; repairs and outfits for same ; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked-persons succored at stations ; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repair’s to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, four hundred and seventy thousand dollars. establishing-life-saving stations.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew life-saving stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, including a station at the Falls of the Ohio River, near Louisville, Kentucky, twenty-five thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-cutter service. Expenses of revenue-cutter service : For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots, and for rations for the same ; and for pay of potty-officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations, for the same ; and for fuel for vessels, repairs and outfits for same; shipchandlery and engineers’ stores for same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Rebuilding revenue-steamer William P. Fessenden: For rebuilding the revenue-steamer William P. Fessenden with iron hull, seventy-five thousand dollars. Constructing a revenue-steamer: For construction of a revenue-steamer for duty on the southern coast of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars. engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely: For laborBureau of Engraving and Printing.Labor, etc. (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work ; and for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States ; for materials, required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers’ tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repair's of. same ; and for expenses of operating macerating machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. light-house establishment.
Keepers of light-houses : For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quartersKeepers of lighthouses (where necessary), and similar incidental expenses of ten hundred and fifteen light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels : For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries,Light-vessels. supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-one lightships, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. 439 Buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing,Buoyage. removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fog-signals : For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, duplicating,Fog-signals. establishing, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, sixty thousand dollars. Inspecting lights : For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights andInspecting light. other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars. Supplies of light-houses : For supplying the light-houses, beacon-lights,Supplies. and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for light-stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of light-houses : For repairs and incidental expenses of light-housesRepairs. and stations; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith ; for the establishing and repairing pier headlights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hundred and ten thousand dollars ; of which sum thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to the rebuilding of the lighthouse on Sharp’s Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, to be immediately available.
Lighting and buoyage : For maintenance of lights and buoys on theLighting and buoyage on Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers.Survey of sites for light-houses. Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, and at the mouth of Red River, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Survey of lighthouse sites: For examination and survey of sites for proposed light-houses, and preparing plans for proposed structures, ten thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, eastern division :
For every'Survey of Atlantic and Golf coasts. purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the Mississippi and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or ship-navigation ; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and current-observations along the above-named coasts, in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulfstream, including its entrance into the Gulf, its course through the Caribbean and into and around the Sargasso Sea ; the triangulation towards the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, the magnetic map of Eastern North America, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars; and of this sum eight thousand dollars shall be immediately available.
For continuation of the resurvey of the Delaware Bay and River, tenDelaware Bay and River. thousand dollars. Survey of the Pacific coasts, western division: For every purposeSurvey of Pacific coasts. and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or of ship-navigation ; deep-sea soundings, temperatures, currents, and dredgings along and also in the Japan Stream flowing off these coasts; the triangulation towards the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, the magnetic map of Western North America, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and of this sum six thousand dollars shall be immediately available. 440 Repairs of vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey :
For the repairs andVessels. maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, thirty thousand dollars. Publishing observations, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For continuingPublishing observations. the publication of observations, and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, six thousand dollars. General expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey :
For rent of buildingsGeneral expenses. for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of fireproof building number two hundred and five, NewRent of fireproof building. Jersey avenue south (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures), for the safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records ; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, five thousand dollars.
For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars.Fuel. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; theTransportation of instruments, maps, and charts; purchase now instruments, etc. ; miscellaneous. purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Expenses of national currency : For paper, engraving, printing, expressNational currency. charges, and other expenses, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Distinctive paper for United States notes : For paper, including millDistinctive paper. expenses, transportation, examination, counting, and delivery, twenty-five thousand dollars. under the commissioner of fish and fisheries. Propagation of food-fishes : For the introduction of shad and freshwaterFood-fishes. herring into the waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf and Great Lake States, and of salmon, whitefish, carp, gourami, and other useful food-fishes into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best adapted ; also for the propagation of cod, herring, mackerel, halibut, Spanish mackerel, and other sea-fishes, and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the United States, ninety-five thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available.
For rent of rooms and other necessary office expenses, one thousandRent of rooms, etc. five hundred dollars. For maintenance of the United States carp-ponds in the city of Washington and elsewhere, five thousand dollars. For maintenance of the United States fish-hatching vessels, which shall be immediately available, fifteen thousand dollars. For the reconstruction of buildings at the salmon-fishery on the McCloud River, in California, ten thousand dollars, to be available immediately.
For collecting statistics of the seacoast and lake fisheries of theStatistics of seacoast and lake fisheries. United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, three thousand five hundred dollars. For preparation of illustrations for the Report of the United StatesIllustrations for report. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars. For the construction of a steamer for the prosecution of the work andSteamer. investigations of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one hundred and three thousand dollars. 441 For construction and verification of standard weights and measures,Standard weights and measures. including metric standards, for the Customhouses and other offices of the United States, and for the several States, and of mural standards of length in Washington, District of Columbia, fiveRent of fireproof rooms. thousand dollars; for rent of fireproof rooms in building number two hundred and five, New Jersey avenue south, for the safekeeping and preservation of finished weights, measures,Fuel, etc. balances, and metric standards, one thousand dollars ; for fuel and lights, materials, transportation, traveling and other miscellaneous expenses, six hundred dollars; for expenses of the attendance of the American member of the International CommitteeInternational Committee on Weights and measures. on Weights and Measures at the sexennial general conference provided for in the convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, light, water,Fuel, etc., for public buildings. and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, hatchets, and hammers, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production ofStatistics of precious metals. the precious metals in the United States, four thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Director of the Mint.
Furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings : For furnitureFurniture, and repairs of, for public buildings. and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings, including new public buildings at Hartford, Connecticut, Nashville, Tennessee, and Utica, New York, under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Pay of custodians and janitors : For pay of custodians and janitorsPay of custodians and janitors. for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, ninety thousand dollars.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, andVaults, safes, and locks. locks, and repairs of the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, sixty thousand dollars. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, ventilating, and Heating apparatus.hoisting apparatus, and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. Plans for public buildings :
For photographing materials, and laborPlans. for duplicating plans for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. Suppressing counterfeiting and similar felonies : For expenses of detectingCounterfeiting. and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, eighty thousand dollars.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moietiesCompensation in lieu of moieties. in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty thousand dollars. Salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska :Agents at seal-fisheries, Alaska. For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each ; necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue-steamers forRevenue steamers. the protection of the interests of the government on the seal-islands, the sea-otter-hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty-five thousand dollars. 442 Examination of rebel archives and records of captured property: ToRebel archives and records of captured property. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the records of captured and abandoned property examined, and information furnished therefrom, for the use and protection of the government, five thousand dollars.
Lands and other property of the United States ; For custody, care,Custody of lands, etc., United States. and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for theLibrary Treasury Department. library of the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. Preparation of receipts, expenditures, and appropriations of the Government Statistics of receipts, expenditures, and appropriations of the United States Government.:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the resolutions of the Senate of October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in preparing for publication consolidated statements of the appropriations and expenditures of the War Department from March fourth, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and of the Indian Department from July sixteenth, seventeen hundred and ninety, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight ; and for the work, in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, pertaining generally to the preparation for publication of the receipts and expenditures and appropriations of the government, for the use of Congress and the several departments, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay W. A. RichardsonW. A. Richardson.1880, Res., 44.*Ante*, 308., when the work shall have been completed, for preparing and editing a supplement to the Revised Statutes under joint resolution approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain and report toHarbor, pilot, and other charges against American and foreign vessels tinder State laws.Inspection of neat cattle exported ; certificate to shippers that cattle are free from pleuropneumonia.
Congress the harbor, pilot, and other charges to which American and foreign vessels are subject under State laws, and the taxation upon shipowners, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to procure information concerning and to make inspection of neat cattle shipped from any port in the United States to any foreign port, so as to enable him to cause to be issued to the shippers of such cattle certificates showing in proper cases that such cattle are free from the disease known as pleuropneumonia, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse Ainsworth R.Ainsworth R. Spofford. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, the amount stolen from his disbursing clerk on the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand six hundred and forty dollars. National Board of Health : For salaries and expenses of the NationalNational Board of Health. Board of Health, and to carry out the purposes of the various acts creating the National Board of Health, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary : *Proviso*.1879, ch. 11.*Ante, 7*.*Provided*, That fifty thousand dollars of the appropriation made by act of June second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States ”, shall be applied to the same purposes ; and no more money shall be expended for the above purposes out of any appropriations heretofore made or by virtue of any previous law.
For aid to local quarantine stations and for aid to local and StateLocal quarantine stations and State boards of health.*Proviso*.1879, ch. 11.*Ante, 7*. boards of health, to be used in case of epidemic, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That fifty thousand dollars of the appropriation made by act of June second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States”, shall be applied to the same purposes, and no money shall be expended for the above service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one other than that specifically appropriated by the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and 443 eighty, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government.
North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution : For the purposeNorth American ethnology. of continuing ethnological researches among the North American Indians, under the direction of the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, twenty-five thousand dollars; five thousand dollars of which shall be expended in continuing archaeological investigations relating to mound-builders and prehistoric mounds, and be available immediately. arrears of pay and bounty. That with a view to the prompt payment of claims for arrears of payPay and bounty one officers and men, regular and volunteer forces, heirs and legal representatives. and bounty due to officers and enlisted men of the regular and volunteer forces, and their heirs and legal representatives, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much as may be required to pay said claims, under the following heads of appropriations:
“Pay of two and three year volunteers”, “Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs”, and “Pay, and so forth, of the Army”: *Provided, however*, That the Secretary*Proviso*. of the Treasury shall report to Congress, at the commencement of each regular session, the amount that has been paid out under this provision during the preceding fiscal year. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois : For continuation of shopRock Island Arsenal.
I, a wood working and leather-working shop for the arsenal, seventy-five thousand dollars. For shop H, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, fifty-five thousand dollars. For shop K, the last of the armory shops, twenty thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, fifteen thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvement : For building new roads ; care and preservation of the water-power ; painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings and bridges and shores of the island; building fences and grading grounds; and repairs of and extension of railroad, twelve thousand dollars.
For continuing the improvement of the water-power pool, fifty thousand dollars. For care and preservation of the Rock Island Bridge, and expense ofRock Island bridge. maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars ; for protecting piers of bridge by sheerbooms, six hundred dollars ; in all, nine thousand six hundred dollars. Arsenal at Benicia, California : To build machine and armorer’s shop,Benicia Arsenal. and for rebuilding the carpenter’s and blacksmith’s shops, fifty thousand dollars.
For one timber-shed, two thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing repairs on wharf, two thousand dollars. For building freight-house, one thousand dollars. For continuing boring the artesian well, or, if artesian water is procured, for putting down permanent iron pipe and turbine-wheel, to be run by flow of water, to pump up water to reservoir, five thousand dollars. Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservationSpringfield Armory. of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars.
Repairs of arsenals : For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet suchRepairs at Arsenals. unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accident or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty thousand dollars. 444 buildings and grounds in and around washington and the executive mansion. Improvement and care of public grounds : For filling in and improvingImprovement and care of public grounds. grounds south of Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and the nursery, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation number three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, five hundred dollars.
For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care and construction and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving various reservations, twelve thousand dollars For ordinary care of Smithsonian Grounds, two thousand dollars.
For asphaltum foot-walks through Smithsonian Grounds from Seventh to Twelfth streets, one thousand five hundred dollars. Executive Mansion : For care of and repairs to the Executive Mansion,Executive Mansion. and for furniture, thirty thousand dollars; for constructing elevator in the Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars, to be available immediately ; fuel for the Executive Mansion and the greenhouses, two thousand dollars ; care and necessary repairs of the greenhouses, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds : For gas, payLights, etc. of lamplighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lampposts, matches, and repairs of all kinds ; fuel for office, *Proviso*.for the watchmen’s lodges, and for the green houses in the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars : *Provided*, That for each burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-five dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act ; and in case a contract cannot be made at that rate the engineer in charge is hereby authorized to substitute other illuminating material in the lamps on the public grounds, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.
Repair of water-pipes and fireplugs : For repairing and extendingWater pipes, etc. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and the GovernmentTelegraph. Printing Office : For repair and care of the same, one thousand dollars.
Building for State, War, and Navy Departments : For continuing theBuilding for State, War, and Navy Departments. construction of the building ; to cover inside ironwork ; plumbing and gas-fitting ; granite stairs ; heating apparatus ; plastering and stucco-work ; materials for approaches ; lumber for doors, sash, and flooring ; labor and contingencies, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Continuation of the Washington Monument; Earth embankments,Washington Monument. marble, granite, iron framework, machinery, tools, labor, and office expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 445 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER WAR DEPARTMENT. signal service.Signal Service.
Observation and report of storms: For the expenses of the observationObservation and report of storms, expenses of. and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States ; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports ; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms ; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life-saving stations and light-houses; for instrument-shelters; for hire, of furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports ; for river reports ; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution ; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery ; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Construction, maintenance, and repair of military telegraph lines:Military telegraph lines. For the construction and continuing the construction, maintenance, and use of military telegraph lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers and in the Northwest, and for the connection of military posts and stations, and for the better protection of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in the States of Texas and Nevada and the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Indian Territory, seventy-five thousand dollars.
National cemeteries : For maintaining and Improving national cemeteries,National cemeteries.Chattanooga. one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the improvement of the national cemetery near Chattanooga, Tennessee, by constructing a road or public highway from said cemetery to the city of Chattanooga, five thousand dollars. For pay of seventy-two superintendents of national cemeteries, fifty-ninePay of superintendents.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes. thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Survey of northern and northwestern lakes : For water-level observations and reductions, comparisons of standards of base apparatus and reductions and issuing charts for use of navigators, completion of publication of final report, office-rent, clerk-hire, fuel, and miscellaneous, eighteen thousand dollars ; and the unexpended balance, not exceeding eight thousand dollars, of the appropriation for survey of northern and northwestern lakes for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purpose.
Publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: ForPublication of Official Records of War of the rebellion. compensation of temporary clerks and other employees, thirty-four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For rent of necessary offices; for traveling expenses in connection with the collection of Confederate records placed by gift or loan at the disposal of the government ; for fuel, lights, stationery, and all other similar necessaries, five thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For continuing the preparation of the publication of the official records, indexing and proofreading, and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of Wai’, of ten thousand copies of a compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, of the war of the rebellion, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal1880, ch. 235.*Ante*, 269. year, to be distributed as provided in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, forty thousand dollars.
Expenses of military convicts : For payment of costs and charges ofMilitary convicts. State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, sixteen thousand dollars. United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provide Artillery School, Fortress Monroe.for textbooks, drawing materials, models, and material necessary 446 in the science of engineering and of artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for the use of the school, five thousand dollars.
Support of military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : F or subsistenceMilitary prison, Fort Leavonworth.Items. stores for three hundred and seventy-five prisoners, twenty thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For one thousand eight hundred gallons lard-oil, for illuminating purposes ; one hundred pounds of wicking, and for lamps and lanterns (one hundred dollars), one thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. For tobacco for issue to prisoners on special and excessive hard labor, four hundred dollars.
For hay for prisoners’ bedding, three hundred and twenty dollars. For one thousand five hundred cords hard wood, for making steam for heating and cooking purposes and running machinery, nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For hose for fire-engine and water-tanks ; for belting, machine-oil, and cotton-waste; and for extension and repair of steam circulation, one thousand two hundred dollars. For stoves, and stovepipe, in buildings not heated by steam, one hundred dollars.
For stationery and blank books for offices of governor, adjutant, and quartermaster, four hundred dollars. For material for three hundred suits citizen’s clothing, three hundred citizen’s hats, and for' donations of five dollars each to three hundred prisoners on discharge, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For two hundred straw hats, and for materials for prisoners’ clothing in summer1, one thousand and fifty dollars. For medical supplies, one thousand dollars.
For twenty thousand paving-bricks, for lining cisterns and repaving walks, and for stone coping for prison-wall, two thousand two hundred dollars. For tools and materials in shops : For carpenter’s, one thousand dollars ; for farrier’s and blacksmith’s, six hundred dollars ; for painter’s, five hundred dollars; for tinner’s, one hundred dollars, for harness, one hundred dollars ; for tailor’s, one hundred dollars ; for shoe, one hundred dollars ; for wheelwright’s, one hundred and fifty dollars ; in laundry, one hundred and fifty dollars; for brooms and scrub-brushes, two hundred dollars ; for miscellaneous stores, drainage of grounds, and disinfectants, one thousand dollars ; in all, four thousand dollars.
For expenses in pursuit of and for apprehension and delivery of escaped prisoners, two hundred and forty dollars. For pay of two clerks, one in office of governor and disbursing officer, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month, and one in office of prison quartermaster, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents per month ; two night watchmen, at thirty dollars each per month, guarding grounds and property adjacent to prison ; and five teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each, driving prison teams; in all, five thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents.
For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison-guard, in charge of working parties, and to one as clerk in office of prison adjutant, at ten dollars and fifty cents per month, seven hundred and ten dollars. Hire of foremen : For one carpenter, one blacksmith, one engineer in charge of stationary engine and steam-heating apparatus, one engineer in charge of portable engine and machinery in shops, one quarryman, and one stonemason (six in all), at one hundred dollars per month each, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
For construction and repair of prison buildings, four thousand dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventeen cents. Support of transient paupers : For care, support, and medical treatmentTransient paupers, Washington City. of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars. 447 Artificial limbs:
For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and transportation, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers : For providing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, not otherwise provided for, three thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedFree transportation of silver coin.*Proviso*. and directed to transport free of charge silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury by the applicant or applicants ; and that there is hereby appropriated twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for that purpose, and that the same be available from and after the passage of this act.
Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, current expenses, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.General George B. McClellan appointed a manager.*Proviso*.including construction and repairs : For the Central Branch, for the Eastern Branch, for the Northwestern Branch, for the Southern Branch, and for out door relief and incidental expenses, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars : *Provided*, That the Secretary of War be directed to turn over to the managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers all the old clothing now held for issue to the National Home.
Said managers are authorized to estimate for building Building for insane.and maintenance at the Central Branch of a building or buildings for the safe and proper keeping of the insane. And General John Love, of the State of Indiana, one of the managers of said homes, having died, General George B. McClellan, of the State of New Jersey, is hereby appointed to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. Road from Fort Scott to the national cemetery, Kansas : For completionRoad from Fort Scott to cemetery, Kansas. of roadway from Fort Scott, Kansas, to the national cemetery near that city, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Road from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the national cemetery: ForRoad from Vicksburg to national cemetery. completion of roadway from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the nation al cemetery near that city, ten thousand dollars. For constructing a carriageway from New Market street in the cityCarriage-way to military depot, Jeffersonville, Indiana. of Jeffersonville, Indiana, to the United States military depot in said city, under the direction of the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars.
For transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries throughTransportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through Smithsonian Institution.Catalogue of Library of Surgeon-General’s office.Mississippi River Commission. the Smithsonian Institution, five hundred dollars. Printing Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office: For printing and binding the third volume of the Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, ten thousand dollars.
Mississippi River Commission : For salaries and traveling expenses of Commission, office expenses, and reduction of work ; for continuation of surveys and gaugings of Mississippi River and its tributaries ; for permanent gauge-stations and borings; for publication of maps and results, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Observation and exploration in the Arctic Seas : For continuing theScientific observation and exploration in Lady Franklin Bay. work of scientific observation and exploration on or near the shores of Lady Franklin Bay, and for transportation of men and supplies to said location and return, twenty-five thousand dollars.
To complete the construction of Fort Maginnis, near the Musselshell Fort Maginnis.River, in the Territory of Montana, fifty-five thousand seven hundred and five dollars and eighty-four cents. For the extension of the United States wharf at Sandy Hook, New Wharf at Sandy Hook.Jersey, five thousand dollars. For the completion of Fort Assinaboine, in the Territory of Montana-,Fort Assinaboine. forty-five thousand dollars. For the completion of necessary buildings, including officers’ quarters, for the headquartersSan Antonio, military Department, Texas. of the military department of Texas, at San Antonio, Texas, fifty thousand dollars. 448 For the erection of permanent barracks and officers’ quarters at FortFort Leavenworth.
Leavenworth, Kansas, according to plans to be adopted by the Secretary of War, thirty thousand dollars. For the expenses of the surveys to be made across the peninsula ofSurveys of Maryland and Delaware peninsula. Maryland and Delaware to connect by canal the waters of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of a suitable site in the city of Washington for the Site for building for Pension Bureau.erection of a brick and metal fireproof building to be used and occupied by the Pension Bureau, the building to be erected in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, under the supervision of the Quartermaster-General of the United States Army, the site for which shall be selected by him, subject to the approval of the Secretaries aforesaid, both as to location and price, and the title to the land to be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. navy-yards and stations.Navy-yards, etc. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For waterworks, fivePortsmouth, N.H. thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts : For repairing rope-walk, twentyBoston. thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia : For two cisterns thousand dollars.Norfolk. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For continuation of stone dry-dock, Mare Island.two hundred thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida :
To continue the improvement of thePensacola. Pensacola Navy Yard in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy, seventy-five thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards : For navy-yards and stations,Repairs and preservation. three hundred thousand dollars. To complete the construction and repair of the Marine Barracks atMarine Barracks, Washington City. Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to cause to be constructed andTombstones, naval cemetery, Philadelphia. placed over the unmarked graves of persons interred in the naval cemetery at Philadelphia suitable headstones, four hundred and forty-five dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to establish at the Isthmus of Naval stations and coal depots at Isthmus of Panama.Panama naval stations and depots of coal for the supply of steamships of war, two hundred thousand dollars to be available for expenditure as soon as suitable arrangements can be made to the proposed end. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to protect and preserve cemeteriesCemeteries in foreign countries. in foreign countries used for the most part for the burial of citizens of this government, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to immediately charter or purchase,Dispatch of vessel to search for Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette. equip, and supply a vessel for the prosecution of a search for the steamer Jeannette of the Arctic exploring expedition (which the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to undertake), and such other vessels as may be found to need assistance during said cruise, one *Proviso*.hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars : *Provided*, That said vessel shall be wholly manned by volunteers from the Navy.
Armory, Naval Academy: For the erection of an armory for the safeNaval Academy, armory. keeping and preservation of arms, equipments, and ammunition, in lieu of the present wooden building, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs of building, Naval Academy : For the necessary alterationsRepairs of building. and repairs of the building of the department of steam-engineering, three thousand six hundred dollars. Barracks and quarters at the Naval Academy : For construction ofBarracks and quarters. suitable barracks and quarters for the officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps, forty thousand dollars. 449 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. public buildings.
Casual repairs, Interior Department building: For casual repairs ofRepairs of Interior Department building.Model cases. the department building, eight thousand dollars. Reconstructing Interior Department building: For new model-cases for the west wing, eighty thousand dollars. For repairing rooms in north and west wings injured by fire and waterRepair of rooms in north and west wing of building. in September, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of Ingall’s portrait of the late Thomas Ewing, first Ingall’s portrait of the late Thomas Ewing, purchase of.Capitol extension.Secretary of the Interior, six hundred dollars.
Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol and general repairs thereof, for fireproofing the gallery of the National Statuary Hall and the rooms adjoining, for shelving the rooms for the accommodation of the house documentary library, for cutting doorway from the northwestern room to connect with the Congressional Library, and for shelving such rooms in the basement story of the south wing of the Capitol as the Speaker may designate for the reception of the stationery and files to be moved from the rooms connected with the Hall, fifty thousand dollars.
For passenger elevator in south wing of the Capitol, to be located by Elevator.the Architect of the Capitol, seven thousand dollars ; such elevator to be so located as to interfere as little as possible with the use of the offices and committee-rooms of the House. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase works ofWorks of art. art, ten thousand dollars. Improving Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of the improvementsCapitol grounds. of the Capitol Grounds, sixty thousand dollars.
Lighting Capitol and grounds: For lighting Capitol and groundsLighting, etc. about the same, including Botanic Garden and Senate stables; for gas, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for electric lighting, and for general repairs to lamps and pipes, thirty thousand dollars. Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia : For annual repairsCourt-house, Washington City. to Courthouse in the city of Washington, eight hundred dollars. Furniture and fixtures, National Museum :
For cases, furniture,National Museum. and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of geology, mineralogy, natural history, ethnology, and technology, belonging to the United States, sixty thousand dollars. Heating and lighting National Museum: For expense of heating, lighting, telephonic and electrical service for the new museum building, six thousand dollars. Rent of building for Court of Claims: To enable the Secretary of theRent of building for Court of Claims.
Interior to pay the rent for that part of the Freedman’s Bank building as is occupied by the Court of Claims, three thousand six hundred dollars. BOTANIC GARDEN. For removing earth over Tiber Sewer, for laying concrete footwalks,Botanic Garden. for cutting and setting edging, and for repairs to buildings at the Botanic Gardens, seven thousand two hundred and eighty seven dollars and sixty cents PUBIC LANDS.Contingent, expenses of offices of surveyors-general for—Louisiana. offices of sueveyorsgeneral of public lands.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Louisiana: For fuel, books, stationery, messenger hire, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. 450 Contingent expenses, office of surveyor general of Florida : For rentFlorida. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Minnesota: For fuel,Minnesota. books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one. thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Dakota: For rentDakota. of office of surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Colorado: For rentColorado. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico : For rentNew Mexico. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of California : For fuel,California. books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Idaho : For rent Idaho.of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada: For rentNevada. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Oregon : For fuel,Oregon. books, stationery’, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Washington : For rentWashington. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rentNebraska. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Montana: For rentMontana. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of survey-general of Utah : For rentUtah. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Wyoming : For rentWyoming. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Arizona : For rentArizona. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receiversRegisters and receivers of public moneys. of public moneys, at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred thousandIncidental expenses. dollars. For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of publicDepositing moneys. lands, ten thousand dollars. To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, forty thousandTimber lands. dollars. For expenses of adjusting claims for indemnity for swamp lands, andSwamp lands. for indemnity for swamp lands, fifteen thousand dollars. 451 surveying the public lands.
For surveying the public lands, three hundred thousand dollars, toSurveys of public lands. be immediately available at rates not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, ten dollars for township, and eight dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township,*Proviso*. and ten dollars for section lines : *Provided*, That the part of the sum hereby appropriated which may be apportioned to the surveying district of Louisiana, together with such sums as have been or may be deposited for surveys thereinR.
S. 2401.R. S. 2402.R. S. 2403. by actual settlers, under sections two thousand four hundred and one, two thousand four hundred and two, two thousand four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes, may be, in whole or in part, employed in making such resurveys as may be necessary in the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. For surveying confirmed private land-claims in California, at the ratesPrivate land claims in:California;New Mexico; per mile prescribed by law, and office expenses ten thousand dollars.
For the preliminary survey of unconfirmed and survey of confirmed private land-claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars. For the preliminary survey of unconfirmed and survey of confirmedArizona. private land-claims in Arizona, at a rate not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars. For occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveyingTest examinations of public surveys. districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, inspect mineral deposits, coalfields, and timber districts, eight thousand dollars.
For running correction lines guide meridians, and township lines in the strip of public land lying north of the State of Texas, and bounded on the north by the States of Colorado and Kansas, to be done under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, eighteen thousand dollars. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continuePreservation of worn and defaced plats of surveys. to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys now on file, and constituting a part of the records of said office, ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to protect, preserve and improveYellowstone National Park.R. S. 2475. the Yellowstone National Park, in compliance with section twenty-four hundred and seventy five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.Geological survey.Salary of director. For the salary of the Director of the Geological Survey, six thousand dollars. For the expenses of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, including pay of civilian employees, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The unexpended balance for the completion of the office work of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories for the fiscalReappropriation of unexpended balance. year eighteen hundred and eighty one, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes. TENTH CENSUS.Tenth Census. For engraving and printing, one hundred and twenty five thousandEngraving and printing. dollars. For the completion of the tenth census, including the compilationCompletion, compilation, and publication. and publication of its results, five hundred thousand dollars, to be im- 452 mediately available; and not exceeding five thousand dollars of said amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby authorized Rent of buildingsto be used for payment of rent of buildings in Washington, District of Columbia, for use of the Census Office.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital for the insane Current expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane : For support,Insane of the Army, etc. clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the Army, 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.indigent insane from the District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; and of this sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for transporting patients to their friends.
Buildings and grounds, Government Hospital for the Insane: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. Current expenses, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: ForDeaf and dumb. support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and five hundred dollar’s for books and illustrative apparatus, and two thousand five hundred dollars for general repairs, fifty three thousand five hundred dollars.
Buildings and grounds, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For the completion and fitting up of the gymnasium, eight thousand two hundred and forty two dollars and seven cents: for the erection of a farm-barn, two thousand dollars ; in all, ten thousand, two hundred and forty-two dollars and seven cents. freedmen’s hospital and asylum. Support of Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, DistrictFreedmen’s Hospital. of Columbia : For subsistence, eighteen thousand dollars ; for salaries and compensation, nine thousand five hundred dollars ; fuel and light, two thousand dollars; clothing, bedding, forage, and transportation and miscellaneous expenses, five thousand dollars; rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars ; repairs and furniture, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; in all, forty one thousand eight hundred dollars. howard university.
For the maintenance of Howard University, ten thousand dollars.Howard University. smithsonian institution. For the expense of exchanging literary and scientific productions withSmithsonian Institution. all nations by the Smithsonian institution, three thousand dollars. Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution: For preservation and care of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the government, fifty five thousand dollars. Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory building:
For expense of watching, care, and storage of duplicate government collections, and of property of the United States Fish Commission, two thousand five hundred dollars. 453 indian affairs. Expenses of the Ute Commission : To meet necessary expenses of theUte Commission.1880, ch. 233.*Ante*, 202. Ute Commissioners appointed by the President under section two of the act approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, fifteen thousand dollars. For the payment of the expenses of the Miami Indian delegation fromMiami Indians. the Indian Territory now or recently in Washington, to be immediately available, to be deducted from the funds of said Miami Indians held in trust by the United States, one thousand five hundred dollars.
That from the funds on hand and belonging to the Peoria, Wea, Kaskaskia Peoria, Wea, Kaskaskia, and Piankeshaw Indians.and Piankeshaw Indians there is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be immediately available ; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same over to the delegation of Indians now or recently in Washington, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said delegation. UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Refitting rooms Post-Office Department building: For flooring overRefitting rooms in Post-Office Department. and reconstructing the gallery in dead letter office, and for file-cases for dead-letter office gallery, five thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. For the purchase and distribution of seeds, under the direction of theDistribution of seeds. Commissioner of Agriculture, to settlers on the public lands in the new States and Territories whose crops were destroyed during the past year by drought and grasshoppers, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. miscellaneous. Expenses of Territorial courts of Utah Territory: For defraying theTerritorial courts, Utah Territory. contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of United States district attorney and his assistants; the fees and per diems of United States commissioners and clerks of the courts, and the fees, per diem, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoening witnesses ; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners ; of hiring and feeding guards ; of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and order of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Defending suits in claims against the United States : For defrayingDefending suits. the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia pending in any department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims :
For expenses to be incurred inProsecution and collection of claims. the prosecution and collection of claims due to the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, one thousand five hundred dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts and frauds : For detectingViolations of intercourse acts. and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals, and agents, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars. 454 Prosecution of crimes :
For detection and prosecution of crimes againstProsecution of Crimes. the United States ; investigation of official acts, records, and accounts and necessary clerical service incident thereto, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty thousand dollars. JUDICIAL. united states courts. Expenses of United States courts : For defraying the expenses of theExpenses of courts. Supreme Court and circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, of prosecution for offenses committed against the United States ; for the safekeeping of prisoners and for defraying the expenses which may be R.
S., title 26.incurred in the enforcement of the act approved February twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act to amend an act R. S., title 70.approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled “An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union, and for other purposes,’” or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, namely : For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshals andMarshals and their deputies. deputies, six hundred thousand dollars:
For payment of district attorneys and their assistants, three hundredDistrict attorneys and their assistants. and twenty five thousand dollars; For fees of clerks, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For fees of United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars;United States commissioners. For fees of jurors, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ;Fees: jurors;Witnesses.United States prisoners. For fees of witnesses six hundred thousand dollars; For support of United States prisoners, three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars ;
For rent of United States courtrooms, seventy five thousand dollars;Rent.Bailiffs, etc. For expenses and fees of bailiffs, furniture, for payment of expenses of district judges who may be sent out of their districts in pursuance of law to hold a circuit or district court, and for other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two R. S. 596, repealed.million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And so much of section five hundred and ninety six of the Revised Statutes as forbids the payment of the expenses of district judges while holding court outside of their districts is hereby repealed.
To supply district judges and district attorneys, who have not alreadyStatutes at Large and reports of Supreme Court furnished certain courts, etc. received the same, with the reports of the Supreme Court and Statutes at Large of the United States, and also to furnish complete sets of the same, where there are none, to such points where United States courts are authorized to be held and to supply broken sets where there are missing volumes, a sufficient sum of money is hereby appropriated.
To enable the Attorney-General to provide for the preservation of theRecords of United States courts, Frankfort, Ky., preservation of. records of the United States courts at Frankfort, Kentucky, by rebinding, indexing, and arranging the same under his directions, one thousand dollars. For the purpose of preparing and publishing the reports of the supremeReports of supreme courts, Territory of Wyoming. court of the Territory of Wyoming from the March term, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand dollars.
Support of convicts: For support and maintenance of convicts transferredSupport of-convicts from District of Columbia. from the District of Columbia (and collection of criminal statistics) to be disbursed by authority of the Attorney General, twenty-five thousand dollars. 455 PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePrinting, binding, and paper. public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, and the departments, and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, one million seven hundred thousand dollars; and from theAppropriation. said sum hereby appropriated, printing, and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsDistribution of appropriation. and debates, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the State’ Department, fifteen thousand dollars ; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and ten thousand dollars ; for the War Department, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, fifty thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, two hundred and twenty thousand dollar’s ; for the Department of Justice, ten thousand dollars ; for the Post-Office Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; for the Agricultural Department, eleven thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, thirty-four thousand dollars ; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars ; for the Court of Claims, ten thousand dollars ; and for the Library of Congress, nineteen thousand dollars.
For printing an edition of five thousand copies of the first volume ofPrinting report of Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard. the report of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard in eighteen hundred and seventy-four, four thousand dollars ; two thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and three thousand copies for the use of the Douse of Representatives. STATE DEPARTMENT. For commissioners, not exceeding three in number, to be appointedMonetary commission. by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States to represent the United States at a conference to be called to adopt a common ratio between gold and silver, for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of bimetallic money and securing fixity of relative value between those metals, the sum of five thousand dollar’s each, and for a secretary to said commissioners the sum of threeSecretary.Compensation, etc. thousand dollars, and their reasonable expenses, to be approved by the Secretary Of State ; the amount necessary to pay such compensation and expenses to be immediately available out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expenses of such conference, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the report of said commissioners shall be made to CongressCommission to report to Congress. for ratification or rejection. For contribution to maintenance of International Prison Commission,International Prison Commission. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, two hundred and fifty dollars. For contribution to maintenance of International Bureau of WeightsInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Stat. 20, 709. and Measures for the calendar year eighteen hundred and eighty two, in conformity with terms of convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To pay the necessary expenses of the French and American ClaimsFrench and American Claims commission Commission, provided for by the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, fifty thousand dollars. To enable the President to execute the provisions of section seventeenR. S. 1753.Civil service. hundred and fifty-three of the Revised for the promotion of effi- 456 ciency in the different branches of the civil service, fifteen thousand dollars. For printing and distributing monthly the publications by the DepartmentPublications of Department of State, distribution of. of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, ten thousand dollars.
SENATE. For the Secretary of the Senate, for preparing the index to privateIndex to private claims. claims, under the resolution of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, directing him to prepare an alphabetical list of all private claims which have been before the Senate, with the action of the Senate thereon, since the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the sum of four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Francis E.
Shober, chiefFrancis E. Shober. clerk of the Senate, for preparing, under a resolution of the Senate of the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, a new edition of the Manual, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George W. HarrisonGeorge W. Harrison. additional for services as assistant clerk to the Committee on appropriations of the Senate, four hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the person in charge ofPay of operator of telephone. the Senate telephone from January fourteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty one, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofExtra pay to employés of Senate, Representatives to pay to all committee clerks pages, and other employees of the Senate and House of Representatives; respectively, and who shall be so employed at the adjournment of this Congress, who do not now receive annual salaries, a sum equal to thirty days’ pay at their present rate of compensation, as extra pay ; and an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be immediately available.
That the Secretary of the Senate be, and is hereby authorized andWidow of Hon. M. II. Carpenter, deceased, late Senator U.S. from Wisconsin. directed to pay to the widow of Honorable M. H. Carpenter, deceased, late Senator from the State of Wisconsin, the sum of five thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy cents, the amount of compensation of a Senator and mileage from February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty one to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the widow of Honorable E. W.Widow of Hon. E. W, Farr, deceased, late member of Forty-sixth Congress.Extra pay to employees House of Representatives. Farr, deceased, late a member of the Forty-sixth Congress, one thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars, the same to be immediately available. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay to the officers and employees of the House of Representatives borne on the annual roll on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty, one month’s extra pay at the compensation then paid them by law, which sum shall be immediately available.
That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby,Charles Diemar. authorized and directed to pay to Charles Diemar a sum equal to one month’s pay from the date of his discharge from the “ disabled soldiers’ roll ” of the House. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the following claims, auditedL. Q. Washington, John E. Kelly, Watson Boyle, J. C. Courts, J. S. Jones, Silas Carr, Alvah W. Hicks. and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, to wit: L. Q. Washington, two hundred and thirty-four dollars : to John E.
Kelly, thirty dollars ; to Watson Boyle, two hundred dollars ; to J. C. Courts, four hundred dollars; to J 8. Jones, fifty-four dollars and twelve cents; to Silas Carr, one hundred dollars ; and to Alvah W. Hicks, one hundred do! .its, the same to be immediately available. 457 To enable the Clerk of the House to pay A. C. Ditner for two horsesA. C. Ditner.lost and damage to hearse and harness at the funeral of the late Honorable B B. Douglass, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, to be immediately available.
That the parties named below be allowed the amounts set oppositeContested election cases— their names, in full of expenses incurred by them respectively in contested-election cases, which amounts shall be immediately available. Jere Haralson, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.Jere Haralson.Charles M. Shelley.M. P. O’Connor.E.W.M. Mackey. Noble A. Hull. Horatio Bisbee.Ignatius Donnelly.W. D. Washburn.J. H. Acklen.J. J. Martin.Jesse J. Yeates.J.E. O’Hara. Charles M. Shelley, one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
M. P. O’Conor, two thousand dollars. E. W. M. Mackey, two thousand dollars. Noble A. Hull, two thousand dollars. Horatio Bisbee, two thousand dollars. Ignatius Donnelly, two thousand dollars. W. D. Washburn, two thousand dollars. J. H. Acklen, seven hundred and fifty dollars. J. J. Martin, two thousand dollars, Jesse J. Yeates, two thousand dollars. J. E. O’Hara, one thousand three hundred and seventy three dollars and ninety-five cents. W. H. Kitchen, one thousand dollars.W.
H. Kitchen.George B. Loring. George B. Loring, one thousand nine hundred and forty three dollars and seventeen cents. E Moody Boynton, two thousand dollars.E. Moody Boynton.Godlove S. Orth.John D. Young. Godlove S. Orth, five hundred dollars. To pay John D. Young, of Kentucky, salary as a member of the Fortieth Congress, six thousand eight hundred and sixty five dollars. To pay George M. Adams, of Kentucky, his expenses in the contestedGeorge M. Adams. election case of Barnes against Adams for seat from the eighth Congressional district of Kentucky in the Forty-first Congress, four thousand dollars.
To pay Frank Galt, assistant to the journal clerk, his salary for December,Frank Golt. eighteen hundred and eighty, and up to and including January twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty one, at six dollars per day, the pay of committee clerks, three hundred and eighteen dollars, the same to be immediately available. To pay Thomas Cottman, of Louisiana, compensation as a member ofThomas Cottman. the Thirty-eighth Congress from the State of Louisiana, two thousand dollars.
To pay A. G. Curtin eight thousand dollars.A. G. Curtin.Seth H. Yoktun.Noble A. Hull, Horatio Bisbee, Ignatius Donnelly, W. D. Washburn. To pay Seth H. Yocum, eight thousand dollars. That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated in this bill, respectively, to Noble A. Hull, Horatio Bisbee, Ignatius Donnelly and W. D. Washburn. To Joseph Mason, two thousand dollars.Joseph Mason.Jesse J.
Yeates, J. J. Martin.Bandall L. Gibson.J. Hale Sypher. To Jesse J. Yeates and J. J. Martin, two hundred and fifty dollars each, in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated to them in this bill To pay Bandall L. Gibson, of Louisiana, the expenses of his election contest in the Forty-third Congress, one thousand dollars. To pay J. Hale Sypher in full of all claims for salary and mileage due him as a Representative in Congress from the first Congressional district of Louisiana in the Forty-first Congress, and in full of all expenses measured in contesting his election, four thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury may at any time apply tireSecretary of Treasury to apply surplus money in Treasury to purchase or redemption of bonds.*Proviso*. surplus money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as he may consider proper, to the purchase or redemption of United States bonds: *Provided*, That the bonds so purchased or redeemed shall constitute no part of the sinking fund, but shall be canceled. 458 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.
III. Ch. 133, 134. 1881. Sec. 3. Section one of “An act making appropriations for the paymentPublic act approved February 26, 1881.Amended. of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies, and for other purposes”, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one is hereby amended by striking out the words “including arrears to” where they occur in the second paragraph of the section, and the words “including arrears” in the seventh paragraph of said section.
Approved, March 3, 1881.
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