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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · June 16, 1880 · Chapter 235

Chapter 235. making appropriations for the sundry civil-expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 235.— An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil-expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.June 16, 1880. *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 tor the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department.Public buildings.Austin. public buildings. Courthouse and post-office, Austin, Texas: For completion of the building, thirteen thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Albany, New York:Treasury Department.Public buildings.Austin. For continuation of building, ninety thousand dollars. Courthouse and post-office, Atlanta, Georgia: For completionAlbany. of the building and approaches, fifteen thousand dollars. Post-office and sub-treasury, Boston, Massachusetts:
ForAtlanta. continuation of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuationBoston. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Evansville, Indiana: For fencing,Cincinnati. grading, and approaches, twenty-five thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Fall River, Massachusetts: For completionEvansville. of building, fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Hartford, Connecticut:
For completionFall River. of the building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Courthouse and post-office, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: For continuationHartford. of building, fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse, Courthouse, and post-office, Kansas City, Missouri: ForHarrisburg. continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the limitation on the cost of said building is hereby extended from two hundred thousand dollars to a sum not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars.
Courthouse and post office, Little Rock, Arkansas: For completionKansas City. of building, and fencing, grading, and approaches, thirty thousand dollars. Customhouse, Courthouse, and post-office, Memphis, Tennessee: ForLittle Rock. continuation of building fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, New Orleans, Louisiana: For Memphis.repairs and finishing third story of building, forty-seven thousand dollars. Customhouse, Courthouse, and post-office, Nashville, Tennessee.
ForNew Orleans. completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars; and so much of the sundry civil appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, as limits the cost of the iron-framed roof for said building is hereby repealed. Post office and Courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For continuationNashville. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For commencing work on a public building at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.seventy-five thousand dollars.
Appraisers’ stores, San Francisco, California: For completion of building,Pittsburgh. and fencing, grading, and for paving approaches, thirty-five thousand dollars. Custom house and post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri: For continuationSan Francisco. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Courthouse and post-office, Topeka, Kansas: For continuation ofSaint Louis. building, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That iron joists for floors may be used, and that the limit of cost for the entireTopeka. building be extended twenty thousand dollars to cover increased cost therefor.
Court house and post-office, Utica, New York: For completion of building,Utica.sixty-one thousand dollars. 260 For completing the grade, sidewalks, fences, and other necessary improvementsLincoln. on the grounds of the United States Courthouse and post-office at Lincoln, Nebraska, five thousand dollars. Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs,Washington. and fitting rooms to be vacated by the BureAn of Engraving and Printing, for offices and file-rooms, forty thousand dollars.
Building for BureAn of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DistrictEngraving and Printing Bureau.*Proviso.*Purchase of lots. of Columbia: For fencing, paving, grading, and approaches, twenty thousand dollars. *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase lots numbered eleven, twelve, twenty-four, and twenty-five, in square two hundred and thirty-one, in the city of Washington and District of Columbia, being the land lying between the south line of the present site of the new building for the BureAn of Engraving and Printing and a fifteen-foot alley, or any portion thereof, as an addition to the site of the said building, at a cost not exceeding fifty cents per square foot; and the sum of fifteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purchase of said land, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Post-office, Baltimore, Maryland: The Secretary of the Treasury isBaltimore. hereby directed to cause plans to be prepared for the said building, and to report to Congress at its next session the estimated cost of completing the same, together with a statement of all incidental expenses connected therewith, and the sum of four thousand dollars appropriated for 1879, ch. 26,Sess. 1,21.cost and expenses of condemnation by act of J une eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available for the purpose of defraying the expenses of preparing said plans and estimates.
Repairs and preservation of public buildings: For repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. Post-Office Department: To enable the Postmaster-General to refit thePost-Office Department. rooms lately occupied by the city post-office in the Post-Office Department building, sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars, the same to be immediately available. That the salary of the postmaster at the city of Washington, DistrictSalary postmaster, Washington. of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, fixed at the sum of four thousand dollars per annum from and after the passage of this act.
To enable the Secretary of War to cause to be constructed a fireprooffireproof building, Washington. roof for the building on the corner of Seventeenth and F streets, Washington, District of Columbia, known as Winder’s building, twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fourteen cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. life-saving-stations.life-saving stations. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as follows: 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,Superintendents. 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 Erie, one thousand dollars. 261 For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and lifeboat stations, as follows: one on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Super ior, 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 bundled dollars. For pay of crews of experienced surfmen, employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, at a rate not to exceed forty dollars per month each, during the period of actual employment, three hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of volunteer crews of lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon each occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, and for pay of volunteer crews, for drill and exercise, live thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses: For fuel for one hundred and ninety-six stationsContingent expenses. and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for the same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations, on the coasts of the United States, sixty-live thousand dollars. establishing life-saving stations.New life-saving stations.Appropriation.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, twenty 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 petty-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 fifty thousand dollars. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing, labor, &c.
For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely: For labor (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, including paper required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers’ tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating maceratingmacliines tor 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 seventy-five thousand dollars.Appropriation. light-house establishment.Light-house establishment.Keepers.
Keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters (where necessary), and similar incidental expenses of nine hundred and 262 ninety-five light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: Seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries,Light-vessels. supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-one lightships, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing,Buoyage. and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, stakes, and dolphins, 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, fifty thousand dollars. Inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights andInspecting lights. other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars. Supplies of LIGHTHOUSEs: For supplying the LIGHTHOUSEs, beacon-lights,Supplies of light-houses. 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 LIGHTHOUSEs and stations: For repairs and incidental expensesRepairs. of LIGHTHOUSEs and stations; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Lighting and buoyage: For maintenance of lights and buoys on theLighting and buoyage, Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers.R. S. 4672, repealed in part. Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
And so much of section forty-six hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States as provides compensation to collectors of the customs for services as superintendents of lights or as disbursing-agents for the LIGHTHOUSE Establishment is hereby repealed. light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.Light-houses, &c.Elm tree. For protecting the site of the Elm Tree beacon, of the Swash Channel range, entrance to New York Harbor, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For protecting the site of the Prince’s Bay light-station, Staten Island,Prince’s Bay. New York, three thousand five hundred dollars. For establishing stake-lights on the dikes at the entrance to Rondout Creek,Rondout Creek. Hudson River, New York, one thousand dollars. For inn-chase of additional strip of land at Staten Purchase of land, Staten Island.Cape Henry.Island depot, New York, and for repairs and dredging, twenty-one thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the LIGHTHOUSE, and the purchase of additional land not exceeding six acres, at Cape Henry, Virginia twenty-five thousand dollars.
For enlarging pier-accommodation at Lazaretto depot, nearLazaretto depot. Baltimore, Maryland, four thousand dollars. For rebuilding wharf at the buoy and supply depot, Portsmouth, Virginia, Portsmouth.four thousand five hundred dollars. For establishing and repairing day-beacons on the Florida Reefs,Florida Reefs. ten thousand dollars. For establishing a series of lights to guide into Mobile Harbor,Mobile Harbor. Alabama, six thousand dollars. That the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars made by the act of July1876, ch. 246,[Stat., 19, 112](/us/stat/19/112).Matagorda Bay. thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for rebuilding and repairing LIGHTHOUSEs on the coast of Texas is hereby made available for the erection of range-lights to guide into Matagorda Bay. 263 For protecting the site of Thirty-mile Point LIGHTHOUSE, Lake Ontario,Thirty-mile Point.Belle Isle.
New York, five thousand dollars. For establishing a light on the northern end of Belle Isle, Detroit River, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the erection of a LIGHTHOUSE on Stannard’s Rock, LakeStannard’s Rock.Pier-heads. Superior, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. For erection, removal, and repair of lights on pier-heads on the lakes, rivers, and seaboard of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars For establishing a light on Sand Island, the most westerly of theSand Island.
Apostle group, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, eighteen thousand dollars. That the appropriation of eighteen thousand dollars made by act of1875, ch: 130,[Stat., 18, 380](/us/stat/18/380).Passage Island. March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for a LIGHTHOUSE on Passage Island, Lake Superior, is hereby made available for the erection of said LIGHTHOUSE; and so much of said act as required that this appropriation should not be available until the government of the Dominion of Canada should build a LIGHTHOUSE on Cholchester Reef is hereby repealed.
For continuing the erection of a first-class LIGHTHOUSE and steam fog-signalTillamock Head. on Tillamook Head, Oregon, fifty thousand dollars. For building two steam-tenders for general service on the AtlanticSteam-tenders.*Proviso.* coast, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, That masters of LIGHTHOUSE tenders shall have police powers in matters pertaining to government property and smuggling. For the erection of a LIGHTHOUSE on Bell’s Rock, in York River,Bell’s Rock. Virginia, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the erection of a light at the mouth of Sampit River, GeorgetownSampit River. Harbor, South Carolina, one thousand two hundred dollars. To complete lighting of Delaware River from Deep Water Point toDeep-Water Point.Horses hoe Shoal.Lewes. League Island, fifteen thousand dollars. For Horseshoe Shoal range-lights, superseding Fort Mifflin light,Borden Flats. twenty thousand dollars. For the erection of a LIGHTHOUSE near Lewes, Delaware, twenty thousandForked Rock. dollars.
For the erection of a LIGHTHOUSE on Borden Flats, Mount Hope Bay,Trinity Shoal. Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the establishment of a light on Forked Rock, Stamford Harbor,Sandy or West Point.Mouths of Bod River.Amite River. in the State of Connecticut, seven thousand dollars. To complete the construction of a lightship and fog-signal at Trinity Shoal, on the western coast of Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars. For establishing a fog-signal on Sandy or West Point, Puget Sound, ten thousand dollars.
To establish lights at the mouths of Red River, Louisiana, three thousand dollars. To establish a light at the mouth of the Amite River, in the State of Louisiana, three thousand dollars. For the examination and survey of sites for proposed LIGHTHOUSEs, and preparing plans for proposed structures, ten thousand dollars.Survey of sites, &c. coast and geodetic survey. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, eastern division: For everySurvey of the Atlantic and Gulf 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 currentobser-vations along the above-named coasts, in-the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, 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 ofcharts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compen- 264sation of civilians engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the resurvey of Delaware Bay and River, tenDelaware Bay and River.Survey of Pacific coast. thousand dollars. Survey of the Pacific coasts, western division: For every purpose 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, 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.
Repairs of vessels—Coast and Geodetic Survey: For the repairs andRepairs of vessels. 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, twelve thousand dollars. For rent of fireproof building, number two hundred and five, NewRent. Jersey avenue south (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures), for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, five thousand dollars.
For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars.Fuel.Transportation. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new installments, books, maps, and charts; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand four hundred 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, gourand, 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, and other sea-fishes, and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the United States, eighty-five thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available.
For maintenance of the United States carp-ponds in the city of Washington and elsewhere, five thousand dollars. For the construction of an additional pond on Monument Lot for the cultivation of carp and other food-fishes, with the necessary arrangements of drainage, and for completing the work on the ponds now in use, twelve thousand dollars. For maintenance of the fish-hatching steamer Fish Hawk, fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. For collecting statistics of the seacoast anti lake fisheries of the 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 States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars. 265 standard weights and measures. 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 five thousand dollars; for rent of fireproof rooms in building number two hundred and five, NewRent of buildings, fuel, lights.
Jersey avenue south, for the safekeeping and preservation of finished weights, measures, balances, and metric standards, one thousand dollars; for fuel and lights, materials, transportation, traveling and other miscellaneous expenses, six hundred dollars. For contribution to maintenance of International BureAn of WeightsInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures. and Measures, in conformity with terms of convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one thousand nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the Department of State; in all, eight thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.
Expenses of national currency: For paper, engraving, printing,National currency. express charges, and other expenses, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Fuel lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, light, water,Fuel, lights, and •water 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 twenty-five thousand dollars.
Furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings: For furnitureFurniture. and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including furniture for three new buildings, namely: one at Austin, Texas, one at Fall River, Massachusetts, and one at Atlanta, Georgia, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For furniture for the new public building at Chicago, Illinois, in addition to the furniture in use, ninety thousand dollars.
Pay of custodians and janitors: For pay of custodians and janitorsCustodians 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, locks. locks, and repairs of the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, ventilating, andHeating apparatus. hoisting apparatus, and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Plans for public buildings: For photographing-materials, and laborPlans for public buildings. 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 detectingCounter feiting and other crimes, 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 robbing mails, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the postal service, the pay and bounty laws, and against the laws relating to the revenue service, 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, fifty thousand dollars. Salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska:Agents at seal-fisheries. For one agent, three thousand six hundred and filly dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; necessary 266 traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue-steamers forRevenuesteamers for protection of government interests in seal-fisheries.Rebel archives. 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 thousand dollars. Examination of rebel archives and records of captured property: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the records of captured and abandoned property examined, and information furnished therefrom, for the use and protection of the government, five thousand dollars.
Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, andLands, &c., of the United States. protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveyingMessengers of States conveying votes of electors for President and Vice-President, pay of. to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual road traveled, from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, computed for the one distance only, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference forPurchase of books for library. the library of the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. For the collection of statistics relating to the annual production of the precious metals in the United States, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. National Board of Health: For salaries and expenses of the NationalNational Board of Health.Appropriation.*Proviso.*1879, ch. 11,Sess. 1, 7.
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: *Provided*, That twenty-five thousand dollars of the appropriat ion 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. For aid to local quarantine stations and for aid to local and State boards of health, to be used in case of epidemic, one hundred thousand *Proviso.*1879, ch. 11,Sess. 1, 7.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 pinposes.
For salary of a clerk, who shall be a stenographer, to the InternationalInternational Sanitary Congress, clerk. Sanitary Congress to be called by the President, at the rate of six dollars per day while actually employed, a sufficient amount to pay said salary is hereby appropriated. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the repairs ofRepairs, bulkhead or seawall, marine hospital, Key West. the bulkhead or sea wall of the marine hospital at Key West, Florida, one thousand dollars.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. signal service. Observation and report of storms: For the expenses of the observationObservation and report of storms. and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life-saving stations and LIGHTHOUSEs; for instrument-shelters; for hire, furniture, and exjienses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports; for river re- 267ports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerceFifty privates added to the Signal Corps.Chief Signal Officer to have rank and pay of a brigadier-general. 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.
There shall be added to the Signal Corps fifty privates; and from and after the passage of this act the Chief Signal Officer shall have the rank and pay of a brigadier-general. 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, seventy-five thousand dollars.
National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries,National cemeteries, superintendents, pay of. one hundred thousand dollars. For pay of seventy-two superintendents of national cemeteries, fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. To construct roadway from Fort Scott, Kansas, to the National CemeteryRailway from Fort Scott, Kansas, to National Cemetery. near that city, five thousand five hundred dollars, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. armories and arsenals.
Arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservationSpringfield arsenal. of grounds, buildings and machinery, not used for manufacturing purposes, of the arsenal, and for erecting guardhouse at Springfield, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars. Rock Island arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For finishing shop G, anRock Island arsenal. iron working and finishing shop for the arsenal, ninety-five thousand dollars. For shop I, a woodworking and leather-working shop for the arsenal, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For shop H, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, forty-five thousand dollars. For an elevated iron water-tank for fire protection and general water-supply of the arsenal, five 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; and for care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars.
For developing and maintenance of water-power, fifty thousand dollars. For the repair and restoration of the wharf at the arsenal, Washington, Washington arsenal.Sandy Hook.District of Columbia, two thousand dollars. Sandy Hook proving-ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey: For clearing, leveling, grading, and building roads and walks at the proving-ground, five thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet Repairs of arsenal.such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accident or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty thousand dollars.
For completing repairs on wharf for Benicia arsenal, California, five Benicia arsenal.thousand dollars. For continuing boring the artesian well at Benicia wharf, California,Artesian well, Benicia. five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington and the executive mansion.Public grounds in Washington, D. C. Improvement and care of public grounds: For filling in and improving grounds south of Executive Mansion, fifteen thousand dollars. 268 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, ten thousand dollar’s. Executive Mansion: For care of and repairs to the Executive Mansion,Executive Mansion. and for furniture, twenty thousand dollars; 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, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lampposts, matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel for office, for the watchmen’s lodges, and for *Proviso.*Price of gas.the greenhouses in the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided, *That no more than twenty-five dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas 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, 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, &c. 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. GovernmentDepartment telegraph. Printing Office: For repair and care of the same, one thousand dollars.
Building for State, War, and Navy Departments: To continue workState, War, and Navy Department building. on the north wing of the building, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For continuing the work on the Washington Monument, one hundredWashington Monument, appropriation.Model. and fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to defray expenses already incurred in procuring a model of proposed changes in the Washington Monument, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents. miscellaneous objects under war department.
Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes: For reduction ofSurvey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes, &c. the fieldwork of the Lake survey; for the preparation and publication of the final report, for printing charts for the use of navigators, for continuance of water-level observations, and miscellaneous, forty thousand dollars. Military surveys and reconnnoissances in the military divisions Military surveys, departments west Mississippi River.and Departments, west of the Mississippi River, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. 269 For transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries throughTransportation of reports and maps to foreign countries.Fort Snelling. the Smithsonian Institution, five bandied dollars.
For the completion of the necessary buildings for headquarters of the Department of Dakota, at the military post of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, one hundred thousand dollars. For the construction of a new military post at or near the MusselshellMusselshell River, post established. River, in the Territory of Montana, at a site to be approved by the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. For the construction of necessary buildings, including officers’ quarters,Military post, San Antonio. for the headquarters already commenced of the military Department of Texas on the military reservation at San Antonio, Texas, seventy-five thousand dollars; the total cost thereof shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For continuing the construction of quarters at Fort Omaha, Nebraska,Fort Omaha. twenty-five thousand dollars. For the repair of the government quarters at Fortress Monroe, Virginia,Fortress Monroe. twenty thousand dollars. For the continuance of Fort Assinaboine, Montana Territory, eighty Fort Assinaboine.thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to continue the tests of iron and steel,Testing iron and steel. ten thousand dollars. To complete the purchase of Ringgold barracks, Texas, ten thousandRinggold barracks, Texas. five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and nineteen cents.
To complete roadway from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the NationalRoad way from Vicksburg to National Cemetery.Rebellion Records. Cemetery near that city, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the preparation of the publication of the official Records of the War of the Rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, and for the printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, 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 fiscal year, forty thousand dollars; and of said number seven thousand copies shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, two thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and one thousand copies for the use of the executive Departments; and for the compensation of temporary clerks and other employees engaged thereon, the collection of such Confederate records as may be placed at the disposal of the government by gift or loan, for rent of necessary offices, for fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses, forty thousand four hundred and ninety dollars; and the Secretary of War is authorized to negotiate with the legal representatives of the late Confederate Generals Bragg and Polk tbr the purchase of their private papers relating to the late war, and said Secretary shall report thereon at the next session of Congress.
Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and charges ofMilitary convicts. State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and médical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, sixteen thousand dollars. Support and improvement of the Leavenworth military prison, FortLeaven worth military prison. Leavenworth, Kansas: For purchase of subsistence stores, oil, wicking, and fuel for heating and cooking purposes and running machinery, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars;
For hay for prisoners’ beds; for blank books and stationery; for stoves and stovepipe, for use in buildings not heated by steam; for miscellaneous stores, drainage of grounds, disinfectants, and other general purposes, nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; For material for clothing, for hats, for each prisoner on discharge; for payment of five dollars to each prisoner on discharge; for expenses of pursuing, and payment of rewards for apprehension and delivery of,Apprehension of escaped prisoners. escaped prisoners, three thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; 270 For hose for use in case of fire and for filling cisterns, and for toolsRepairs of Army transportation. and materials in shops, repairs of Army transportation, cleaning and repairing machinery and belting, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
For tobacco for issue to prisoners on special and excessive hard labor,Tobacco to prisoners. four hundred dollars; For foreman and engineers, and mechanics, and watchmen, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; For teamsters, one thousand eight hundred dollars;Teamsters, &c.Clerks to disbursing-officer, &c.Extra-duty pay. For clerks in offices of disbursing-officer and acting assistant quartermaster, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For extra-duty pay, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents;
For paving-bricks, two thousand five hundred dollars;Materials.Repairs to officers’ quarters.Medical supplies. For repairs to officers’ quarters, prison buildings, shops, and for extension of shops, three thousand dollars. For purchase of supplies from the Medical Department, one thousand dollars; in all, fifty-five thousand eight hundred and ten dollars and eighty cents. United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provideArtillery School. for textbooks, drawing materials, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and of artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for the use of the school, five thousand dollars.
Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and transportation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United St ates, not otherwise provided for, three thousand dollars. Printing Catalogue of the Library of theCatalogue SurgeonGeneral’s Office. Surgeon-General’s Office:
For printing and binding the first and second volumes of the Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, six thousand five hundred dollars. Support of transient paupers: For care, support, and medical treatmentTransient panpers, city of Washington. of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars. Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers:
CurrentNational Home for Disabled Volunteers. expenses, including construction and repairs: For the Central Branch, for the Eastern Branch, for the Northwestern Branch, for the Southern Branch, and for barracks and other necessary construction purposes, for clothing of extra sizes and underclothing, for out door relief and incidental expenses, one million and thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars *Proviso.*and eighty-three cents: *Provided*, That so much of this amount as may be necessary, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, is hereby authorized to be used for the purpose of rebuilding Memorial Hall at Dayton, Ohio: *Provided further*, That General John M.
Palmer, of Illinois, *Proviso.*Managers appointed to fill vacancies.General William B. Franklin, of Connecticut, and General Charles W. Roberts, of Maine, are hereby appointed managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to fill vacancies which occurred on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; and General Martin T. MacMahon, of New York, General John Love, of Indiana, and Major David C. Fulton, of Wisconsin, are hereby appointed managers of said National Home, to fill vacancies which occurred on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty.
That the buildings and grounds adjoining the Washington Asylum inWashington Asylum. the District of Columbia, heretofore used as a naval and Army magazine, be and the same hereby are, added to the grounds of the asylum, and subjected to the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as part of the asylum until otherwise ordered. 271 Mississippi River Commission: For surveys and examinations andMississippi River Commission. the necessary salaries and other expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For construction and repair of Marine barracks at Washington, Norfolk,Marine barracks at Washington, Norfolk, and Annapolis.Marine Corps, fuel and provisions. and Annapolis, twenty-two thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty nine cents, using therefor unexpended appropriations to that amount, now on the books of the Treasury, for provisions and fuel for the Marine Corps, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
To pay for clothing and bedding of officers and others in the Navy and Marine Corps, destroyed to prevent the spread of disease, two thousand dollars, to be available immediately. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use any balancesBalance of appropriations made upon contracts not executed available.R. S. 3690.R. S. 3691. of appropriations heretofore made upon contracts not fully executed at the close of the present fiscal year to be applied to payments upon such contracts up to the time of their fulfillment, anything in sections thirty-six hundred and ninety and thirty-six hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. navy-yards and stations.Navy-yards.
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For continuation of work onMare Island. stone dry-dock, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: To enable the Secretary of the NavyPensacola. to put the Pensacola navy-yard in a state of efficiency, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing repairs and improvements at the navy-yard, Now London,New London. Connecticut, in extending one of the buildings thereat, so as to furnish a drill-room and hospital for the use of the training-ships of the Navy, twenty thousand dollars.
For repair of the seawall at Gosport navy-yard, Virginia, fifty Gosport.thousand dollars; and for rebuilding timber-sheds to preserve timber at same, seventy-five thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards: For repairs at the differentRepairs and preservation at navy-yards. navy-yards and stations, and preservation of the same, three hundred thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.State Department. That the sum of fourteen thousand three hundred dollars be, andPrinting and distributing publications. hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for printing and distributing more frequently the publications by the Department of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, seven*Proviso.* thousand dollars: *Provided*, That such publications may be sold at such rates as may be fixed by said department, and the proceeds of all sales to be paid into the Treasury; and seven thousand three hundred dollars of said amount is hereby appropriated for the clerical hireClerks, pay of. necessary for the competent administration of this whole branch of the public service in the collection, analyzing, publication, and distribution of commercial information under the Department of State; two thousand one hundred dollars for chief clerk; one thousand eight hundred dollars for one clerk; one thousand four hundred dollars for one clerk, and two thousand dollars for two additional clerks.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Casual repairs: For casual repairs of the building occupied by theInterior Department building, re- Department of the Interior; for replacing heating apparatus in Ninth- 272street wing of same; for renewing water-closets; for replacing sewerpairs heating apparatus, &c.Fire-proof model-cases for Patent-Office building. and drain pipes in the east and south wings, fifteen thousand dollars. For fireproof model-cases, to be used in fitting up the north and west wings of the Patent-Office building, eighty thousand dollars. public buildings.
Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol extension. thereof, fifty thousand dollars; and for passenger-elevator in south wing of the Capitol, as may be located by the Speaker and the Architect of the Capitol, seven thousand dollars: *Proviso.**Provided*, That the location of such elevator shall not in any wise interfere with the use or occupation of or communication between any of the offices or committee rooms of the House, nor with the lighting or ventilation thereof, or of any corridor.
Improving Capitol grounds: For continuing the work on the CapitolCapitol grounds. Lighting Capi- grounds, sixty thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting Capitol and groundsPayment of retained percentages on paving contracts. about the same, including Botanic Garden and Senate stable; for gas, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, and gas-fitters; for material for electrical battery; and general repairs to lamps and pipes, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For the payment of retained percentages on contracts for paving madePort able fire-extinguishers for Capitol.Repairs Washington Courthouse. during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for paving roadways in Capitol grounds, namely: To Cranford and Hoffman, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty-three cents; to George W. Biggs, attorney for W. R. Davis, finir thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents; to W.
II. Groot, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty-one cents; in all, six thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-two cents. For the purchase of four forty-gallon portable fire-extinguishers to lieTesting gas. placed in the Capitol, one thousand two hundred dollars. Repairs to Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs to Courthouse in the city of Washington, and for new furnaces, one thousand dollars. For testing the quantity and quality of gas used by the government,Library of Congress. and the various governors and other appliances designed to lessen its consumption and cost, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three hundred and fifty dollars. library of congress.
For purchase of necessary furniture for the Library of Congress, oneBotanic Garden. thousand five hundred dollars. Botanic Garden: For repairs and improvements to the buildings and walks of the Botanic Garden, eight thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars. For a nightwatchman for the Botanic Garden, seven hundred and twenty dollars. national museum. For furniture and fixtures, National Museum: For cases, furnitureNational Museum,, and fixtures for the reception, care, and exhibition of the collections of geology, mineralogy, ethnology’, technology, and natural history, presented to the government by foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For a steam-heating apparatus and for fuel, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For water, gas-fixtures, and electrical apparatus, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For construction of relieving sewer, with the necessary manholes and traps, from the new National Museum building to the Seventh-street sewer, one thousand dollars. 273 howard university.Howard University. For maintenance, ten thousand dollars. PUBLIC LANDS.Public lands. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.
For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receiversRegisters and receivers. of public moneys, at ninety-three district land-offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, three hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, ninety-three thousandIncidental expenses.Depositing moneys.Protection of timber.Swamp lands. five hundred dollars. For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public lands, ten thousand dollars.
To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, forty thousand dollars. For the settlement of claims for swamp lands, and swamp land indemnity, fifteen thousand dollars. surveying the public lands. For surveying the public lands, three hundred thousand dollars at ratesSurveys of Public lands. 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, and covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines.
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, six 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.
Occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying Examinations of 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 appraisement and sale of Fort Dalles military reservation, in Oregon,Fort Dalles military reservation.Preservation o f worn and defaced plats of surveys.Yellowstone National Park.R. S. 2475. and other abandoned military reservations, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue 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 improve 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. offices of surveyors-general of public lands.Offices o f surveyors-general.Louisiana.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Louisiana: For fuel, books, stationery, messenger hire, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. 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. 274 Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Minnesota: ForMinnesota. fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Dakota: ForDakota. rent 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: ForColorado. rent 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: ForNow Mexico. rent 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: ForCalifornia. fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Idaho: ForIdaho. rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, ahd other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada: ForNevada. rent 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: ForOregon. fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Washington: ForWashington. rent of office for survey or-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For replacing furniture in his office, destroyed by the falling of the building in which his office was located, three hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: ForNebraska, Montana. rent 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 rent of office for survey or-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand live hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Utah: ForUtah. rent 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: ForWyoming. rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of survey or-gen era! of Arizona: ForArizona.Geological survey. rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, oue thousand five hundred dollars. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 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, one hundred and fifty Two officers of Ordnance Corps detailed.thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail not exceeding two officers of the Ordnance Corps to serve with the Geological Survey: *Provided*, That in his judgment it can be done without injury to the service.
To complete-the office-work of the, United States geological and geographicalOffice-work. survey of the Territories, ten thousand dollars. 275 ETHNOLOGIC RESEARCHES. For the purpose of continuing ethnologic researches among the NorthEthnologic researches. American Indians under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, twenty thousand dollars. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. For the expenses incurred by the Committee of the National AcademyScientific surveys of Territories. of Sciences during their consideration of the scientific surveys of the Territories, four hundred dollars.
BIENNIAL REGISTER. That section two of the act of December fifteenth, eighteen hundredBiennial Registaer.1877, ch. 4,[Stat., 20, 13](/us/stat/20/13). and seventy-seven, entitled “An act providing for the printing and distribution of the Biennial Register”, is hereby so amended as to read “the first day of July” instead of “the last day of June”, as the day upon which the lists of the Biennial Register shall in future be made up. TENTH CENSUS. To meet the expenses of enumeration and compilation attendant upon Tenth census.the taking of the tenth census (including printing and engraving, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, two million nine hundred andAppropriation. sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital for the insane. Current expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment of the insane of the Army, Navy,Insane of Army, &c. Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval sendee of the United States,Indigent insane. and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars; and of this sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for*Proviso.* transporting patients to their friends: *Provided*, That hereafter the admissions to the hospital shall be limited to suchR.
S., title 59, ch. 4.1875, ch. 156.[Stat., 18, 486](/us/stat/18/486). persons as are entitled to treatment therein under the provisions of title fifty-nine, chapter four, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, second session, Forty-third Congress. For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollar’s. For furnishing and fitting a relief building, including heating apparratus, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. 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 dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, and two thousand five hundred dollars for general repairs, fifty-three thousand five-hundred dollars: *Provided*, That when any indigent applicant for admission to the institution, belonging to the District of Columbia, and being of teachable age, is found on examination by the president of the institution to be of feeble mind, and hence incapable of receiving instruction among children of sound mind, the Secretary of the Interior may cause such person to be instructed in some institution for the education of feeble-minded children in Pennsylvania, or some other 276 State, at a cost not greater for each pupil than is, or may be for the time being, paid by such State for similar instruction, and the sum necessary therefor is appropriated out of the sum above provided for current expenses of the institution.
For erection and fitting up of a gymnasium for the use of the students and pupils, five thousand dollars, and for the improvement and inclosure of the grounds of the institution, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum Support of Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, DistrictFreedmen’s a 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. smithsonian institution.
Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution: For preservationSmithsonian Institution. and care of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the government and the objects presented to the United States at the International Exliibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, forty-five thousand dollars. Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory building: For expense of watching, care, and storage of articles belonging to the United States, including those transferred from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for transfer to the new National Museum, two thousand five hundred dollars. entomological commission For the completion of the work of the United States EntomologicalU.
S. Entomological Commission. Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper and the cotton-worm, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately *Proviso.*available: *Provided*, That after the close of the next fiscal year all work of the character herein provided for shall be exclusively uuder the control of the Agricultural Department, and all operations under the Interior Department shall be fully and finally closed before the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. bureau of education.
For the distribution and exchange of educational documents, and forBureau of Education. wrapping, directing, tying, and packing the same, and for the collection, exchange, cataloguing, and caring for the collection of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school-furniture, and models of school-buildings, illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for repairing the same, five thousand dollars. indian office. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized toMrs, Shaw, of Lawrence, Kans. pay Mrs Sarah Shaw of Lawrence, Kansas, the sum of five thousand dollars, in five annual installments of one thousand dollars each, out of any money that may hereafter be appropriated for the use and benefit of the Cheyenne Indians: the first installment to be paid out of the money appropriated for said 1880, ch. 85,*Ante*, 117.Indians by the act approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty, making appropriations for the current 277 and contingent expenses of the Indian Department”, and so forth, “for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one”.
Expenses of Indian Commissioners: For the expenses of the Commission of citizens serving without compensation, appointed by the PresidentIndian Commissioners. under the provisions of the fourth section of the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, ten thousand dollars.1869, ch. 78,[Stat., 15, 80](/us/stat/15/80).Rent, Freedmen’s Bank building. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the rent for that part of the Freedmen’s Bank building as is occupied by the Court of Claims, three thousand six hundred dollars.
COURT OF CLAIMS. For the purchase of law-books for the Court of Claims, to be expended underCourt of Claims.Law-books. the direction of said court, two thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. miscellaneous. For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in the examination Examination of witnesses.Defending suits.of witnesses in the matter of claims against the United States pending in any department, and for the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the AttorneyGeneral, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Prosecution and collection of claims: For expenses to be incurred inCollection of claims. the prosecution and collection of claims duo to the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts and frauds: For detecting andViolation of intercourse acts. punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frands committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
Prosecution of crimes: For detection and prosecution of crimes againstProsecution of crimes. the United States; and for investigation of official acts, records, and accounts, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty thousand dollars. For the purchase of books for the Territorial library of Wyoming Territory,Books for Territorial library, Wyoming. one thousand five hundred dollars; the Attorney-General to expend said sum in the purchase of such needed law books as the judges of said Territory shall certify to be necessary.
That the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of the UnitedCare and custody of convicts of any Territory contracted for in any other Territory or State. States may make such provision for the care and custody of such persons as may be convicted of crime under the laws of such Territory as they shall deem proper, and for that purpose may authorize and contract for the care and custody of such convicts in any other Territory or State, and provide that such person or persons may be sentenced to confinement accordingly in such other Territory or State, and all existing legislative enactments of any of the Territories for that purpose are hereby legalized: *Provided*, That the expense of keeping such prisoners shall be borne*Proviso.* by the respective Territories, and no part thereof shall be borne by the United States.
To enable the Attorney-General to supply the United States courtsU. S. courts, Deadwood; Supreme Court Reports and Statutes at Large. at Deadwood, Dakota, with the United States Supreme Court Reports and the Statutes at Large, four hundred and twenty-three dollars. JUDICIAL. united states courts. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and districtExpenses of courts. courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, 278 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 safe keeping of prisoners, and for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act to amend an R.
S., title 26.R. S., title 70.act approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled ‘An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union, and for other purposes’”, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; which expenses, being separated into the following itemized statement, show that there will be needed, namely: For payment of marshals and their general deputies, except for servicesMarshals and their deputies. of the latter rendered at elections, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For payment of district attorneys and their assistants, three hundredDistrict attorneys and their assistants. and fifty thousand dollars; For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For fees of United States commissioners, one hundred and forty thousandU. S. Commissioners. dollars; For fees of jurors, four hundred thousand dollars; For fees of witnesses, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For support of United States prisoners, two hundred thousand dollars;Fees.
For rent of United States court rooms, seventy-five thousand dollars. For repairs and furniture for the United States Courthouse, Charleston, South Carolina, two thousand five hundred dollars; For expenses of bailiffs and other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred thousand dollars; in all, two million eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Support of convicts: For support and maintenance of convicts transferredCourts in Utah. from the District of Columbia, for support of convicts transferred from other districts (and for collection of criminal statistics), to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah: For defraying the contingentSupport of convicts from the district of Columbia. expenses of the courts, including compensation of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees, per diem, of United States commissioners and clerks of the courts, and the fees, per diem, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal of the Territory of Utah, with expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be expended only’ under the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty thousand dollars.
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 six hundred thousand dollars; and from the 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, seven 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 279 dollars; 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 the annual rental and necessary repairs of the telephones andTelephones. lines connecting the Capitol with the Government Printing Office and the several executive departments, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That lot subdivision fifty-five, in square six hundred and twenty-four,Purchase of lot adjoining Government Printing Office. fronting on H street, in the city of Washington, adjoining the lands on which the Government Printing Office building is situated, shall be purchased for the use of the United States; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to pinchase said lot, the value thereof to be paid to the owner, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of the said Secretary of the Interior: *Pronided*,*Proviso.* That before such payment shall be made the owner of said lot shall, by a good and sufficient deed in fee simple, to be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, convey the said lot to the United States for the purpose aforesaid.
That to ascertain the value of said lot it shall be the duty of the SecretaryValue of lot, how ascertained. of the Interior to make application to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, by petition containing a particular description thereof by metes and bounds, with the name of the owner and his residence, and the said court is hereby authorized and required, upon such application, in such mode, and under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, alter notice to the owner of said lot by summons, to appoint three commissioners, freeholders of the Distinct of Columbia, acquainted with the value of real estate in Washington City, to make, under oath, a just and equitable appraisement of the cash value of said lot and the improvements thereon, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and required to pay to the owner of said lot the amount specified in the appraisement so made, or he may deposit said amount for said owner with the court in payment thereof.
The said court may direct the time possession of the said lot so condemned may be taken, and may, if necessary, enforce any order or issue any process necessary to give such possession. The cost occasioned by the appraisement and purchase shall be taxed and paid as the court may direct. SENATE.Senate. For improving and repairing the heating apparatus of the SenateMiscellaneous. Chamber, for additional registers in floor and gallery, and for small skylights in roof and ceiling, and for one vacuum-pump, ten thousand dollars.
For clerk to Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate, two thousand twoClerk to Committee on Naval Affairs.Assistant librarian, pay of. hundred and twenty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the assistant librarian of the Senate from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives.Contested-election expenses. That the parties named below be allowed the amounts set opposite their names in full of expenses incurred by them respectively in contested-election cases:
Joseph Mason, two thousand dollars.Joseph Mason.Sebastian Duffy.J. M. Bradloy. Sebastian Dully, two thousand dollars. J. M. Bradley, one thousand five hundred dollars. 280 W. F. Siemens, one thousand five hundred dollars.W. F. Siemens.Widow of A. M. Lay. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the widow of Honorable A. M. Lay, deceased, late a member of the Forty-sixth Congress, six thousand dollars. • For Miss B. A. Hincks, of Cohasset, Massachusetts,Sister of William Hincks. the sum of five thousand dollars, being the amount of one year’s salary of her brother, William Hincks, late a reporter of debates for the House of Representatives.
The Clerk of the House is hereby authorized to pay, and theSolomon Stover. accounting-officers of the Treasury to pass, two bills of Solomon Stover, of eight dollars each, for coal furnished to the House of Representatives and not inspected as provided by law. To pay M.M. Herr for services as messenger to the Sergeant-at-Arms,M.M. Herr. at five dollars per day, from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty, inclusive, nine hundred and fifteen dollars.
To pay J. Russell Barbee for three months’ services as messenger to War-Claims Committee J. Russell Bar-bee.in Forty-fifth Congress, one hundred and eighty dollars, to be immediately available. To pay certain claims found just and proper, and recommended by theClaims. Committee on Accounts, to wit: To J. C. Kondrup, for services renderedJ. C. Kondrup. as messenger to the official reporters of debates, from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents.
To Mrs. Anna E. Ward, balance due for services rendered in watchingMrs. Anna E. Ward and cleaning Statuary Hall from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at three dollars and sixty cents per day, four hundred dollars. To pay for services in cleaning Statuary Hall, and watching statuary therein for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, seven hundred and twenty-two dollars, to be disbursed as contingent expenses of the House, of Representatives, subject to the approval of the Architect of the Capitol.
To each of the following-named persons, to wit, Richard Granger, John J. Tytherleigh, Harry C. Acton, Richard Granger, John J. Tytherleigh, Harry C. Acton, Charles M. Henry, Walter II. Robertson, and Perry S. Goodsell.William T. Revill and Joseph F. Knipe.Charles M. Henry, Walter II. Robertson, and Perry S. Goodsell, the sum of sixty-seven dollars for services rendered as session messengers in the House post-office from March eighteenth to April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and to William T.
Revill and Joseph F. Knipe, each the sum of fifty-two dollars for services rendered in the same capacity from March eighteenth to thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; which sums, in this section allowed respectively to the persons named, shall be in full satisfaction of their respective claims. For purchase of pipe-cutting machine and other tools for heating department of the House of Representatives, to be expended under direction of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars.
To enable the Clerk of the House to pay J. B. Holloway balance of J. B. Holloway.salary due him as assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims from March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to March tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, all inclusive, one thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars. E. B. Blanks, junior.And to pay E. B. Blanks, junior, for services under the Doorkeeper from February the first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, up to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, three hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be available immediately.
To enable the Committee on War Claims to have prepared for theSummary Reports of Commission c rs of Claims in Public Printer copies of the summary reports of the Commissioners of Claims in eases reported to Congress as disallowed under the act of 281 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235, 236. 1880. March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, of which twenty-fivecases reported dis-allowed to be printed. copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the House of Representatives, twenty-five copies for the use of the Senate, ten copies for the use of the War Department, and ten copies for the use of the Treasury Department, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To pay Henry H. Smith for services as clerk to the Committee onHenry H. Smith. Rules, and as reimbursement for money expended by him for clerical services under the resolutions of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March second, eighteen hundred and eighty, five hundred dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the “cloakroom men”, eightcloakroom men. in number, the difference in pay between the amount received by them under the last legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act and the amount they would have received under the bill of the same title which was vetoed, viz, ten dollars per month for each, for six months, four hundred and eighty dollars.
To enable the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to purchaseWorks of art. works of art, ten thousand dollars. GENERAL MISCELLANEOUS. For the removal of the remains of R. II. Carter, late inspector of customsR. H. Carter. at Panama, from Panama to his late home in Fauquier County, Virginia, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. To authorize the Clerk of the House to pay Frederick Carlisle in fullFrederick Car-lisle. for services as an expert before the Committee on Public Expenditures, two hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For the preparation of an index to the Official Reports of the CentennialIndex official Reports of Centennial Exhibition. Exhibition, now in press, three hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Public Printer. To pay Charles H. Evans for the book prepared by him, known as Charles H. Evans.Senate Document number forty-six, first session Forty-sixth Congress, “Imports and Duties from eighteen hundred and sixty-seven to eighteen hundred and seventy-eight”, and for revising and superintending the printing of the same, two thousand dollars.
To pay the expenses of the burial of surfmen employed in the life-savingBurial of surfmen. service who perished while endeavoring to render assistance to distressed vessels, one hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, June 16, 1880.
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