Chapter 3. to provide for certain expenses of the present session of Congress and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3.— An Act to provide for certain expenses of the present session of Congress and for other purposes.May 10, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. That the following sums of money be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: SENATE. To meet certain expenses of the Senate during the current fiscal year, as follows, namely:
Lycurgus Dalton.For the payment of Lyncurgus Dalton, as clerk to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, from the first day of April to the thirtieth day of June, inclusive, at the rate of two thousand two hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy cents. Horses.For horses and mail-wagons for mail and document purposes, one thousand two hundred dollars. Furniture.Miscellaneous.Payment of Senate employés.For furniture and repairs of furniture, three thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, five thousand dollars. That the employees of the Senate who have served during the present session of Congress shall be paid their respective salaries out of the fund already appropriated for such service from the time they entered upon their duties until the time they took the oath required by law. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Miscellaneous expenses.To meet the miscellaneous expenses of the House of Representatives during the current fiscal year, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House, twenty thousand dollars.
Watson Boyle, H. A. Olcott, W. II. Smith.To pay Watson Boyle, H. A. Olcott, and W. H. Smith, employed under resolutions of the House, at three dollars and sixty cents per day each from and including March first, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one thousand three hundred and seventeen dollar's and sixty cents. Wm. Douglass.To pay William Douglass in charge of water closet from and including March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and thirty cents.
General index to journals.To pay person employed in preparing general index to journals of Congress under resolution of the House of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars, per annum, from and including March first, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eight hundred and forty dollars and thirty cents. Messengers.To pay eight messengers in the post office of the House two of them from and including April first and the remaining six from and including April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, until the conclusion of the present session of Congress during the present fiscal year’ at the rate of eight hundred dollars each for seven months.
MINTS AND ASSAY-OFFICES. To provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for mints and assay-offices for the current fiscal year, as follows, namely: Philadelphia.Mint at Philadelphia: For contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. Denver.Mint at Denver, Colorado: For wages of workmen, eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, seven hundred dollars. Charlotte.Assay-office at Charlotte, North Carolina: For wages and contingent expenses, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Boise City.Assay-office at Boise City, Idaho Territory: For wages and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. 3 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cn. 3, 4, 5. 1879. Assay-office at Helena, Montana Territory: Tor wages of workmen,Helena. two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, three thousand dollars. Approved, May 10, 1879.