Chapter 45. making additional appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 45.— An Act making additional appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.June 28, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. That in addition to the amounts Postal service.heretofore appropriated, the following stuns be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
Letter-carriers.For payment to letter-carriers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and to extend the service of such carriers for said year under the provisions of the act approved February 1879, ch. 95,20 Stat., 317.twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to fix the pay of letter carriers”, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For payment of increased salary to letter carriers under the provisions of existing law for for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, seventy-one thousand dollars. 41 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 45, 47, 48, 49. 1879. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to adjust andSwampland indemnity.1850, ch. 84,9 Stat., 519.1S55, ch. 147,10 Stat., 634.1857, ch. 117,11 Stat., 1251. settle the claims of the several States, under the act of Congress approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the act supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof, for swamp lands, including all claims for Swampland indemnity under the acts of March second eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and other acts, fifteen thousand dollars.
For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims, one hundred thousandJudgments of Court of Claims.* Proviso * dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That no judgment shall be paid until the right of appeal has expired. For interest due Osages on avails of diminished reserved lands in Kansas,Osage Indians. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty. This amount to be expended for the Osage Indians, in accordance with section twelve of the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, being interest at five per centum per annum from March1870, eh. 296,16 Stat., 362. first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to March first, eighteen hundred and eighty, on one million two hundred and six thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents, aggregate of net avails of Osage trust and diminished reserve lands sold prior to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, as provided for by section two of the act approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, sixty1872, eh. 149,17 Stat., 90.Additional justice supreme court D.
C. thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-six cents. For salary of the additional associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, appointed under the act of Congress approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from the date of his appointment to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred1879, ch. 99,20 Stat., 320. and seventy-nine, one thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the paragraph relating to Reform School, in section three of an act entitled*Reform School.* “An act malting appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and1879, ch. 182,20 Stat., 404. eighty, and for other purposes”, is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “improvements”, in said paragraph, the words “and support of boys sent to said school”.
Approved, June 28, 1879.