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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · Mar. 3, 1883 · Chapter 143

Chapter 143.

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CHAP. 143.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for other purposes. Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Appropriations.Sundry civil expenses. and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, namely:
UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. For the use of the United States exhibit at the International FisheryInternational Fishery Exhibition. Exhibition, to be held in London in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to be expended by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, under the direction and regulations of the Department of State, ten thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. For international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution: For expensesExpenses of international exchanges. of the international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, in accordance with the Paris convention of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of the secretary of legation at Vienna, one thousandSecretary of legation, Vienna.Consul-general, Vienna. eight hundred dollars; and the salary of the consul-general at Vienna for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four shall be only three thousand dollars. To enable the Government of the United States to take part, uponExpense of commission, etc., to attend conference of electricians at Paris. the invitation of the French Government, in experiments to determine electrical questions at a conference to be held at Paris, and to defray the expenses of a commission of experts, not exceeding three in number, on the part of the United States, who shall serve without compensation, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
To meet expenses of the State Department in vacating rooms in theExpenses of State Department in vacating rooms, etc. south wing of the State, War, and Navy building which are to be occupied by the Navy Department, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available. For the purpose of reimbursing the legal representatives of FrancisFrancis P. Van Wyck, deceased, reimbursement of legal representatives of. P. Van Wyek, late consul at Turks Island, deceased, for money expended in transporting the remains of said Van Wyek to his home for burial, one thousand dollars.
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Appropriations for public buildings under Treasury Department, at— public buildings. For customhouse and post-office at Albany, New York: CompletionAlbany. of building and approaches, and construction of elevators, forty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Baltimore, Maryland : For continuationBaltimore. of building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and sub-treasury at Boston, Massachusetts: For completionBoston. of building and approaches, one hundred thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuation,Cincinnati. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For custom house, courthouse, and post-office at Memphis, Tennessee :Memphis. For continuation, twenty-five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Memphis, Tennessee: For completion, sixteen thousand dollars. For custom house at Now Orleans, Louisiana: For completion ofNew Orleans. approaches and for repairs, fifteen thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at Hartford, Connecticut:
For completionHartford. of approaches, two thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-offices at Montgomery, Alabama : For approaches,Montgomery, Ala. fifteen thousand dollars. 604 New York.For barge-office building at New York, New York: For painting, mantels, and tower-clock, four thousand dollars. Philadelphia.For post-office and courthouse at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For completion of building and approaches, four hundred thousand dollars: Proviso.*Provided,* That so much of this amount as is necessary is made immediately available for the completion of such parts of the building and approaches as are intended to accommodate the United States courts and their officers by the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and those for the post-office by the first day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and’ eighty-three, the Supervising Architect being directed to have such work done, so that the said courts and their officers and the post-office officials may be in the occupancy of the said building on or before the aforesaid dates.
Pittsburgh.For courthouse and post-office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuation, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollar’s. Saint Louis.For customhouse and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri: For completion, one hundred thousand dollars. Topeka.For courthouse and post-office at Topeka, Kansas : For clock-tower and approaches, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars. Brooklyn.For post-office at Brooklyn, New York: For continuation two hundred thousand dollars.
Buffalo.For customhouse and post-office at Buffalo, New York : For continuation, fifty thousand dollars. Council Bluffs.For post-office, and so forth, at Council Bluffs, Iowa: For completion, fifty thousand dollars. Dallas, Texas.For courthouse and post-office at Dallas, Texas: For completion, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Denver.For courthouse and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For continuation, twenty-five thousand dollars. Des Moines.For courthouse and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa:
For continuation, forty thousand dollars. Jackson.For courthouse and post-office at Jackson, Tennessee: For completion, twenty-five thousand dollars. Louisville.For courthouse and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky: For continuation, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Paducah.For courthouse and post-office at Paducah, Kentucky : For completion, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Leavenworth.For courthouse and post office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuation, forty-five thousand dollars.
Minneapolis.For post-office, and so forth, at Minneapolis Minnesota: For continuation, sixty thousand dollars. Oxford.For courthouse and post-office at Oxford, Mississippi: For construction and completion, fifty thousand dollars. Greensboro.For completion of courthouse at Greensboro, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars. Rochester.For court house and post-office at Rochester, New York: For continuation, seventy thousand dollars. Syracuse.For post-office and courthouse at Syracuse, New York:
For continuation, seventy thousand dollars; and said building may be erected within twenty-five feet of the north line of the real estate acquired for its erection. Washington.For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: Annual repairs to Treasury building, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation of public buildings.For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Secretary Treasury may change site, etc., for building at Pensacola.And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, should be deem it advisable, to purchase a site suitable for the purpose, other than that provided for in the act authorizing the erection of a new building in the city of Pensacola, Florida, approved June tenth, eighteen 605 hundred and eighty-two: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained*Proviso*. shall be construed to extend the limit of the cost of said building and site beyond the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, as fixed in said act.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to procureSecretary Treasury to procure appraisal of certain property, Now York City, etc. the appraisal of the premises, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the city of New York, bounded by West, Laight, Hubert, and Washington streets in the said city, and now occupied by the government under lease, and to make report to Congress thereon at its next session. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to acquire, by privateSecretary Treasury authorized to acquire sites, etc., for public buildings, by purchase or condemnation. purchase or by condemnation, the necessary lands for public buildings and lighthouses to be constructed, and for which money is appropriated, including all public building sites authorized to be acquired under any of the acts of the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress; and there may be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, from the several amounts appropriated for the construction of public buildings, the expenses incident to the procuring of sites for said buildings, respectively. life-saving stations.
For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows :Life-saving service. On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire one, and on the coast of Massachusetts one, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, who shall reside on the main land of the State of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent for life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars; of one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars j and of one on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Eric, one thousand eight hundred dollars For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and lifeboat stations :
One on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one on the coast of Lake Michigan, undone on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon, and California atone thousand eight hundred dollars each. For salaries of two hundred and eleven keepers of life saving and life boat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of 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; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under 606 any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, common labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, if in his judgment the exigencies of the service require it, to buy the steam-launches for use in the harbors of Galveston, Texas, and Mobile, Alabama, provided for by the act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes,” but not at an additional cost. engraving and printing.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, and 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, 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; for materials 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 macerating machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, four hundred and eighty five thousand seven hundred dollars and from said sum work may be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the following purposes, namely:
For engraving, printing and finishing United States notes, gold and silver certificates, registered bonds for transfers, and other securities, three hundred and sixty one thousand dollars. For engraving (except face-plates), printing, and finishing circulating notes for nation alban king associations, one hundred and five thousand dollars. . Treasurer’s and disbursing officer’s checks.For engraving, printing, and finishing checks for the Treasurer of the United States and disbursing officers, and for the purchase of paper for the same, seven thousand dollars.
Pension checks.For engraving, printing, and finishing checks for the payment of pensions, twelve thousand dollars. For engraving, printing, and finishing certificates of letters patents, seven hundred dollars. light house establishment Keepers.For salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of one thousand and fifteen light-keepers, and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. 607 For expenses of light-vessels :
For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-light ships, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For expenses of buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting,Buoyage. repairing, removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, renewing, duplicating,Fog-signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand dollars.
For inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lightsInspecting lights. and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars. For supplies of lighthouses: For supplying the lighthouses, beacon-lights,Supplies. and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for stations, . and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of lighthouses; For repairs and incidental expenses ofRepairs. light houses and stations, including the two lights at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, which shall remain as they arc; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; for the establishment and repairing of pier-head lights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. For lighting and buoyage of the Mississippi, Missouri, and OhioMississippi, etc., rivers.
Rivers: For maintenance of lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, and at the month of Red River, Louisiana, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For survey of light-house sites: For examination and survey of sitesSurvey of lighthouse sites. for proposed light houses and preparing plans for proposed structures, ten thousand dollars. “ lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.Light-houses, etc. Fourteen-foot Bank light-station, Delaware Bay: For completing theFourteen-foot Bank light-station. construction of the light-house to replace the lightship now on Fourteen-foot Bank, Delaware Bay, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Great Shoals light-station, Maryland: For the erection of a light-houseGreat Shoals. on the Great Shoals, at or near a point nearly opposite the place now marked by the “Shark-flu” buoy, in Dorchester County, State of Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars Cape San Blas light-station, Florida: For erecting a new tower atCape San Blas. Cape San Blas, Florida, thirty five, thousand dollars. Dog River Bar and Choctaw Pass Channel light-stations, Alabama:Channel, Mobile Bay. For lighting and marking the dredged channel in Mobile Bay, Alabama, nineteen thousand dollars.
Detroit River light station, Michigan: For continuing the constructionDetroit River, Mich. of the light house and fog-signal at the month of Detroit River, Michigan, forty thousand dollars Northwest Seal Rock light-station, California: For continuing the constructionPoint Saint George. of a light-house on Northwest Seal Bock, off Point Saint George, California, fifty thousand dollars. Mosquito Inlet, Florida: For continuing the construction of a light-houseMosquito Inlet. at Mosquito Inlet, Florida, thirty thousand dollars.
For the erection of lights on the Hudson River at Percy’s Reach,Hudson River. Lamphere’s Dock, and Livingston’s Creek, six thousand five hundred dollars. For lease of ground to erect electric light at Hell Gate, four hundredLease of ground for electric light at Hell Gate. dollars; and the Light-House Board is hereby authorized, with the ap- 608 proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to lease such parcel of land as is required for the establishment of said electric light, at Hell Gate.
Lighted buoys.Establishment and maintenance of lighted buoys: For the establishment and maintenance of lighted buoys, twenty-five thousand dollars. Contract work.That it shall be the duty of the Light-House Board to apply the money herein appropriated, other than for surveys, as far as can be without detriment to the interests of the government, by contract. Where work cannot be done, or materials purchased, by contract, without injury to the public interests, it. may be prosecuted by hired labor and materials purchased in open market.
COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. Survey of Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tidewater or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature, and current observations along the coasts, and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; a magnetic map of North America; and compilation of data for a general map of the United States; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed in the fieldwork, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, to be expended as follows:
Coast of Maine.For continuing the survey of the coast of Maine eastward from Moosabec, and including Machias Bay and approaches, and extension of triangulation, nine thousand dollars. Channels between Nantucket and Monomoy.For examination of channels between Nantucket and Monomoy, one thousand five hundred dollars. Long Island Sound.For continuing resurvey of Long Island Sound, twenty thousand dollars. Delaware Bay.For completing resurvey of Delaware Bay, two thousand five hundred dollars.
New Jersey seacoast.For continuing examination of changes and resurveys on the seacoast of New Jersey, two thousand one hundred dollars. Chesapeake Bay, etc.For survey of estuaries of Chesapeake Bay and of sounds in North Carolina not heretofore surveyed, two thousand four hundred dollars. Florida.For continuing the survey of eastern coast of Florida between Jupiter Inlet and Key Biscayne, seven thousand dollars. For continuing survey of the western coast of Florida from San Carlos entrance southward, three thousand dollars.
Anclote Keys.For continuing survey northward from Anclote Keys, three thousand dollars. Louisiana.For continuing survey of the coast of Louisiana from Barataria Bay westward, three thousand five hundred dollars. Calcasieu Pass.For continuing survey from Calcasieu Pass eastward, three thousand five hundred dollars. Texas.To complete the survey of the coast of Texas, and to make such reexaminations of inlets as may be necessary, two thousand five hundred dollars. ; Off-shore soundings, Atlantic Coast.To make off shore soundings along the Atlantic coast, and currant and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, six thousand dollars.
Determinations of geographical positions.For determinations of geographical positions (longitude party), two thousand five hundred dollars. Triangulations, etc.To complete the triangulation connecting the survey of the coast with that of the lakes, two thousand seven hundred dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta towards Mobile, two thousand five hundred dollars. Levels, etc., from Gulf to line of levels, etc.For an exact line of levels from the Gulf to the transcontinental line of levels between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, two thousand dollars. 609 To continue tide observations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, twoTidal observations. thousand dollars.
To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,Magnetic observations. two thousand seven hundred dollars. To continue gravity experiments, three thousand dollars.Gravity experiments. To make special hydrographic examinations for the Coast Pilot, threeHydrographic examinations. thousand dollars. For compilation of data for a general map of the United States, twoMap of United States. thousand seven hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of California, namely:
ForCoast of California. topography from San Diego (False Point) towards San Luis Bay; from Morro Rock to San Simeon; from Point Piedras Blancas to Cape San Martin, nine thousand dollars. For primary triangulation from Point Sal northward; from Table Mountain southward; and from Trinidad Head to the Oregon line, eighteen thousand dollars. For hydrography off the same coast, seven thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, namely: TopographyCoast of Oregon. from Umpquah River northward, including survey of Sinslaw entrance, Coos Bay, and offshore hydrography, and completion of survey of Columbia River and Willamette River to the head of ship navigation, nine thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory,Washington Territory. namely: Continuing the triangulation, topography, and hydrography of Fuca Strait, five thousand three hundred dollars. For completing the survey of Puget Sound, five thousand four hundredPuget Sound. dollars. For examinations and surveys of such passages, anchorages, andAlaska. harbors on the coast of Alaska as may be deemed most needful, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For tide observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand dollars.Tidal observations, etc.Pacific coast.
For magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand dollars. For gravity observations on the Pacific coast, one thousand dollars; and for objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, ten thousand dollars; and ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available, interchangeably, for expenditure on the objects named. For furnishing points for State surveys, sixteen thousand dollars.Points for State surveys. For transcontinental geodetic work, thirty thousand dollars, including line of leveling between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
For pay of officers continuously employed, one hundred and twenty-fourSalaries. thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, as follows : For pay of superintendent, six thousand dollars.Superintendent. For pay of six assistants, at rates between three thousand dollars and four thousand dollarsAssistants, and others. per annum, twenty one thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of nineteen assistants, at rates between two thousand dollars and two thousand nine hundred dollars, per annum, forty-three thousand dollars.
For pay of twenty-one assistants, at rates between one thousand five hundred dollars and one thousand nine hundred dollars per annum, thirty-six thousand dollars. For pay of nine sub-assistants, at rates between one thousand one hundred dollars and one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of nine aids, at rates between seven hundred and twenty dollars and nine hundred dollars per annum, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of office force, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five 610 Coast and Geodetic Survey.hundred dollars, as follows: Pay of persons employed in the office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, namely: Pay of superintendent and others.In office of superintendent, three persons, from nine hundred dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, four thousand two hundred dollars. In office of disbursing agent, three persons, from one thousand two hundred dollars to two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
In office of hydrographic inspector, six persons, from six hundred and fifty dollars to two thousand two hundred dollars per annum, eight thousand one hundred dollars. In office of Coast Pilot, three persons, from seven hundred dollars to one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. In office of assistant in charge, eight persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, eight thousand one hundred dollars.
In computing division, eight persons, from six hundred dollars to one thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars per annum, nine thousand six hundred dollars. In division of tides, three persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, three thousand seven hundred and seveuty dollars. In drawing division, fifteen persons, from four hundred dollars to two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars. In engraving division, twenty-four persons, from six hundred dollars to two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, thirty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.
In miscellaneous division, nineteen persons, from four hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, sixteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. ’ In instrument-shop, eight persons, from five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, nine thousand one hundred dollars. In San Francisco sub-office, three persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, three thousand six hundred dollars. Publishing observations of coast, etc., survey.For publishing observations of the Coast and Geodetic Survey:
For continuing the publication of observations, and their discussions, 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.For general expenses of the Coast and Geodetic Survey: For rent of buildings for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of fireproof building numbered two hundred and five New Jersey avenue south, including rooms for standard weights and measures, for the safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps, and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars.
For purchase of new instruments and books, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For materials required for the drawing division and map-mounting; by the instrument-shop, for the construction and repair of instruments; supplies for the carpenters’ shop; and for allowances to the assistants employed in charge of the office details, in accordance with regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For ehartpaper, printing-ink, copper plates, engravers’ supplies, and 611 for copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping, seven thousand one hundred dollars.
For extra engraving, one thousand dollars. For photolithographing charts for immediate use, six thousand six hundred dollars. For stationery for the office and field parties; transportation of instruments ; office furniture and repairs; and for office wagon, five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For fuel, gas, telegrams, extra labor, and washing, three thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous and contingencies of all kinds, including the traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, two thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-seven thousand dollars. To enable the National Academy of Sciences to make observations ofObservations of eclipse of the sun, etc. the eclipse of the sun on the sixth of May next, at an island in the Pacific Ocean, five thousand dollars, the expenditures to be accounted for by the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, under the rules that govern that work; to be immediately available.
For construction of a steamship for surveying the Pacific coast andSteamship for survey of Pacific coast. sounds, one hundred thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.Treasury Department. Miscellaneous. For dies and paper for internal-revenue stamps, eighty thousandDies and paper for internal-revenue stamps. dollars. For engraving, printing, and finishing stamps for tobacco, snuff, distilledManufacture of stamps, etc. and fermented liquors, and all other stamps used in the collection of internal-revenue taxes, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guiltyViolation of internal- revenue laws. of violating the internal-revenue laws, or accessory to the same, including payments for information and detection, sixty-five thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Division of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act.
For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-sixExpenses of fiscal agents, etc.[R. S. 3653, 719](/us/rs/s3653/719). hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars. For freight on bullion and coin : For freight on bullion and coin betweenFreight on bullion and coin. the mints and assay-offices, thirty thousand dollars.
For transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coinTran sportation of silver coin. as required by law, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of the national currency: For paper, express charges,National currency. and other expenses, twenty thousand dollars. For the distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,Distinctive paper, etc. including mill expenses, transportation, examination, counting, and delivery, thirty-five thousand dollars. Storage of silver:
For constructing, repairing, enlarging, and rentingStorage of silver. vaults and safes for the use of the Treasurer and assistant treasurers of the United States, and for transportation of silver dollars between sub-treasury offices, one hundred thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. For loss on recoinage of mutilated and uncurrent minor coins now inLoss on recoinage of mutilated, etc., minor coins. the vaults of the Treasury and which may be presented during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand dollars. 612 Fuel, lights, etc., for public buildings.For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings:
For fuel, lights, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and fireman in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, four hundred thousand dollars. Furniture, carpets, etc., for public buildings.For furniture and repairs of furniture and carpets for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, including gas-fixtures for nine new buildings, namely:
Albany, Charleston, West Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, Paducah, Kentucky, Philadelphia courthouse and post-office, Saint Louis, Topeka, Kansas, Cincinnati, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, three hundred thousand dollars. Assistant-custodians, and janitors.For pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, three hundred thousand dollars.
Heating apparatus.For heating apparatus for public buildings, including new buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available. Vaults, safes, locks, etc.For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, including new buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, sixty thousand dollars.
Plans for public buildings.For plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials, and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. Counterfeiting, etc.For suppressing counterfeiting and similar felonies: For the expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-seven thousand dollars.
Compensation in lieu of moieties.For compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty thousand dollars. Library.For the library of the Treasury Department: For purchase of law books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars. Care, etc., of lands, etc., of United States.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and sale of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars. alaskan seal fisheries.
Agents at seal-fisheries.For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Revenue steamers for protection of seal fisheries.For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the protection of the interests of the government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty-five thousand dollars. 613 Control and protection of property acquired under direct tax laws:Protection of property, etc., under direct-tax laws.
Care, control, and protection of real estate acquired by the United States under the direct-tax laws, five hundred dollars. For the National Board of Health. For compensation and personalNational Board of Health. expenses of members of the board ten thousand dollars. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case ofAppropriation in case of epidemic. a threatened or actual epidemic, to use a sum, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and maintaining quarantine at points of danger.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to co-operate with State andNeat-cattle for exportation; sanitary regulations. municipal authorities, and corporations and persons engaged in the transportation of neat-cattle by land or water, in establishing regulations for the safe conveyance of such cattle from the interior to the seaboard, and the shipment thereof, so that such cattle may not be exposed to the disease known as pleuro pneumonia, or lung plague, and to prevent the spread of said disease, and to establish quarantine stations and provide proper shelter for neat-cattle imported, at such ports as he may deem necessary, fifty thousand dollars.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island Arsenal. For completing shop II, an iron-finishing shop, for the armory, sixty-five thousand dollars. For armory-shop K, an iron-finishing shop, fifty thousand dollars. For storehouse numbered four, forty thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, fifteen thousand dollars. For deepening the water-power canal, twenty thousand dollars; the same to be expended as required by act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes,” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and to be immediately available.
For general care, preservation, and improvement; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the Rock Island bridge as follows: For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expensesRock Island bridge. of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars.
For protecting the Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. For Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For purchasing metal-workingBenicia Arsenal. machines for shops, namely, one planer, complete, with appendages; one steam-hammer; one slotting-machine; one hundred and fifty feet four-inch shafting, with couplings and pillar-blocks; one drill-press; one brass-founder’s lathe, and one lathe for turning shafting, ten thousand dollars. “ To excavate for and build cisterns for saving water from new shop-roofs, four thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty cents.
For permanent repairs of post fences, and so forth, five thousand dollars. For Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For laying drainFrankford Arsenal. from the principal building to the creek, one thousand five hundred dollars. For Now York Arsenal, New York: For one set of officers’ quarters,New York Arsenal. five thousand five hundred dollars. 614 Powder depot.For Piccatiny powder depot, Dover, New Jersey, forty thousand dollars. Sandy Hook proving-ground.For the Sandy Hook proving-ground, New Jersey:
For clearing, leveling, grading, and building roads and walks at the proving-ground, two thousand live hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal.For the Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars Additional compensation to master armorer.For additional compensation to the master armorer at the national armory, in Springfield, Massachusetts, while performing the duties of master machinist at said armory, one thousand dollars.
Repairs of arsenals.For repairs of arsenals : For repairs of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Public buildings and grounds in Washington. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: For improving grounds south of the Executive Mansion, fifteen thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, including contraction of one large house for storage and protection of palms and other tropical and subtropical plants, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue, between Fourth and Sixth streets east, fifteen hundred dollars. For improving reservation on North Carolina avenue, between Second and Third streets east, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States.
For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand 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 lycopodinm, one thousand dollars. .
For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. ’ For abating nuisance, five hundred dollars. For improving various reservations, fifteen thousand dollars. For improvement and care of Smithsonian Grounds, five thousand dollars. Executive Mansion.For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows: For care and repair of the Executive Mansion, and for refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For care and necessary repair of the conservatories of the Executive Mansion, five thousand five hundred dollars. For lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lampposts, matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thou- 615 sand dollars: *Provided,* That for each six-foot burner not connected with*Proviso*. a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act.
For repair of water-pipes and fireplugs: For repairing and extendingWater-pipes, etc. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars; and all officers in charge of public buildings in the District of Columbia shall cause the flow of water in the buildings under their charge to be shut off from five o’clock post meridian to eight o’clock ante meridian: *Provided, **Proviso*.That the water in said public buildings is not necessarily in use for public business.
For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and GovernmentTelegraph, Capitol, departments, and printing office. Printing Office: For care and repair of the same, one thousand dollars. For the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments : ForState, War, and Navy Department building. clearing the site, laying foundations, building walls of the lower stories, and continuing the preparation of cut granite for the west and center wings, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, including the rent of necessary office-rooms, five hundred thousand dollars.
And so much of the appropriation for furniture, carpets, file-cases, and shelving for the north wing of said building contained in the sundry civil appropriation act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred andPamphlet edition, laws 1 Sess., 47th Cong., 318. eighty-two, as shall remain unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose. For completion of the Washington Monument: For marble, granite, ironWashington Monument. framework, machinery, tools, labor, office expenses, including the rent of necessary office-rooms, and for each and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the enlargement and construction of such military posts as in theMilitary posts. judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service. To be expended by the Secretary of War: For the observation and report of storms: For 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, five thousand five hundred dollars; for telegraphing reports, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms, ten thousand dollars ; for cotton-belt reports, seven thousand dollars; for continuing the establishment and connections of stations at life-saving stations and lighthouses including operators, repairmen, materials, and general service, five thousand five hundred dollars; and a portion of said sum shall be expended in establishing telegraphic connection between the life-saving station at Brigantine Beach, New Jersey, and the main land and the stations above and below said Brigantine Beach Station: *Provided,* That such connection, in the opinion of the Superintendent*Proviso*. of the Life-Saving Service, shall be deemed necessary; for instrument-shelters, five hundred dollars; for rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars; office furniture, in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for river and flood reports, five thousand dollars; maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution, twenty-five thousand dollars; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and station- 616 ery, six thousand dollars; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the work of no other *Proviso*.department, bureau, or commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this bureau.
Military telegraph lines.*Proviso*.For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, all moneys received for the transmission of private dispatches over any and all telegraph lines owned or operated by the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, as required by section thirty-six hundred and seventeen [R. S. 3617, 713](/us/rs/s3617/713).of the Revised Statutes; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Observation, etc., in the Arctic Seas.Observation and exploration in the Arctic Seas: For completing the work of scientific observation and exploration on or near the shores of Lady Franklin Bay, and for transportation of men and supplies to said location and return, and for completing the work of scientific exploration at Point Barrow, thirty-three thousand dollars; the same to be immediately available. And it is provided that the above work near Lady Franklin Bay and Point Barrow shall be closed, and the force there employed shall be returned to the United States within the year, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
PayPay: For pay of one brigadier-general and ten second lieutenants, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and twenty privates, including payments due on discharge, two hundred thousand dollars; for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders, five thousand dollars; for pay of contract surgeons, three thousand six hundred dollars; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, seven thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps, not to exceed ten commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law and exclusive of officers detailed for Arctic sea service. Subsistence.Subsistence: For the subsistence of signal service enlisted men, and for commutation of rations of signal service enlisted men, one hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents ; for commutation of rations to enlisted men detailed from regiments for duty at signal stations at Lady Franklin Bay and Point Barrow, eight thousand and fifty-two dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-two cents.
For subsistence stores for Lady Franklin Bay, for sale to the officers and men of the expedition, five thousand dollars. For subsistence stores for Point Barrow, for sale to the officers and men and civil employees of the expedition, three thousand dollars. Supplies.Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for officers and enlisted men at Fort Meyer, Virginia, and for various offices at Fort Meyer, Virginia, and on the United States military-telegraph lines, six thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at nine dollars each per month, twenty three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars ; commutation of fuel for two hundred and forty-three enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars; forage for twenty-five mules and six horses, three thousand one hundred dollars; stationery, one hundred dollars; stoves, seven hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents; lights, three hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; in all, fifty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents 617 Incidental expenses:
For horse and mule shoes, five hundred dollars;Incidental expenses. blacksmiths’ tools, five hundred and fifty dollars; veterinary supplies, three hundred dollars; fire apparatus, disinfectants, and so forth, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars. Transportation: For transportation and distribution of supplies, instruments,Transportation. and material, twenty-five thousand dollars; for transportation of officers and men, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; means of transportation, namely: five mules, at one hundred and forty dollars each, seven hundred dollars; one spring-wagon, two hundred dollars; for repairs to means of transportation, five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Barracks and quarters: For commutation of quarters to enlisted menBarracks, etc. of the Signal Corps, eighty-four thousand one hundred and eight dollars; work and supplies at Fort Meyer, Virginia, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand nine hundred and eight dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For clothing for one hundredClothing, camp and garrison equipage. and fifty sergeants, at forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents each, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; clothing for thirty corporals, at forty-five dollars and eighty-four cents each, one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty cents; clothing for three hundred and twenty privates, at forty-four dollars and thirty-two cents each, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents; clothing for twenty-two detailed men with the Arctic expedition, at forty five dollars each, nine hundred and ninety dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and ten cents.
Medical department: For medical attendance and medicines for officersMedical and hospital supplies, etc. and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, three thousand five hundred dollars; medical attendance and medicines for officers doing duty in connection with the Signal Service, one hundred dollars: medical and hospital supplies at Fort Meyer, Virginia, nine hundred dollars; medicines furnished to officers and enlisted men from purveying depots and Army dispensaries, one thousand dollars; materials for repairs of hospitals at Fort Meyer, Virginia, two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
And there shall not be expended from any moneys appropriated by the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, any money for the support of the Signal Service or Corps, except the pay of such commissioned officers as the Secretary of War may detail for service in that corps. national cemeteries.
For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalCemeteries. cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars, not more than one thousand dollars of which shall be used in constructing a wharf at Chalmette National Cemetery, New Orleans. To complete the road from the city of Chattanooga to the National Cemetery, near that city, twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to finish said road. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-three superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars. miscellaneous objects.
Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printing and issuingSurvey of northern and northwestern lakes. charts for use of navigators, electrotyping copper-plates for chart printing and completion of office-work, three thousand dollars. 618 Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries.For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries : For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, three hundred dollars.
Publication of official records of the rebellion.For the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, as follows: For continuing the publication of the official records and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, 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, Copies to be held subject to order of Senators and Representatives, etc.thirty-six thousand dollars.
And the sets of said compilation held by the Secretary of War for distribution to addresses to be furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates shall be subject to their order, as now provided by law, until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Military convicts.For the expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them twelve thousand dollars.
Artillery school, Fortress Monroe.For the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provide for textbooks, drawing materials, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for use of the school, three thousand dollars. Bounty, etc., of colored soldiers and sailors.For the collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors. For payment of agents; rent of offices; stationery, office-furniture, and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents; telegraphing, postage, and post-office money-orders, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
Transient paupers.For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers: For the care, support, and medical treatment 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. Artificial limbs.For artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for said purposes.
Surgical appliances, etc.For appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars. Sawyer patent, for canister-shot.To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to purchase from Addison M. Sawyer his patent right for canister-shot, and to pay him therefor such sum as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sea wall, Governor’s Island.For completing the sea wall on the west side and southeastern portion of Governor’s Island, New York Harbor, fifteen thousand dollars; the same to be immediately available. united states military prison at fort leavenworth.Military prison, Fort Leavenworth.For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence for prisoners, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For teamsters and two night watchman, and for purchase of subsistence for prisoners while being transferred under guard, five hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-four cents.
For oil, wicking, and for lamps, lanterns, and chimneys for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars. For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, five hundred and forty dollars. 619 For prisoners’ beds, bed-sacks, hay, and blankets, two thousand eightMilitary prison, Fort Leavfeoworth. hundred and forty-three dollars. For stationery and blank books for offices of governor, adjutant, quartermaster; stamped envelopes and letter-paper for use of prisoners; and for books, periodicals, and newspapers for prison library, nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety cents.
For hard wood for making steam, beating, and cooking, eleven thousand two hundred dollars. For steam-pipe couplings, and other material for extension of heating-circulation, one thousand dollars. For belting, oil, cotton-waste, for running and repair of machinery, five hundred dollars. For tools and material in shops, laundry, stables; disinfectants; horse and mule shoes ; hose for engine and tanks, five thousand two hundred dollars. For stoves and stovepipe in buildings not heated by steam, two hundred dollars.
For fifty thousand bricks, and for coping-stone to complete prison-wall, one thousand dollars. For washing-machines for the prison laundry, five hundred dollars. For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, and articles required in the care and treatment of the sick: hospital repairs, furniture, and stoves, one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. For expenses for pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars. For donations of five dollars each, and for clothing for prisoners on discharge, two thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred dollars. For grain and hay for horses and mules used exclusively at the prison, three thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixteen cents. For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month ; one clerk, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents per month; one clerk, at one hundred dollars per month; two night-watchmen, at thirty dollars per month each; five teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each; six foremen of mechanics, at one hundred dollars per month each ; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents.
For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison-guard, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy cents. For construction and repair of prison buildings and officers’ and guards’ quarters, three thousand dollars. For clothing for prisoners: Straw hats; material for winter coats; material for trousers; flannel for blouses; flannel, at forty cents per yard; unbleached cotton for shirts; canton flannel for drawers; woolen stockings and cotton stockings; material for boots and shoes; material for light summer clothing for prisoners in kitchen and shops; trimmings, thread, and buttons for coats, trousers, blouses, shirts, and drawers, fourteen thousand six hundred and seven dollars.
NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.National Home for Disabled Volunteers.Dayton For the support of the National Dome for Disabled Volunteer soldiers, as follows: For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio, six hundred and fifty three thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-one cents. For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at theMilwaukee. Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one hundred and sixty thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at theTogus, Maine. Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine, one hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirteen cents. 620 Hampton, Ya.For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia, one hundred and fifty thousand and seventeen dollars and fifty-two cents. For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand and eighty-eight dollars and three cents.
Mississippi River Commission.For the Mississippi River Commission, as follows: For salaries and traveling expenses, of the commission, office expenses, and reduction of work; for continuation of surveys and gaugings of the Mississippi River and its tributaries for permanent gauge-stations and borings, and for publication of maps and results, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and an itemized statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be included with the annual report of the commission to Congress.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy-yard, Washington;Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For continuing dredging, fifteen thousand dollars. Mare Island.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Continuation of stone dry-dock, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. New York.For navy-yard, New York: For dredging, fifty thousand dollars; for cob dock, fifty thousand dollars. Navy-yards and stations.For navy-yards and stations, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and fifty thousand dollars additional, which shall be used only in the care and preservation of such yards or stations as maybe closed.
Compensation to owners of North Star.To the contingent fund of the Navy, to enable the Secretary of the Navy to make a proper compensation to the owners of the North Star, for the rescue of the crew of the United States steamer Rodgers, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated; and not exceeding one thousand dollars thereof may be paid to the captain of said North Star as a recognition of his services in the matter. Officers and men of U.
S. steamer Rodgers; reimbursement.To reimburse the officers and men of the United States steamer Rodgers, burned in Saint Lawrence Bay, Behring Straits, Siberia, on the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, for the loss of their personal effects by the destruction of said vessel, there shall be paid to each of the officers an amount equal to two months of their sea-pay, and to each of the men seventy-five dollars. To the mother of master C. F. Putnam, who was lost on the ice in the heroic endeavor to afford relief to his associates, a sum equal to twelve months’ of his sea-pay; and for the purpose of settling the accounts of the late Master Putnam, the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be assumed as the date of his death, and a sum sufficient therefor is hereby appropriated.
Reward to certain natives, Saint Lawrence Bay.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to suitably reward, in such manner as he may deem most advisable, the natives at and about Saint Lawrence Bay who housed, fed, and extended other kindness to the officers and crew of the United States steamer Rodgers subsequent to the destruction of that vessel, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and that the sums appropriated by the two foregoing paragraphs be immediately available.
Coaster’s Harbor Island.For continuation of the wharf and for a rigging and sail loft and drill-hall on Coasters Harbor Island, forty-five thousand dollars. Potomac Steamboat Company.To enable the Secretary of the-Navy to pay the Potomac Steamboat Company the amount found to be due them by a board of naval officers appointed to ascertain the damage occasioned by the negligence of the officers in command of the United States naval tug Fortune, in running down the said company’s steamer Excelsior, in Hampton Roads, Virginia, December fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, nineteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifteen cents; and the acceptance of this sum shall be in full for all claims which the said company now has against the United States, because of said collision. 621 To enable the Secretary’ of the Navy to pay H.
H. Nichols for the engravingH. H. Nichols, payment to. of the Bowditch Navigator, published by order of the Navy Department, two thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-nine cents: *Provided,* That the account be found correct and*Proviso*. justly due. To pay the expenses and services of the civil commissioner and theAdvisory Naval Board.Pamphlet edition laws, 1st sess. 47th Cong., 292. incidental expenses of the commission appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, under the provisions of the act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to report upon the question of advisability of sale of any of the navy-yards, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to provide furniture for the newFurniture for Navy Department. quarters allotted to the Navy Department in the State, War, and Navy Department building, twenty five thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. For constructing fire proof roof and remodeling the halls of the south and east wings of the building occupied by the Department of the Interior, sixty thousand dollars For casual repairs of the Interior Department building:
For casual repairs of the department building, five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For the Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for generalCaptiol extension. repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and workmen and fresco-painter, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars. For improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of theCapitol grounds. improvement of the Capitol grounds, including permanent approaches to the House and Senate wings, pay to landscape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gardeners, and workmen, sixty-five thousand dollars; and hereafter all changes and improvements in the Grounds, including approaches to the Capitol, shall be estimated for in detail, showing what modifications are proposed and the estimate cost of the same.
For lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol andLighting Capitol and grounds. grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden and Senate stables; for gas, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for electric lighting, and for general repairs to and purchase of lamps, lampposts, and pipes, thirty thousand dollars. For Senate stables and engine-house, one hundred dollars. public lands.Public lands. Office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana:
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana:Contingent expenses, offices surveyors-general for—Louisiana.Florida. For fuel, books, stationery, messenger and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Florida: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Florida: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, Stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota:Minnesota.
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor general of Dakota:Dakota. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Dakota: For rent of office tor the surveyor general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Colorado:Colorado. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Col- 622 orado:
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. New Mexico.Office of the surveyor-general of New Mexico: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of New Mexico: For rent of office for the survey or-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for purchase of sale, one thousand dollars. California.Office of the surveyor-general of California:
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of California : For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. Idaho.Office of the surveyor-general of Idaho: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Idaho: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Nevada.Office of the surveyor-general of Nevada:
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Nevada: For rent of office for the surveyor-gene al, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Oregon.Office of the surveyor-general of Oregon: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Oregon : For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington.Office of the surveyor-general of Washington :
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Washington : For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, Stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Montana.Office of the surveyor-general of Montana: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Montana : For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
Nebraska and Iowa.Office of the surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rent of office for the survey or-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Utah.Office of the surveyor-general of Utah: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Utah: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Wyoming.Office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Arizona.Office of the surveyor-general of Arizona: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Arizona: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Expenses of collection of revenues from sales of public lands.Registers and receivers.
For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred thousand dollars. Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses of the several land offices one hundred and thirty thousand dollars 623 For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of publicExpenses of depositing money, etc. lands, ten thousand dollars. To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy-fiveProtection of timber, etc. thousand dollars; and the same, or any part thereof, may be used in paying agents employed a fixed sum per day, not to exceed three dollars, in lieu of actual daily expenses, as now provided by law.
For expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swampAgents, etc., for claims for swamp lands. lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, fifteen thousand dollars. surveying the public lands.Survey of public lands. For surveying the public lands, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines; or where, for any cause not provided for by law, in Oregon, or Washington Territory, he is unable to get the necessary surveys made at the rates aforesaid, he may allow a sum, not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township lines, and six dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated sixty thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available shall be expended for surveys in the Territory of Dakota; and a further amount, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof, may be expended for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying Districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coalfields, and timber districts, and for the making of such other surveys or examination as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States; and a further amount, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in retracing and resurveying imperfect surveys in the State of Kansas.
For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the ratesCalifornia. prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, ten thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed and private land-claims in New Mexico, at aNew Mexico. rate not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses eight thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in Arizona, at a rateArizona. not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses eight thousand dollars.
For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entryIllegal and fraudulent entry, etc. or appropriation one hundred thousand dollars of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continueWorn and defaced plats of surveys, etc. to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land officers with the same, twenty thousand dollars.
INDIAN AFFAIRS. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend aWinnebago Indians, Wisconsin, census. sum, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, out of the accumulated fund in the Treasury belonging to the Winnebago tribes in Wisconsin, for the purpose of completing the census provided for in the act approved January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.[21 Stat., 316](/us/stat/21/316). 624 Construction of Indian school buildings.For constructing new school buildings for use of Indian schools, to be expended under the Secretary of the Interior, fifteen thousand dollars.
Preservation of records, etc., Indian Bureau.For preserving and transcribing mutilated and defaced papers and records in the Indian Bureau, five thousand dollars. Cherokee Nation, payment to.That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid into the treasury of the Cherokee Nation, out of the funds due under appraisement for Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River, which sum shall be expended as the acts of the Cherokee legislature*Proviso*. direct, this amount to be immediately available: *Provided,* That the Cherokee Nation, through its proper authorities, shall execute conveyances, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, to the United States in trust only for the benefit of the Pawnees, Poncas, Nez Forces, Otocs and Missouri as, and Usages now occupying said tract, as they respectively occupy the same before the payment of said sum of money.
U. S. *vs*. Crow Dog.That one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of presenting the question of jurisdiction to the United States Supreme Court, by habeas corpus proceedings, in the case of the United States against an Indian called Crow Dog, convicted in the first judicial dis- , trier court of the Territory of Dakota for the crime of murder, in the killing of another Indian called Spotted Tail, including costs of transcript, printing the same, printing briefs, and counsel fees for said defendant.
Assent of Sioux Indians to agreement, etc.For the purpose of procuring the assent of the Sioux Indians as Provided by article twelve of the treaty between the United States and the different bands of the Sioux Nation of Indians, made and concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to agreement made with the said Sioux Indians transmitted to the Senate February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, by the President, with such modifications Title to lands, etc.of said agreement as will fully secure to them a title to the land remaining in the several reservations set apart to them, by said agreement, and to the Santee Sioux the proceeds of that portion of their Appropriation.separate reservation, not allotted in severalty, ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Survey, etc., of Fort Larned Military Reservation.Pamphlet edition laws, 1st sess., 47th Cong., 217.For the purpose of paying the expense of survey, appraisement, and sale of Fort Larned Military Reservation, in the State of Kansas, as provided in an act entitled ‘-An act to provide for the disposition of the Fort Larned military reservation,” two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as maybe found necessary. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Geological Survey.For the United States Geological Survey:
For the Geologial survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of. the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United Stares, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. And there may be expended therefrom for the engraving of the maps (in order that they may remain in the possession of the government), and the necessary expenses thereof, twenty five thousand dollars; and for the engraving of illustrations on wood, and the necessary expenses thereof, six thousand dollars, said work of engraving to be done by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Salaries.For salaries of the scientific assistants of the geological survey:
For salary of five geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For salary of two geologists, at three thousand dollars each ; For salary of one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; 625 For salary of two geologists, .at two thousand dollars each; For salary of one paleontologist, four thousand dollars; For salary of one paleontologist, two thousand dollars; For salary of one chemist, three thousand dollars;
For salary of one chemist, two thousand dollars ; For salary of one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars ; For salary of three geographers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For salary of three topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, sixty four thousand seven hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Patents arePatents granted to officers, etc., of the United States; [R. S. 4886, 946](/us/rs/s4886/946); exceptions. authorized to grant any officer of the government, except officers and employees of the Patent Office, a patent for any invention of the classes mentioned in section forty eight hundred and eighty six of the Revised Statutes, when such invention is used or to be used in the public service, without the payment of any fee: *Provided,* That the applicant in*Proviso*. his application shall state that the invention described therein, if patented, may be used by the government or any of its officers or employees in the prosecution of work for the government, or by any other person in the United States, without, the payment to him of any royalty thereon, which stipulation shall be included in the patent.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital fob the insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: ForInsane of the Army, etc. support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, and those committed from the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, two hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars.Repairs. To provide bedding and furniture for the new wards, six thousand dollars. For detached buildings for kitchen, including cooking apparatus, eight thousand five hundred dollars. That of the appropriation of twenty five thousand dollars for a supplyFire-proof stairways. of pure water, and for fire walls between sections, in the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, maybe used for fire proof stairways and changes to provide greater protection against fires , columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.
For current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf andDeaf and dumb. Dumb; For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses and for books and illustrative apparatus, for general repairs, and improvements, fifty five thousand dollars: *Provided* That no more*Proviso*. than twenty five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages; *Provided further,* Hereafter the report of said institution*Proviso*. shall contain an itemized statement of all employees, the sala- 626 ries or wages respectively, each of them, and also of all other expenses of said institution.
Improvement of grounds, etc.For the improvement and inclosure of the grounds, and repairs of buildings three thousand dollars. howard university. Howard University.For maintenance of the Howard University: To be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, a portion of which will be paid from donations and other sources, fifteen thousand dollars. For water supply, three thousand five hundred dollars. freedmen’s hospital, and asylum.
Freedmen’s Hospital.For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty four thousand dollars; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, two assistant surgeons, engineer, matron, nurses, and cooks, nine thousand five hundred dollars; for fuel and light, three thousand dollars; for clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, six thousand dollars; for rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; for medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; for repair’s and furniture, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. columbia hospital for women and lying-in asylum.
Columbia Hospital.For furniture, heating apparatus, gas-fixtures, bedding, and similar necessaries for the west wing of the Columbia Hospital, five thousand *Proviso*.dollars: *Provided,* That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury shall not withhold payments made under appropriations for current expenses of said hospital, or under the five thousand dollars hereby appropriated. Reform School.For the Reform School, District of Columbia: For one new barn, of stone basement and frame superstructure, and one outbuilding for farm purposes, with cellars for root-crops, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Yellowstone National Park.For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, preservation, and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of superintendent and employees, forty thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of said amount to be paid annually to a Superintendent of said park and not exceeding nine hundred dollars annually to each of ten assistants, all of whom shall be appointed the Secretary of the Interior, and reside continuously in the park and whose duty it shall be to protect the game, timber, and objects of intrest therein; the balance of the sum appropriated to be expended in the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within said park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose;
Lease of grounds; conditions.The Secretary of the Interior may lease small portions of ground in the park, not exceeding Jen acres in extent for each tract, on which may be erected hotels and the necessary outbuildings, and for a period not exceeding ten years; but such lease shall not include any of the geysers or other objects of curiosity or intrest in said park, or exclude the public from the free and convenient approach thereto; or include any ground within one quarter of a mile of any of the geysers, or the Yellowstone Falls, nor shall there be leased more than ten acres to any one person or corporation; nor shall any hotel or other buildings be erected within the park until such lease shall be executed by the Secretary of the Interior, and all contracts, agreements, or exclusive privileges heretofore made or given in regard to said park or any part thereof, are hereby 627 declared to be invalid; nor shall the Secretary of the Interior, in any lease which he may make and execute, grant any exclusive privileges within said park, except upon the ground leased.
The Secretary of War, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior,Detail of troops, etc., for protection of park. is hereby authorized and directed to make the necessary details of troops to prevent trespassers or intruders from entering the park for the purpose of destroying the game or objects of curiosity therein, or for any other purpose prohibited by law, and to remove such persons from the park if found therein. Botanic Garden: For procuring manure, tools, fuel, purchasing treesBotanic Garden. and shrubs, and for labor and materials in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee, ten thousand dollars.
For completion of the work of construction of the new Pension buildingPension building. in Judiciary Square, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for heating apparatus for the building, forty thousand dollars. For the preparation of the Official Register of eighteen hundred andOfficial Register. eighty three, two thousand five hundred dollars. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized toSite for coaling dock, etc., at Port Royal, S. C. purchase a site for a coaling dock and naval storehouse at Port Royal, South Carolina, located by the board of naval officers in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for that purpose, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. tenth census.
For the work of taking the tenth census and closing the bureau, includingTenth census. the salary of the Superintendent and of all clerks and other employees one hundred thousand dollars. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For the Post Office Department building, as follows : For concretingPost-Office Department building. floors in basement, five thousand four hundred dollars; for purchasing and putting in an additional steam boiler and connections, two thousand five hundred dollars; for overhauling and resetting boilers, including the brick and iron work and steam fitting, one thousand five hundred dollars; for construction of additional file cases, two thousand dollars in all, eleven thousand four hundred dollars, the same to be immediately available.
For cases, files, book cases and file holders, in the rooms of the officeCases, etc. of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. For furniture and similar necessaries for the money order office, to beFurniture. paid from the proceeds of said office, seven thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. For miscellaneous expenses, money order office, including fuel, gas,Miscellaneous. ice, washing, soap, towels, brushes, express charges, and other necessary office expenses, three thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. under the commissioner or fish and fisheries.
For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by theFish and fisheries.Propagation of food fishes. United States Fish Commission of shad and fresh water herring into the waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf, and Great Lake States, and of salmon, white fish, carp, guorami, and other useful food fishes into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best 628 adapted ; also for the propagation of cod, herring, mackerel, halibut, Steam launches, etc.Spanish mackerel, and other sea fishes, and for the purchase of one or more steam launches or light-draught steamers adapted for the purpose;
Artificial propagation of oysters, etc.for experiments in regard to the artificial propagation of oysters and other shell fish and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of the food fishes of the United States, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five Designation of assistant commissioners, etc.thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby authorized to designate, from the employees of the Commission, an assistant, to discharge his duties in case of his absence or disability: *Proviso*.*Provided,* That no increase of pay shall be granted in consequence of such selection.
Rent of rooms, etc.For expenses of the office of the United States Fish Commission : For rent of rooms and other necessary office expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Carp ponds.For the maintenance of carp ponds: For the maintenance of the United States carp ponds in Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of the young fish, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty thousand dollars. Vessels.For the maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels of the United States Fish Commission, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, which shall be immediately available, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Statistics, etc.For the inquiry of food fishes: For collecting statistics of the seacoast and lake fisheries of the United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, three thousand five hundred dollars. Wood’s Holl, Mass. Propagation of cod, etc.For erection of the necessary buildings and apparatus at Wood’s Holl Harbor, Massachusetts, for the propagation of cod, mackerel, striped bass, lobsters, and other useful marine animals, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Illustrations of reports, etc.For illustrations for the report on food fishes: For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of fish and fisheries, one thousand dollars. Fish transportation.For fish transportation : For the construction of a car for the distribution of carp and other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United States, five thousand five hundred dollars Fitting out steam vessel.[21 Stat., 440](/us/stat/21/440).For steam-vessel for research in regard to food-fishes :
For supplying the steam-vessel authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, with boats, anchors, chains, furniture, and the apparatus necessary for carrying on the research in regard to the fisheries off the coasts of the United States, ten thousand dollars. Ethnological researches.For North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution : For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the North American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars, of which three thousand dollars shall be expended for continuing and completing the compilation and preparationStatistical atlas. of a statistical atlas of Indian Affairs by C.
C. Royce, under the direction of the bureau of ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, which shall be immediately available. Smithsonian Institution building.For completing the reconstruction, in a fireproof manner, of the Interior of the eastern portion of the Smithsonian Institution, fifty thousand dollars. national museum. National Museum. Cases, furniture, etc.For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum : For cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of geology, mineralogy, natural history, ethnology, and the industrial arts belonging to the United States, and for salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, sixty thousand dollars. 629 For beating and lighting the National Museum:
For expense of heating,Heating and lighting. lighting, and telephonic and electrical service for the new museum building, six thousand dollars. For the preservation of collections of the National Museum: For thePreservation of collections. preservation and exhibition of the collections received from surveying and exploring expeditions of the government, and other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees ninety thousand dollars. For the preservation of collections of the National Museum in the ArmoryCollections, Armory Building, etc.
Building: For care of the Armory buildings and grounds and expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the duplicate collections of the government and of property of the United States Fish Commission contained therein, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, two thousand five hundred dollars. And the distributionDuplicate specimens; distribution of, etc. of duplicate specimens of the National Museum and Fish Commission may be made to colleges, academies, and other institutions of learning upon the payment by the recipients of the cost of preparation for transportation and the transportation thereof.
For repairs of portal of verandah of adobe palace, New Mexico, twoAdobe palace, New Mexico. hundred dollar; for repairs upon back walls, four hundred dollars. For repairs to the courthouse at Washington, District of Columbia:Court-house, Washington, D. C. For annual repairs to the courthouse in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePublic printing and binding; 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, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million five 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. and debates, one million four hundred and two thousand dollars ; for the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office); for the Navy Department, fifty thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office); for the Depart-men of Justice, ten thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, twenty thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, eight thousand dollars; and for the Library of Congress, nineteen thousandDisbursement of appropriation. dollars.
And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended ; *Provided,* That there may be*Proviso*. bound for each Senator, Representative, or Delegate in Congress, one 630 Binding of documents, for Senators, Members, and Delegates.copy of each book or document issued or ordered by authority of Congress during the term of service of such Senator, Representative, or Delegate; but this provision shall not be construed as allowing any binding as aforesaid to be done of any books or documents issued during any former Congress of which said Senator, Representative, or Delegate was not a member.
Water-closets.Government Printing Office: For water-closets, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Reflooring.For reflooring, five thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. miscellaneous. Territorial courts in Utah.For the expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants; the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court; and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Defending suits in claims against United States.For defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia pending in any department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, nine thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims.For the prosecution and collection of claims:
For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, one thousand five hundred dollars. Violations of intercourse acts, etc.For punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals, and agents, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
Prosecution of crimes.For the prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, and for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts, and the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. Henry Fink.To pay Henry Fink, United States marshal for the eastern district of Wisconsin, in full payment for costs recovered of him in actions brought against him by Mathias Salentine, W.
R. Reynolds, and Thomas O’Neil, one hundred and eight dollars and eighty cents. Elevator.To complete the construction of the elevator, and for repairing and furnishing the building occupied by the Department of Justice, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. JUDICIAL. united states courts. Expenses of United States courts.For expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; of the jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States is interested; of the 631 prosecution for offenses committed against the United States; for the safekeeping of prisoners; 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 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, namely, those stated in the following itemized list:
For fees and expenses of marshals and deputies, six hundred thousandMarshals, etc. dollars. For payments of district attorneys and their assistants, three hundredDistrict attorneys. and twenty-five thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided, *Clerks.*Proviso*.Clerk of supreme court of D. C. to make report of fees, etc.[R. S. 833, 157](/us/rs/s833/157).That the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall make to the Attorney-General his semiannual report of fees and emoluments in the same manner and under the same regulations as clerks of the other courts of the United States, under and in accordance with section eight hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes, the maximum of whose compensation, after the payment of office expenses, and other allowances granted by the Attorney-General, shall not exceed the maximum of three thousand five hundred dollars, and the balance of said fees and emoluments of his office shall be paid into the Treasury according to the provisions of section eight hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes. *Provided,* That the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United*Proviso*.Compensation of clerk Supreme Court, United States.
States shall not hereafter retain of the fees and emoluments of his office for his personal compensation over and above his necessary clerk-hire and the incidental expenses of his office, certified to by the court, or by one of its justices appointed by it for that purpose, and to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding six thousand dollars a year, or exceeding that rate for any time less than a year; and the surplus of such fees and emoluments shall be paid into the Treasury as provided by law in cases of clerks of the circuit and district courts of the United States: *And provided further,**Proviso*.
That so much of section three of the act of February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as relates to the compensation of said clerk for his attendance in court is hereby repealed: *And provided further,**Proviso*. That the Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to prepare the table of fees to be charged by the clerk thereof, and until the same is thus prepared the fees therein charged for recording or copying any paper or record shall not exceed fourteen cents per folio.
For fees of United States commissioners, one hundred and thirtyFees of U. S. commissioners. thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Jurors. For fees of witnesses, six hundred thousand dollars.Witnesses. For support of United States prisoners, three hundred thousand dollars.United States prisoners. For rent of United States courtrooms, fifty thousand dollars.Rent of courtrooms. For fees and expenses of bailiffs; furniture; for payment of expensesBailiffs, etc. of district judges who may be sent out of their districts, in pursuance of law, to hold a circuit or district court; and other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For the support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationConvicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, and for the necessary traveling expenses incident to the collection of criminal statistics, to be disbursed by the authority of the Attorney-General,Criminal statistics. ten thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. For an additional greenhouse for the propagation of economic andGreenhouse, etc. other plants, two thousand five hundred dollars 632 SENATE.
Caroline Hill.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Mrs Caroline Hill, widow of the Honorable Benjamin H. Hill, late a Senator from the State of Georgia, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and three cents, the amount of compensation of a Senator from August the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to March the fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Senators elect who have not qualified; pay of.That Senators elected, whose term of office begins on the fourth day of March, and whose credentials in due form of law shall have been presented in the Senate, but who have had no opportunity to be qualified, may receive their compensation monthly, from the beginning of their term, until there shall be a session of the Senate.
Catalogue of government publications, etc.To enable the Joint Committee on Public Printing to complete the preparation and indexing, for publication at the Government Printing Office, the classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of government publications, and of publications of public interest purchased by the United States for use or distribution, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the completion of the work, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States.
Purchase of military papers, maps, etc., of Count de Rochambeau.To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase from the Marquis de Rochambeau the military papers, maps, and letter-books of the count de Rochambeau, general in the French army in America, twenty thousand dollars. Purchase of set of records, etc., of estate of late Matthew H. Carpenter.To enable the Librarian of Congress, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, to purchase a set of records and briefs in cases in the Supreme Court of the United States belonging to the estate of the late Mathew H.
Carpenter, eight thousand dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mary A. Orth.To pay Mary A. Orth, the widow of the late honorable Godlove S. Orth, the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress. Widow of J. W. Shackelford, deceased; payment to.To pay the widow of honorable J. W. Shackelford, deceased, the sum of seven hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-nine cents, the amount of salary and allowance for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress.
Sarah Lowe.To pay to Sarah Lowe, the sister of honorable W. M. Lowe, deceased, the sum of two thousand and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, the amount of salary for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress. Widow of James Q. Smith, deceased; payment to.To pay the widow of the late honorable James Q. Smith his salary as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress, to the date of his death, with mileage and stationery, six thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighteen cents, less any sum that may have been paid on account.
Additional rooms for Library of Congress.To convert the rooms adjoining the Old Hall of Representatives, excepting the rooms occupied as the document and stationery rooms, together with the rooms and passages connected with them in the gallery story, including the gallery itself, and the space over the entablature of the colonnade at the south end of the hall, to the use of the library of the House of Representatives, and make the same to communicate with the Library of Congress, through the document-room, ten thousand dollars.
One month’s extra compensation to certain employees.To enable the Acting Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives respectively borne on the annual and session rolls on the third day of March eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one months extra pay at the rate of compensation then paid them by law, which sum shall be immediately available. 633 That a joint commission consisting of three Senators to be appointedJoint Congressional Committee on salaries of officers, etc., of Senate and House. by the Presiding officer of the Senate, and three members elect of the Forty-eighth Congress to be appointed by the Speaker of the Douse of Representatives shall during the recess of Congress consider the question of the salaries and compensation of the officers and employees of the Senate and House respectively and also the number of such employees necessary for the official transaction of the business of the two Houses and shall report to the two Houses on the second Monday of December next their conclusions, with reference to the whole subject, and shall recommend legislation respecting the same if in their judgment any legislation is necessary For additional expenses of the folding room to January first, eighteenFolding. hundred and eighty-four, namely:
For rent of building, five hundred dollars; feed for horses, one hundred and twenty dollars; salary of driver, three hundred dollars; salary of night watchman, four hundred and fifty dollars; repairs, fifty dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. To pay Frederick W. Stigelman, being the difference between hisFrederick W. Steigelman. salary at one thousand dollars and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from July first eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two hundred dollar’s, the same to be immediately available; but this appropriation shall not be construed as an increase of said salary.
And to pay John R. Christy, being the difference between his salaryJohn R. Christy. at one thousand dollars and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty- two to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two hundred dollars, the same to be immediately available; but this appropriation shall not be construed as an increase of said salary. To pay to James C. Courts, assistant clerk of the Committee on Appropriations,James C.
Courts. for additional compensation, nine hundred dollars. Approved, March 3, 1883. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: relative to the printing of the animal reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Public Resolution 1 22 Stat. 635 1882-12-12 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 1.] Joint resolution relative to the printing of the animal reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two.December 12, 1882. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Printing Reports of Commissioner of Agriculture for 1881-’82. That the appropriation made by the Joint resolution of Congress approved August eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (22 Stats, 35395) providing for printing the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall and may be used for the printing in one volume of the reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Approved, December 12, 1882. No. 3: authorizing the payment of the salaries of the employés of the two houses of Congress on the twenty-second instant. Public Resolution 3 22 Stat. 635 1882-12-22 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 3.] Joint resolution authorizing the payment of the salaries of the employés of the two houses of Congress on the twenty-second instant.December 22, 1882. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Payment Congressional employés.
That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay the employés of the two houses of Congress their salaries for the current month on the twenty-second instant. Approved, December 22, 1882. No. 4: providing for a change in the name of the National Bank of Winterset, in Iowa. Public Resolution 4 22 Stat. 635 1883-01-18 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 4.] Joint resolution providing for a change in the name of the National Bank of Winterset, in Iowa.Jan. 1, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National Bank of Winterset, Iowa, authorized to change name, etc. That the name of the National Bank of Winterset, Iowa, shall be changed to the First National Bank of Winterset, Iowa, whenever the board of directors of said bank shall accept the new name by resolution of the board, confirmed by a vote of two thirds of the stockholders, and cause a copy of such resolution, duly authenticated, to be filed with the Comptroller of the Currency: *Provided*, That such acceptance be made within six months after the passage of this resolution, and that all expenses of such change including that of printing and engraving be paid by the said bank.
Sec. 2. That all the debts, demands, liabilities, rights, privileges, and powers of the National Bank of Winterset, Iowa, shall devolve upon and inure to the First National Bank of Winterset, Iowa, whenever such change of name is affected. Approved, January 18, 1883. No. 5: to refer certain claims to the Court of Claims. Public Resolution 5 22 Stat. 635 1883-01-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 5.] Joint resolution to refer certain claims to the Court of Claims.Jan. 24, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Claims for money illegally col- That the claims hereinafter described be, and the said claims are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims un-
(635)636 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 5-7. 1883.der the provisions of section ten hundred and fifty-nine of the Revisedlected, etc., referred to Court of Claims. R. 8. 1059, 195. Statutes the same as though not barred by the Statute of limitations, namely: The claims arising within the former thirty-second internal-revenue district of New York prior to June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, of those persons, members of the Stock Exchange of the said city, from whom moneys were illegally collected, as subsequently shown by the decision of the Supreme Court in the eases of Bailey versus Clark, Dodge, and others (reported in twenty-first Wallace, page two hundred and eighty-six), where such claimants have not heretofore been *Proviso.*repaid such moneys, *Provided*, Such claimants show that they were parties to, and relied upon an arrangement made with the attorney representing the United States in said causes whereby it was understood and agreed that such claims should abide the result of said causes:*Proviso.* *And provided further*, That no action shall be maintained under this resolution which is not begun within a year from its passage; and the testimony of any witness otherwise competent shall not be excluded by reason of his interest in the issue thereof. J. WARREN KEIFER *Speaker of the House of Representatives* DAVID DAVIS *President of the Senate pro tempore* Received by the President January 12, 1883. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing resolution having been presented to the President of the United States for Ins approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] No. 6: making appropriations for continuing the work of the Tenth Census. Public Resolution 6 22 Stat. 936 1883-02-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 6.] Joint resolution making appropriations for continuing the work of the Tenth Census.Feb. 1, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Continuing the Tenth Census. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mayAppropriation. be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to continue the work in the Census Bureau, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Approved, February 1, 1883. No. 7: presenting the thunks of Congress to John F. Slater, and for other purposes. Public Resolution 7 22 Stat. 636 1883-02-05 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 7.] Joint resolution presenting the thunks of Congress to John F. Slater, and for other purposes.Feb. 5, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John F. Slater. That the thanks of Congress be, and they hereby are, presented to John F. Slater,Thanks of Congress to. of Connecticut, for his great beneficence in giving the large sum of one million dollars for the purpose of “uplifting the lately emancipated population of the Southern States and their posterity, by conferring on them the blessings of Christian education.” Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the President to cause a goldGold medal. medal to be struck, with suitable devices and inscriptions, which, together with a copy of this resolution, shall be presented to Mr. Slater in the name of the people of the United States. Approved, February fifth, 1883. No. 8: authorizing the Public Printer to remove certain material from the Government Printing Office. Public Resolution 8 22 Stat. 637 1883-02-06 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public 637 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Res. 8-11. 1883. [No. 8.] Joint resolution authorizing the Public Printer to remove certain material from the Government Printing Office.Feb. 6, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Goverment Printing Office building.Removal of material, etc., to secure safety. That the Public Printer be and he hereby is directed to remove forthwith from the Government Printing Office so much of the property of the United States in the upper stories thereof as shall in his opinion and in the opinion of the Architect of the Capitol render said building entirely safe for the persons employed therein. Sec. 2. That the Public Printer be and he hereby is authorized andAppropriation. required to procure suitable storage room, as near said building as practicable, for the temporary storage of the property of the Government so to be removed from said building, and the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid. Approved, February sixth, 1883. No. 9: to admit free of duty a monument to General Washington. Public Resolution 9 22 Stat. 637 1883-02-17 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 9.] Joint resolution to admit free of duty a monument to General Washington.Feb. 17, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Monument to General Washington; imported free of duty. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania to import free of duty a monument, or the parts thereof as they may be completed, proposed to be erected as a memorial of General Washington in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Approved, February 17, 1883. No. 10: to provide for the binding of the compendium of the Tenth Census. Public Resolution 10 22 Stat. 637 1883-02-17 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 10.] Joint resolution to provide for the binding of the compendium of the Tenth Census.Feb. 17, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Binding compendium of Tenth Census.Pamphlet edition of laws, 1st boss. 47th Cong., 344. That the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to bind the compendium of the Tenth Census in two volumes, of as nearly equal size as practicable, together with a complete index in each volume, The volumes of the reports of the Tenth Census assigned to the House of Representatives, shall be distributed upon the orders of the Representatives and Delegates of the Forty seventh Congress, in accordance with “An act to provide for the publication of the Tenth Census” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty two. Approved, February 17, 1883. No. 11: to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the kite Benjamin H. Hill. Public Resolution 11 22 Stat. 637 1883-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 11.] Joint resolution to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the kite Benjamin H. Hill.Feb. 23, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Benjamie Hill, deceasedEulogies, That there be printed twelve thousand copies of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Benjamin H. Hill, a Senator from the State of Georgia, of which four thousand shall be for the use of the Senate, and eight thousand for the use of the House of Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and lie isPortrait hereby, directed to have printed a portrait of said Benjamin II. Hill to accompany each copy of said eulogies; and for the purpose of defraying the expense of engraving and printing the said portrait, the sum of six 638 FORTY-SEVENTH CONG ESS. Sess. II. Res. 11–14. 1883. hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the sameAppropriation. is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 23, 1883. No. 12: to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the lute William M. Lowe. Public Resolution 12 22 Stat. 638 1883-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 12.] Joint resolution to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the lute William M. Lowe.Feb. 23, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William M. Lowe, deceased.Eulogies. That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late, William M. Lowe, a member of the Forty-seventh Congress, from the State of Alabama, twelve thousand copies, of which three thousand shall be for the use of the Senate, and nine thousand for the use of the House of Representatives; and the Portrait.Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby directed to have printed a portrait of the said William M. Lowe, to accompany said eulogies; and for the purpose of engraving or printing said portrait, the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and Appropriation.the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys iu the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 23, 1883. No. 23: to provide for the publication of the memorial addressee delivered in Congress upon the late Jonathan. T. Updegraff. Public Resolution 23 22 Stat. 638 1883-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 23.] Joint resolution to provide for the publication of the memorial addressee delivered in Congress upon the late Jonathan. T. Updegraff.Feb. 23, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jonathan T. Updegraff, deceased.Memorial addresses. That there be printed twelve thousand copies of the memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, upon the life and character of Honorable Jonathan T. Updegraff, late a representative from the State of Ohio, together with a portrait of the deceased; nine thousand copies thereof for the use of the House of Representatives and three thousand copies for the use of the Senate, And a sum sufficient to defray Portrait.the expense of preparing and printing the portrait of the deceased for the publication herein Provided for is hereby appropriated, out of anyAppropriation. moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Approved, February 23, 1883. No. 14: for the printing of certain eulogies delivered in Congress , upon the late Godlove S. Orth Public Resolution 14 22 Stat. 638 1883-02-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 14.] Joint resolution for the printing of certain eulogies delivered in Congress , upon the late Godlove S. OrthFeb. 24, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Godlove S. Orth, deceased.Eulogies. That there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Godlove 8. Orth, a member of the Forty-seventh Congress from the State of Indiana, twelve thousand copies, of which three thousand shall be for the use of the Senate, and nine thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and the Secretary Portrait.of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait of the said Godlove S. Orth to accompany said eulogies; and for the purpose of engraving or printing said portrait the sum of live hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of Appropriation.any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 24, 1883. No. 15: to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses delivered opon the life and character of Honorable R. M. A. Hawk, of Illinois. Public Resolution 15 22 Stat. 639 1883-02-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public 639 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 15–17. 1883. [No. 15.] Joint resolution to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses delivered opon the life and character of Honorable R. M. A. Hawk, of Illinois.Feb. 23, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Feb. 24, 1883. That there be printed twelve thousand copies of the memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House ol Representatives upon the life and character of Honorable Robert Al. A. Hawk, late a Representative from the State of Illinois, together with a portrait of the deceased, nine thousand copies thereof for the use of the House of Representatives, and three thousand copies for the use of the Senate. And a sum sufficient to defray the expense of preparing andRobert M. A. Hawk, due eased.Memorial addresses. printing the portrait of the deceased for the publication herein provided for, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwisePortrait. appropriated. Approved, February 24, 1883. No. 16: accepting the invitation of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institute to attend the inauguration of the statue of Joseph Henry. Public Resolution 16 22 Stat. 639 1883-02-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 16.] Joint resolution accepting the invitation of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institute to attend the inauguration of the statue of Joseph Henry.Appropriation. Whereas, in a communication from Spencer F. Baird, Secretary ofFeb. 24, 1883. the Smithsonian Institute, Congress was informed that in accordance with an act of June first, eighteen hundred and eighty, the bronze statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had been completed; and whereas in the same communication, Congress was respectfully invited to be present on the occasion of its formal presentation to I he public upon Thursday the nineteenth of April next, Therefore be it. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Inauguration of statue of Joseph Henry., That the said invitation be and the same is hereby accepted by the Senate and House of Representatives; and that the President of the Senate select seven members of that body; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives fifteen members of that body to be present and represent the Congress of the United States,Invitation to Senate and House of Rep representatives, etc.Acceptance. upon the occasion of the presentation and inauguration of said statue Approved, February 24, 1883. No. 17: to provide for admission free of duty of articles intended for a special Exhibition of Machinery, Tools, Implements, Apparatus, and so forth, for the generation and application of Electricity to be held at Philadelphia, by the Franklin Institute. Public Resolution 17 22 Stat. 639 1883-02-26 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 17.] Joint resolution to provide for admission free of duty of articles intended for a special Exhibition of Machinery, Tools, Implements, Apparatus, and so forth, for the generation and application of Electricity to be held at Philadelphia, by the Franklin Institute.Feb. 26, 1883. Whereas, the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for theExhibition of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. promotion of the Alechanic Arts, proposes to hold an exhibition of Electrical Apparatus, Machinery, Tools and Implements and other articles used in scientific and mechanical and manufacturing business and investigations; and Whereas, it is deemed desirable to promote the success of such an Articles imported, etc., free of duty.exhibition by all reasonable encouragement, in order that it may be made useful for the promotion of knowledge ; Therefore be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Exhibition to be held by the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanics Arts in the City of Philadelphia in the years Eighteen hundred and eighty-three or Eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall be admitted without payment of duty or customs fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided*,Proviso. That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States or 640 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 17, 19, 20, 21. 1883. withdrawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed on like articles by the Proviso.revenue laws in force at the date of importation: *and Provided Further*, That in case any article imported under the provisions of this Joint Resolution shall be withdrawn from consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all the penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sales. Approved, February 26, 1883. No. 19: to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses delivered upon the life and character of Honorable John W. Shackelford, of North Carolina. Public Resolution 19 22 Stat. 640 1883-03-02 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 19.] Joint resolution to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses delivered upon the life and character of Honorable John W. Shackelford, of North Carolina.Mar. 2, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John W. Shackelford, deceased.Memorial addresses. That there be printed twelve thousand copies of the memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives upon the life and character of Honorable John W. Shackelford, late a Representative from the State of North Carolina, together with a portrait of the deceased; nine thousand copies thereof for the use of the House of Representatives, and three thousand copies Portrait.for the use of the Senate, And a sum sufficient to defray the expense of preparing and printing the portrait of the deceased for the Appropriation.publication herein provided for is hereby appropriated, out of ally moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 2, 1883. No. 20: to provide for the deficiencies in the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers and others iu the service of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Public Resolution 20 22 Stat. 640 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 20.] Joint resolution to provide for the deficiencies in the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers and others iu the service of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency for pay of salaries of officers, clerks, and others, of House of Representatives. That the sum of twelve thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty-six cents, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the salaries of the officers, clerks, messengers and others, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 21: to print five thousand copies of the report of the Board on behalf of the United States Executive Departments at the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Public Resolution 21 22 Stat. 640 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 21.] Joint resolution to print five thousand copies of the report of the Board on behalf of the United States Executive Departments at the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Printing of report, etc., of U. S. Executive Departments at International Exhibition of 1878, authorized. That there be printed and bound, in continuation of the series of volumes heretofore published by Congress under joint resolution of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, containing the final report of the United States Centennial Commission on the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and uniform therewith, five thousand copies of the report of the Board on behalf of the United States Executive Departments at said Exhibition, being the report which was submitted to Congress by the President of the United States, by special message of February ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and again in his' annual message of December third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 641 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 21–23. 1883. seven, of which number three thousand copies shall be for the House,Distribution. one thousand copies for the Senate, two hundred copies for the Smithsonian Institution for distribution to such foreign governments and others as made contributions from such exhibition to the National Museum, three hundred copies for the late members of said Board, and five hundred copies for distribution by the late President of the Centennial Commission, the printing to be done by the Public Printer, under the supervision of the late chairman of said Board, upon whose order may be allowed by the Public Printer to the late secretary of the Board not exceeding three hundred dollars for services to be performed, and incidental expenses to be incurred in connection therewith: *Provided*,*Proviso.* That the photographic views of the government exhibit accompanying the manuscript report, shall not be printed or reproduced for the publication herein authorized. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 22: providing for the termination of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and article numbered thirty of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Washington, May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Public Resolution 22 22 Stat. 641 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 22.] Joint resolution providing for the termination of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and article numbered thirty of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Washington, May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Notice of termination of articles numbered 18 to 25, inclusive, and article numbered 30 0f treaty between the United States and Great Britain of May 8, 1871.[17 Stat., 869](/us/stat/17/869). That in the judgment of Congress the provisions of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and of article thirty of the treaty between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, for an amicable settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, concluded at Washington on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ought to be terminated at the earliest possible time, and be no longer in force; and to this end the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give notice to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty that the provisions of each and every of the articles aforesaid will terminate and be of no force on the expiration of two years next after the time of giving such notice. Sec. 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give andPresident directed to give notice, etc. communicate to the Government of Her Britanic Majesty such notice of such termination on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or as soon thereafter as may be. Sec. 3. That on and after the expiration of the two year’s time requiredDeclaration of repeal, etc. by said treaty, each and every of said articles shall be deemed and held to have expired and be of no force and effect, and that every department of the Government of the United States shall execute the laws of the United States (in the premises,) in the same manner and to the same effect as if said articles had never been in force; and the act of Congress approved March first, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled “An act to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy- one, relating to the fisheries,” so far as it relates to the articles of said treaty so to be terminated shall be and stand repealed and be of no force on and after the time of the expiration of said two years. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 23: for the printing of the Agricultural Report for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Public Resolution 23 22 Stat. 641 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 23.] Joint resolution for the printing of the Agricultural Report for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Printing Agricultural Report for 1883. That there be printed three hundred thousand copies of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three; two hun- 642 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 23–20. 1883. dred and fourteen thousand copies for the use of members of the HouseDistribution. of Representatives, fifty-six thousand for the use of members of the Senate, and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of *Proviso.*Agriculture: *Provided*, That the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to be printed and bound for general distribution, shall not exceed five hundred octavo pages, and the type shall be same as that heretofore used, and the sum of two hundred and twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the cost of publication. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 24: authorizing the sale of the Congressional Directory and the current numbers of the Congressional Record. Public Resolution 24 22 Stat. 642 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 24.] Joint resolution authorizing the sale of the Congressional Directory and the current numbers of the Congressional Record.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sale of copies of Congressional Directory and Congressional Record, authorized, at cost, etc. That it shall be lawful for the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Printing, to print for sale, at a price sufficient to reimburse the expenses of such printing, the current Congressional Directory and the current numbers of the Congressional Record. The. money derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury monthly to the credit of the appropriation for public printing, and no sales shall be made on credit. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 25: providing for additional copies of the Revised Statutes for the use of the Interior Department. Public Resolution 25 22 Stat. 642 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 25.] Joint resolution providing for additional copies of the Revised Statutes for the use of the Interior Department.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Copies of Revised Statutes, second edition, to Interior Department. That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the Secretary of the Interior, for the use of the Department of the Interior and its subordinate bureaus and offices, one hundred copies of the second edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 26: concerning the erection of a memorial column at Washington’s Headquarters, at Newburg, New’York. Public Resolution 26 22 Stat. 642 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 26.] Joint resolution concerning the erection of a memorial column at Washington’s Headquarters, at Newburg, New’York.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Memorial column at Washington’s beadqHarters, Newburg, N. Y.; act authorizing, etc., amended.Pamphlet edition, laws, 1st sess. 47th Cong., 385. That sections two and three of the joint resolution of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorizing the Secretary of War to erect at Washington’s Headquarters; in the city of Newburg, New York, a memorial column, and to aid in defraying the expenses of the centennial celebration to be held at that city in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to read as follows: “That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the erection of a suitable monument or column on the grounds belonging to the State of New York, and known as Washington’s Headquarters, with such inscriptions and emblems as may properly commemorate the historical events which occurred at *Proviso.*Newburg and vicinity during the war of the Revolution: *Provided*, That the design for said monument or column, with the inscriptions and 643 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 26–28. 1883. emblems to be placed thereon, shall be subject to the approval and adoption of the joint select committee directed to be appointed by the joint resolution to which this is an amendment: *And provided further*,*Proviso.* That no part of the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be used in defraying the expenses of said centennial celebration.” Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 27: authorizing the printing of two thousand five hundred extra copies of the report of the health officer of the District of Columbia. Public Resolution 27 22 Stat. 643 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 27.] Joint resolution authorizing the printing of two thousand five hundred extra copies of the report of the health officer of the District of Columbia.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Printing extra copies of report of health officer of District of Columbia.Distribution. That the Public Printer be, and is hereby, authorized to print two thousand five hundred extra copies of the report of the health officer of the District of Columbia; one hundred for the use of the Senate, three hundred for the use of the House of Representatives, and two thousand one hundred for the use of the said health officer of the District of Columbia. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 28: providing for a new mixed Commission in accordance with the treaty of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with the United States of Venezuela. Public Resolution 28 22 Stat. 643 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 28.] Joint resolution providing for a new mixed Commission in accordance with the treaty of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with the United States of Venezuela.Mar. 3, 1883. Whereas, since the dissolution of the mixed Commission appointed[16 Stat., 713](/us/stat/16/713).Preamble. under the treaty of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with the United States of Venezuela, serious charges, impeaching the validity and integrity of its proceedings, have been made by the Government of the United States of Venezuela, and also charges of a like character by divers citizens of the United States of America, who presented claims for adjudication before that tribunal ; and Whereas, the evidence to be found in the record of the proceedings of said Commission, and in the testimony taken before committees of the House of Representatives in the matter, tends to show that such charges are not without foundation ; and Whereas, it is desirable that the matter be finally disposed of in a manner that shall satisfy any just complaints against the validity and integrity of the first Commission, and provide a tribunal under said treaty constructed and conducted so as not to give cause for just suspicion; and Whereas, all evidence before said late Commission was presented in writing and is now in the archives of the State Department; and Whereas, the President of the United States has, in a recent communication to Congress, solicited its advisory action in this matter: Therefore *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*President of the United States requested to open diplomatic correspondence will Government of Venezuela for appointment of a commission, etc., That the President be, and he hereby is, requested to open diplomatic correspondence with the Government of the United States of Venezuela, with a view to the revival of the general stipulations of the treaty of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with said government, and the appointment thereunder of a new Commission, to sit in the city of Washington, which Commission shall be authorized to consider all the evidence presented before the.former Commission in respect to claims brought before it, together with such other and further evidence as the claimants, mayFormer awards to be deducted, etc. offer; and from the awards that may be made to claimants, any moneys heretofore paid by the Department of State, upon certificates issued to them, respectively, upon awards made by the former Commission, shall be deducted, and such certificates deemed canceled; and the moneys 644 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 28-31. 1883. now in the Department of State received from the Government of Venezuela on account of said awards, and all moneys that may hereafter Pro rata distribution of awards.be paid under said treaty, shall be distributed pro rata in payment of such awards as may be made by the Commission to be appointed in accordance with this resolution. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 29: to pay the Capitol Police one month’s extra pay. Public Resolution 29 22 Stat. 644 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 29.] Joint resolution to pay the Capitol Police one month’s extra pay.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Extra pay to Capitol police. That the Clerk of the House be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to all those of the Capitol Police on the roll July first, eighteen hundred and eighty two, one month’s extra pay, at the same compensation now paid them by law; and an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be made immediately available. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 30: validating certain contracts executed by the Postmaster General. Public Resolution 30 22 Stat. 644 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 30.] Joint resolution validating certain contracts executed by the Postmaster General.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Certain postal contracts executed by Postmaster General, validated. That the contracts executed by the Postmaster General for routes numbered sixty-seven hundred and seventy-two, in the State of New York, under advertisement of February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; thirty-two hundred and sixty-six, in the State of Massachusetts, under advertisement of February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; twenty-three thousand five hundred and thirty-two, in the State of Illinois, under advertisement of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; ten thousand two hundred and ninety-five, in the District of Columbia, under advertisement of March tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, are hereby validated and declared to be in full force and eSect, any omission in said contracts to conform to the requirements of the statutes notwithstanding. Approved, March 3, 1883. No. 31: making appropriations for the alteration of internal revenue dies, plates and stamps, and for providing blanks for rebate. Public Resolution 31 22 Stat. 644 1883-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-26 47 2 public [No. 31.] Joint resolution making appropriations for the alteration of internal revenue dies, plates and stamps, and for providing blanks for rebate.Mar. 3, 1883. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alteration of internal revenue dies, plates, and stamps, blanks for rebate, etc.Appropriation. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the alteration of dies, plates and stamps and such other expenses as are incident in preparing for the collection of the taxes on tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes, and special taxes, at the reduced rates provided in the act of the present session reducing internal revenue taxation, and for the preparation of the proper blanks for claims for the rebate provided for in said act. Approved, March 3, 1883. 47 1 1881 1882 PRIVATE LAWSof theUNITED STATES OF AMERICA,passed byTHE FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.1881–’83. 645 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which teas begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Tuesday, the sixth day of December,* 1881, *and was adjourned without day on Tuesday, the eighth day of August,* 1882. Chester A. Arthur, President; David Davis, President of the Senate, Thomas F. Bayard was elected President of the Senate pro *tempore* on the tenth day of October, 1881, at a special session of the Senate, and so acted until the thirteenth day of October, on which day David Davis was elected President of the Senate *pro tempore, *and so acted until the end of the regular session. J. Warben Keifer, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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