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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · August 5, 1882 · Chapter 389

Chapter 389. making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 389.— An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.August 5, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. That the following sums be,Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative senate For compensation of Senators, three hundred and eighty thousandSenators’ compensation.Mileage.Officers and employés. dollars. For mileage of Senators, thirty-three thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, two hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty, two cents, namely: For Secretary of the Senate, four thousand five hundred dollars, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk and financial clerk at three thousand dollars each; principal executive clerk, principal clerk, minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; six clerks at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks at two thousand one hundred dollars each.
For keeper of the stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant in the stationery-room, one thousand dollars; two messengers, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; three laborers, seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one page, at two dollars and fifty cents per day. For Chaplain, nine hundred dollars.Chaplain.Secretary to Vice-President. For secretary to the Vice-President, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents.
For messenger to the Vice-President’s room, to be appointed by the Vice-President, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, two thousand fiveCommittee clerks, etc. hundred dollars. For assistant clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, one thousand six hundred dollars, to be appointed by the committee. For clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars. For clerk of printing records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For clerk to the Committee on Claims, clerk to the Committee on Commerce, clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, clerk to the Committee on Private Laud Claims, clerk to the Committee on Pensions, clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, clerk to the Committee on Naval Affairs, clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, clerk to the Committee on the Census, clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each.
For assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions, under resolution 220 of the Senate of January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars. For telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; for clerk to Sergeant at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety two dollars; three messengers acting as assistant doorkeepers, one thousand eight hundred dollars each.
Postmaster.For Postmaster to the Senate, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail-carrier, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; five mail-carriers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each. Superintendent of document-room, etc.For superintendent of the document-room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk to the superintendent of the document room, under resolution of the Senate of December twenty firs', eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one page in the document-room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of the folding-room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant in the folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Messengers.For twenty-four messengers at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger to the Committee on Appropriations, to be appointed by the committee, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger to the official reporters’ room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For seven messengers, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars per annum, for the following committees of the Senate, namely:
Finance, Post-Offices and Post-Roads, Pension, Claims, District of Columbia, Judiciary, and Engrossed Bills, ten thousand and eighty dollars. Chief engineer and assistants.For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; conductor of elevator, one thousand two hundred dollars; two firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; three laborers in the engineer’s department, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each.
Laborers.For eight skilled laborers, at one thousand dollars each; twelve laborers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer in charge of the private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; twelve laborers, during the session, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum; female attendant in charge of the ladies’ retiring room, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Senate, namely: For stationery and newspapers, including five thousand dollars for Items.stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, and one hundred and fifty dollars for postage-stamps for the Secretary of the Senate, and one hundred and fifty dollars for postage stamps for the Sergeant at-Arms, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Per diem clerks to committees.For twenty two clerks to committees, at six dollars per day during the session, fifteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-two dollars. Pages.For seventeen pages for the Senate Chamber, including three riding pages, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, and one riding page annually, at the same rate, five thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars. Horses and mail-wagons.For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails, three thousand five hundred dollars. .
Materials for folding.For materials for folding, four thousand five hundred dollars. Sergeant at Arms, Doorkeeper, and assistance. 221 For one foreman in folding-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; live folders, at three dollars per day while actually employed, five thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel and oil and cotton-waste for the heating apparatus, sevenFuel, oil, etc. thousand dollars; for furniture and repairs of furniture, ten thousand dollars; for packing-boxes, seven hundred and seventy dollars; for miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, ten thousand dollars; expenses of special and select committees, and for inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, forty thousand dollars; in all, sixty seven thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. For expenses of compiling and preparing the Congressional Directory,Congressional Directory. to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, twenty-fiveReporting debates. thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments. capitol police. For one captain, one thousand six hundred dollars; three lieutenants,Police. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twenty-one privates, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; and eight watchmen, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
For contingent fund, one hundred dollars.Contingent fund. house of representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives andMembers of House of Representatives and Delegates; compensation.Mileage.Officers, clerks, etc. Delegates from Territories, one million five hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and forty four dollars. For mileage, one hundred thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the House of Representatives, three hundred and twenty seven thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty cents, namely:
For Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, four thousand five hundred dollars, and for hire of horses and wagons for the use of the Clerk’s office, six hundred dollars; for chief clerk, journal clerk, two reading clerks, and tally clerk, five in all, at three thousand dollars each, and for the journal clerk for preparing Digest of the Rides, one thousand dollars; for printing and bill clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; for disbursing clerk, file clerk, and enrolling clerk, three in all, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; for assistant disbursing clerk, assistant enrolling c erk, resolution and petition clerk, newspaper clerk, superintendent of document-room, index clerk, and librarian, seven in all, at two thousand dollars each ; for distributing clerk and stationery clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars each; for document clerk, upholsterer and locksmith, and two assistant librarians, four in all, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; and one page, at sixty dollars per month For bookkeeper and four clerks, one thousand six hundred dollars each.
For the person preparing the general index to the journals of CongressClerk to prepare index to journals of Congress, etc. under resolution of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the assistant to the person preparing the general index to the journals of Congress, authorized under the resolution of May twenty-two, eighteen hundred and eighty- two, two thousand dollars. Folding documents, etc. 222 Messengers.For two messengers in the House library, at three dollars and sixty cents per day each, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Laborers.For one laborer in the bathroom, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Committee clerks, etc.For clerk to the Committee on Ways and Means, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand dollars. For clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; second assistant clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand dollars.
For clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, clerk to the Committee on Claims, clerk to the Committee on the Public Lands, clerk to the Committee on War-Claims, clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, clerk to the Committee on Agriculture, and clerk to the Committee on Commerce, at two thousand dollars each. For assistant clerk to the Committee on War-Claims, one thousand six hundred dollars, for assistant clerk to the Committee on Commerce, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Private secretary and clerk to Speaker.For private secretary to the Speaker, one thousand eight hundred dollars. . For clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars. For clerk to the Speaker’s table, one thousand four hundred dollars. Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.For Sergeant at-Arms of the House of Representatives, four thousand dollars; for one horse and wagon for his use, five hundred dollars; one deputy to the Sergeant at-Arms, two thousand dollars; one cashier, three thousand dollars; one paying-teller, two thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, eighteen hundred dollars; one messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; one page, at sixty dollars permoath; and one laborer, at six hundred and sixty dollars.
Doorkeeper, assistants, etc.For Doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for hire of horses, five hundred dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand dollars; second assistant doorkeeper, under resolution of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two thousand dollars; clerk for Doorkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars. Superintend cut of folding-room.For superintendent of the folding-room, two thousand dollars ; three clerks in the folding-room, one at one thousand eight hundred dollars and two at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; superintendent of the document-room, two thousand dollars; chief assistant in the document-room, at two thousand dollars; document file clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant document file clerk, under resolution of December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars.
Messengers.For eight messengers at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten messengers atone thousand dollars each; seven laborers atseven hundred and twenty dollars each; ten laborers,during the session, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum ; one laborer at six hundred dollars; two laborers in charge of water-closet, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight laborers in charge of cleaning the Hall of the House, known as “ cloakroom men ”, at fifty dollars per month during the session; and for one female attendant in ladies’ retiring-room, six hundred dollars.
For one employee under Doorkeeper by resolution of the House of November sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars. For one department messenger under resolution of April six, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one thousand two hundred dollars. For labor in folding books, speeches, and pamphlets the followingFolding, etc. employees are hereby authorized to be appointed by the Doorkeeper, 223 namely: One foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; one folder in the sealing-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; one page, five hundred dollars; one laborer, four hundred dollars; ten folders at nine hundred dollars each; five folders at eight hundred and forty dollars each; and fifteen folders at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For twenty-nine pages, while actually employed, including one ridingPages. page and one telegraph page, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, eight thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. For thirty-two clerks to committees, at six dollars each per day duringPer diem clerks to committees. the session, twenty-three thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars. For fourteen messengers on the soldiers’ roll, at one thousand two Messengers on soldiers’ roll.hundred dollars each.
For Postmaster, two thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant Postmaster.postmaster, two thousand dollars; nine messengers at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four messengers, during the session, at eight hundred dollars each; and one laborer, at seven hundred and twenty dollars. For hire of horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails, five thousandHorses and mail-wagons.Chaplain.Stenographers for committees. dollars. For Chaplain of the House, nine hundred dollars.
For two stenographers for committees, five thousand dollars each ; and this shall be in lieu of all other compensation for such services in reporting and transcribing the proceedings of each and all of said Committees. For five official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House,Reporting debates.Chief engineer, assistants, etc. at five thousand dollars each, twenty five thousand dollars. For one chief engineer, one thousand seven hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, one thousand two hundred dollars each; one conductor of the elevator, under resolution of December twenty first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand two hundred dollars; and one laborer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; five firemen, at nine hundred dollars each; one additional fireman, at nine hundred dollars, under resolution of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty two.
For one electrician, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; andElectrician. one laborer, eight hundred dollars. For services in cleaning Statuary Hall and watching statuary therein,Statuary Hall. seven hundred and twenty dollars; and wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing they shall be construed to mean four mouths. For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, namely:Contingent expenses. For materials for folding, sixteen thousand dollars.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, seven thousand dollars. For furniture, and repairs of the same, ten thousand dollars. For packing-boxes, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For cartage, six hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, fifty thousand dollars. For postage-stamps for the officers of the House of Representatives, namely: For the Sergeant at-Arms, three hundred dollars; the Clerk, one hundred and fifty dollars; and the Postmaster, one bundled dollars.
For newspapers and stationery for members of the House of Representatives,Stationery, etc. officers of the House, and committees of the House, including six thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. 224 public printing. Public Printer chief clerk, etc.For compensation of the Public Printer, three thousand six hundred dollars; for chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; one clerk of class one; in all, fourteen thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of his office, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, traveling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, two thousand live hundred dollars. library of congress. Librarian, and assistants.For compensation of the Librarian, four thousand dollars; and for twenty three assistant librarians, two at two thousand five hundred dollars each, two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, two at one thousand six hundred dollars each, two at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each, seven at one thousand four hundred dollars each, five at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one at nine hundred and sixty dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and odo at tour hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty six thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Purchase of books,etc., for Library, and for Supreme Court.For purchase of books for the Library, five thousand dollars; for purchase of law-books for the Library, two thousand dollars; for purchase, by the Librarian of Congress, of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased under the direction of the Chief Justice, two thousand five hundred dollars; for expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, one thousand dollars; for purchase of files of periodicals and newspapers, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.Copyright.Botanic Garden.For contingent expenses of said Library, one thousand dollars. For expenses of the copyright business, five hundred dollars. For Botanic Garden: For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, nine thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. . For improving the garden, procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, and purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, five thousand dollars.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. Compensation of the President.For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. Vice-President.For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, eight thousand dollars. Officers in the office of the President.For compensation to the following in the office of the President of the United States: Private Secretary, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant.secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two executive clerks, at two thousand dollars each; stenographer, one, thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two, one of whom shall be a telegraph operator; one clerk of class one; steward, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one day-usher at one thousand four hundred dollars; one day-usher atone thousand two hundred dollars; live messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one night-usher, one thousand two hundred dollars; one watchman, nine hundred dollars; undone fireman, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand and sixty- four dollars.
Contingent expenses of Executive office.For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor, as well as record-books, telegrams, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, eight thousand dollars. 225 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department o f State. For compensation of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars;Compensation of the Secretary of State, assistant secretaries, chief clerk, clerks, etc. first assistant secretary of state, four thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant secretaries of state, at three thousand five hundred dollars each ; for chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the State Department building, two thousand five hundred dollars; for six chiefs of bureau and one translator, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; eleven clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; fourteen clerks of class one; four clerks at one thousand dollars each ; and ten clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; one superintendent of the watch, at one thousand dollars; one assistant, eight hundred dollars; seven watchmen; twelve laborers; chief engineer, who shall be a machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; six firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; conductor for the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of the building, two hundred and fifty dollars; one packer, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; and ten charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For proofreading the laws and documents for the various legationsProof-reading laws, etc. and consulates, including boxes and transportation of the same, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; for stationery, furniture,Stationery, furniture, etc., books and maps. fixtures, and repairs, five thousand dollars; for books anti maps, three thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For fuel, three thousand dollars;Contingent expenses. for lights, two thousand dollars; for repairs, two thousand dollars; for care and subsistence of horses and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand two hundred dollars; and for miscellaneous items, not included in the foregoing, two thousand dollars; for rent of stable and wagon shed, six hundred dollars; for care of clock, telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same, one thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For services of lithographer, and necessary materials for the lithographicLithographer and lithographer materials.Editing, etc.,sessions’ laws.Editing, etc., Statutes at Large for Forty-seventh Congress.Treasury Department.Compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, two assistant secretaries, chief clerk, and others. press, one thousand two hundred dollars. For expenses of editing and distributing the laws enacted during the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, three thousand dollars.
For the expenses of editing and distributing the Statutes at Large of the Forty-seventh Congress, one thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Secretary’s Office.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight thousand dollars; two assistant secretaries of the Treasury, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the Treasury building, two thousand seven hundred dollars; stenographer to the Secretary, two thousand dollars; one chief of division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations, and one chief of division of customs, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; one assistant chief of division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations, two thousand four hundred dollars; one chief of appointment division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; five assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each ; assistant superintendent of the Treasury building, two thousand one hundred dollars; estimate and digest clerk, two thousand dollars; two disbursing clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; government actuary under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; forty one clerks of class tour; additional to three fourth-class clerks, namely, receiving clerk of bonds, and two 226 bookkeepers, one hundred dollars each; thirty clerks of class three; twenty-seven clerks of class two; twenty-four clerks of class one; sixteen clerks at one thousand dollars each ; fifty-three female clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; ten messengers; ten assistant messengers; one foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; forty-seven laborers; supei intendent of the Treasury building, three hundred dollars; eleven laborers, at five hundred dollar’s each; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each ; one captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one machinist and gas-fitter, one thousand two hundred dollars; one storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; sixty watchmen, and additional to two of said watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, one hundred and eighty dollars each; seven firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seventy-five charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; three conductors at elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; one gardener, eight hundred and forty dollars; one superintendent of paperroom, one thousand six hundred dollars; and for the following employees while actually employed:
One foreman of cabinet shop, at five dollars per day; one draughtsman, at four dollars per day; one cabinetmaker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day; twelve cabinetmakers, at three dollars per day; one cabinetmaker, at two dollars per day; one foreman of bindery, at five dollars per day; four binders, at four dollars per day; one sewer and folder, at two dollars and fifty cents per day; one paper-cutter at three dollars per day; one paper-counter at two dollars and twenty five cents per day; twenty eight paper-counters and laborers at two dollars per day; in all, four hundred and ninety eight thousand seven hundred and thirty three dollars and twenty-five cents.
Supervising Architect, assistant, chief clerk, clerks, etc.Supervising Architect.—In the construction brance of the Treasury: For Supervising Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars: assistant and chief, two thousand five hundred dollars; one principal clerk, at two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class one; one clerk at nine hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, nineteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Additional draughtsmen, civil engineers, etc., authorized to be employed.And the services of skilled draughtsmen, civil engineers, computers, accountants, modelers, assistants to the photographer, copyists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed in the Office of the Supervising Architect to carry into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, to be paid for from such appropriations; *Provided,* That the expenditures on this *Proviso.*account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, shall not exceed one hundred and thirty thousand Report, etc., to be made to Congress.First Comptroller, deputy, clerks, etc.dollars; and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
First Comptroller of the Treasury.—For First Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand dollars; deputy comptroller, two thousand seven hundred dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; five clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; four clerks at one thousand dollars each; and eleven clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; and three laborers; in all, eighty two thousand nine hundred dollars.
Second Comptrollerputy,Second Comptroller of the Treasury.—For Second Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand dollars; deputy comptroller, two thousand seven hundred dollars; live chiefs of division, at two thousand one bundled dollars each; eight clerks of class four; twelve clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks at nine hundred 227 dollars each; one messenger; and three laborers; in all, ninety-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For the following additional force in the Second Comptroller’s OfficeAdditional clerks. rendered necessary by increase of work relating to pensions: Three clerks of class four, three clerks of class three, and two clerks of class one; in all, twelve thousand six hundred dollars. Commissioner of Customs.—For Commissioner of Customs, fourCommissioner of Customs, deputy, clerks, etc. thousand dollars; duty commissioner, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; two clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, fifty one thousand six handled and thirty dollars.
First Auditor.—For the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousandFirst Auditor, deputy, clerks, etc. six hundred dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; seven clerks of class-four; nine clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; sixteen clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; two copyists and two counters, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, eighty three thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
Second Auditor.—For Second Auditor, three thousand six hundredSecond Auditor, deputy, clerks, etc. dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; thirty seven clerks of class three; additional to one clerk of class three as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; fifty two clerks of class two; thirty-four clerks of class one; eight clerks at one thousand dollars each; three assistant messengers; and eight laborers; in all, two hundred and twenty thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.
For twenty additional clerks of class one in the Second AuditorsAdditional clerks authorized. Office rendered necessary by increase of work relating to pensions, twenty-four thousand dollars. Third Auditor.—For Third Auditor, three thousand six hundredThird Auditor, deputy, clerks, etc.Additional clerks authorized. dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; six clerks of class four; sixteen clerks of class three; fifty six clerks of class two; forty clerks of class one; six clerks at one thousand dollars each: eight clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and six laborers; and one female laborer, at four bundled and eighty dollars; in all, two hundred and one thousand and ten dollars.
For the following additional force in the Third Auditor’s Office rendered necessary by increase of work relating to pensions, namely: Five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; and eight clerks of class one; in all, twenty seven thousand four hundred dollars. Fourth Auditor.—For the Fourth Auditor, three thousand sixFourth Auditor, deputy, clerks, etc. hundred dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; five clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, sixty nine thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.
Fifth Auditor.—For the Fifth Auditor, three thousand six hundredFifth Auditor, deputy, clerks, etc. dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; four clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; and two laborers; in all, forty seven thousand six hundred and ten dollars.
Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department.—Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, deputy, clerks, etc.For the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, three thousand six hundred dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; 228 eight chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; fifteen clerks of class four, and additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; sixty-three clerks of class three; seventy four clerks of class two; fifty six clerks of class one; thirty-two clerks at one thousand dollars each; twenty three female assorters of money-orders, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; twenty laborers; and ten charwomen, atone hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, three hundred and ninety two thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Appointment of temporary clerks.To provide temporary force to dispose of accumulated money-orders: Three clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; and four clerks at nine hundred dollars each; in all, ten thousand two Files of papers, etc., to be sold as waste paper.hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to sell as waste paper, or otherwise dispose of, the files of papers which have accumulated, or may hereafter accumulate, in the Office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department that are not needed in the transaction of current business and have no permanent official or historical value; and the proceeds of said sales he shall pay into the Treasury, and make report thereof to Congress.
Treasurer, assistant treasurer, cashier and assistant, chief clerk, clerks, etc.Treasurer.—For the Treasurer of the United States, six thousand dollars; assistant treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, three thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; five chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one principal bookkeeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper at two thousand four hundred dollars; two tellers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-six clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; one coin clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; twenty-three clerks of class one; five clerks at one thousand dollars each; eighty clerks at nine hundred dollars each; six messengers; six assistant messengers; twenty six laborers; and seven laborers at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars;
Superintends n t of redemption of national currency, clerks, etc.For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; ¿me principal teller and one principal bookkeeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; and one assistant teller, at two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; ten clerks at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks at nine hundred dollars each; four assistant messengers;' in all, seventy-two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Register of the Treasury, assistant, clerks, and others.Register or the Treasury For the Register of the Treasury, four thousand dollars; assistant register, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; five chiefs of divisions, at two thousand dollars each; eighteen clerks of class four, one of whom shall receive two hundred dollars additional for services as disbursing clerk, and shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; seventeen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; four clerks at one thousand dollars each; sixty copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five assistant messengers; and seven laborers; in all one hundred and eighty-eight thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
Comptroller of the Currency, deputy, clerks, and others.Comptroller of the Currency.—For Comptroller of the Currency, five thousand dollars; deputy comptroller, two thousand eight hundred dollars; four chiefs of divisions, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one stenographer, atone thousand six hundred dollars', eight clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; eleven clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each ; twenty five clerks at nine bundled dollars each; one messenger; two assistant 229 messengers; one engineer, one thousand dollars; one fireman; three laborers; anti two nightwatchmen ; in all, one hundred and three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bankSpecial examinations of national banks, etc. plates, two thousand dollars. For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks), namely: Ono superintendent, at two thousand dollars; one teller and one bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; and one assistant bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars; nine clerks at nine hundred dollars each ; and one assistant messenger; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Light-House Board.—For chief clerk of the Light-House Board,Light-House Board. two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk at nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, sixteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For the following additional employees in the Office of the Light-House Board, who shall be paid from the appropriations for the Light-House establishment, namely:
One clerk of class two; one clerk of class one ; fourteen clerks at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; one assistant civil engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; and one draughtsman, one thousand two hundred dollar’s; in all, twenty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Statistics.—For the officer in charge of the Bureau ofBureau of Statistics. Statistics, three thousand dollars; chief clerk two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; six copyists; one messenger, one assistant messenger; one laborer; one female laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, fifty thousand five hundred dollars. For collecting statistics relating to internal commerce:
For the payment of experts, and other necessary expenditures connected with the collection of information relative to the internal and foreign commerce of the United States, five thousand dollars. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.—For chief of bureau, fourEngraving and Printing Bureau. thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; accountant, two thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; three copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; and four laborers; in all, twenty-six thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, Office of Life-Saving Service.—For General Superintendent ofGeneral Superintendent of Life-Saving Service, assistant, clerks, etc. the Life-Saving Service, four thousand dollars; assistant general superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, two thousand five hundred dollars; one topographer and hydrographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; on civil engineer and draughtsman one thousand eight hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one principal clerk and accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; five clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all thirty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
And nothing in section four of this act shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from detailing one officer of the Revenue Marine Service for duty in the Office of the Life-Saving Service, and one officer from the Special Agency Service, and 230 one from the Customs Service, respectively, for duty at the Treasury Department at Washington, nor to prevent the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from detailing one revenue agent for duty in his office. Secret Service.Secret Service Division.—For one chief, three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; and one attendant at six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars;
Supervising Surgeon-General Marine Hospital Service, assistant, clerks,etc.Office of Supervising Surgeon-General Marine Hospital Service.—For Supervising Surgeon-General, four thousand dollars; one surgeon, three thousand dollars; one passed assistant surgeon, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, one. thousand two hundred dollars; one hospital steward (employed as chemist), one thousand two hundred dollars; six copyists; one messenger, at fifty dollars per month; one laborer at forty dollars per month; and one laborer at thirty dollars per month; in all, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Marine Hospital Service.
Inspector-General Steamboat Inspection Service, clerks, etc.Office Supervising Inspector-General, Steamboat Inspection Service.—For Supervising Inspector-General, three thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, not to exceed one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, uot to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, not to exceed eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, ten thousand one hundred and forty dollars; the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Steamboat Inspection Service.
Standard weights and measures.Office of Construction of Standard Weights and Measures.—For construction and verification of standard weights and Measures, including metric standards, for the customhouses, other offices of the United States, and for the several States, and mural standards of length in Washington District of Columbia, the following, while actually’ employed namely: One adjuster, at five dollars per day; verifier and mechanician, at four dollar’s per day each; laborer, at one dollar and fifty cents per day; one recorder, at sixty dollars per month ; and one watchman; in all, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
Materials, etc.For purchase of materials and apparatus, one thousand two hundred dollars. Commissioner of internal Revenue, deputy, clerks, etc.Commissioner of Internal Revenue.—For Commissioner of Internal Revenue, six thousand dollars; one deputy commissioner, three thousand two hundred dollars; two heads of divisions at two thousand five hundred dollars each; five heads of division at two thousand two. hundred and fifty dollars each; one superintendent of stamp agencies, two thousand one hundred dollars; one superintendent of stamp vault, two thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-four clerks of class four; twenty-five clerks of class three; thirty-six clerks of class two; twenty-four clerks of class one; fourteen clerks at one thousand dollars each; seventy-nine clerks at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; and thirteen laborers; in all, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and ninety dollars;
Stamp agents, etc.For two stamp agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each ; and three counters, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand nine hundred dollars, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Collectors and deputy collectors.For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors, one million nine hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Surveyors, storekeepers, gaugers, etc.For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, for fees and expenses of gaugers, for salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, two million three hundred thousand dollars. 231 For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, namely;Contingent expenses Treasury Department.Items.
For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, thirty five thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, two thousand dollars. For postage, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of material for binding canceled marine papers, requisitions, and other important records; newspapers, books, hand-stamps, and repairs of the same, two thousand six hundred dollars; and of this amount not more than five hundred dollars maybe used in the purchase of current publications.
For investigations of accounts and records, including the necessary traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For freight, expressage, telegrams, and car-tickets, two thousand dollars. . For rent of buildings, including additional building or rooms for the Second Auditor’s office, nine thousand dollars. For purchase of subsistence of horses for office and mail wagons, including shoeing, and for wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For purchase of ice, buckets, file-holders, book-rests, and clocks, eight thousand six hundred dollars; five thousand dollars of this sum to be expended for shelving and file-holders in the Second Auditor’s Office. For purchase of coal, wood, grates, grate-baskets and fixtures, stoves and fixtures, blowers, coal-hods, hearths, shovels, tongs, pokers, matches, and match-sales, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of gas, drop-lights and tubing, gas-burners, brackets and globes, candles, lanterns, and wicks, seventeen thousand dollars.
For purchase of carpets, oilcloth, and matting, and repairs, and for cleaning and laying of the same, by contract, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of desks, tables, and chairs, and shelving for file-rooms, and cases, boxes, rugs, chair-covers- and caning, cushions, cloth for covering desks, locks, screw’s, handsaws, turpentine, and varnish, twelve thousand dollars. For washing and hemming towels, and for purchase of brooms, brushes, crash, cotton, cloth, cane, chamois-skins, dusters, flour, keys, lye, matches, nails, oil, powders, sponge, soap,' tacks, wallpaper, and for repairs of machinery, baskets, spittoons, files, water-coolers, tumblers, ice-picks, bowls and pitchers, traps, thermometers, ventilators, towels, awnings and fixtures, alcohol, window shades and fixtures, wire screens, axes, bellows, chisels, canvas, candlesticks, door and window fasteners, bells and bell pulls, hammers, mallets, leather, gum and other belting, stencil-plates tools, whetstones, wire and zinc, and other absolutely necessary articles for the use of the department, ten thousand dollars. independent treasury.Independent treasury.
Office of Assistant Treasurer at Baltimore.—For assistantAssistant treasurer, Baltimore, clerks, etc. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; for cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; for three clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; for two clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each; for two clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three vault watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.
Office of the Assistant Treasurer at Boston,—For assistantAssistant treasurer, Boston, clerks, etc. treasurer, five thousand dollars; for chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying-teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant paying-teller two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk, two thousand dollars ; receiving-teller, two thousand dollars; first bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; second bookkeeper one 232 thousand four hundred dollars ; specie clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; assistant specie clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars ; money clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; coupon clerk and redemption clerk at one thousand four hundred dollars each ; receipt and general clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars each ; assistant redemption clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars ; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; one clerk, eight hundred dollars ; messenger and chief watchman, one thousand and sixty dollars; two watchman, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; in all thirty-six thousand and sixty dollars.
Assistant treasurer, Chicago, clerks, etc.Office of Assistant Treasurer at Chicago.—For assistant treasurer four thousand five hundred dollars; for cashier two thousand five hundred dollars; for paying-teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; for bookkeeper and receiving-teller, at one thousand five hundred dollars each ; one coin and currency clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars ; one assistant bookkeeper and two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; for one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; and two watchman seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Assistant treasurer, Cincinnati, clerks, etc.Office of Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati.—For assistant treasurer four thousand five hundred dollars; for cashier, two thousand dollars; for bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for receiving-teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; check clerk and interest clerk, each one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, atone thousand two hundred dollars; fractional-silver and minor-coin clerk, one thousand dollars; nightwatchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars;
Assistant treasurer, New Orleans, clerks, etc.Office of Assistant Treasurer at New Orleans.—For assistant treasurer, four thousand dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; receiving-teller, two thousand dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; porter, nine hundred dollars; one watchman, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one nightwatchman, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand and ninety dollars.
Assistant treasurer, New York, clerks, etc.Office of the Assistant Treasurer at New York.—For assistant treasurer, eight thousand dollars; cashier and chief clerk, four thousand dollars; deputy assistant treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars ; chief of coin division, three thousand six hundred dollar’s ; chief of note-paying division, three thousand dollars; chief of note receiving division, two thousand eight hundred dollars; chief of check-paying division, two thousand eight hundred dollars; chief of registered-interest division, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief of coupen-interest division, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief of minor-coin division, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief of bond division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of canceled-check division, two thousand dollars; two clerks at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each ; six clerks at two thousand one hundred dollars each ; ten clerks at two thousand dollars each ; eleven clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each ; four clerks at one thousand seven hundred dollars each ; seven clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each ; four clerks at one thousand five hundred dollars each; twelve clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each; five clerks atone thousand two hundred dollars each; five messengers at one thousand three hundred dollars each; one messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars; keeper of building, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief detective, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant detectives, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three ballmen, atone thousand dollars each; six watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; one engineer, one thousand dollars; one assistant engineer, seven hundred and 233 twenty dollars; two porters, nine hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand and ninety dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer at Philadelphia.—For assistantAssistant treasurer, Philadelphia, clerks, etc. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; for cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief interest clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; chief registered-interest-clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; coin-teller, one thousand seven hundred dollars ; redemption clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant coupen clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars ; assistant registered-interest clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars ; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars ; assistant coin-teller, one thousand four hundred dollars; receiving-tel 1er, one thousand three hundred dollars; assistant receiving-teller one thousand two hundred dollars; superintendent of building, one thousand one hundred dollars; four female counters, at nine hundred dollars each; five watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer at Saint Louis.—For assistantAssistant treasurer, Saint Louis, clerks, etc. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper and one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger, one thousand dollars; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco.—For assistantAssistant treasurer, San Francisco, clerks, and others. treasurer, five thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant cashier, two thousand dollars; receiving-teller, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars ; coin-teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; and four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and twenty dollars;
For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts,Expenses of fiscal agents. and money on hand at the several sub-treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the revised Statutes ofR. S. 3653, 719. the United States, four thousand dollars, For checks and checkbooks for disbursing officers and others, andCheeks, checkbooks, and certificates of deposit. certificates of deposit for offices of the Treasurer and assistant treasurers and designated depositaries, thirteen thousand dollars. united states mints and assay-offices.Mints arid assay-offices.
Office of the Director.—For Director, four thousandDirector of Mint, officers, clerks, etc. five hundred dollars; examiner, two thousand three hundred dollars; computer, two thousand two hundred dollars ; assayer, two thousand two hundred dollars ; adjuster of accounts, two thousand dollars ; two clerks of class three ; one clerk of class two ; two clerks of class one ; one translator, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger ; two copyists; one helper in laboratory, eight hundred and forty dollars; one helper, at three hundred and sixty dollars ; in all twenty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars ;
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the Director, namely: For assay-laboratory, chemicals, fuel materials, and other necessaries, one thousand dollars; for examination of mints, expenses in visiting the mintsand assay-offices for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements and for special 234 examinations, two thousand five hundred dollars ; for books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins and ores, balances, weights, and incidentals, seven hundred dollars; and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production of the precious metals in the United States, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
Mint at Philadelphia.Superintendent, officers, clerks, etc.Mint at Philadelphia.—For salary of the superintendent, four thousand live hundred dollars; for the assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and engraver, tour in all, at three thousand dollars each ; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; abstract clerk and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each ; register of deposts, warrant clerk, and cashier’s clerk, at one thousand seven hundred dollars ; each ; assayer’s computation clerk and assistant weigh clerk, atone thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars ;
For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred and ninety-thee thousand dollars; Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs (and purchases, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value, of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of tiie mint) one hundred thousand dollars ; Mint, San Francisco,Superintendent, officers, clerks, etc.Mint at San Francisco, California.—For salary of superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars ; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each ; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each ; chief clerk and cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars each ; bookkeeper, abstract clerk, weigh clerk, and warrant clerk, at two thousand two hundred dollars each ; register of deposits, two thousand dollars ; cashier’s clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; assayer’s computation clerk, assistant weigh clerk, and superintendent’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred and forty-two thousand dollars; ’ Contingent expenses.Mint, Carson, Nevada.Superintendent, officers,clerks,etc.For incidental and contingent expenses, seventy thousand dollars; Mint at Carson, Nevada.—For salary of superintendent, three thousand dollars; for assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each ;-assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; chief clerk, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; cashier, bookkeeper, and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each; abstract clerk and register of deposits, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, For wages of workmen and adjusters, fifty-four thousand dollars;
Contingent expenses.Mint, New Orleans.Superintendent, officers, clerks, etc.For incidental and contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars; Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana.—For salary of the superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, three in all, at two thousand five hundred dollars each ; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; cashier and chief clerk, at two thousand dollars each; weigh clerk, abstract clerk, bookkeeper, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand *six hundred dollars each; register of the deposits, warrant clerk, and assistant weigh clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; cashier’s clerk, at one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
For wages of workmen and adjusters, seventy-four thousand dollars, Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, including repairs and new machinery, thirty-five thousand dollars, 235 Mint at Denver, Colorado,—For salary of the assayer in charge,Mint, Denver.Assayer, assistant, clerks, etc. two thousand five hundred dollars ; for melter, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; assistant assayer, one thousand four hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one clerk at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk at one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, twelve thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including three thousandContingent expenses. dollars for repairs of building and premises, nine thousand dollars. Assay-office at New York.—For salary of superintendent, fourAssay-office, New York.Superintendent, officers, clerks, etc. thousand five hundred dollars; for assayer, and for melter and refiner, at three thousand dollars each; assistant melter and refiner, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; weighing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; bar clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; warrant clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; abstract clerk and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; register of deposits, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for assayer’s first assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for assayer’s second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; for assayer’s third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen twenty-five thousand dollars, For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars;Contingent expenses.Assay-office, Helena.Assayer, officers, clerks, etc. Assay-office at Helena, Montana.—For salary of assayer in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; and of melter, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, ten thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars,Contingent expenses.Assay-office, Boise City.Assayer, melter, clerk. Assay-office at Boise City, Idaho Territory For assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars, For incidental and contingent expenses, including labor, five thousandContingent expenses.Assay-office, Charlotte.Assayer, assistant, and melter. dollars;
Assay-office at Charlotte, North Carolina.—For assayer and melter, one thousand five hundred dollars; and assistant assayer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including labor, two thousandContingent expenses, etc.As say-office, Saint Louis.Assayer, melter, and clerk. dollars ; Assay-office at Saint Louis, Missouri.—For assayer in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; melter, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars, For incidental and contingent expenses, including labor, six thousandContingent expenses.Territorial governments.Arizona.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc.Legislative expenses. dollar’s;
GOVERNMENT TN THE TERRITORIES. Territory of Arizona.—For Salary of governor, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief justice and two associate judges, at three thousand dollars each ; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; inter-prefer and translator in the executive office five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars, For legislative expenses, namely: For compensation and mileage of members of the legislative assembly; the officers, clerks, public printing, rent, lights, stationery, and other incidental expenses thereof; rent of secretary’s office, hire of porter or messenger therefor ; extra clerk 236 during and after the legislature, lights, fuel, stationery, postage, and other incidental expenses thereof, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
And hereafter no expense for printing exceeding three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, including printing laws, journals, bills, and necessary printing of the same nature, shall be incurred for any session of the legislature of any of the Territories. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars, Dakota.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc.Territory of Dakota.—For salary of governor, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief justice and three associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Legislative expenses.For legislative expenses, namely: For per diem and mileage of twelve members of the council and twenty-four members of the house of representatives of the legislative assembly; compensation of officers of legislative assembly; stationery and blanks for secretary’s office and legislative assembly; printing; rent of secretary’s office and storage of government property; postage; rent of legislative halls; light, oil, and caudles; fuel; messenger and porter; clerk in secretary’s office; repairs and purchase of furniture; and incidental expenses, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty cents.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars, Idaho.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc.Territory of Idaho —For salary of governor, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief justice and two associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. Legislative expenses.For legislative expenses, namely: For per diem of president and members of council, and of speaker and members of house of representatives; per diem of employees of council and house of representatives; mileage; stationery; fuel; lamps, oils, and candles;
(»rooms and dusters; fitting up and preparing legislative halls and committee-rooms, and removing furniture; rent of same; record books; repairs to furniture and purchase of matting; new desks; armchairs; printing; fuel for secretary’s office; clerk-hire for secretary’s office during session; official printing and letterpress; postage and seals for secretary’s office; ice; messenger and porter; incidental expenses of secretary’s office during session; furniture for and rent of secretary’s office, library-rooms, and storage-rooms for public property, twenty-eight thousand and twenty-nine dollars and thirteen cents.
Printing revised laws, etc.For printing the revised laws of the Territory, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars; Montana.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc.Territory of Montana.—For salary of governor, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief justice and two associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary at one thousand eight hundred dollars, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Legislative expenses.For legislative expenses, namely: For council members and mileage; for house members and mileage; for presiding and subordinate officers; rent of balls and committee-rooms; fitting up halls and removing furniture; new furniture, stoves, carpets, and repairing; stationery tor legislative assembly; fuel and lights for legislative halls; printing; rent of secretary’s office and storage-room for government property; porter and messenger for secretary’s office; postage; stationery and printing; fuel and lights; and furniture, repairs, telegraphing, twenty-one *Proviso.*thousand five hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided,* That the governor, chief justice, and the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the council during the last session of the legislature of the Officers who shall constitute a board, etc.; powers, duties.Territory of Montana shall constitute a board, who shall assemble at the capital of the Territory on the call of the governor; and such board, or a majority thereof, shall have power to organize any new county not 237 now organized which may contain five hundred or more inhabitants, and appoint temporary officers therefor, and fix the boundaries of the same.
And such board, or a majority thereof, shall reapportion the members of the council and house of representatives of said Territory upon the basis of the population as it exists at the time of their assembling as may truly appear to them from the best sources of information; and the governor shall issue notice of such apportionment, and the next legislature shall be elected in accordance therewith, as provided by law. The members of this board shall be allowed the same compensation per diem and mileage as are allowed the presiding officers of the legislature.Per diem compensation ; mileage.
All acts of this board shall be subject to the revision of the legislative assembly. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor,Contingent expenses. five hundred dollars. Territory of New Mexico.—For salary’ of governor, two thousandNew Mexico.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc. six hundred dollars; chief justice and two associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary at one thousand eight hundred dollars; and interpreter and translator in the executive office, at five hundred dollars, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, light, fuel, stationery, and Legislative expenses.incidentals, and pay of messenger, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by theContingent expenses. governor, five hundred dollars. Territory of Utah.—For salary’ of governor, two thousand sixUtah.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc. hundred dollars ; chief justice and two associate judges at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For the salaries of the commissioners appointed under an act entitledCommissioners appointed in reference to bigamy, etc.*Ante,,* 30. “An act to amend section fifty three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes,” approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty-live thousand dollars; and the salaries of said commissioners are hereby fixed at the rate of five thousand dollarsCompensation. per annum each.
For legislative expenses, namely: For current and contingent expensesLegislative expenses. of the secretary’s office, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by theContingent expenses. governor, five hundred dollars. Territory of Washington.—For salary of governor, two thousandWashington.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc. six hundred dollars; chief justice and two associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For legislative expenses, namely: For rent of secretary’s office,Legislative expenses. hire of messenger, light, fuel, stationery, postage, office furniture, repairs, and other incidentals, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by theContingent expenses. governor, five hundred dollars. Territory of Wyoming.—For salary’ of governor, two thousandWyoming.Salary of governor, chief justice, etc. six hundred dollars; chief justice and two associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, messenger, fuel, light, Legislative expenses.stationery, postage, repairs, office furniture, and incidentals, two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, Contingent expenses.five hundred dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT. For compensation of the Secretary of War, eight thousand dollars;Compensation of the Secretary of War, assistant Secretary, chief fur compensation of an assistant Secretary of War, to be appointed from civil life by the President by and with the advice and consent of the 238 clerk, and others.Senate, three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; one disbursing clerk, at two thousand dollars; one stenographer, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three chiefs of division at two thousand dollars each; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; two messengers; six assistant messengers; seven laborers; and six watchmen for the department building; iu all, seventy-five thousand one hundred and forty dollars, *Proviso.*Commanding general of the Army, etc., may be designated by President to perform duties of Secretary of War.R.
S. 179, 28.R. S. 1222, 215.Additional clerks.*Provided,* That the President may authorize and direct the commanding general of the Army or the chief of any military bureau of the War Department to perform the duties of the Secretary of War under the provisions of section one hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, and section twelve hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes shall not be held or taken to apply to the officer so designated by reason of his temporarily performing such duties, For the following additional force in the office of the Secretary of War rendered necessary by increase of work relating to pensions;
Two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; and two messengers; in all, fifteen thousand and eighty dollars. Examination, etc., of rebel archives.To enable the Secretary of War to have the rebel archives examined, and have copies furnished for the government, one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; in all six thousand six hundred dollars Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of his office, including blank-books, stationary, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. , Office of Adjutant-General.Chief clerk, clerks, and others.In the Office of the Adjutant-General.—One’ chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; thirty-five clerks of class two; one hundred and fifty-one clerks of class one; six clerks at one thousand dollars each; eight assistant messengers; in all, two hundred and ninety thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Extra clerks, etc.For thirty clerks of class one, and ten clerks at one thousand dollars each, to be exclusively engaged in preparing and making reports to expedite the settlement of pension applications called for by the Commissioner of Pensions; one assistant messenger; in all, forty six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, to wit, for stationery, printing, purchase of file-cases, and for office furniture and repairs, fifteen thousand dollars.
Additional clerks.For the following additional force in the Office of the Adjutant General, namely: thirteen clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; one hundred and twenty five clerks of class one, and all the clerks provided for in this paragraph to be exclusively engaged in preparing and making reports to expedite the settlement of pension applications and soldiers claims; seven assistant messengers; seven watchmen; and three laborers, in all two hundred and fifteen thousand and sixty dollars.
Rent.Stationery, etc.Office of Inspector-General.Clerk, messenger-Bureau of Military Justice.ClerksFor rent of additional building or buildings for Adjutant General’s Office five thousand dollars For stationery, purchase of additional file-cases, office furniture and repairs, and miscellaueoLis expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. In the Office of the Inspector General. For one clerk of class four; one assistant messenger; in all, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Bureau of Military Justice.
One chief clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; one copyist; and one assistant messenger; in all, seven thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including law books for judge-advocates stationed at department headquarters, one thousand five hundred dollars Signal Office.Clerks and messenger.In the Signal Office. Two clerks of class four; one clerk of class one; and one assistant messenger; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. 239 And for the services of scientific experts, clerks, draughtsmen, copyists,Office of Chief Signal Officer.Experts, clerks, etc. messengers, mechanics, laborers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, to carry into effect the appropriations for observation and report of storms, and for the construction, maintenance, and repairs of military telegraph lines, forty thousand dollars; *Provided,* That the Secretary*Provisos.* of War shall each year, in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount, paid to each: *And provided further,* That nothing in section four of this act shall be construed to prevent the employment of such number of the five hundred enlisted men of the Signal Corps in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer at Washington as the Secretary of War may direct.
In the Office of the Quartermaster General. One chiefOffice of Quartermaster-General.Chief clerks, clerks, etc. clerk, at two thousand dollars; seven clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; twenty-four clerks of class two; forty-eight clerks of class one; twenty copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; one female messenger, at forty dollars per mouth; one messenger; two assistant messengers; six laborers; one laborer, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; one female laborer, two hundred and forty dollars; one charwoman, one hundred dollars; one engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one fireman ; and five watchmen; and one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand eight hundred and five dollars.
For contingent expenses, seven thousand four hundred and thirty-fiveContingent expenses. dollars. For the following clerks and others to be employed by the QuartermasterExtra clerks.13 Stat., 394. General in the investigation of claims, for settlement by the Treasury Department under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty four: One clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; eleven copyists; three assistant messengers; one watchman; and twenty-five agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, seventy three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
For per diem of the agents employed while traveling on duty, at not exceeding three dollars per day each, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation, thirty thousand dollars. In the Office of the Commissary-General. One chief clerk,Office of Commissary-General.Chief clerk, clerks, etc. . at two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and two watchmen; in all, thirty-one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses, namely: Rent of building, repairs, and miscellaneousContingent expenses. items, five thousand five hundred dollars. In the Office of the Surgeon General. One chief clerk, atOffice of Surgeon-General.Chief clerk, clerks, etc. two thousand dollars, eight clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; one hundred and seven clerks of class one; ninety-four clerks at one thousand dollars each; one anatomist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one engineer in division of records and museum, atone thousand four hundred dollars; twelve assistant messengers; five watchmen; and nine laborers; in all, two hundred and eighty-two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For rent of suitable buildings for use as office of the Surgeon General,Rent of office. four thousand seven hundred dollars. For purchase of stationery and blank books, seven thousand dollars;Stationery, etc. for purchase of fuel, necessary heating apparatus and repairs thereto, gas, and ice, three thousand eight hundred dollars; and for purchase of office furniture, carpets and matting, and for telegrams, repairs, and miscellaneous items, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars.
For the following additional force in the Office of the Surgeon General:Additional clerks. Fifteen clerks of class four; twenty-six clerks of class three; fifty- 240 three clerks of class two; fifty-nine clerks of class one, six assistant messengers; three watchmen; six laborers; and one superintendent of building, at two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two hundred and Number of clerks on pension work, limited.twenty-four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. And not less than three hundred of the clerks herein provided for in the Surgeon General’s Office, including those provided for in this paragraph, shall be exclusively engaged in preparing and making reports to expedite the settlement of pension applications called for by the Commissioner of Pensions.
Rent of building, etc.For rent of additional building or buildings for use of Surgeon General’s Office, four thousand dollars. Blank-books, etc.Fuel.For purchase of blank-books and stationery, three thousand dollars. For purchase of fuel, necessary heating apparatus and repairs thereto, gas, and ice, two thousand two hundred dollars. Furniture.For purchase of office furniture, carpets and matting, and for repairs, telegrams, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
Office of Chief of Ordnance.Chief clerk, clerks, etc.In the Office of the Chief of Ordnance. One chief clerk at two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; iu all, twenty thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, namely: Stationery, envelopes, wrapping paper for sending blanks to the arsenals, forts, permanent batteries, and troops in the field; telegrams, express charges, and incidentals of a similar nature; furniture, matting, carpets, oilcloth, professional books for Ordnance Department library, pamphlets, and newspapers, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of Paymaster-General.Chief clerk, clerks, etc.In the Office of the Paymaster General. One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; six clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; two watchmen; and three laborers; in all, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Contingent expenses.Office of Chief of Engineers.Chief clerk, clerks, etc.For contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.
In the Office of the Chief of Engineers. One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in al), twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars Additional employés authorized, etc.And the services of skilled draughtsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys *Proviso.*of military defenses to be paid for from such appropriations: *Provided, *That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall not exceed seventy- five thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery, office furniture, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional books and maps, three thousand dollars. Office Publication of Records of the Rebellion.Agent, clerks, etc.Office of Publication of Records of the Rebellion. For one agent, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks at one thousand dollars each ; eighteen copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one foreman of printing, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one pressman, one thousand two hundred dollars; five compositors, at one thousand dollars each; two copy holders, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; two watchmen; and one laborer, at six hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. 241 For rent of necessary offices; for traveling expenses in connectionRent of offices. with the collection of Confederate records placed by gift or loan at the disposal of the government; for fuel, lights, stationery, and all other necessaries, five thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
War Department Buildings. For compensation of one engineerWar Department buildings.Engineer, assistant, and others. in the War Department building, one thousand two hundred dollars, one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one machinist nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; conductor of the elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen; two laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; one fireman; and twelve charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For labor, fuel, light, and miscellaneous items for the said building,Labor, etc. eight thousand dollars. For the additional force required for the north wing, the north half ofEmployés in State, War, and Navy Department building. the east wing, and two stories of the south wing of the State, War, and Navy Department building, namely: One assistant engineer for the period of nine months, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, seven bundled and fifty dollars; one captain of the watch, at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, nine hundred dollars; one carpenter, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum ; one conductor of elevator for the period of nine months, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, five hundred and forty dollars; one laborer; five fireman for the period of nine months, two thousand seven hundred dollars; twelve charwomen for the period of nine months, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; one hostler, six hundred dollars; two hostlers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one watchman, at five hundred and forty dollars; in all, ten thousand three hundred and ninety dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For four watchmen, two firemen, and one laborer in the part of theEmployés in Adjutant General’s Office. Adjutant General’s Office to be located on the first and second floors of the old Navy Department building, in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses of the Adjutant General’s Office in the oldContingent expenses. Navy Department building, including fuel, light, heating apparatus, matting, cleaning, labor, and incidental items of care of two floors of the old Navy Department building, the building numbered seventeen hundred and twenty-five F street, and four floors of the building numbered six hundred and ten Seventeenth street, all in use for offices of the Adjutant General, four thousand dollars.
For rent of building numbered six hundred and ten SeventeenthRent of building No. 610 Seventeenth street.Rent of buildings for Quartermaster General’s Office.Rent of buildings in District of Columbia for government use.*Proviso.*Buildings occupied by executive departments, statement of rent., cost, etc., to be wade to Congress. street, two thousand dollars. For rent of the building occupied as the Quartermaster General’s Office, ten thousand dollars. And where buildings are rented for public use in the District of Columbia, the executive departments are authorized, whenever it shall be advantageous to the public interest, to rent others in their stead: *Provided,* That.no increase in the number of buildings now in use, nor in the amounts paid for rents, shall result therefrom.
And it shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive Departments to submit in their next annual estimates to Congress a statement showing in detail the number of buildings rented for the use of their respective departments, or the subordinate bureaus or offices thereof, in the city of Washington, the annual rental paid for and cost of heating and lighting each, the appropriations from which said excuses are respectively paid, and also to submit estimates specifically for the rental and other expenses of such of said buildings as may be necessary for the use of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
For five watchmen and two laborers in the building occupied by thePaymaster General’s Office. Paymaster General, four thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.Watchmen and laborers. For fuel and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars. 242 Rent of building No. 121-1 F street.For rent of the building numbered twelve hundred and fourteen F street, northwest, four thousand five hundred dollars. Employés, building corner Seventeenth and F streets.Miscellaneous expenses.For four watchmen and two laborers in the building at the corner or Seventeenth and F streets; one engineer, one thousand dollars, and one laborer at four hundred and eighty dollars, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; and for fuel for warming the entire building, include ing tho Ordnance Office, and for operating the ventilating-fan throughout the year, repairs of steam-boiler, furnances, and of the warming and ventilating apparatus, and pay for gas, purchase of oilcloth and matting for halls, whitewashing, and for general repairs and miscellaneous items, five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.
Superintendent of buildings occupied by War Department.Postage stamps.For compensation of the superintendents of the six buildings occupied by the War Department, at two hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars. For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage ou mutter addressed to Postal Union countries, three thousand dollars. Additional clerks to be in lieu of “general Service” or “detailed enlisted men”For additional clerks and other employees in the several bureaus and offices of the War Department, as named below, who shall be paid from the appropriations made for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and who shall be in lieu of all “general service” or “detailed enlisted men” from the Army in service in said department, and its various subordinate bureaus and offices at the seat of government, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and the amounts necessary to pay the said additional clerks and other employees shall be transferred from the respective appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, under such titles of appropriation as shall make them available for payment of the salaries of the clerks and employees hereby authorized in lieu of said “general service”, or “detailed enlisted mon”; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to include in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- four, so many of said clerks and employees as may be necessary to be employed during that fiscal year; *Provided,* That the general service and detailed enlisted men herein referred to’may receive the rates of compensation and allowances now prescribed by law and regulations, until the Secretary of War shall have adjusted the said force in accordance with the provisions of this act, and that such adjustment shall be effected on or before the first day of October next. ’ Office of the Secretary For seven clerks of class one; six clerks at one thousand dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Office of the Adjutant General. For ten clerks of class three; twenty clerks of class two; forty-eight clerks of class one; five messengers; thirty-live assistant messengers; and twenty watchmen; in all one hundred and forty-five thousand four hundred dollars. Signal Office. For two clerks of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars: one messenger; one messenger at four hundred and eighty-dollars; and one laborer, at four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Office of the Inspector General. For one clerk of class one, one thousand two hundred dollars. Bureau of Military Justice. For one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; and one messenger; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Office of the Quartermaster General For one mechanical engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks of class one; eight clerks at one thousand dollars each; and one messenger; in all, fourteen thousand and forty dollars.
Office of the Commissary General. For four clerks of class 243 one; seven clerks atone thousand dollars each ; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of the Surgeon General. For one clerk of class four; one messenger boy, at three hundred and sixty dollars; seven clerks of class one; and fifteen clerks at one thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Office of the Chief of Ordnance. For two clerks of class four; sixteen clerks of class one; and two messengers; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of the Paymaster General. For one clerk, one thousand dollars. War Department Building. For one foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars. public buildings and grounds. For clerk in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, one thousand Clerk messenger.four hundred dollars; and for messenger in the same office, eight hundred and forty dollars. For the public gardener, one thousand six hundred dollars.Public gardener. For foremen and laborers employed in the public grounds, twenty-sixForemen and laborers. thousand dollars For two draw-keepers for Navy Yard and Upper Bridges, one thousandDraw-keepers. four hundred and forty dollars.Watchmen—Franklin Square Lafayette Square.Smithsonian Grounds.
For watchman in Franklin Square, six hundred and sixty- dollars. For watchman in Lafayette Square, six hundred and sixty dollars. For two day watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For two night watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For one watchman for Judiciary Square, and one for Lincoln SquareJudiciary Square. and adjacent reservations, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For one watchman for Iowa Circle, one watchman for FourteenthIowa Circle, etc. street Circle and neighboring reservations, one for Rawlins Square and Washington Circle, one watchman for McPherson and Farragut Squares, one for Stanton Place and neighboring reservations, one for Armory Square and reservations east to Botanical Garden, one for Mount Vernon Square and adjacent reservations, seven in all, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars: *provided,**Proviso.*Watch men to have same duties and powers as Metropolitan police.
That hereafter all watchmen provided for by the United States Government for service in any of the public squares and reservations in the District of Columbia shall have and perform the same powers and duties as the Metropolitan police of said District. For one bridgekeeper at Chain Bridge, six hundred and sixty dollars.Bridge keeper, Chain Bridge.Contingent expenses. For contingent and incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, eight thousand dollars;Navy Department.Compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, assistant Secretary, chief clerk, clerks, etc. for compensation of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to be appointed, from civil life, by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand five hundred dollars; for compensation of the chief clerk of the Navy Department, two thousand five hundred dollars, one disbursing clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; one stenographer, at one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each, two messengers; and two laborers; in all, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars.
For professional books tor department library, two thousand five hundredBooks for library. dollars. 244 Stationery, etc.For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. For one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars ; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Stationery, etc.For stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, and miscellaneous items, six hundred dollars. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting-Bureau of Equipment and Requiting. For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three, two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Stationery, etc.For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.
Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation. For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk at one thousand dollars; one copyist; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; iu all, eight thousand and eighty dollars. Stationery, etc.For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.—For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, seven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Stationery, etc.For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. Bureau of Construction and Repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair.—For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draughtsman one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant draughtsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twelve thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Stationery, etc.For stationery and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. Bureau of Steam-Engineering.Bureau of Steam-Engineering For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief draughtsman at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant draughtsman, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers ; iu all, eleven thousand and ninety dollars.
Stationery, etc.For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.—For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; iu all, fourteeu thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Stationery, etc.For stationery and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, eight thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Stationery, etc.For stationery and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. Judge-Advocate General; clerks.Judge-Advocate-General, United States Navy.—For one clerk of class three; one clerk at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred dollars.
Navy Depart meat building Superintendent engineer, etc.Navy Department Buildings.—For one superintendent of the building occupied by the Navy Department, two hundred and fifty dollars; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen; nine watchmen ; four laborers; for twelve charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; iu all, sixteen thousand six hundred and ten dollars. 245 For fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items for said building, ten thousandFuel, lights, etc. dollars.
And for the following additional force in the Navy Department, heretoforeAdditional clerks, messengers, laborers, etc.,heretofore paid from appropriations for naval service.Secretary’s office. paid from appropriations for the naval service, namely: . Secretaries Office.—One clerk of class two, and one laborer for Inspection Board; one clerk of class two, and one laborer for Examining and Retiring Board; one clerk of class one, and one assistant messenger in care of library ; two clerks of class one; ore clerk at one thousand dollars; two assistant messengers; one telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one telegraph messenger-boy, at two hundred and forty dollars; one messenger-boy, at four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twelve thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.—One clerk of class one,Bureau Equipment and Recruiting-Bureau of Navigation. and one copyist; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Bureau of Navigation.—One clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; and one laborer; in all, three thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Nautical Almanac Office: For the following assistants, namely: TwoNautical Almanac Office. at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two at one thousand four hundred dollars each ; four at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one copyist, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all fourteen thousand dollars.
For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, and improving the Tables of the Planets, nine thousand dollars. For rent, fuel, stationery, boxes, expressage, books, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. Hydrographic Office: For chief of engraving and draughting, twoHydrographie Office. thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class two; one assistant • messenger; and one office attendant, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For draughtsmen, engravers, copyists, copperplate printers, printers, apprentices, and laborers in the Hydrograph Office, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars. For purchase of chart-paper, copper plates, printing material, foreign hydrographic works, photolithographing charts, repairs to printing-presses, and engraving and drawing outside of Hydrographic Office, twenty thousand dollars. For purchase of books, office furniture, drawing material and other stationery, postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars.
Naval Observatory: For pay of three assistant astronomers, fourNaval Observatory thousand nine hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one instrument-maker, fifteen hundred dollars; four watchmen, including one for new Naval Observatory grounds; two skilled laborers, one at one thousand dollars, and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; and seven laborers; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For computers, copyists, and others employed on piecework in reducing and transcribing astronomical and meteorological observations for publication, solar and stellar photography, and for purchase of material, apparatus, and professional books and periodicals for the library, five thousand nine hundred dollars.
For repairs to buildings and inclosures, fuel, light, office furniture, chemicals, stationery, freight, and all contingent expenses, three thousand nine hundred dollars. For repairs to dome of large telescope, refrigerator for testing chronometers, and for time ball and iron staff for same, one thousand four hundred dollars. For payment to Smithsonian Institution for freight, on Observatory publications to be shipped to foreign countries during the fiscal year 246 eighteen hundred and eighty three, three hundred and thirty six dollars and twenty live cents.
Bureau of Steam-Engineering.Bureau Provisions and Clothing.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Office Judge-Ad-vocate-General.Navy Department buildings.Bureau of Steam-Engineering.—One clerk of class one, one thousand two hundred dollars. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.—One clerk of class one, and two copyists; in all, three thousand dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—For naval dispensary: One janitor, six hundred dollars; and one assistant chemist, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one thousand and eighty dollars.
Office of Judge-Advocate-General.—Two clerks of class one, and one laborer; in all, three thousand and sixty dollars. Navy Department Buildings.—One captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; one lieutenant of the watch, eight hundred and forty-dollars; nine watchmen; one carpenter, one thousand dollars; one assistant conductor of the elevator, five hundred dollars ; five laborers; and eight charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand live hundred and sixty dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Department o f the Interior. Compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, assistant Secretary, chief clerk, clerks, etc.For compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, eight thousand dollars; assistant secretary, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and two hundred and fifty dollars additional as superintendent of the Patentoffice building, seven clerks, chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each, one of whom shall be disbursing clerk; for one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; . six clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one, one of whom shall be the telegraph operator of the department; one returns office clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk at one thousand dollars; eight copyists; two messengers; seven assistant messengers; five laborers; for one captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; forty watchmen ; additional to two watchmen actingas lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each ; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; and six firemen; in all, one hundred and seventeen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
Additional clerks, etc., heretofore paid on temporary roll.For the following additional force in the Secretary’s office, heretofore paid from the appropriation for temporary clerks, namely: One clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one copyist; one messenger; and one laborer; in all; eight thousand dollars. And for two skilled mechanics, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one laborer, at six hundred dollars, heretofore paid from appropriation for “repairs of Patent Office building,” and two trackers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, heretofore paid from appropriation for storing, packing, and distributing documents; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of assistant Attorney-General.Office of Assistant Attorney-General.—For two law clerks, one at two thousand five hundred dollars, and one at two thousand two Clerks.hundred and fifty dollars; three clerks at two thousand dollars each; one. clerk who shall act as stenographer at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Miscellaneous expenses.For furniture, advertising, telegraphing, ice, wagons, and harness, repairs of same, food and shoeing of horses, car tickets, and other absolutely necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars.
Stationery.For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, forty seven thousand dollars. Fuel.For fuel, light, and repairs of the heating apparatus, ten thousand dollars. Books.For new books and books to complete broken sets, five hundred dollars. Rent of building for Pension Office.For the rent of a suitable building or buildings for the use of the Pension Office, to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior twenty 247 thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to contract with the owner of said building or other buildings for the rent thereof to the government, at a rate not exceeding twenty thousand dollars from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty two to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty three.
For rent of a building for use of the Bureau of Education, six thousandRent of building for Bureau of Education.Rent of building for United States Geological Survey.Postage-stamps. dollars. For rent of a building for use of the United States Geological Survey, one thousand live hundred dollars. For postage-stamps for the Interior Department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, five thousand dollars.
General Land Office.—For the Commissioner of the General LandCommissioner of General Land Office, chief clerk, clerks, and others. Office, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; recorder, two thousand dollars; three inspectorsof surveyors-general and district land offices, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at two thousand dollars each; three principal clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; thirty - two clerks of class four; forty clerks of class three; fifty-two clerks of class two; fifty-two clerks of class one; twenty seven clerks at one thousand dollars each; and forty eight copyists at nine hundred dollars each; eight assistant messengers; twelve laborers; and six packers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, three hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred dollars.
For the following additional force in the General Land Office, heretoforeAdditional clerks, etc. paid from funds as follows: Appropriation for “contingent expenses district land offices,” one clerk of chiss one, and six copyists; in all, six thousand six hundred dollars; From appropriation for “ settlement of claims for swamp-lands and swamp land indemnity,” three clerks of class three, two of class two, and two clerks of class one; in all, ten thousand dollars. For diagrams, parchment paper for land-patents, furniture and RepairsDiagrams, etc. of the same, miscellaneous items, for the actual expenses of inspectors while on duty and of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land-entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, and for advertising and telegraphing, thirty thousand dollars.
For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, oneLaw books for law library. thousand dollars. For connected and separate United States and other maps preparedMaps. in the General Land Office, six thousand dollars. Indian Office.—For compensation of the Commissioner of IndianCompensation of Commissioner Indian Affairs, chief clerk, clerks, and others. Affairs, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one chief of division at two thousand dollars; one financial clerk, at two thousand dollars; one principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; one stenographer, at one thousand six hundred dollars, fifteen clerks of class two, one of whom shall be a draughtsman; eight clerks of class one; seven clerks at one thousand dollars each; fourteen copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, eighty five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For miscellaneous items, including price lists and two city newspapers,Miscellaneous expenses. to be filed and bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and other necessary office expenses, three thousand dollars. Pension Office.—For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions,Compensation of Commissioner of Pensions, deputies, chief clerk, clerks, and others. five thousand dollars; first deputy commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; second deputy commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant medical referee two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four qualified surgeons, who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; fifteen medical examin- 248 ers, who shall be surgeons of education, skill and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; twelve chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each ; law clerk, two thousand dollars; thirty-five principal examiners for review board, at two thousand dollars each; twenty-four assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sixty-five clerks of class four; ninety-five clerks of class three; three hundred and ninety clerks of class two; three hundred and ninety-eight clerks of class one; two hundred and fifty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one superintendent of buildings, one thousand lour hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand t wo hundred dollars each; one hundred and fifty copyists at nine hundred dollars each ; forty copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; twenty-messengers; twenty five watchmen; and twenty five laborers; in all, one million nine hundred and fifty seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Per diem, etc., for traveling examiners.R. S. 5485,1064.20 Stat., 243.For per diem, when absent from home on duty, for traveling examiners, in lieu of expenses of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation, three hundred thousand dollars. And the provisions of section fifty-four hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes shall be applicable to any person who shall violate the provisions of an act entitled “An act relating to claim agents and attorneys in pension cases,” approved June *Proviso.*Duties of first and second deputy commissioners.twentieth eighteen hundred and seventy eight. *Provided,* That the duties of first and second deputy commissioners shall be such as are now fixed by law for the deputy commissioner of pensions; and in case of death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Commissioner his duties shall devolve upon the first deputy commissioner until his successor is appointed, or such absence or sickness ceases, and in case of the like absence of the Commissioner and first deputy commissioner, the second deputy commissioner shall act as Commissioner in like manner.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the office, namely: For carpets, maps, furniture, awnings, and repairs of the same; for fuel, gas, and repairing heaters and elevators; engraving and retouching plates for bounty-land warrants, and printing and engraving the same; engraving and printing pension-certificates and pension checks; and for other expenses of the office, including two daily newspapers, and cost of telegraphing, sixty thousand dollars; and the sum of twenty thousand dollars thereof shall be available during the current fiscal year, to afford additional facilities for the increased force.
Commissioner of the Patent Office, assistant, chief clerk, examiners, and others.United States Patent Office.—For compensation of the Commissioner of the Patent Office, four thousand five hundred dollars; for assistant commissioner, three thousand dollars; for chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner in charge of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars, trade mark examiner, and examiner of designs, at two thousand four hundred dollars each ; twenty-three principal examiners, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-six first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; twenty six second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; twenty-six third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-five fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one financial clerk, two thousand dollars, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine; one librarian, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks of class four; one machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks of class three (one of whom shall be translator of languages); fifteen clerks of class two; forty five clerks of class one; one skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; four skilled draughts-men, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three draughtsmen, 249 at one thousand dollars each; thirty permanent clerks at one thousand dollars each; one messenger and purchasing clerk, one thousand dollars ; five model attendants, at one thousand dollars each ; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; ninety copyists, one of whom shall be a draughtsman; forty five skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; forty laborers, at six hundred dollars each; twenty five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and fifteen laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, five hundred and forty eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the following additional force, heretofore paid from appropriationsAdditional clerks heretofore paid from other than specific appropriations. “for photolithographing or otherwise reproducing copies of drawings”: Two clerks at one thousand dollars each; six copyists; and four copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office,Contingent expenses. namely: For construction and repair of model-cases, stationery, portfolios for drawings, furniture, carpets, ice, advertising, moneys refunded, printing engraved patent-heads, paper for the same, international exchanges, and other necessary office expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For purchase of books for a scientific library for the Patent Office,Books. five thousand dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates for the OfficialPhotolithographing ; to be done tinder supervision of Commissioner. Gazette, twenty-nine thousand dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise producing copies of the weekly issues of drawings of patents, designs, and trade marks, forty-five thousand dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise reproducing copies of. drawings destroyed or damaged by fire or otherwise exhausted, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars ; the work of said photolithographing, or otherwise producing plates and copies, referred to in this and the two preceding paragraphs, to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, if it can be there done at reasonable rates; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorizedContracts. to make contracts therefor.
Bureau of Education.—For the Commissioner of Education, threeCommissioner of Education, chief clerk, clerks, and others. thousand dollars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one translator, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; seven copyists; two copyists at eight hundred dollars each; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred dollars; one laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, forty-four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses, namely: Cases for library, five hundredContingent expenses. dollars; library,one thousand dollars; current educational periodicals, two hundred and fifty dollars; other cur rent publications, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; completing valuable sets of periodicals and publications in the library, two hundred dollars; telegraphing and expressage, two hundred dollars; collecting statistics for special reports, and circulars of information, two thousand two hundred dollars; fuel and lights, four hundred dollars; office furniture, two hundred and fifty dollars; other necessary’ office expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the distribution and exchange of educational documents, and forDistribution and exchange of educational documents, etc. the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture, and models of school-buildings 250 illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for repairing the same, two thousand dollars. Commissioner of Railroads, bookkeeper, engineer, clerks, and others.Office of Commissioner of Railroads.—For Commissioner, four thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; railroad engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one copyist, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Examinations, etc., of subsidized and land-grant railroads, etc.Books, etc.For examination of books and accounts of certain subsidized and land-grant railroad companies, and inspecting roads, shops, machinery, and equipments of same, three thousand dollars. For books and bookcases, one thousand two hundred dollars. For furniture, books, stationery, and other necessary office expenses, five hundred dollars. Employes, heating apparatus, Congressional Library and Supreme Court.Under the Architect of the Capitol.—For person in charge of beating apparatus of the Congressional Library and Supreme Court, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; for one laborer in charge of Water-closet in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars; and for three laborers for cleaning rotunda, corridors, and dome, at six hundred an^ sixty dollars each; for the pay of six watchmen employed on the Capitol Grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars.
Architect of Capitol, draughts-man, clerks, messenger.Office of the Architect of the Capitol.—For the following salaries heretofore paid from appropriation for “Capitol extension”: Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; compensation to disbursing clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Director of Geological Survey,exec u t i v e officer, chief clerk, clerks, and others.Office of the Director of the Geological Survey.—For Director, six thousand dollars; executive officer, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; one photographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; four clerks at nine hundred dollars each ; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; one watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen at six hundred dollars each; one janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at tour hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty- four thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Surveyors-general and clerks:Surveyors-General and their Clerks.—For compensation of surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and Louisiana.for the clerks in his office, including clerks to prepare duplicate patent-plats of confirmed private land-claims, also to transcribe field-notes of surveys in arrears, ten thousand two hundred dollars. Florida.For surveyor-general of Florida, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars.
Minnesota.For surveyor-general of Minnesota, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, eight thousand dollars. Dakota.For surveyor-general of the Territory of Dakota, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in liis office, seven thousand dollars. Colorado.For surveyor-general of the State of Colorado, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, six thousand five hundred dollars. New Mexico.For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in bis office, six thousand dollars.
California.For surveyor-general of California, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the clerks in his office, including those complot- 251 tug, translating, copying, and indexing original Spanish archives, and preserving from destruction originals greatly defaced in the office of the surveyor general of California, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Idaho, two thousand fiveIdaho. hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, two thousand live hundred dollars For surveyor-general of Nevada, two thousand five hundred dollars;Novada and and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars.Iowa.
For surveyor-general of Oregon, two thousand five hundred dollars;Oregon. and for the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Washington, two thousandWashington. five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, two thousand dollars;Nebraska and Iowa. and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Montana, two thousand fiveMontana. hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, six thousand dollars.
For surveyor-general of the Territory of Utah, two thousand fiveUtah. hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Wyoming, two thousand fiveWyoming. hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, two thousand fiveArizona. hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
For compensation of the Postmaster General, eight thousand dollars;Compensation of the Post master- General, chief clerk, stenographer, and others. chief clerk to the Postmaster-General, two thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; appointment clerk, one thousand eight, hundred dollars; law clerk, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; and one clerk of class four (office of assistant attorney-general for Post-Office Department); one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk at one thousand dollars; one copyist; one messenger; one assistant messenger; iu all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For first assistant postmaster-general, four thousand dollars; chiefFirst Assistant Postmaster-General, chief clerk, and others. clerk-, two thousand dollars, and while the office is held by the present incumbent, five hundred dollars additional; three clerks of class four; twenty clerks of class three; one clerk of class three to act as stenographer and department telegraph operator; six clerks of class two; fourteen clerks of class one; four clerks at ouc thousand dollars each; three assistant messengers; superintendent of blank agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of blank agency, one thousaud six hundred dollars; four assistants to superintendent of blank agency at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistants to superintendent of blank agency at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk al one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; three laborers (for blank agency); superintendent of free delivery, two thousand one hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; and one clerk of class one (office of superintendent of free delivery); in all, ninety-seven thousand and sirty dollars.
For second assistant postmaster general, four thousand dollars ; chiefSecond Assistant Post matter-General, chief clerk, and others. clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division of inspection, two thousand dollars; superintendent of railway adjustment, two thousand dollars ; ten clerks of class four; thirty four clerks of class three; eighteen clerks of class two; eighteen clerks of class one; nine clerks at one thousand dollars each ; three female clerks, at nine hundred dollars each;
Ihree assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, one hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. 252 Third Assistant Post master- General, chief clerk, and others.For third assistant postmaster-general, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division of dead letters, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of division of postage stamps, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; seven clerks of class four; nineteen clerks of class three; thirty clerks of class two; forty-one clerks of class one; six clerks at one thousand dollars each; ten female clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each; forty eight female clerks at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; eight laborers; four female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, two hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Additional clerks heretofore paid on temporary roll.For the following additional force in the office of the third assistant postmaster-general, heretofore paid from the appropriation for temporary employees: Three clerks at one thousand dollars each; six female clerks at nine hundred dollars each; and six female clerks at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Superintendent of foreign mails, chief clerk, and others.For superintendent of foreign mails, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; in all, fifteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Superintends of money-order system, chief clerk, and others.For superintendent of the money-order system, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; six clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; five clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; three laborers; in all, fifty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. Additional employes in office of money-order system.For the following additional force required in the building or buildings occupied by the office of the money-order system, namely:
One engineer, one thousand dollars; one fireman; three watchmen; and four laborers; in all, six thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous expenses money-order office, including fuel, gas, ice, washing, soap, towels, brushes, express charges, and other necessary office expenses, seven thousand dollars. Chief of division of mail depredations and clerks.For office of mail depredations: Chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Topographer, clerks, and others.For topographer, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the following force in the topographer’s office, heretofore paid from appropriation “for the preparation and publication of post-route maps”: Two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; seventeen female clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant map mounter, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two watchmen; and one assistant messenger; in ail, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
Disbursing clerk and superintendent of building, clerks, and others.For office of disbursing clerk and superintendent of building: Disbursing clerk and superintendent, two thousand one hundred dollars; one clerk of class two (accountant); one clerk of class one (storekeeper); one engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one fireman who shall be a blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, who shall be a steam titter, nine hundred dollars ; one fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; one carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant carpenter, one thousand dollars; captain of the watch one thousand dollars; for nineteen watchmen and twenty-seven laborers; one plumber, nine bundled dollars; one awning maker, nine hundred dollars; in all, forty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Contingent expenses oi Post-Office Department.For contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department: For stationery and blank books, nine thousand dollars; fuel, and for repairs to engine, boilers, and heating apparatus for the General Post Office 253 building, including the Auditor’s office, four thousand four hundred dollars; for gas, five thousand dollars; plumbing and gas fixtures, three thousand one hundred dollars; telegraphing, five thousand lt;lol-lars; painting, four thousand dollars; carpets, four thousand dollars; furniture four thousand dollars; keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness, one thousand five hundred dollars; hardware, one thousand five hundred dollars; for rent of topographer’s office, one thousand five hundred dollars; for rent of a suitable building or buildings for the use of the money-order office of the Post-Office Department, and of the money-order division of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, eight thousand dollars; miscellaneous items, nine thousand one hundred dollars; in all, sixty thousand one hundred dollars.
For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, twenty-sixPublishing Official Postal Guide. thousand five hundred dollars; and hereafter the annual report of the Postmaster-General shall not be published in said Official Postal Guide. For miscellaneous expenses of the topographer’s office in the “preparation Miscellaneous a expenses of topographer’s office, etc.and publication of the post-route maps,” twelve thousand five hundred dollars, the same having heretofore been paid from the appropriation for “ preparation and publication of post route maps.
” AndPublication and sale of post-route maps at cost. the Postmaster General may authorize the publication and sale of post-route maps to individuals at the cost thereof, the proceeds of said sales to be applied as a further appropriation for said purpose. JUDICIAL. Office of the Attorney-General.—For compensationCompensation of the Attorney-General, assistants, Solicitor-General, and others. of the Attorney-General,eight thousand dollars; Solicitor-General,seven thousand dollars: three assistant attorneys-general, at five thousand dollars each; one assistant attorney-general of the Post-Office Department, four thousand dollars; solicitor of the internal revenue, four thousand five hundred dollars; examiner of claims, three thousand five hundred dollars ; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief clerk and ex-officio superintendent of the building; two thousand two hundred dollars; stenographic clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two law clerks at two thousand dollars each; five clerks of class four; additional for disbursing clerk and clerk in charge of pardons, two hundred dollars each; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; one telegraph operator at one thousand dollars; six copyists; one messenger; three assistant messengers; three laborers; three watchmen; one engineer, one thousand dollars; superintendent of the building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and one fireman; in all eighty-five thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For the following assistant attorneys and others heretofore paid fromAssistant attorneys and others heretofore paid from other than specific appropriations. appropriations as follows, namely: From appropriation for “defending suits in claims against the United States,” two assistant attorneys at three thousand dollars each; three assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each ; one assistant attorney, at two thousand dollars ; one clerk of class one; one copyist; and one assistant messenger; in all, eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
From appropriation for “prosecution of crimes,” one clerk of class three, and one clerk of class two; in all, three thousand dollars. From appropriation for “support of convicts,” one clerk of class three.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the department, namely: For furniture and repairs, one thousand dollars; for law and miscellaneous books for library of the department, one thousand five hundred dollars; for stationery, one thousand live hundred dollars; for miscellaneous expend!, tures, such as telegraphing, fuel, lights, labor, and other necessaries, including repairs of building, seven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. 254 Horses, wagons, etc.For care and subsistence of horses and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Solicitor of the Treasury, assistant, chief clerk, and others.Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury.—For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant solicitor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand and eighty dollars. Law and miscellaneous books.For law and miscellaneous books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, five hundred dollars.
Warden of jail, District of Columbia.United States Courts.Chief Justice of tho Supreme Court and associate justices.United States judges retired.For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars. United States Courts.—For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand five hundred dollars; and for eight associate justices, ten thousand dollars each; in all ninety thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby appropriated.
Circuit judges.For nine circuit judges, to reside in circuit, at six thousand dollars each, fifty four thousand dollars Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court.Compensation.The reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury an annual salary of four thousand five hundred dollars when his report of said decisions constitutes one volume and an additional sum of one thousand two hundred dollars when by direction of the court he causes to be printed and published in any year a second volume, and said reporter shall be annually entitled to clerk-hire in the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars, and to office rent, stationery, and contingent expenses in the sum of six hundred dollars, and an amount sufficient for the payment of said *Proviso.*sums is hereby appropriated : *Provided,* That the above provision shall not apply to decisions of the court pronounced at the last term thereof, but that said decisions shall be printed and the volumes containing them delivered to the Secretary of the Interior as prescribed by existing laws: and an amount sufficient to pay the salary and compensation of the reporter in connection therewith is hereby appropriated: *Proviso.**And provided. further,* That the volumes of the decisions which said court shall hereafter pronounce shall be furnished by the Reporter to the public at Published decisions may be furnished lo the public, etc.Marshal U.
S. Supreme Court.District judges.a sum not exceeding two dollars per volume, and the number of volumes now required to be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior shall be furnished by the reporter without any charge therefor. For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the fifty-four district judges of the United States, one hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars. Chief justice Supreme court of District of Columbia and associate judges.District attorneys.District marshals.Judges of Court of Claims, chief clerk, and others.For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the five associate judges, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, nineteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation of the district marshals of the United States, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Court of Claims.—For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff, one thousand live hundred dollars; and messenger thereof; in all, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For stationery, books, fuel, labor, postage, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, three thousand dollars. 255 For reporting the decisions of the court, and superintending theReporting decisions, etc.R. S.1765,314.18 Stat., 109, printing of the seventeenth volume of the Reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporter notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy tour, chapter three three hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively, of the Departments ofRequisitions upon the Postmaster-General for official postage-stamps. State, of the Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Postmaster-General for the necessary amount of official postage-stamps for the use of their departments, not exceeding the amount stated in the estimates submitted to Congress; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department for the same fiscal year.
Sec. 3. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen,Pay of assistant messengers, ft r e - men, etc., per an-num, rated. and laborers provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each. Sec. 4. That no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messenger,Employés to be paid from specific appropriations only. assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall after the first day of October next be employed in any of the executive departments, or subordinate bureaus or offices thereof at the seat of government, except only at such rates and in such numbers, respectively, as may be specifically appropriated for by Congress for such clerical and other personal services for each fiscal year; and no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messenger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall hereafter be employed at the seat of government in any executive Department or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any specific or general purpose, unless such employment is authorized and payment therefor specifically provided in the law granting the appropriation, and then only for services actually rendered in connection with and for the purposes of the appropriation from which payment is made, and at the rate of compensation usual and proper for such services, and after the first day of October next section one hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes, and all other laws and parts of laws inconsistentR.
S. 172, 28 re-pealed. with the provisions of this act, and all laws and parts of laws authorizing the employment of officers, clerks, draughtsmen, copyists, messengers, assistant messengers, mechanics, watchmen, laborers, or other employees at a different rate of pay or in excess of the numbers authorized by appropriations made by Congress, be, and they are hereby, repealed; and thereafter all details of civil officers, clerks,Civil officers, etc., else w here employed, not to be detailed for duty in i lie District of Columbia. or other subordinate employees from places outside of the District of Columbia for duty within the District of Columbia, except temporary details for duty connected with their respective offices, be, and arc hereby, prohibited; and thereafter all moneys accruing from lapsed salaries, or from unused appropriations for salaries, shall be covered into the Treasury: *Provided,* That the sums herein specifically appropriated*Proviso.* for clerical or other force heretofore paid for out of General or specific appropriations may be used by the several heads of departments to pay such force until the said several heads of Departments shall have adjusted the said force in accordance with the Provisions of this act; and such adjustment shall bo effected before October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
And in making suchAppointments, etc., to be apportioned among the States and Territories. adjustment the employees herein provided for shall, as far as may be consistent with the interests of the service, be apportioned among the several States and Territories according to population: *Provided further,* That any person performing duty in any capacity as officer*Proviso.* 256 clerk, or otherwise in any department at the date of the passage of this act who has heretofore been paid from any appropriation made for con tingeut expenses or for any contingent or general purpose, and whose office or place is specifically provided for herein, under the direction of the head of that department maybe continued in such office, clerkship, or employment without a new appointment thereto, but shall be charged to the quotas of the several States and Territories from which they are respectively appointed and nothing herein shall be construed to repeal R.
S. 16627.or modify section one hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes oi the United States. , Sec. 5. Unexpended balances, etc., for collecting revenue from customs carried to surplus fund and covered into Treasury.Secretary of Treasury to report annually number, class, etc., of officers at ports of entry, and amount required for contingent. expenses. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and of each year thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause all unexpended balances of the permanent and indefinite appropriations for collecting the revenue from customs which shall have remained upon the books of the Treasury for two fiscal years to be carl vied to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury.
And it shal- be the duty of the Secre’ary of the Treasury to include in his next estimates to Congress, and annually thereafter, a statement specifying in detail the number and class of officers and employees of every grade and nature, with the rate of compensation to each, that may in his judgment be necessary to properly conduct the business of collecting the revenue at each port of entry in the United States, together with au estimate of the amounts required for contingent expenses at each of said ports, and for such additional expenses of the service as cannot be other wise specifically provided for.
Sec. 6. Appropriations for stationary, etc., in Surgeon-General’s and Adjutant General’s office may be transferred, etc.Assignment of rooms, etc., of State, War, and Navy building. That so much of the funds appropriated by this act for the contingent expenses of the Surgeon-General’s and the Adjutant General’s offices respectively as are or may be necessary to provide stationery, blank books, furniture and other articles for the use of the clerks and others engaged in those offices on work relating to the settlement of applications for pensions, may be used all or in part, tinder the orders of the Secretary of War, in either of said offices as in his judgment the best interests of the service may require.
The fourth story and attic of the South wing of the State, War, and Navy building, except such portion as is now within the Library of the State Department, are assigned to the War Department for such uses of the Department as in the judgment of the Secretary of War they may be best fitted, and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, to enable the Department to remove from said fourth story and attic the records, documents, and papers, now stored there, and to rearrange them in other rooms in said Department.
That the partition wall separating the corridors of the first, second, third, and fourth stories of the Rast wing from the said stories of the South wing of the State, War, and Navy building shall be removed so as to afford easy access from one wing to the other on the aforementioned *Proviso.*Joint select committee of Congress to examine building and locate for occupancy, the Slate, War, and Navy Departments, respectively.floors of said building: *Provided,* That a joint select committee of three members of the House of Representatives and three Senators to be appointed respectively by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, upon the passage of this act, shall on or before the completion of the North wing of the State, War, and Navy building, make examination of said building and set apart such portions thereof for the use and occupancy of the State, War, and Navy Departments respectively as in their judgment the best interests of the public service and (he needs of said departments respectively may require and upon filing an agreed statement of such partition by said joint select committee in triplicate with the respective Secretaries of such departments the building shall be occupied as therein provided as soon thereafter as practicable.
Approved, August 5, 1882.
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