Chapter 433. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of tbo government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 433.— An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of tbo government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.August 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Sundry civil expenses. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. french and american claims commission. To defray the expenses of the French and American Claims Commission:French and American Claims Commission. For salaries, compensation, and contingent expenses, to enable the government to fulfill its treaty obligations to France, as well as to enable the counsel for the United States to take the testimony needed for defending the government against unjust claims, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the payment of the actual and necessary expenses of the twoInternational Commission for Establishment of Electrical Units. civilian experts as delegates of the United States to an International Commission for the Establishment of Electrical Units, three thousand dollars.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 433. 1882. 303 For commission to represent the United States at the reassemblingMonetary commission. of a conference to adopt a common ratio between gold and silver for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of bi metallic money and securing fixity of relative value between those metals, and in negotiations with reference thereto, twenty-five thousand dollars, and their reasonable expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of State.
For the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expense of said conference, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the purchase of books for the library of the Department of State,Books for library of Department of State.Consul-general at Madrid, salary, etc. three hundred dollars. For salary of consul general at Madrid (in addition to that of secretary of legationwhen acting as such), twelve hundred dollars. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department.Public buildings.Albany. public buildings.
For the customhouse and post-office at Albany, New York; For completion of the of the approaches to the building, twenty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for andSyracuse; purchase of site, etc. cause the erection of a building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office and other government offices, to be commenced in the city of Syracuse, New York, one hundred thousand dollars. For the post-office and courthouse at Baltimore, Maryland:
For continuationBaltimore. of building, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the same shall be built of white marble, provided the cost shall be no greater than if constructed of granite, For the post-office and subtreasury at Boston Massachusetts: ForBoston. completion of building, beating apparatus, elevators, and vaults, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for, andWilliamsport, Pa.; purchase of site, etc. cause the commencement of the construction thereon, of a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the uses of the post-office, United States courts, and other government offices, in the city of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fifty thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for, andScranton, Pa.; purchase of site, etc. cause the commencement of the construction thereon, of a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the uses of the post-office and other government offices, at the city of Scranton Pennsylvania, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for,Council Bluffs; purchase of site, etc. and cause the erection thereon, of a building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office and other government offices, to be commenced at the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, fifty thousand dollars.
For the customhouse at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion of building andCleveland. sidewalk, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the post-office, courthouse, and so forth, at Charleston, West Virginia:Charleston, W. Va. For approaches, ten thousand dollars. For the customhouse and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuation of building, Cincinnati.including heating apparatus, elevators, and vaults, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the courthouse and post-office at Danville, Virginia:
For completion of building,Danville, Va. grading of grounds, and’approaches, thirty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for, and cause to beHarrisonburg, Va.; purchase of site, etc. commenced thereon, the erection of a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, and other government offices, at Harrisonburg, Virginia, twenty five thousand dollars. 304 To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for,Abingdon, Va.; purchase of site, etc. and cause to be commenced thereon, the erection of a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, and other government offices, at Abingdon, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for, Marquette, Mich.; purchase of site, etc.and cause to be commenced thereon, the erection of a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, and internal-revenue, land, and other government offices, at the city of Marquette, in the State of Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to procure a site,Detroit; purchase of site, etc. and cause to be commenced thereon, the construction of a building at Detroit, Michigan, for the use of the United States courts and other government offices, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for,Greensborough, N. C.; purchase of site, etc. and cause the commencement of the construction thereon, of a suitable building, with fire proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States courts and other government offices, at Greensborongh, North Carolina, twenty five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site forGalveston, Tex.; purchase of site, etc. and cause to be commenced the erection thereon of a building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the uses of the customhouse and other government offices, in the city of Galveston, Texas, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the customhouse and post-office at Hartford, Connecticut: For approaches,Hartford. twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for, Hannibal, Mo.; purchase of site, etc.and cause the commencement of the construction thereon, of a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the uses of the post-office and other government offices, at the city of Hannibal, Missouri, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for,Jackson, Tenn.; purchase of site, etc. and cause to be commenced thereon, the erection of a building, with fire proof vaults therein, for the uses of the United States courts and other government offices, in the city of Jackson, Tennessee’, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the customhouse and post-office at Kansas City, Missouri: For the.Kansas City, Mo. completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for,Lynchburg, Va.; purchase of site, etc. and cause the commencement of the construction thereon, of a suitable building for the United States courts and other government offices, at the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars. For the courthouse and post-office at Montgomery, Alabama:
For completionMontgomery, Ala. of building, sixty thousand dollars. For the customhouse, courthouse, and post-office at Memphis Tennessee:Memphis. For continuation of building, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the law requireing that the marble used in this building shall be cut and dressed at the site of the building is hereby amended so as to permit the cutting and dressing of the said marble at any point within the limits of the State of Tennessee, as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
For the customhouse and post-office at New Orleans, Louisiana: For repairingNew Orleans. the building, including coustructing of a passenger elevator, sixty thousand dollars. For the barge-office building at New York, New York: For completion Now York City.of building and approaches, twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site, andBrooklyn; purchase of site, etc. to commence the erection thereon, of a building for the uses of the government in the city of Brooklyn, New York, as provided by law, three hundred thousand dollars. 305 For the post-office at Jersey City;
New Jersey: For improvement of grounds,Jersey City. four thousand dollars. For the courthouse and post office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuationPittsburgh. of building, two hundred thousand dollars. For the post-office and courthouse at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For continuationPhiladelphia. of building, including heating apparatus, elevators, and vaults, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so *Proviso.*much of this appropriation as may be necessary shall be applied to and expended in completing immediately and fitting up for use, exclusive of furniture, the rooms in said building intended for occupancy by the United States courts and the offices connected therewith.
For customhouse building at Chicago, Illinois: For repairs and improvementsChicago. to building, thirty-one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site for and Quincy, Ill., purchase of site, etc.cause to be commenced the erection thereon of a building for the uses of the post-office and other government offices in the city of Quincy, Illinois, eighty-seven thousand live hundred dollars. For the post-office and courthouse at Paducah, Kentucky:
For completion Paducah, Ky.of building, including approaches and drainage and water-supply, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the customhouse and post office at Saint Louis, Missouri: ForSaint Louis. continuation of the building, including approaches, heating apparatus, elevators, and vaults, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For the customhouse and courthouse at Toledo, Ohio: For continuationToledo. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For the courthouse and post-office at Topeka, Kansas:
For completionTopeka. of building and approaches, forty thousand dollars. For the purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury of a suitable site forLeavenworth, Kans.; purchase of site, etc. the erection of a public building for the use of the United States courts, internal-revenue and post-offices at Leavenworth, Kansas, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the entire cost of building and site not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site in theDallas, Tex.; purchase of site, etc. city of Dallas, Texas, and cause to be commenced the erection thereon of a suitable building for a courthouse and post-office thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs and extension and repair of custom house and post-office atBuffalo. Buffalo, New York, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, the total cost of which shall not exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site and cause Rochester; purchase of site, etc.to be commenced thereon the erection of a building for the uses of the government offices at the city of Bochester, New York, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars:*Proviso.*Authority to purchase site, etc., not to be held as making appropriation.Bridewell dock property, Chicago.*Proviso.* *Provided*, That no act passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a site and erect a public building thereon shall be held or construed to appropriate money unless the act in express language makes such appropriations.
For the Bridewell dock property at Chicago, Illinois: For repairs of pavement and sidewalk around Bridewell dock property, three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall make examination and recommendation to Congress at its next session as to the advisability of selling this property. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase blocks ninety-onePurchase of land Port Townsend, Washington Ter., etc., for use as marine hospital. and one hundred and two in Port Townsend, Washington Territory, together with the hospital buildings thereon, for use as a marine hospital, in accordance with a report heretofore made to the Secretary of the Treasury’ by a board specially appointed by him for such purpose, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For completing seawall,Marine hospital at Key West. four thousand dollars. 306 For a marine hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio, one hundred thousandCincinnati. dollars. For a marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana, one hundred thousandNew Orleans. dollars. For constructing a marine hospital at Baltimore, Maryland, one hundred Baltimore.thousand dollars. For a marine hospital at Cairo, Illinois, sixty thousand dollars. AndCairo. the sums respectively appropriated for the four hospital buildings are in full in each ease for the completion of the same, including the purchase of sites for the same, and their cost is hereby limited to the sums in each case herein provided.
For the Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForTreasury buildings, Washington City.Utica. annual repairs to the Treasury buildings, fifteen thousand dollars. For the courthouse and post-office at Utica, New York: To finish the building and approaches, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the customhouse, courthouse, and post-office building at Nashville, Tennessee: ToNashville. complete certain work upon the building and approaches, six thousand dollars.
For the courthouse and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas: For the extensionLittle Rock. of the sewer and completion of work on the approaches, three thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: For repairs andRepairs, etc., of public buildings under control of Treasury Department.Agent disbursing appropriations for public buildings other than those at Washington to receive compensation, etc.Fire-proof building for safekeeping of records, etc. preservation of customhouses, courthouses, and post-offices, and other public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
And any disbursing agent who has been or may be appointed to disburse any appropriation for any United States courthouse and post-office, or other building or grounds, not located within the city of Washington, shall be entitled to the compensation allowed by law to collectors of customs for such amounts as have been or may be disbursed. That the Supervising Architect of the Treasury be, and he is, required to make a report through the Secretary of the Treasury to the next session of Congress:
First, as to a suitable plat of ground belonging to the United States, upon which a suitable fireproof building can be erected, to be built of brick, to be used for the safekeeping of records of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments which are not required for constant reference. Second, the probable cost of such building, Cost, etc.Appropriations for public buildings in Alaska re-appropriated, etc.with plans and specifications for same. That any balance of the appropriations for repair and preservation of public buildings in Alaska, made by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, which remains unexpended on the thirtieth of 21 Stat., 436.June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, is hereby reappropriated and rendered available for the original purpose.
To enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to erect a suitable brickBuilding for storing, packing, and shipping seed, etc. building to be used for storing, packing, and shipping seed, twenty live thousand dollars, the same to be expended on plans to be made and approved by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and the Architect of the Capitol. That the paragraph in the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and Fall River.seventy-nine making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 20 Stat., 210.eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes, which authorizes the purchase of land adjoining the site, of the customhouse and post-office building at Fall River, Massachusetts, is hereby amended by adding thereto the words “ and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to acquire said land by private purchase or by condemnation;” and the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars in said paragraph is hereby continued and made available, and in addition thereto the further sum of fifteen thousand dollars is appropriated for the purchase of said land.
And it is further provided that the Secretary of the Treasury is author- 307ized to acquire, by private purchase or by condemnation, the necessary lands for the public buildings and the Light-houses to be constructed and for which money is appropriated by this act. And the Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to secure, byLocation of lights on Savannah River. private purchase or by condemnation, land on the Savannah River, between the city of Savannah and the bar atTybee, for the location of lights under the appropriation of sixty thousand dollars made by the Forty-sixth Congress to light the river from the bar to the city; and said secretary may use not exceeding three thousand dollars of said sum so appropriated to pay for such land for the locations of lights as may be necessary; and said appropriation of sixty thousand dollars shall be used as soon as convenient for the location and construction of said lights. life-saving stations.
For salaries of superintendents for the Life-saving stations as follows:Life-saving service. On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire one, and on the coast of Massachusetts one, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, who may hereafter reside in any portion of the State of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For salary of one superintendent on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars; ou the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, atone thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent for Life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars; and of one superintendent for the Life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars, and of oue on the coasts of Lake Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of superintendent for the Life-saving and lifeboat stations: One on the coasts of Lake Huron and Superior, and of one on the coast of Lake Michigan, and one on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon, and California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. For sala y of two hundred and two keepers of Life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and forty-one thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the Life-saving and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at Life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repair’s to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of Life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, five hundred and eighty thousand dollars..
To replace Life-saving medals provided for by section seven of the actLife-saving medals.18 Stat., 127. of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, which have been stolen from parties upon whom they have been bestowed or have been lost without fault on their part, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the Treasury. 308 establishing life-saving stations. For establishing new Life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew Life-saving stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. revenue cutter service.
For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Revenue-Cutter Service. lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots, and for rations for the same; and for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; and for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; shipchandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, common labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For constructing one revenue steamer for duty on the southern coast Revenue steamer.of the United States, or for rebuilding the revenue steamer Commodore Perry with iron hull, as, the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the construction of two steam launches for service in MobileSteam launches. Harbor, Alabama, and Galveston Harbor, Texas, sixteen thousand dollars. engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely;
For salariesEngraving and printing. ’ of all necessary clerks and employees and for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work; and for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States; for materials required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers’ tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, four hundred thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall, at the next session of Congress, submit for the year thereafter commencing July first, Itemized estimate to be made to Congress.eighteen hundred and eighty-three, an itemized estimate for the above service, and, so far as practicable, for the force of employees that can be individually and specifically appropriated for; and shall also estimate for the force that cannot so be appropriated for; and for material in separate amounts, and itemized as far as practicable. light-house establishment.
For salaries of keepers of light houses: For salaries, fuel, rations,Keepers of Light-houses. rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of one thousand and fifteen light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of light-vessels: For seamens wages, rations,Light-vessels. repairs, salaries supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-one light ships, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For expenses of buoyage:
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, and Buoyage.supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 309 For expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, renewing, duplicating,Fog-signals. and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same? sixty thousand dollars. For inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lightsInspecting lights. and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars.
For supplies of light houses: For supplying the Light-houses, beaconSupplies. lights, and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For repairs of Light-houses:
For repairs and incidental expenses ofRepairs. Light-houses and stations; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and building connected therewith; for the establishing and repairing of pier-bead lights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. For lighting and buoyage of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers:Lights and buoys on Mississippi,Missouri, and Ohio Rivers, and at mouth of Red River.
For maintenance of lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, and at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To complete the lighting and buoyage of the Ohio River, fifteen thousand dollars. That all parties owning, occupying, or operating bridges over anyLights on bridges for security of navigation. navigable river shall maintain at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, throughout the year, such lights on their bridges as may be required by the Light-house Board for the security of navigation: and in addition thereto all persons owning, occupying, or operating any bridge over any navigable river shall, in any event, maintain all lights on their bridge that may be necessary for the security of navigation.
For survey of light house sites: For examination and survey of sites for Survey of sites, etc., for Light-houses.proposed Light-houses and preparing plans for proposed structures, ten t housand dollars. light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.Tower, etc., Throgg’s Neck.Fog bell, Danskammer Point.Light-house, Tarrytown.Sakonnet Point. For rebuilding tower and keepers dwelling at Throgg’s Neck, entrance to East River, New York, ten thousand dollars.
For establishing a fog bell on the Hudson River at Danskammer Point, five thousand dollars. For the erection of a Light-house at Tarrytown, on the Hudson River, twenty five thousand dollars. For the construction of a Light-house at or near Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars. • For the erection of a beacon light on the end of the west jetty-wall at Saybrook Bar.Saybrook Bar, Connecticut, twenty thousand dollars. For building a Light-house to replace the lightship nowon Fourteen-footFonrteenfoot Bank.Sandy Point Shoal.
Bank, Delaware Bay, one hundred thousand dollars. For building a Light-house on Sandy Point Shoal, Maryland, to take place of the one on Sandy Point, and establish an efficient fog signal, twenty five thousand dollars. For the establishment of two range lights at the mouth of the Patuxent Patuxent River.River, Maryland, twenty five thousand dollars. For completing the Light-house at Sanibel Island, Punta Rasa Harbor,Sanibel Island. Florida, thirty thousand dollars. For the establishment of a light and range, beacons at the turn of the channelMaumee Bay. through Maumee Bay, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars.
For reconstructing the light station at Waugoshanee, Lake Michigan, andWaugoshance, Lake Michigan. establishing a steam fog-signal, twenty-five thousand dollars. 310 For constructing a Light-house, and for the establishment of a steamMonth of Detroit River. fog-signal in connection therewith, at or near the mouth of the Detroit River, in Lake Erie, twenty thousand dollars. For purchasing a site for the light station at Portage River, Lake Superior,Site, etc., Portage River. Michigan, one thousand dollars.
For the establishment of a steam fog signal on Lime Point, at the entranceLime Point, harbor of San Francisco. of the harbor of San Francisco, California, twenty thousand dollars. For establishing one or more electric lights at Hell Gate, New York, twentyElectric lights, Hell Gate. thousand dollars. To purchase additional land for the site of Cohansey Light Station,Additional land, etc., Cohansey Light Station.Bell Isle, Detroit River. New Jersey, one thousand dollars. To complete the Light-house on the northern end of Belle Isle, Detroit River, Michigan, six thousand dollars.
For the erection of a light house in Little Traverse Bay, Michigan, fifteenLittle Traverse Bay. thousand dollars. For the establishment of such lights, day-beacons, and buoys as may be necessaryLights, etc., Willamette and Columbia Rivers. for the use of vessels navigating the Willamette and Columbia Rivers from Portland to the sea, the sum of three thousand dollars. To commence the construction of a light house and fog-signal at or nearPoint Saint George. Point Saint George, California, fifty thousand dollars.
To construct a light house on Ram Island, Booth Bay Harbor, on the coastRam Island. of Maine, twenty five thousand dollars. To commence the construction of a Light-house at Mosquito Inlet, on theMosquito Inlet. Atlantic seaboard of the State of Florida, thirty thousand dollars. For establishing a fog-signal at Point Robinson, some twelve miles below Tacoma,Point Robinson. on Puget Sound, seven thousand dollars. For building a steam-tender for general use on the Atlantic coast,Steam-t under, Atlantic coast. sixty thousand dollars.
That it shall be the duty of the Light House Board to apply the money hereinHired labor and purchase of materials, when. appropriated, as far as can be without detriment to the interests of the government, by contract. When work cannot be done or materials purchased by contract without injury to the public interests, it may be prosecuted by hired labor, and materials purchased in open market. That section forty-four hundred and twenty nine Revised Statutes is herebyR. S. 4429, 858.Amended.*Proviso.*Permit to use steam boiler, etc. amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
“ *Provided, however*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may grant permission to use any boiler or steam generator not. constructed of riveted iron or steel plates upon the certificate of the supervising inspector of steamboats for the district wherein such boiler or generator is to be used, and other satisfactory proof that the use of the same is safe and efficient; said permit to be valid until the next regular meeting of the supervising inspectors who shall act thereon.” coast and geodetic survey.
For survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Eastern division: For everySurvey of Atlantic and Gulf coasts. purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States; of the survey of the Mississippi River and other rivers to the head of tidewater or ship navigation, of deep-sea soundings, temperature, and current observations off and along the above-named coasts, in the Gulf of Mexico, and throughout the Gulf Stream; for resurveys of such portions of the above named coasts as may be necessary, including the resurvey of Long Island Sound and the completion of the resurvey of Delaware Bay and river; for the preparation and publication of charts, of the Coast Pilot, of a magnetic map of Eastern North America, and of a general map of the eastern part of the United States, and for the com pensation of the superintendent, assistants, aids, clerks, computers, draughtsmen, engravers, electrotypists, instrument makers,copper plate 311 printers, tidal observers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and all other employees necessary to carry on the work in the office and in the field in conformity with the regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the purchase of materials necessary therefor, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
For furnishing points for State surveys, sixteen thousand dollars.Points for State surveys. For transcontinental geodetic work, thirty thousand dollars. For survey of the Pacific coasts, Western division: For every purposeSurvey of Pacific coasts. and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or of ship-navigation; deep-sea soundings temperatures, currents, and dredgings along and also in the Japan Stream flowing off these coasts; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, the magnetic map of Western North America, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of clerks watchmen, messengers, and laborers, and of civilians employed in the work, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels for the Coast and Geodetic Survey: For theRepairs of vessels. repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, thirty thousand dollars. For publishing observations of the Coast and Geodetic Survey: ForPublishing observations. continuing the publication of observations, and tlieir discussions, made in the. progress of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office; six thousand dollars.
For general expenses of the Coast and Geodetic Survey: For rent ofGeneral expenses. buildings for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of fireproof building, numbered two hundred and five New Rent of fireproof building.Jersey avenue south, including rooms for standard weights and measures, for the safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars.
For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars.Fuel. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to organize theOrganization, etc. force for which this appropriation is to be expended, and fix the salaries and compensation to be paid to the members thereof, and to make his estimate for the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, in detail, in reference to the force to be employed, with its grades and compensation to the respective grades, and specifying the branches of work in which it should be employed, and the amount to be expended upon each branch: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.* Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to credit Thad Butler, lately in the employment of the Interior Department,Thad Butler. with the sum of two hundred and fifteen dollars, the same being stopped against him because it was expended in payment of salary from the contingent fund, this being the only-fund or money furnished or available in the Interior Department for the purpose above named. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.
For freight on bullion and coin: For freight on bullion and coin betweenFreight on bullion and coin. the mints and assay-offices, thirty-thousand dollars. For dies, paper, and stamps, five hundred thousand dollars; theDies, paper, stamps. engraving and printing to be done in the Bureau of Engraving and 312 Printing of the Treasury Department, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For detecting, and bringing to trial and punishment, persons guiltyViolation of internal-revenue laws. of violating the internal-revenue laws, or accessory to the same, including payments for information and detection sixty-five thousand dollars;
Commissioner Internal Revenue to report annually detailed statement of expenditures.R. S. 3653, 719.Collection, safekeeping, etc., public moneys.and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Division of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act. For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the Appropriation not to be expended for clerical services.United States, seventy-five thousand dollars.
And hereafter no part of the money appropriated for the purposes mentioned in this paragraph shall be expended for clerical services or payment of employees of any nature or grade. For expenses of the national currency: For paper, engraving, printing,National currency. express-charges, and other expenses, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For the distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,Distinctive paper. including mill expenses, transportation, examination, counting and delivery, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the redemption of worn and mutilated United States notes: ForRedemption of worn and mutilated U. S. notes. preparation and issue of new United States notes in place of worn and mutilated United States notes, and transportation of each to and from the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, forty-eight thousand dollars. For the transportation of silver coins: That the Secretary of theSilver coin, transportation of.*Proviso.* Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transport, free of charge, silver coins when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury by the applicant or applicants; and that there is hereby appropriated ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for that purpose, and that the same be available from and after the passage of this act.
For the recoinage of goldRecoinage of gold and silver coins. and silver coins: For the recoinage of gold and silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. For the recoinage of all unenrrent silver coins in the Treasury, twentyRecoinage of uncurrent silver coins in the Treasury.Mutilated and uncurrent minor coins, etc.Fuel, lights,etc., for public buildings under control of Treasury Department. five thousand dollars.
For loss on recoinage of mutilated and uncurrent minor coins now in the vaults of the Treasury and which may be presented during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one thousand dollars. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, lights, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, four hundred thousand dollars.
For furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings: For furnitureFurniture and repairs of, for public buildings. and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department; and furniture for nine new buildings, namely: At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; New York, New York (barge office); Albany, New’York; Charleston, West Virginia; Danville, Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Paducah,Kentucky; Topeka,Kansas; Saint Louis, Missouri; and at Cleveland, Ohio; two hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantAssistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, three hundred thousand dollars. 313 For heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting,Heating apparatus. and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars.
For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes,Vaults, safes, and locks. and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, sixty thousand dollars. For plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials,Plans. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand live hundred dollars. For suppressing counterfeiting and similar felonies:
For the. expensesCounterfeiting. of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-seven thousand dollars. For compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to co-operate with State andNeat cattle for exportation; regulations for conveyance to seaboard, etc., free from pleuropneumonia. municipal authorities, and corporations and persons engaged in the transportation of neat cattle by land or water, in establishing regulations for the safe conveyance of such cattle from the interior to the seaboard, and the shipment thereof, so that such cattle may not be exiwsed to the disease known as pleuro pneumonia or lung plague, and to prevent the spread of said disease, and to establish quarantine stations and provide proper shelter for neat cattle imported, at such ports as lie may deem necessary, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. for the suppression of bigamy.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisionsBigamy, suppression of. of the act entitled “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, as follows. For compensation of the officers of election, including contingent expenses,Compensation of officers of election, etc.Commission, expenses of, etc.Vacancies in Utah filled by appointment of governor; to bold until election of successors.*Ante*, p. 30. twenty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses of the commission, for printing, stationery, clerical hire, and rent, fifteen thousand dollars. The governor of the Territory of Utah is hereby authorized to appoint officers in said Territory to fill vacancies which may be caused by a failure to elect on the first Monday in August, eighteen hundred and eighty two, in consequence of the provisions of an act entitled “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, to hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified under the provisions of said act: *Provided*, That the term of office of any of*Proviso.* said officers shall not exceed eight months. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby, authorizedTo reimburse Treasurer U. 8. for loss of standard silver dollars in transit to assay-office, Helena, Mont. and directed to pay to the Treasurer of the United States, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty-seven dollars to reimburse him for that amount of standard silver dollars lost while in transit between Washington District of Columbia, and the assay-office at Helena, Montana, in June eighteen hundred and eighty. 314 To pay the Comptroller of the Currency twenty eight thousand oneFirst National Bank, New Orleans; payment in trust for. hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-eight cents, in trust for the creditors of the First National Bank of New Orleans, for the purpose of adjusting the accounts between that bank and the.United States.
To meet such expenses as may be necessary to be incurred in carryingExpenses of certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese.*Ante*, p. 58.Bitting and Davidson, payment to. out the provisions of the act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, live thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Messrs Bitting and Davidson, additional for laying pressed brick, instead of common red brick, in the exterior walls of the building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, under contract of January sixteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-nine four thousand five hundred and ninety five dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the account of theTerritory of Nebraska credited in account, direct tax, etc.12 Stat., 296. Territory of Nebraska for direct tax laid upon the Territory under the provisions of the act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one and to pay to the State of Nebraska an amount certified to be due on account of five per centum of the net proceeds of sales of certain Indian reservations within the limits of said State during the period commencing January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, he is hereby authorized and directed to credit said Territory with the sum of fifteen thousand and thirty dollars and forty cents, now standing against it on the books of the Treasury on account of direct tax, and pay to the State of Nebraska the sum of four thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty cents, the balance certified by the accounting officers to be due said State on account, of five per centum of net proceeds of sales of certain Indian reservations, which said sum is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated To pay Charles Osborn the amount of a judgment rendered in hisAppropriation.Charles Osborn. favor by the Court of Claims, and heretofore paid to Edwin J Sweet on a forged assignment, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Messrs. Powers andPowers and Mabry. Mabry the sum of eighty-nine dollars and one cent, being amount suspended in settlement numbered twenty-five hundred and forty-nine, of December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and since allowed for cattle furnished for “ support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, eighteen hundred and eighty, and prior years”. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the legal representativesLegal representatives of George C.
Johnston. of George C Johnston the amount, not exceeding ten thousand five hundred and ten dollars, which may be ascertained to be due to them under the provisions of an act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of George C Johnston.” That the Architect of the Capitol is authorized and directed to payPayment to employees under Architect of Capitol for time, etc. the employees under his charge the pay deducted from them for the time lost by them, respectively, during the obsequies of the late President James A Garfield, in the mouth of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. ’ alaskan seal fisheries.
For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal fisheries inAgents at seal fisheries, Alaska. Alaska as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars. 315 For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries inRevenue steamers for seal-Fisheries.
Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the protection of the interests of the government on the seal-islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, mid the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty-five thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of the National Board of Health as follows:National Board of Health. For pay and expenses of the members of the National Board of Health, ten thousand dollars For pay of Secretary and disbursing agent,and pay of clerks, messengers, and laborers, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent, light, fuel, furniture, stationery, telegrams, and postage, two thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, five hundred dollars And the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in casePresident authorized to expend money, etc., in case of epidemic. of a threatened or actual epidemic, to use a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same For aid to State and local boards of health and to local quarantineLocal quarantine stations.State and local boards of health, etc. stations in carryingout their rules and regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious and infectious diseases in the United States, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no other public money than that hereby appropriated shall be expended for the purposes of the Board of Health: *And provided further*, That hereafter the duties*Proviso.*Duties of Board of Health confined to cholera, etc.Purchase of books for library of Treasury Department.Head of each Department to report lo Congress condition of library, etc., respectively. and investigations of the Board of Health shall be confined to the diseases of cholera, smallpox and yellow fever.
For the library of the Treasury Department: For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars, and for the purpose of limiting the appropriations, the head of each department shall report to Congress, at the beginning of the next session of Congress, the condition of the several libraries in his department, the number of volumes in each, and duplicates in all, and a plan for consolidating the same, so that hereafter there shall be but one library in each department, and the amount of annual appropriation necessary to maintain said departmental library.
For the purchase of books and serials for use in the office of the governmentBooks for government actuary. actuary, two hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For materials and labor for repairs on the United States courthouse andPublic building, Dea Moines, Iowa. post-office at Des Moines, Iowa, and providing additional room therein for the courts and post-office, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, forty-five thousand dollars, the total cost of which enlargement shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island Arsenal. For completing shop I, a wood working and leather-working shop for the arsenal, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For shop H, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, eighty thousand dollars. For armory-shop K, one hundred thousand dollars. For storehouse numbered four, twenty thousand dollars. For machinery and shop fixtures, fifteen thousand dollars.
For general care, preservation, and improvement: for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. 316 For water-power at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: ForWater-power pool, Rock Island Arsenal. completing the improvement of the water-power pool, thirty thousand dollars.
For deepening the canal, fifty-five thousand dollars.Canal. For placing in the wall or dike six new openings for waterwheels, fifteen thousand dollars. And the unexpended balance of the appropriation of fifty thousandWater-power pool. dollars for developing and maintenance of said water-power under the act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and 21 Stat., 267.eighty, and the unexpended balance of fifty thousand dollars for continuing the improvement of the 21 Stat., 443.water-power pool under the act of March third, eighteen bundled and eighty-one, are hereby reappropriated*Proviso.*Conditions of expenditure of appropriation. and made available for the purpose named in said acts: *Provided*, That no part of the said moneys hereby appropriated for completing the said water-power shall be expended until detailed plans and specifications for actual work to be done, the estimated cost of which shall be within the said appropriations, shall be prepared by the Secretary of War and assented to by the MolineMoline Water-Power Company.
Water-Power Company, with an agreement from said company that the expenditure of the sums hereby appropriated for continuing and completing the improvement of the waterpower pool according to such plans and specifications, and also the deepening of-said canal to an average depth of at least three feet at its present width, and also the placing of six openings for waterwheels according to such plans and specifications, wall be accepted by the Moline Water-Power Company in full discharge of the obligation of the.
United States to develop the *Provisos.*water-power: *And provided further*, That the certificate of the commanding officer of the Rock Island Arsenal shall be conclusive evidence as to the required deepening of said canal and placing the said openings for water wheels: *And provided further*, That before the expenditure of any part of the appropriations hereby made for deepening said canal and the placing of said openings for waterwheels, said Moline Water-Power Company shall give to the Secretary of War satisfactory assurances and guarantees that it will complete the corresponding deepening of the Tail Race above said canal at the same time the deepening of said canal shall be completed.
The appropriations hereby made shall be available until the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary to complete the work hereby provided for, shall be expended. For the Rock Island bridge as follows:Rock Island bridge. For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expenses of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For protecting the Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, two hundred and fitly dollars. For the Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California:
For completing theBenicia Arsenal. erection of the machine and armorer’s shop, and for completing the rebuilding of the blacksmith’s and carpenter’s shops, the two latter injured by the tire on the night of November third, eighteen hundred and eighty, fifty thousand dollars. To purchase one steam-engine, five thousand six hundred dollars. For completing repairs on wharf, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For the San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For constructionSan Antonio Arsenal. of a two-story storehouse forty-three feet by one hundred and fifty-five feet, eleven thousand dollars.
For construction of a shed for artillery’ carriages, two thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars. For construction of one set of officers’ quarters, eight thousand dollars. For the Sandy Hook Proving-Ground, New Jersey: For clearing,Sandy Hook Proving-Ground. leveling, grading, and building roads and walks, at the proving-ground, five thousand dollars. For the Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield Arsenal. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. 317 For additional compensation to the master armorer at the national armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, while performing the duties of master machinist at said armory, one thousand dollars.
For repairs of arsenals: For repairs of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseenRepairs of arsenals. expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows:Improvement and care of public grounds. For improving grounds south of the Executive Mansion, fifteen thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, including construction of two additional greenhouses for propagation of bedding plants for decorating the public grounds, four thousand dollars.
For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp posts one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars.
For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, including the enlargement of basin and purchase of suitable materia) for the fountain at the north front of the Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving various reservations, fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement and care of Smithsonian Grounds, five thousand dollars. For improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and site of old canal northwest of same, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For paving roadways and sidewalks to the north front of the Executive Mansion, ten thousand five, hundred dollars. For rent of the office for the use of the “colonel in charge of public buildings and grounds”, in the city of Washington, six hundred dollars; to be paid from the appropriation for rent of quartermasters’ offices in the act making appropriations for the Army, and for other purposes, for eighteen hundred and eighty three.
For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows:Executive Mansion. For care and repair of the Executive Mansion, including the improvement of the drainage of the basement, twenty thousand dollars. For refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For care and necessary repair of the conservatories of the Executive Mansion, five thousand five hundred dollars. For lightning the Executive Mansion and public grounds:
Fur gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lamp posts, matches, and repairs of all kinds, fuel and lights for office, and stables, for watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for each burner not connected with aProviso. meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty five dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and 318 keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act: and in case a contract cannot be made at that rate the engineer in charge is hereby authorized to substitute other illuminating material in the lamps on the public grounds, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.
For repair of water-pipes and fireplugs: For repairing and extendingRepair of water-pipes, etc. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and governmentTelegraph between Capitol, etc. Printing Office:
For care and repair of the same, oue thousand five hundred dollars. For the new hospital for cadets at the Military Academy at WestHospital for cadets at Military Academy. Point, namely: For blinds, laying pine flooring and base board, doors, windows, bath rooms, water-closets, locks, screws, hinges, basement windows, outside doors, iron mantels, with grates, plastering, plumbing, gas-fitting, iron stairs, gas-fixtures, iron railing and platform, painting, retaining wall, with coping outside of sally-port, platform and stairs to bathroom and closet, inclosing grounds with wall and fencing, water-tank, skylight in roof of main building, inelosure of basement and stairs, iron paneling, and for steam-heating apparatus, fifteen thousand dollars For the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments:
ForBuilding for State, War, and Navy Departments. continuing the construction of the north wing; painting, decorating, and interior finish’; and completion of the approaches, cleaning down stonework of exterior walls, cleaning up and preparing for occupancy and minor operations for completing this wing; and for labor and contingencies, one hundred thousand dollars. For preparing granite for the construction of the west and center wings, and preparation of foundation, throe hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For furniture, carpets, file-cases, and shelving for the north wing of the State; War; and Navy Department building, fifty thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service. For the observation and report of storms: For expenses of the observationObservation and report of storms, expenses of. and report of storms by telegraph and signal tor the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout, the United States; for manufheture, purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connections of stations at Life-saving stationsand Light-houses; for instrument shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports; for river reports; for maps and bulletins io be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, two hundred and eighty Work not to be duplicated by other departments.*Proviso.*thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the work of no other department, bureau, or commission authorized by law, shall be duplicated by this bureau: *Provided, further*, That nothing herein contained shall restrict the performance of all duties of the Signal Service Bureau prescribed by existing laws.
For the construction, maintenance, and repair of military-telegraphMilitary-telegraph lines. lines: For the construction and continuing the construction, maintenance, and use of military-telegraph lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers and in the Northwest. For the connection of military posts and stations, and for the better protection of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in the States of Texas and Nevada and the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Dakota, Wash- 319ington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, and the Indian Territory, under18 Stat., 388.20 Stat., 219. the provisions of the acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, forty thousand*Proviso.*New fines, etc. dollars: *Provided*, That the construction of new lines of telegraph shall be under the supervision and direction of the several military commanders, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.
And it is provided that to support the Signal Service no money shallAppropriations for service prescribed. be expended except such as is appropriated by this act and the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and such sums as are specifically appropriated for said service in the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes; and the further sum of three hundred thousand dollars, payable from the respective appropriations in said last-named act, similar to those heretofore drawn upon for its support, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the Secretary of War may apply to the support of said service from said appropriations; and it is further provided that at the next session of Congress the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress a detailed estimate of the force requiredDetailed estimate of force required, etc., to be reported to Congress. for the Signal Service for the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, of the officers and other employees that will be necessary, and their compensation, respectively, and the amount that should be appropriated for labor when the employees cannot be specifically estimated for, and for material and for rent of ottices and for any other objects that he may deem necessary, each separately stated.
That hereafter the appropriations for “observation and report of storms,” and for the Signal Service, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. national cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalNational cemeteries. cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-threePay of superintendents. superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For the road from Fort Scott to the national cemetery, Kansas: ForRoad from Fort Scott to national cemetery, etc. the completion of the roadway from Fort Scott, Kansas, to the national cemetery near that city, three thousand dollars. For the road from Chattanooga to the national cemetery, Tennessee: ForRoad from Chattanooga to national cemetery, etc.*Proviso*. the completion of the roadway from Chattanooga national cemetery to the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, five thousand dollars: *Provided, *That none of the money appropriated by this and the preceding paragraph shall be expended unless in each case the amount appropriated shall complete said roadways. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous.
For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Reports and maps to foreign countries through Smithsonian Institution.Care, custody, etc., of United States lands and property.Sale of lands acquired by U. S. by devise, authorized.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes. For the. transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, three hundred dollars. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and sale of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell such lands as have been acquired by the United States by devise, upon such terms and after such public notice by advertisement as he may deem best for the public interest. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, electro typing copper-plates for chart-printing, and completion of office-work, twelve thousand dollars. 320 For the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion,Records of war of rebeUion; continuing publication, etc. both of the Union and Confederate armies, as follows:
For continuing the publication of the official records, and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, of eleven thousand copies of a compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, of the war of the rebellion, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal year, thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars. The volumes of the official records of the war of the rebellion shall beDistribution. distributed as follows: One thousand copies to the executive Departments, as now provided by law.
Ono thousand copies for distribution by the Secretary of War among officers of the Army and contributors to the work. Eight thousand three hundred copies shall be scut by the Secretary of War to such libraries, organizations, and individuals as may be designated by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates of the Forty-seventh Congress. Each.Senator shall designate not exceeding twenty-six, and each Representative and Delegate not exceeding twenty-one of such addresses, and the volumes shall be sent thereto from time to time as they are published, until the publication is completed.
Senators, Representatives, and Delegates shall inform the secretary of War in each case how many volumes of those heretofore published they have forwarded to such addresses. The remaining copies of the eleven thousand to be published, and all sets that may not be ordered to be distributed as provided herein, shall be sold by the Secretary of War for cost of publication with ten per cent, added thereto, and the proceeds of such sale shall be covered into the Treasury. If two or more sets of said volumes are ordered to the same address the Secretary of War shall inform the Senators, Representatives, or Delegates, who have designated the same, who thereupon may designate other libraries, organizations or individuals.
The Secretary of War shall report to the first-session of the Forty-eighth Congress what volumes of the series heretofore published have not been furnished to such libraries, organizations and individuals. Ue shall also inform distributees at whose instance the volumes are sent. For the expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs andMilitary convicts. charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, twelve thousand dollars.
For the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provide forArtillery school, Fortress Monroe. text books, drawing materials, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for use of the school, five thousand dollars. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,Military prison. Fort Leavenworth. as follows: For subsistence stores, oil for illuminating purposes, wicking and lamps and lanterns, and for tobacco for issue to prisoners ou special or excessive hard labor, twenty-two thousand dollars;
For hay for prisoners’ bedding, three hundred and seventy-six dollars; For hard wood for making steam and for heating and cooking, ten thousand dollars; For hose, belting, machine-oil, cotton-waste, and for repairs, and for stoves and Stovepipe, one thousand dollars; For stationery and blank-books for officers, three hundred and sixty dollars; For stamped envelopes and letter paper for the use of prisoners, and for books, periodicals, and newspapers for the prison library, four hundred dollars;
For bats and material for clothing for prisoners on discharge, one thousand dollars; .... For paving-brick for cisterns and coping stone for prison-walls, six hundred and thirty dollars; 321 For tools and stores for shops and general use, and for drainage of grounds and disinfectants, three thousand six hundred dollars; For medicine:-, hospital stores, and appliances, and for stoves and furniture for hospital, one thousand dollars; For repairs and painting prison hospital, two hundred and seventy dollars;
For donations of five dollars to each prisoner on discharge, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For rewards for capture of escaped prisoners and expenses of pursuit, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; For cost of advertising for proposals for supplies, fifty dollars; For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison guard on special duty, six hundred and forty dollars and five cents; For pay of clerks, one at one hundred and fifty dollars per month, one at one hundred and sixteen dollars per month, and two night watchmen at thirty dollars each per month, three thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars;
For pay of foremen in shops, one carpenter, one blacksmith, one engineer running stationary engine, one engineer in charge of heating and cooking apparatus and portable engine, oue machinist, one stonemason (six in all), at one hundred dollars per month each, seven thousand two hundred dollar’s; For five teamsters driving prison teams, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For the construction of buildings and water-closets, and repairs to buildings, four thousand five hundred dollars;
For material for clothing to be made at the prison for prisoners’ wear, seven thousand dollars; For felt hats, straw hats, and material for boots and shoes, three thousand three hundred dollars; For woolen blankets and bed-sacks, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars; For material for lining, and thread and buttons for clothing to be made, one thousand three hundred and ninety dollar’s; For horse and mule shoes, shoe-nails, farrier’s tools, and coal, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars;
For lanterns, water-buckets, wheelbarrows, forks, and currycombs for the stables, one hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventy-four thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and five cents. To enable the Secretary of War to have buildings constructed andBuildings and improvements at military posts:Fort Leavenworth. improvements made at military posts, as follows: At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: To replace the brick building at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, destroyed by fire on the first of February last, eighteen thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents;
For completion of the new barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, forty-seven thousand dollars. For erection of additional quarters for officers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, forty-one thousand two hundred and eleven dollars; At Fort Maginnis, Montana: To complete the post of Fort Maginnis,Fort Maginnis. in the Territory of Montana, twenty-five thousand dollars.
At Fort Bliss, Texas: To open and construct the approaches to Fort Fort Bliss.Bliss, Texas, five thousand dollars. For new buildings for officers’ quarters at Fort Apache, Arizona Territory,Fort Apache. thirteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. To improve the military road from Yankton to Fort Randall, Dakota Military road from Yankton to Fort Randall.Territory, five thousand dollars. 322 To enable the Secretary of War to have completed the military postFort McKinney. at Fort McKinney, in Wyoming Territory, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the erection of a building for a quartermaster and commissarySt. Pant depot at St. Paul, Minnesota, for the Department of Dakota, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That lot three and the lower portion of lot four, block thirty-one, *Proviso.*Saint Paid proper, offered to the United States for the erection and maintenance of said building thereon, be conveyed without cost to the United States for said purpose by a good and sufficient deed,Title to site, etc. which together with the title to the premises shall be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, and no money shall be expended until said title is perfected.
For completing a seawall already commenced on the west side ofseawall on west side Governor’s Island. Governor’s Island, New York Harbor, and constructing a seawall on its southeastern portion, thirty-nine thousand dollars. For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers: For the Transient panpers, Washington, D. C.care, support and medical treatment, of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, filteen thousand dollars.
For artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars together with the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for said purposes: . For appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars.
For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer SoldiersNational Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers:Dayton, Ohio. as follows: For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Central Branch, at. Dayton, Ohio, six hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-two cents. For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at theMilwaukee, Wis. Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-nine cents;
For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at theEastern Branch.Togus, Me. Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine, one hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty dollars. For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at theHampton, Va. Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia, one hundred and twenty five thousand nine hundred and two dollars and forty-two cents; For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand and eighty-eight dollars and three cents.
That Colonel Leonard A. Harris, of Ohio, General James S. Negley,Leonard A. Harris, James S. Negley, John A. Martin appointed managers to fill vacancies, etc. of Pennsylvania, and Colonel John A. Martin, of Kansas, be, and they are hereby, appointed managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to fill vacancies occasioned by the expiration of the terms of office of Leonard A. Hanis, Bichard Coulter, and John A. Martin. That all pensions and arrears of pensions payable or to be paid toPensions, etc., due inmates of National Home to be paid to treasurers, etc. pensioners who are or may become inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be paid to the treasurers of said home, to be applied by such treasurers as provided by law, under the rules and regulations of said home.
Said payments shall be made by the pension agent upon a certificate of the proper officer of the home that the pensioner is an inmate thereof on the day to which said pension is drawn. The treasurers of said home, respectively, shall give security, to the satisfaction of the managers of said home, for the payment and application by them of all arrears of pension and pension-moneys they may receive under the aforesaid provision. Aud section 323 two of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the payment21 Stat., 350. of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, is hereby revived and continued in force.
For the collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, and otherBounty, etc., to colored soldiers and sailors. claims of colored soldiers and sailors: For payment of agents; rent of offices; stationery, office-furniture, and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents; telegraphing, postage, and post-office money-orders, two thousand nine hundred dollars. For the Mississippi River Commission as follows;Mississippi River Commission.Salaries, traveling expenses, etc.
For salaries and traveling expenses of the commission, office expenses, and reduction of work; for continuation of surveys and gaugings of the Mississippi River and its tributaries; for permanent gauge-stations and borings; and for publication of maps and results, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and an itemized statement of the expenditure of thisItemized statement of expenditure to be made to Congress.Navy Department.Transit of Venus. sum shall be included with the annual report of the commission to Congress.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. appropriation for transit of venus, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to organize parties to observeAppropriation. the transit of Venus in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, .seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall*Provisos.* be expended, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the Transit-of-Venus Commission created by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and the provision17 Stat., 367. in the act of March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, creating the Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac an additionalSuperintend e 111 of Nautical Almanac constituted a member of commission, etc.*Provisos.* member: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to detail a vessel of the Navy to convey parties to such points selected for the observation of said transit, of Venus as are not otherwise easily accessible: *Provided further*, That all officers of the government serving with the parties engaged in observing the said transit of Venus shall be paid the regular compensations and allowances from the appropriations for the support of the branches of public service to which the said officers are severally attached; but allowances for traveling expenses, quarters, and subsistence shall be paid out of this appropriation, or, in lieu thereof, the said Transit ofVenns Commission may substitute a fixed sum per diem, for the expenditure of which bills properly receipted by the recipients, with the approval of the presiding officer of the said commission, shall be sufficient vouchers to the accounting officers of the Treasury: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be covered into the Treasury until the objects for which it is made shall have been accomplished. navy-yards and stations.Navy-yards, etc.
For the navy-yard at Brooklyn, New York: For dredging, constructingBrooklyn. sewer, and for caisson for dry-dock, one hundred-and fifty thousand dollars. For the navy-yard at Washington: For dredging channel, twenty thousand Washington.dollars; for two dredging-scows, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For the navy-yard at Norfolk: For cistern, five thousand dollars.Norfolk.Mare Island. For the navy-yard at Mare Island, California: For completing iron-plating shop, three thousand dollars; for continuation of dry dock, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for enlarging reservoir, ten thousand dollars.
And the said dock shall be completed of granite, unless 324 the Secretary of the Navy shall, upon reinvestigation of the subject, be convinced that the dock can be completed with equal strength and durability with other material for less money. For navy-yards and stations, one hundred and lift}’ thousand dollars,Appropriation for care, etc., of yards and stations closed.Coaling-dock, etc., at Port Royal Harbor, South Carolina. and fifty thousand dollars additional, which shall be used only in the care and preservation of such yards or stations as may be closed.
For establishing and completing a coaling-dock and naval storehouse at Port Royal Harbor, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars, the site for said coaling-dock and naval storehouse to be located by a board of naval officers appointed by the Secretary of the Navy for that purpose. . For Naval Museum of Hygiene: For rent of quarters necessary forNaval Museum of Hygiene. the preservation of objects already collected; transportation of contributions intended for exhibition; preparation of models and drawings to be used in the illustration of sanitary science and its progress, affecting the Navy, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the owners of the NorwegianNorwegian bark Vasa.Payment to owners of. bark “Vasa” for damages sustained by said vessel in a collision with the United States steamer Hartford, in March eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and thirty-three dollars. And to pay to Isaac A. Sylvester, for the losses and damages sustainedIsaac A. Sylvester.Payment to. by him on account of the collision of the United States sloop of war Lancaster with the drill-platform and sloop Derry, at Gangway Rock, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, two thousand dollars in full satisfaction thereof.
For repairing bridge over College Creek, on the government farm, atRepairing bridge over College Creek, etc. Annapolis, Maryland, to be expended under the supervision of the’ Superintendent of the Naval Academy, three thousand dollars. For repairing and extending wharf and the erection of boathousesRepairs, etc., Coasters’ Harbor Island.Cession of island by Rhode Island for naval training station accepted. on Coasters’ Harbor Island, five thousand dollars, and the cession by the State of Rhode Island to the United States of said Island for use as a Naval Training Station is hereby accepted.
To defray the expenses of removing and transporting to the United States from their present place of burial the remains of Lieutenant-Commander Transportation and burial, etc., of Lieutenant-Commander George W. De Long and companions.Interior Department.George W. De Long, United States Navy, and his companions, eleven in all, and for their proper burial within the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under direction of the Secretary of the Navy, UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. public buildings.
For casual repairs of the Interior Department building; For casualRepairs of building. repairs of the department building, five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For the construction of a passenger-elevator for the Interior DepartmentPassenger elevator.Erection of brick and metal fireproof-building for Pension Bureau.Plans. building, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection of a brick and metal fireproof building, to be used and occupied by the Pension Bureau, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, under the supervision of General M.
C. Meigs, late Quartermaster-General, United States Army, retired, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the sundry civil act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, is21 Stat., 448. hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. Said building to be erected on the open space opposite the Smithsonian Grounds, at the intersection of Ohio andLocation. Louisiana avenues and Tenth and Twelfth streets, in the city of Washington, or upon such other government reservation in said city as may be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of War, and General M.C.Meigs, subject to the approval of the President: *Provided*,Title.
That the Attorney-General shall approve the title of the 325 United States thereto: *Provided further*, That the total cost of said Cost,building shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars. For the Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for generalCapitol extension. repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and workmen and fresco-painter, forty thousand nine hundred dollars. For improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of theImprovement of Capitol grounds. improvement of the Capitol Grounds, including permanent approaches to the House and Senate wings, pay of landscape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gardeners, and workmen, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol andLighting, etc. grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden and Senate stables; for gas, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for electric-lighting, and for general repairs to and purchase of lamps, lampposts, and pipes, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the proper accounting officer of the United States Treasury*Proviso.* is authorized to allow to be paid to the superintendent of meters, from the appropriation for lighting the Capitol and grounds for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the sura of one thousand two hundred dollars, in full for his salary for the said fiscal year, which sum has been withheld from the said superintendent of meters by a decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury: *And provided further*, That the said superintendent of meters be*Proviso.*Superintendent of meters, additional compensation. hereafter allowed to draw an additional salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the District government, for his services as superintendent, of street lamps under the said government of the district. of Columbia.
But the aggregate annual salary of said superintendent shall not exceed two thousand one hundred dollars. For the Senate stable and engine-house: For new furnace for engine-houseSenate stable and engine-house. and casual repairs to buildings, four hundred dollars. public lands.Contingent expenses of offices of surveyors-general for—Louisiana. Office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana: For fuel, books, stationery, messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.
Office of the surveyor-general of Florida:Florida. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Florida: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars, Office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota:Minnesota. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Dakota:Dakota.
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor general of Dakota: For rent of office for the survey or-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Colorado:Colorado. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Colorado: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the survey or-general of New Mexico:New Mexico.
For contingent, expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of New Mexico: For rent of office for the surveyor general, pay of messenger, fuel, books stationery, purchase of safe, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the survey or-general of California:California. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of California: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, four thousand dollars. 326 Office of the surveyor general of Idaho:Idaho.
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Idaho: For rent of office for the survey or-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand live hundred dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Nevada:Nevada. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Nevada: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the surveyor-general of Oregon:Oregon. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Oregon: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand live hundred dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Washington:Washington. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of washington: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the surveyor-general of Montana:Montana. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-gen era! of Montana: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa:Nebraska and Iowa. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rent of office for the surveyor, general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the surveyor-general of Utah:Utah. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Utah: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars, Office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming:Wyoming. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the surveyor-general of Arizona:Arizona. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Arizona: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. To reimburse George A. Sheridan, late recorder of deeds for the districtGeorge A. Sheridan. of Columbia, one thousand one hundred and two dollars, for the record-books purchased and paid for by him for the use of said office during his incumbency, from June, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, to April, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. - expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.
For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receiversRegisters of land-offices and receivers of public moneys.Incidental expenses.Depositing moneys.Timber on public lands.Swamp lands. of public moneys at district land-offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public lands, ten thousand dollars.
To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars. For expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamplands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, fifteen thousand dollars. 327 surveying the public lands For surveying the public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, atSurvey of public lauds. rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* the part of the sum hereby appropriated which may be apportioned to the surveying district of Louisiana, together with such sums as have been or may be deposited for surveys therein by actual settlers, underR.
S., 2401, 440.R. S., 2402, 440.R. S., 2403, 441.Resurveys. sections twenty-four hundred and one, twenty four hundred and two, and twenty four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes, may be, in whole or in part., employed in making such resurveys as may be necessary in the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and he may also, in his discretion, make resurveys of other portions of the public lands from this appropriation; and an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof may be expended for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order toTest examinations of public surveys. test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts: *Provided further*, That no certificate issued for a deposit of money for the survey of lands under section twenty-four hundred and three of the RevisedR.
S. 2403,441.20 Stat., 352. Statutes, and the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, amendatory thereof, shall be received in payment for lands except at the land office in which the lands surveyed for which the deposit. was made are subject to entry, and not elsewhere; but this section shall not be held to impair, prejudice, or affectin any manner certificatesCertificate for settlers’ deposit. issued or deposits and contracts made under the provisions of said act prior to the passage of this act.
For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California at the rates Survey of private land-claims.prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, ten thousand dollars. For preliminary survey of unconfirmed and survey of confirmed privatePreliminary surveys. land-claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars. For preliminary survey of unconfirmed and survey of confirmed private land-claims in Arizona, at a rate not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continueWorn and defaced plats of surveys. to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys now on file, and other plats, constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land officers with the same, twenty thousand dollars. For the resurvey of lands within the Sioux Indian Reservation westResurvey of lands.Sioux Indian Reservation, etc.Crow Indian diminished Reservation, Montana. of Big Stone Lake, Dakota, and retracement of the west boundary of the reservation, four thousand dollars.
For the survey of the boundary-line between the Crow Indian diminished reservation in Montana Territory and the lands purchased from said Crow Indians by the act of April eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as described in said act, four thousand eight hundred dollars. miscellaneous For the Ute Commission: For this amount, or so much thereof as mayUte Commission. be necessary, for the payment of expenses of the Ute Commission Provided for under section two of the “Act to accept and ratify the agreement21 Stat., 202. submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes,” fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the work of said commission*Proviso.* 328 shall be completed and final report made prior to September fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty three.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enableAgent of Eastern Band Cherokee Indians. the Secretary of the Interior to employ an ageut for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, in accordance 15 Stat., 223.with section three of the act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, eight hundred dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enableCensus, etc., of Cherokees cast of Mississippi River. the Secretary of the Interior to cause the census to be taken and a new roll to be made of all the Cherokee Indians residing east of the Mississippi Liver, eight hundred dollars.
The Secretary of the Interior shall investigate and report to CongressInvestigation and report to Congress as to equitable settlement of dispute, etc., between certain bands of Cherokees, etc. what in his opinion would be an equitable settlement of all matters of dispute between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (including all the Cherokees residing east of the Mississippi River) and the Cherokee tribe or nation west; also all matters of dispute between other bands or parts of the Cherokee Nation; also all matters between any of said bands, or parts thereof, and the United States, arising from or growing out of treaty stipulations, or the laws of Congress relating thereto; and what sum or sums of money, if any, should, in his opinion, be paid under such settlement; and the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for such investigation.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay expensesExpenses of delegates from Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to Washington, etc. of the delegates representing the Eastern Baud of Cherokee Indians while in the city of Washington, during the months of May, June, and July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, including traveling expenses in coming to and returning home from said city, six hundred dollars, to be paid out of any funds belonging to said tribe. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enableSecretary Interior to negotiate with Sioux for modification of treaties, etc. the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Sioux Indians for such modification of existing treaties and agreements with said *Proviso.*Indians as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand dollars; but any such agreement shall not take effect until ratified by Congress: *Provided, koiceter*, That if any lands shall be acquired from said Indians by the United States, it shall be on the express condition that the United States shall only dispose ot the same to actual settlers under the provisions of the homestead laws.
For the purpose of survey and appraisal of the Otoc and Missouri Indian landsSurvey and appraisal of Otoc and Missouri Indian lands, etc.21 Stat., 380. in the States of Kansas and Nebraska (exclusive of such portion thereof as has heretofore been ceded by said Indians as right of way to railroads.) in accordance with provisions of an act approved March third eighteen hundred and eighty-one, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said sum to be reimbursed to the government out of the proceeds of the sale of said lands.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for thePurchase and distribution of beef at. certain Indian agencies. purchase of additional beef for Indians, to be distributed by the secretary of the Interior, at such Indian agencies as the necessities of the Indians shall require, two hundred thousand dollars; and the secretary shall cause a report to be made to Congress at its next session thereafter of his action under this provision. For the support of the Indians of the Mescalero agency and the Jicarilla Support of Indians at Mescalero and the Jicarilla agencies.R.
H. Taylor.Payment to.agency, in addition to amounts heretofore appropriated twenty-live thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the amount found due R. II. Taylor, June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for herding cattle, the sum of three hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-seven cents, appropriated by the act of July fifteenth, eighteen 16 Stat., 360.hundred and seventy, is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. - Where two or more Indian agencies have been or may hereafterConsolidation of agencies. be consolidated, the expenditures, at such consolidated agencies, for employees, exclusive of the agent’s salary, shall not exceed fifteen thou- 329 sand dollars, and in no case shall money be expended for such purpose at any such agency, beyond the actual needs of the service.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase one hundred andPurchase of land on old Pawnee reservation, Nebraska, for Indian industrial school.*Proviso.**Ante*, p. 85. sixty acres of land, in addition to that now owned by the government, on the old Pawnee reservation, in the State of Nebraska, two thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That this amount shall be available only in the event that an Indian industrial school shall be established upon said reserve in pursuance of an act of Congress approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty two.
For the improvement of Hot Springs Creek: For the erection of aImprovment of Hot Springs. wall along its left bank, and other improvements upon the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, in Arkansas, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy eight cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, said amount having been collected by the receiver appointed by the Court of Claims and covered into the United States Treasury; and out of this sum the secretary is authorized to reimburse the superintendent for amount paid for damages done private property in making excavations for foundations of a new bathhouse in eighteen hundred and eighty-one, not to exceed the sum of three hundred and forty-five dollars and forty cents.
For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park:Yellowstone National Park. For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, preservation, and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of superintendent and employees, fifteen thousand dollars. • To pay P. W. Norris salary and expenses incurred while dischargingP. W. Norris. the duties of superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, for the period from April eighteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and forty-one cents.
To enable the Architect of the Capitol to construct partitions andPartitions and shelving, crypt, Capitol, etc. shelving for the rooms in the crypt at the west side for storing surplus books of the Library of Congress, three thousand five hundred dollars. Botanic Garden: For labor and materials in connection with repairs Botanic Garden.and improvements to Botanic Garden, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For the United States Geological Survey: For the Geological Survey,Geological Survey. and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geolog-, ical structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, two hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to organize the force forOrganization, etc. which this appropriation is to be expended and to fix the salaries and compensation to be paid to the members thereof, and to make his estimate for the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, in detail, in reference to the force to be employed, with its grades and compensation to the respective grades, and specifying the branches of work in which it should be employed and the amount to be expended on each branch.
And not to exceed ten thousand dollars of the amount appropriated in this paragraph may be applied under the direction of theInformation, etc., as to mines and mining other than gold and silver. Secretary of the Interior to the procuring of statistics in relation to mines and mining other than gold and silver and in making chemical analysis of iron, coal, and oil. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital for the insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Insane of the Army, etc.
For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and 330 Revenue-Cutter Service, and those committed from the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the Indigent insane of the District of Columbia.United States, and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, two hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expanses of the removal of patients to their friends; and that hereafter the surplus products and waste material of the hospital may be sold or exchanged for the benefit of the hospital, and proceeds to be used and accounted for the same as its other funds: *Provided*, That in addition to the persons now entitled to admission to said hospital, any inmate of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Insane persons from National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to be admitted, etc.who isnow or may hereafter become insane shall, upon an order of the president of the board of managers of the said National Home, be admitted to said hospital and treated therein; and if any inmate so admitted from said National Home is or thereafter becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pension and bis pension money accruing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be’ applied to his support in said hospital, and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution for the general uses thereof.
That section one of the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred18 Stat., 251. and seventy-four, chapter four hundred and sixty five, concerning insane convicts, be amended so as to read as follows: That upon the application of the Attorney-General the Secretary ofAdmission of persons, etc., becoming insane. the Interior be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia all persons who, having been charged with offenses against the United States, are in the actual custody of its officers, and all persons who have been or shall be convicted of any offense in a court of the United States and are imprisoned in any State prison or penitentiary of any State or Territory, and who during the term of their imprisonment have or shall become and be insane.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Bu tidings and grounds.as follows: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars. For special improvements, namely: A supply of pure water; and for firewalls between sections, twenty five thousand dollars. To construct such additional accommodations as may be renderedAdditional accommodations. necessary by the admission of insane persons from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and approved by the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be *Proviso.*necessary: *Protided*, That the plans, specifications, and estimates for Hie same shall be prepared under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, and be approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and the entire cost shall not exceed the sum named. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.
For current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb:Deaf and dumb. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, for general repairs, and improvements, fifty-five thousand dollars: *Proviso.**Provided*, That no more than twenty two thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages. For buildings and grounds of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For the completion of the farm-barn, two thousand dollars; and for the inclosure and improvement of the grounds of the institution, one thousand five hundred dollars. 331 columbia hospital for women and lying-in asylum.
To provide for the enlargement of the west wing of the ColumbiaColumbia Hospital.Fire-escapes, elevator, etc. Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: For the erection of suitable fire-escapes to the building; for the placing in of an elevator to transmit patients to the different wards; and to furnish such accommodations as the outdoor service demands, the same to be completed under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, as per plans and estimates submitted, ten thousand dollars.
For the erection of suitable fire-escapes and standpipes and otherGovernment Printing Office and Government Hospital for Insane, fire-escapes for. facilities for extinguishing fire in the Government Printing Office and the Government Hospital for the Insane, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Treasury, General M. C. Meigs, and the Architect of the Capitol. howard university. For maintenance of the Howard University:
To be used in payment Howard University.of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers, a portion of which will be paid from donations and other sources, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs of buildings of the Howard University: To be used in repairing the main university building, Miner Hall and wings, and Clarke Hall(-dormitories, and professors’ dwellings and rooms), including outbuildings, to wit: The wood work, doors, windows, porches, steps, and outbuildings, fences, basement-floors, heating-apparatus, plumbing and drainage; to paint all the woodwork, including wings, and to build new fence; and for water supply, to be used in the construction of a windmill, with reservoir, laying pipes, imtting in pump, and all necessary attachments, ten thousand dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum.
For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District ofFreedmen’s Hospital. Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-four thousand dollars; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in chief, two assistant surgeons, engineer, matron, nurses, and cooks, nine thousand live hundred dollars; for fuel .and light, three thousand dollars; for clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, six thousand dollars; for rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; for medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; for repairs and furniture, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand’dollars. tenth census.
For the completion of the work of taking the tenth census and closingTenth Census. the bureau, including the salary of the Superintendent and of all clerks and other employees, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. under the commissioner of fish and fisheries. For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by theFood-fishes. United States Fish Commission of shall and freshwater herring into the waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf, and Great Lake states, and of salmon, white fish, carp, guorand, and other useful food-fishes into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best adapted; also for the propagation of cod, herring, mackerel, halibut, Spanish mackerel, and other sea-fishes, and for the purchase of one or more steam-launches or lightdraught steamers adapted for the purpose; for experiments in regard to the artificial propagation of oysters and other shellfish; and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of the food fishes of the United States, including salaries or 332 compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For expenses of the office of the United States Fish Commission: For rent of rooms, and other necessary office expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the maintenance of carp-ponds: For the maintenance of the United States carp-ponds in Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of the young fish, including salaries, or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty thousand dollars. For the maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels of the United States Fish Commission, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, which shall be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the inquiry of food-fishes: For collecting statistics of the seacoast and lake fisheries of the United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy one, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, three thousand five hundred dollar’s. For illustrations for the report on food-fishes: For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars. For steam-vessel for research in regard to food-fishes:
For supplying the steam-vessel authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, with boats, anchors, chains, furniture, and the apparatus necessary for carrying on the research in regard to the fisheries off the coasts of the United States, forty-five thousand dollars. For fish transportation: For the construction of a car for the distribution of carp and other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United Slates, eight thousand dollars. For North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution:
For theContinuing ethnological researches, etc. purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the North American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, thirty-five thousand dollars. For international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution: For expensesInternational exchanges between United States and foreign countries. of the international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, in accordance with the Paris convention of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, five thousand dollars. national museum.
For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For eases, furniture,National Museum. and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of geology, mineralogy, natural history, ethnology, and the industrial arts belonging to the United States, and for salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, sixty thousand dollars. For heating and lighting the National Museum: For expense of heating, lighting, and telephonic and electrical service for the new museum building, six thousand dollars.
For the preservation of collections of the National Museum: For the preservation and exhibition of the collections received from the surveying and exploring expeditious of the government, and other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the preservation of collections of the National Museum in theCollections in Armory Building. Armory Building: For care of the Armory Building and expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the duplicate collections of the government and of property of the United States Fish Distribution of specimens to colleges, etc.Commission contained therein, including salaries or compensation ol all necessary employees, two thousand five hundred dollars.
And the distribution of duplicate specimens of the National Museum and Fish Commission 333 may be made to colleges, academies, and other institutions of learning upon the payment by the recipients of the cost of preparation for transportation and the transportation thereof. For the transfer and preparation of the Philadelphia collections: ForTransfer, etc., of Philadelphia collections, etc. expense of transferring to Washington the collections presented to the United States at the close of the Permanent International Exhibition in Philadelphia, including necessary expenses already incurred for the purpose, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the plates and manuscript on the insects ofPurchase of plates, etc., on insects of America. America from Professor Town and Glover, seven thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For the Post-Office Department building as follows:Post-Office Department building. For fitting up with shelving, casing, and file-holders the large vacant space in the north end of the basement of the Post-Office Department building, to be used as a files division, five thousand dollars.
For furniture, carpets, and similar necessaries for the new building for the money-order office, to be paid from the proceeds of said office, three thousand dollars; and in addition thereto any unexpended balance of appropriation for this purpose, under the act of March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, ‘‘making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and tor other purposes”, which is hereby continued and made available.
To meet the expenses of transferring the money-order division fromTransfer of money-order division. its present temporary quarters to the new building to be completed in October next, one thousand dollars. For repairs to copper roof and stone coping of the Post-Office Department building, two thousand dollars. For concrete and stone pavements for rooms and corridors in the basement story of the Post-Office Department building one thousand dollars. For a passenger elevator for the Post-Office Department buildingPassenger elevator. seven thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Postmaster-General to carry into effect the provisionsLetter-carrirsAdditional appropriation. of the act approved August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act to amend sections three and four of the act. of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to fix the pay of letter-carriers, and for other purposes”, two hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the amount appropriated for payment of letter-carriers and the incidental expenses of the tree-delivery system by an act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes, approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
That the appropriation made in section one of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, “making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes;” for the manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, is hereby made available, so far as necessary, for the purchase of letter-sheetLetter-sheet envelopes, etc. envelopes on which postage-stamps of the denominations now in use on ordinary envelopes shall be placed.
And the Postmaster General is hereby authorized, in Ins discretion, toLetter-canceling and postmarking machines, purchase of. purchase, out-of the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars for marking and rating stamps for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, in the act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, five letter-canceling and post marking machines, at a price not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars each: 334 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
For repairs to the courthouse at Washington, District of Columbia:courthouse, Washington, D. C. For annual repairs to the courthouse in the city of Washington, district of Columbia, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. New courthouse building, District of Columbia: For furniture, carpets, shelving, and file-cases for the new portion of the courthouse building in the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. For the construction of an elevator, to run from the ground floor,Passenger elevator. repairs, and furnishing and fitting up of rooms in the building Freedman’s Bank building designated for occupancy by Department of Justice.now owned by the government and known as the Freedman’s Bank building, as per estimate of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by the Attorney-General and under his direction, who shall have control of said building, which shall hereafter be occupied by the Department of Justice.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePrinting, binding, and paper. public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, and the departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract, and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million three hundred and seventy-seven Appropriation.thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings andDistribution. debates, one million three hundred and four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; for the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office); for the Navy Department, fifty thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, three hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office); for the Department of Justice, ten thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, eight thousand dollars; and for the Library of Congress, nineteen thousand dollars.
And no more than an allotment of one half of the two million four hundred thousand dollars hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, Limit of expenditure per fiscal quarters.except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided*, That no binding shall be done at the Government Printing Office *Proviso.*for Senators, Representatives, or Delegates in Congress, except that there may be bound for each Senator, Representative or Delegate, one copy of each book or document issued by order of Congress, but this provision shall not allow any binding as aforesaid, to be done of books, or documents issued by autjiority of and during any former Congress: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.* Public Printer shall 335 keep an account of the actual cost of all printing and binding done forAccount to be kept of work done for Patent Office. the Patent Office, and shall make a statement of such cost in his annual report.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. miscellaneous. For the expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: For defrayingTerritorial courts, Utah. the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants; the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the courts; and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; and of supplying find caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suits, etc. the necessary expenses incurred in the examinations of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia pending in any department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, nine thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedJohn J.
Key, W. G. M. Davis, payment in full. to pay to John J. Key the sum of ten thousand dollars; and to W. G. M. Davis the sum of ten thousand dollars, for their services, respectively, as attorneys-at-law, employed by the the United States Attorney-General to aid in the case of John Young, assignee of Alexander Collie, against the United States, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which said sum shall be the balance in full of the compensation of the said John J Key and W.
G. M. Davis, respectively, for their services in said cause under said employment; and that said amount shall be charged to the fund now in flic Treasury of the United States known as proceeds of captured and abandoned property, under the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property, and for the prosecution of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States” approved March twelfth, eighteen12 Stat., 820. hundred and sixty-three, (Statutes at Large, volume twelve; page eight hundred and twenty) For the prosecution and collection of claims;
For expenses to be incurredProsecution and collection of claims. in the prosecution and collection of claims due to the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, three thousand dollars. For punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds; For detectingViolations of Intercourse acts. and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses,jurors, marshals, and agents and in defraying other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
For the prosecution of crimes; For the detection and prosecution of Prosecution of crimes, etc., and investigation of official acts, etc., of clerks of courts, etc.crimes against the United States, and for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts, and the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States-courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. JUDICIAL united states courts.
For expenses of the Uni ted States courts: For defraying the expensesExpenses of courts. of the Supreme Court; the circuit and district courts of the United 336 States, including the District of Columbia; of the jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution for offenses committed against the United States; fur the safe keeping of prisoners; for defraying the expenses which may be R. S., title 26.incurred in the enforcement of the act approved February twenty-eighth, R.
S., title 70.eighteen hundred and seventy one, entitled, “An act to amend an act approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy,entitled “An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union, and for other purposes” or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, namely, those stated in the following itemized list: For payments of district attorneys and their assistants three hundredDistrict attorneys and assistants.Fees of clerks. and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thousand dollarsU. S. commissioners. For fees of United States commissioners, one hundred and thirtyJurors, witnesses. thousand dollars For fees of jurors, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.U. S. prisoners. For fees of witnesses, six hundred thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, three hundred and twentyRent.Marshals.Bailiffs, etc. five thousand dollars. For rent of United States courtrooms, seventy thousand dollars For fees and expenses of marshals, six hundred thousand dollar’s.
For fees and expenses of bailiffs; furniture; for payment of expenses of district judges who may be sent out of their districts, in pursuance of law, to hold a circuit or district, court and other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, For salaries of the United States district judge, attorney and marshallDistrict judge, attorney, and marshal for northern district, Iowa. for the northern district of Iowa, namely for the judge, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the attorney, two hundred dollars; and for the marshal, two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the support of convicts; For support, maintenance and transportationSupport of convicts from District of Columbia. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, and for the necessary traveling expenses incident to the collection of criminal statistics, to be disbursed by the authority of the Attorney-General, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars, To supply district judges, district attorneys, and clerks of the UnitedRevised and annual statutes furnished judicial officers, etc.
States courts who have not already received the same with the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the annual statutes published since the first revision, a sufficient sum of money is hereby appropriated, *Provided*, That all statues heretofore or hereafter furnished by the United States to district judges, district attorneys, and clerks of the United States courts under this or any other law, shall not become the property of these officers, but on the expiration of their official term shall be by them turned over and delivired to their respective successors in office, and the following provision in the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes, approved March third eighteen hundred and eighty-one, namely “To supply district judges and district attorneys, who have not already received the same, with the reports of the Supreme Court and Statutes at Large of the United States, and also to furnish complete sets of the same, where there 21 Stat., 454.are none, to such points where United States, courts are authorized to be held and to supply broken sets where there are missing volumes, a sufficent sum of money is hereby appropriated,” be and the same is hereby repealed.
MISCELLANEOUS.Miscellaneous. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for services renderedCommittee on Experiments under Light-1 louSe Establishment. in connection with the duties of the late, chairman of the Coinmiltec on Experiments, and chairman of the Light-house Board, in conducting 337 scientific researches for the Light House Establishment, as recommended by the Light-house Board, two thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. ThatJohn W. Thompson, Henry A. Willard, John A J Creswell,John W.
Thompson, Henry A. Willard, and John A. J. Creswell, relief of. and others, constituting the executive committee on the inaugural ceremonies of March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, are hereby relieved from the findings of a board of survey whereby the said Executive committee is held responsible in the stun of six hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-two cents for the loss and damage by the elements to certain flags, the property of the United States, used in decorating the public buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, during the ceremonies attending the inaugural proceedings of March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty one And it shall be the duty of the, Clerk and Doorkeeper of the HouseSale of waste paper, etc., of Senate and IIousc of Representatives. of Representatives and the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to cause to be sold all waste paper and useless documents and condemned furniture that have accumulated during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, or that may hereafter accumulate, in their respective departments or offices, under the direction of the Committee on Accounts of their respective houses and cover the proceeds thereof Into the Treasury; and they shall, at the beginning of each regular session of Congress, report to their respective houses the amount of said sales.
That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, the Sergeant-at-Arms ofUniforms for Capitol policemen and watchmen. the House of Representatives and the Architect of the Capitol extension, constituting the Capitol Police Board, shall furnish uniforms for the Capitol policemen and watchmen, and for that purpose the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. To pay salary of Humphrey H. Lemon, an additional Capitol policeman,Humphrey H.
Lemon. authorized by joint resolution approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one thousand one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s church ofChurch Orphanage Association of Saint John’s church, Washington, D. C.John L. Hayes.*Post*, p. 386. Washington District of Columbia, six thousand dollars. To enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to pay Dr John L. Hayes for preparing pamphlet on the husbandry of the Angora goat in conformity with the provisions of the joint resolution approved J uly first eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five hundred dollars, and the said phamplet shall be printed at the Government Planting Office and paid for out of the appropriation for the Department of Agriculture To pay Eugene P Corvaizier for services rendered as messenger toEugene P.
Corvaizer. the President from November sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to January twenty-third eighteen hundred and eighty-two inclusive, at four dollars per day, three hundred and twelve dolors. SENATE To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to the legal RepresentativesGeorge S. Houston, deceased, legal representatives of. of the honorable George S. Houston, late a Senator from the State of Alabama, five thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars and sixty cents, the amount of compensation of a Senator from January first, eighteen hundred and eighty, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Miss Ellen W, Burnside,Ambrose E. Burnside, d oceased, payment to Ellen W. Burnside, and to legal Representatives of. surviving sister of the honorable Ambrose E. Burnside, deceased, late a Senator from the State of Rhode Island, the sum of three thousand six hundred and eightyoue dollars and fifty cents, and to his legal Representatives the sum of three thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty cents, being in all seven thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars, the amount of compensation of a Senator from September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. to March fourth, 338 eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the termination of the present Congress.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay William Lucas andWilliam Lucas.Thomas S. Hickman. Thomas S. Hickman, laborers in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars each, which is the amount of the twenty per centum reduction from their salaries from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, authorized, inAdvance of money to Sergeant-at-Arms Senate, etc. his discretion, to advance to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding one thousand dollars, to meet any extraordinary expenses arising during the recess of the Senate; and the Sergeant-at-arms shall, as soon as practicable, furnish vouchers in detail covering such expenditures to be audited and approved by the committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, to the Secretary of the Senate.
For reconstructing and improving the Senate elevator, and for constructingElevators, etc. a freight-elevator for the use of the Senate, and for repairs to coils and steam machinery in the basement of the Senate wing, ten thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase works ofPurchase of works of art.John A. Graham. art, ten thousand dollars. For compensation to John A. Graham, late disbursing agent of the Library of Congress, for two years service as such agent, eight hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to purchase the manuscript papersFranklin collection. of Benjamin Franklin, and the collection of books, and so forth, known as the Franklin collection, belonging to Henry Stevens, of London, thirty-five thousand dollars; the printed books, pamphlets, and newspapers, and one of the typewriter copies of the manuscripts to be deposited in the Library of Congress, and the residue to be preserved in the Department of State, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
To pay James L. Andem for reporting testimony before the CommitteesJamesL. Andem. on Foreign Affairs and Public Buildings and Grounds, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars, the bills for the same to be approved by the chairmen of said committees and by the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay to the officers and employeesExtra compensation to employees of House of Representatives. of the House of Representatives borne on the annual and sessions rolls on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one mouth’s extra pay at the compensation then paid them by law, which sum shall be immediately available.
To pay the widow and children of Honorable M. P. O’Connor, deceased,M. P. O’Connor, deceased, widow and children of.Marlin F. Conway, deceased, widow of. four thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirteen cents. To pay Mrs E. F. Conway, widow of the late Martin F. Conway, for expenses incurred by him before his admission to a seat in the Thirty-sixth Congress, five hundred dollars. To pay to the legal representatives of the late Honorable Fernando Wood,Fernando Wood, deceased, legal representatives of. a member elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, six thousand dollars.
To pay the widow and children of the late Honorable Evarts W. Farr,Evarts W. Farr, deceased, widow and children of. a member-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress, but who dieel before its organization, six thousand dollars. To pay the widow and children of the Hon. Robert M. A. Hawk,Robert M. A. Hawk, deceased, widow and children of. deceased, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty cents, the amount of salary for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress.
That the parties named below be allowed the amounts set opposite their names, in full of expenses incurred by them, respectively, in con- 339tested election cases, which amounts shall be immediately available, namely:James Gillette, estate of.Thomas H. Herndon.William C.Oates.James Q. Smith, widow of.E. C. V. Blake.Joseph Wheeler. Jesse J. Finley.B. H. Lanier.J. Floyd King.Charles SI. Shelley.Alexander Smith.Edward W. Robertson.George M. Buchanan.Van H. Manning.John R. Lynch.James R.
Chalmers.Edmund W. M. Mackey.M. P. O’Connor, heirs of.Samuel Dibble.Carlos J. Stolbrand.D. Wyatt Aiken.Horatio Bisbee, jrGeorge Q. cannon.Allen G. Campbell.J. S. Barbour.G. W. Wither-spoon.R. H. M. Davidson.W. M. Lowe.Paul Strobach.Hilary A. Herbert.Samuel Lee.John S. Richardson.George D. Tillman.Robert Smalls.Thomas B. Reed.Samuel J. Anderson.J. T. Stoval.George C. CabellJ. C. Cook.M. E. Cutts.Commission to negotiate commercial treaty with Mexico.William T.Dove.John A. Travis.James C.
Courts.Charles Carter.William H. Smith.Robert Smalls.J. J. G. Ball. To the estate of James Gillette, one thousand five hundred dollars; Thomas H. Herndon, one thousand five hundred dollars; William C. Oates, six hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-five cents; to the widow of James Q. Smith, one thousand five hundred dollars; E. C. V. Blake, five hundred dollars; Joseph Wheeler, two thousand dollars; Jesse J. Finley, two thousand dollars; B. H. Lanier, one thousand dollars;
J. Floyd King, one thousand five, hundred dollars; Charles M. Shelley, two thousand dollars; Alexander Smith, five hundred dollars; Edward W. RObertson, five hundred dollars; George M. Buchanan, two thousand dollars; Van H. Manning, two thousand dollars; John R, Lynch two thousand dollars; James R. Chalmers, two thousand dollars; Edmund W. M. Mackey, two thousand dollars; to the heirs of M. F. O’Connor, one thousand dollars; Samuel Dibble, one thousand dollars; Carlos J. Stolbrand, one thousand dollars;
D. Wyatt Aiken, one thousand dollars; Horatio Bisbee, junior, two thousand dollars; George Q. Cannon, two thousand dollars; Allen G. Campbell, two thousand dollars; J. S. Barbour, five hundred dollars; G. W. Witherspoon, one thousand dollars; R. H. M. Davidson, one thousand dollars; W. M. Lowe, two thousand dollars; Paul Strobach, two thousand dollars; Hilary A. Herbert, two thousand dollars; Samuel Lee, two thousand dollars; John S. Richardson, two thousand dollars; George D.
Tillman, two thousand dollars; Robert Smalls, two thousand dollars; Thomas B. Reed, two thousand dollars; Samuel J. Anderson, two thousand dollars; J. T. Stoval, two thousand dollars; George C. Cabell, two thousand dollars. And to the following named persons, on account of expenses incurred by them in cases still undetermined, sums as follows, to be deducted from the sums, respectively, as finally allowed them, namely: To J. C. Cook, one thousand dollars; M. E. Cutts, one thousand dollars.
For the salaries and expenses of a commission to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States. To pay to William T. DoVe, carpenter of the House of Representatives, one thousand dollars, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for making boxes for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, being five hundred dollars for each year.
To pay John A. Travis, a disabled soldier, who was on the disabled soldier’s roll of the House of Representatives and discharged on the third day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, a sum equal to one month’s pay, at three dollars and sixty cents per day, being the same amount paid to other disabled soldiers discharged subsequent to that date. To pay James C. Courts, assistant clerk of the Committee on appropriations of the House, for extra services, five hundred dollars.
To pay Charles Carter for cleaning extra room of the House Committee on Appropriations, sixty dollars. To pay William H. Smith for services as assistant in the Library of the House of Representatives, the difference between the pay of messenger and that of assistant from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six to December twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, seven hundred and fifty-two dollars and eight cents. To pay Hon. Robert Smalls for salary and mileage for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, six thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents.
To pay J. J. G. Ball, a disabled soldier, who was on the disabled soldier’s roll of the House of Representatives, and discharged on the sixth of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, a sum equal to one month’s pay, at three dollars and sixty cents per day, being the same amount paid to other disabled soldiers discharged subsequent to that date. 340 To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay J. W.J. W. Pettitt Pettitt, a messenger appointed under resolution of the House of April twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the pay of a messenger from the date of his appointment to the termination of the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated.
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in the executionFrank Galt of the resolutions of the House of March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, relating tq the employment of an assistant to the Journal clerk of the House of Representatives, to pay Frank Galt for services renderetMrom the fifth of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to the thirteenth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, at a per diem of six dollars; and in the execution of the resolution of the sixteenth of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, relating to the employment of an assistant JamesR.
Davies.clerk to the Committee ou Claims, to pay James R. Davies for services rendered from the sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and in the execution of the resolution of the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, relating to the employment of a clerk to the Committee ou Mines and Mining, to pay Arthur Van Voorhis for services rendered from the tenth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, Arthur Van Voorhis.to the nineteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, each at the same rate of compensation as is paid to session clerks, the sum of two thousand three hundred and sixty four dollars; and in the execution of the resolution of the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, relating to the payment of Robert Richardson.Robert Richardson for services as messenger in the Clerk’s office, to pay Robert Richardson the difierence between the pay of a laborer received by him and that of messenger from the twenty-third day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eight hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents.
To pay George Q Cannon salary, mileage, and allowance for newspapersGeorge Q. cannon. and stationery for the forty-seventh Congress, from March fourth; eighteen hundred and eighty-one, up to and including April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the date of the decision of his contest for a seat in the House of Representatives, deducting any sums he may have already received on account from the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House or the Clerk of the House, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.
To enable the President to carry out the provisions of section seventeenCivil service.R. S. 1753,312. hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to promote the efficiency of the civil-service and official accountability, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay D. 13. Johnson, of Minnesota, for one month’s service as a clerkD. B. Johnson. in the Pension Office, the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars. Sec. 2. That the Assistant Secretaries authorized to be appointed inAssistant Secretaries in War and Navy Departments, duties. the War and Navy Departments shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the respective Secretaries, or may be required by law; and if such Assistant Secretaries shall be first appointed during the recess of the Senate their salaries may be paid them until the end of the next session of the Senate.
Sec. 4. That the limitation of time for contracting for new schoolTime for making contracts for new school buildings, District of Columbia, extended. buildings as provided by “An act making appropriatious to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty two, be, and the same is hereby, extended to October first eighteen hundred aud eighty-two.
Approved, August 7, 1882.