Chapter 332. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposesJuly 7, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropri
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CHAP. 332.— An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposesJuly 7, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and Sundry civil expenses.the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, namely:
UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department.Expenses of International conference for fixing common zero of longitude and standard of time, etc.; appointment of two additional delegates to represent the U. S.22 Stat., 217.Scientific commission for conduct of conference of electricians, etc.; appointment of; powers, duties. For expenses of the international conference for fixing a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning, including cost of printing and translations, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars ; and the President is hereby authorized to appoint two delegates to represent the United States at said international conference, in addition to the number authorized by the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and who shall serve without compensation.
That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint a scientific commission which may, in the name of the United States Government, conduct a national conference of electricians in Philadelphia in the autumn of eighteen hundred and eighty-four. That said commission may invite scientific men, native and foreign, to participate in the conference, and may, in general, determine the scope and character of its work. Appropriation.That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars be appropriated to meet the expenses of the commission in conducting the conference and investigations, and to meet the expenses of preparing reports of the *Proviso.*same: *Provided,* That the whole amount of the expense incurred by said commission shall not exceed the said sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the members of said commission shall not receive- any compensation for services.
Payment of expenses of Siamese embassy.To enable the Secretary of State to pay expenses already incurred for the Siamese embassy, two thousand five hundred dollars. Dies, etc., seal of the U. S.To enable the Secretary of State to obtain dies of the obverse and reverse of the seal of the United States, and the appliances necessary for making impressions from and for the preservation of the same, one thousand dollars. Payment to widow of General Judson Kilpatrick.That the sum of five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eleven cents of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for contingent expenses foreign missions, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, re appropriated and made available to pay the widow of General Judson Kilpatrick, late United States minister to Chili, the amount found due him on the settlement of his accounts for contingent expenses of the legation of the United States in Chili in eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Monetary commission.To enable the President to continue negotiations with foreign governments respecting the establishment of a common ratio between gold and silver, ten thousand dollars. Representatives to conference of Red Cross Association.To pay the expenses of representatives of the United States to the conference of the Red Cross Association to be held at Geneva on the first of September next, said representatives to be appointed by the-President, two thousand dollars. 195 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 332. 1884. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings.Public buildings under Treasury Department.Baltimore. For post-office and courthouse at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuation of building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts: For completionBoston. of building and additional vaults, fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For completionCincinnati. of building, three hundred thousand dollars.
For courthouse and post-office at Charleston, West Virginia: ForCharleston, W. Va. fencing, pump, tank, and connections for water supply, and for sewer, four thousand seven hundred dollars. For customhouse at Charleston, South Carolina: For building oneCharleston, S. C. stone wharf in front of customhouse, thirty-five thousand dollars. For customhouse at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion of building,Cleveland. fifteen thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Columbus, Ohio:
For continuationColumbus. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Danville, Virginia: For approaches,Danville. sidewalks, iron fence, and for retaining-wall in rear of building, ten thousand three hundred dollars, of which sum not less than one thousand seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to building a substantial stone wall in the rear of the lot upon which said building stands. For courthouse and post-office at Denver, Colorado:
For continuation,Denver. fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa : For completionDes Moines. of extension and remodeling interior, fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at Dubuque, Iowa: For purchasingDubuque. lot immediately north of the customhouse lot, Dubuque, Iowa, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That, no part of the purchase-money shall*Proviso.* be paid until the Attorney-General of the United States shall be satisfied that there is a good title to said premises in the United States, free from all incumbrance.
For courthouse and post-office at Fort Wayne, Indiana: For continuationFort Wayne. of building, forty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Galveston, Texas: For continuationGalveston. of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Harrisonburg, Virginia: For completionHarrisonburg. of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Jackson, Mississippi: For completionJackson. of building and approaches, fifteen thousand dollars.
For custom house and post-office at Kansas City, Missouri: For completionKansas City. of building and approaches, fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For completion of sea-wallKey West. to protect marine-hospital property, one thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuation,Leaven worth. fifty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Lynchburg, Virginia: For continuationLynchburg. of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For customhouse, courthouse and post office at Memphis, Tennessee:Memphis. For completion of building and approaches, fifty thousand dollars; and for the construction of a supporting wall for the customhouse lot at the city of Memphis, Tennessee, where the same has been cut away along the river front thereof by certain railway companies, fifty thousand dollars: in all, one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: For extension of site andMinneapolis. continuation, seventy thousand dollars.
For courthouse and post-office at Montgomery, Alabama: For completionMontgomery. of building and approaches and inclosing grounds with an iron fence, five thousand dollars. 196 New OrleansFor customhouse at New Orleans, Louisiana: For plumbing, and for completion of repairs, twenty-five thousand dollars. New Haven.For courthouse and post-office at New Haven, Connecticut: For extension and repairs of building, fifty thousand dollars. Paducah.For courthouse and post-office at Paducah, Kentucky:
For iron fence and gates, two thousand dollars. Peoria.For post-office and court house at Peoria, Illinois: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars. 22 Stat., 170.Poughkeepsie.And the act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- two, authorizing the construction of a building at Poughkeepsie, New York, is so amended as to require an open space of not less than thirty- five feet in lieu of fifty feet on the west and north sides of said building Quincy.For post office and courthouse at Quincy, Illinois:
For continuation of building, forty thousand dollars. Scranton.For post-office at Scranton, Pennsylvania: For completion of building, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Saint Joseph.For post-office at Saint Joseph, Missouri: For continuation of building, forty thousand dollars. Syracuse.For post-office and courthouse at Syracuse, New York: For continuation of building, seventy five thousand dollars; stone used in the construction of said building to be procured from quarries in the State of New York.
Toledo.For customhouse and courthouse at Toledo, Ohio: For continuation , of building, fifty thousand dollars. Topeka.For courthouse and post-office at Topeka, Kansas: For approaches, fencing, and grading, ten thousand dollars. Utica.For courthouse and post-office at Utica, New York: For outstanding bills for completion of building, seven hundred and nineteen dollars and seventeen cents. Williamsport.For courthouse and post-office at Williamsport, Pennsylvania: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Washington, D.C.For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: Annual repairs to Treasury building, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation of public buildings.For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, and other public buildings, under control of Treasury Department, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Marine hospitals.For repairs and preservation of marine hospitals, twenty thousand dollars.
Penitentiary, Deer Lodge, Montana.To erect the unfinished portion of the United States penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, and to complete the same in accordance with the original plans, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the work shall be carried on under the direction and general supervision of the governor of the Territory of Montana. United States mint building, Denver.Hydraulic passenger elevator, Winder’s Building.Inspector of public buildings, furniture, etc., appointment of; compensation.For the repair of the United States mint building at Denver, Colorado, fifteen thousand dollars.
For hydraulic passenger elevator for building at corner of seventeenth and F streets, known as Winder’s Building, six thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for necessary expenses, not exceeding three thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars:
Proviso.*Provided,* That a report in detail of all such inspection shall be made to the Secretary of the Treasury who shall annually transmit the same to Congress. lighthouses, beacons, and fog-signals.lighthouses, etc. Eric Land Light-House, reestablishment of.That the Erie Land Light-House, discontinued by Light-House Board, be, and the same is hereby, reestablished on the site where it stood 197 when discontinued: *Provided,* That the same can be obtained for that*Proviso.* purpose at a cost not exceeding four thousand dollars.
That the Light-House Board is authorized and required, immediately after the passage of this act, to purchase, upon the terms herein prescribed, from the owner or owners thereof, the site of the original Land Light-House, for the reestablishment and maintenance of the Land Light-House herein authorized ; and for the purpose aforesaid, and for the reestablishment of said light, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used and expended by the Light-House Board, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Hyannis Light-Station, Massachusetts: For establishing a small beaconHyannis Light- to range with the main light at Hyannis, Massachusetts, the leaseStation. of the site for the purpose being hereby authorized, three hundred and fifty dollars. Saybrook Beacon-Light, Connecticut : For completing the erection ofSaybrook beacon-Light. a beacon-light on the end of the west jetty wall at Saybrook, Connecticut, eighteen thousand dollars. For the purpose of erecting a light-house on the north end of ConnectLight-house, Connect Island.
Island, Narragausett Bay, Rhode Island, eighteen thousand dollars. Hell Gate electric lights, New York : For duplicating the apparatusHell Gate electric lights. and machinery necessary for the production of electric light in the tower at Ballet’s Point, near Hell Gate, New York, eight thousand dollars. For lease of ground for electric light at Hell Gate, four hundred dollars;Lease of ground for electric fight at Hell Gate. and the Light-House Board is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to lease such parcel of land as is required for the establishment of said electric light at Hell Gate.
For the establishment of lights on Hudson River, five thousand dollars.Lights on Hudson Bi ver.Lights, Cape Fear River.Lights, Saint John’s River.Lights, Lake Champlain. For the establishment of lights on Cape Fear River, five thousand dollars. For the establishment of lights on Saint John’s River, Florida, ten thousand dollars. Lights, Lake Champlain : For the establishment of lights on Watch Point, and to guide through the channel between North and South Hero Islands, Lake Champlain, one thousand dollars.
Cape Charles Light-Station, Virginia : For protecting the site of CapeCape Charles light station. Charles Light-Station, entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. For establishing a small light, and fog-signal on Killick Shoal, inLight and fog-signal on Killick Shoal. Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, ten thousand dollars. Croatan Light-Station, North Carolina: For removing the CroatanCroatan light-station. Light-House to a point where it will be of more value to navigators, fifteen thousand dollars.
For removal of the Cape Henlopen Beacon to the Delaware Breakwater,Removal ofCape Henlopen Beacon to Delaware Breakwater.Light on Lud- lam’s Island.Buoy, etc., Fortress Monroe. and for the establishment of a small light at each end of the latter, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the establishment of a light on Ludlam’s Island, New Jersey, five thousand dollars Depot in the fifth district, Virginia : For establishing a buoy and supply-depot at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, in place of the one now at Portsmouth, Virginia, ten thousand dollars.
Rebecca Shoal Light-Station, Florida: For completing the erectionLight-house on Rebecca Shoal. of a light-house on Rebecca Shoal, Florida Reefs, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. Sand Island Light-Station, Alabama: For protecting the site or commencingLight-house at Sand Island. the rebuilding of the light-house at Sand Island, Alabama, ten thousand dollars. 198 Light-house on Northwest Seal Rock.Northwest Seal Rock Light-Station, California: For continuing the construction of a light-house on the Northwest Seal Rock, off Point Saint George, California, thirty thousand dollars.
Light at entrance of Gray’s Harbor.Gray’s Harbor, Washington, Territory: For the establishment of a light at the entrance of Gray’s Harbor, Washington Territory, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. Light-house at Port Sanilac.For commencing the construction of a light-house at or near Port Sanilac, Lake Huron, Michigan, ten thousand dollars; and said light-house shall not cost, when completed, exceeding twenty thousand dollars. Steam-tender for Pacific coast.Steam-tender for the Pacific coast:
For building a steam-tender for service on the Pacific coast, eighty-eight, thousand five hundred dollars. Lighted buoys.For maintenance of lighted buoys: For the maintenance of lighted buoys now in use, five thousand dollars. Expenditures of appropriations, except for surveys, may be made under contracts.Life-saving service.Superintendents.That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Light-House Board to apply the money appropriated, other than for surveys, as far as can be without detriment to the interests of the Government, by contract. life-saving stations.
For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: On the coasts of Maine and Now Hampshire one, and on the coast of Massachusetts one, at one thousand five hundred dollars each ; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island who shall reside on the mainland of the State of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent for life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars; of one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; and of one on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and lifeboat stations : One on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one on the coast of Lake Michigan, and one on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon, and California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. Keepers of life-saving stations, etc.For salaries of two hundred and sixteen keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Crows of surf-men, etc.For pay of crews of surf man 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 volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of -volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, six hundred and eighty thousand dollars. 199 For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew life-saving stations, etc. 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 employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same ; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars; and hereafter revenue cutters shall be used exclusively for the public service, and in no way for private purposes.
For rebuilding the revenue steamer Richard Rush, including a newRebuilding steamer Richard Rush. hull, boiler, and outfits, but retaining the present engines, eighty thousand dollars; and a sure not exceeding ten thousand dollars to so obtained from sale of the old hull and materials: *Provided,* That the same*Proviso.* shall be sold only after due appraisement and advertisement, and at a price not less than the appraised value. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to advertise for bids for the rebuilding of the Richard Rush, and for the construction of the steam light house tender herein provided for, according to the plans and specifications, which shall be open for inspection by persons proposing to contract.
Advertisement shall be made for a period of not less than one mouth. The bids shall be opened and the contract or contracts let. The Secretary of the Treasury may reject all bids; but in the event of acceptance of any bid, the lowest and best bidder shall have the contract or contract awarded to him. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, and for labor (by the day, piece or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States and national-bank notes, 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 and national-bank notes; for materials other than distinctive paper 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, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, four hundred and seventy five thousand seven hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and from said sum work may be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the following purposes, namely:
For engraving, printing, and finishing United States notes, gold and silver certificates, registered bonds for transfers, and other securities, three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. For engraving (except face-plates), printing, and finishing circulating notes for national banking associations, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For engraving, printing, and finishing certificates of letters patent, seven hundred dollars. 200 light-house establishment. Light-Loose supplies.For supplies of lighthouses:
For supplying the lighthouses, beacon 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; and the Light-House Board is hereby authorized to lease, for the sum of one dollar per annum, a wharf for the landing of supplies near the Currituck Beach Light-House, North Carolina, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs of lighthouses.For repairs of lighthouses: For repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses and stations, including the two lights at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, which shall remain as they are until Congress shall otherwise direct, and including the restoration of Portland Head Light to its former height and power, which is hereby directed ; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; for the establishing and repairing of pier-head lights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Keepers of lighthouses, etc.For salaries of keepers of lighthouses : For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of one thousand and fifteen light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Light-vessels.For expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty lightships, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Buoyage.For expenses of buoyage:
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for the maintenance of whistling-buoys and bell-buoys, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Fog-signals.For expenses of fog-signals : For establishing, renewing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, thirty five thousand dollars.
Buoyage of rivers.For inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars. Inspecting lights.For lighting and buoyage of rivers : For maintenance of post lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, Rivers, and at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana, the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence cannot be made permanent, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Survey of light-house sites.For survey of light-house sites : For examination and survey of sites for proposed lighthouses, and preparing plans for proposed structures, five thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey, Survey of Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tidewater or ship navigation ; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf stream and Japan Stream flowing oil the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; a magnetic map of North America, and the compilation of data for a general map of the United States; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the fieldwork, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and including allowance for subsistence to officers of the Navy attached 201 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 332. 1884. to the Survey, not exceeding one dollar per day, as allowed by act ofSurveys, continued. Congress approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty eight, and also including the repairs, outfit, and equipment of vessels used in the Survey, to be expended under the following heads: For party expenses:Party expenses for surveys, resurveys, examinations, etc. For continuing the survey of the unsurveyed portions of the coast of Maine eastward from Chandler’s River toward Quoddy Head, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For examination of reported dangers and changes on the eastern coast and Vineyard Sound, one thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing resurvey of Long Island Sound, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For completing resurvey oi’ Delaware Bay, including current observations, six thousand dollars. For continuing examination of changes and resurveys on the seacoast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For survey of estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, including Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, and of sounds and tide water passages in North and South Carolina not heretofore surveyed, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For continuing the survey of the- sounds on the eastern coast of Florida, including the Saint John’s River, two thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from San Carlos entrance southward, and from Bayport southward, and hydrography of same, four thousand dollars. For examining the changes in Mobile Bay, and surveying around [he Chandeleur Islands and the waters on the east coast of Louisiana, one thousand four hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana from Bayon La Fourche westward and between Vermillion Bay and Mermenteau Pass, including hydrography on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For making the requisite verification of the work and for re-examinations of entrances on the coast of Texas, one thousand eight hundred dollars. To make off shore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, six thousand dollars. For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, three thousand dollars. For determinations of geographical positions (longitude party) two thousand dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, two thousand dollars.
For continuing an exact line of levels from the Gulf to the transcontinental line of levels between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, one thousand dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and researches relating thereto, two thousand dollars. To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, five hundred dollars. To continue gravity experiments, three thousand dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand dollars.
For continuing the compilation of data for a general map of the United States, two thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of California, namely: For topography from San Louis Capistrano toward San Diego, from Point Piedras Blancas to Cape San Martin, and supplementary surveys near San Francisco, Five thousand five hundred dollars. 202 Party expenses for surveys, resurvey, examinations, etc.For primary triangulation from San Louis Obispo northward, from Santa Clara southward, and from Trinidad northward, including a line of precise levels from Sausalito to the transcontinental line of levels, eleven thousand dollars.
For hydrography off the same coast, five thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, namely: Survey from Umpquah River southward, and including such river mouths as may be specially called for, and offshore hydrography, and the survey of Columbia River and Willamette River to the head of ship navigation, seven thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, namely: For continuing the triangulation, topography, and hydrography of Fuca Strait, of the estuaries of Puget Sound and of Possession Sound, nine thousand dollars.
For expenses of the transfer of the steamer Patterson from New York to San Francisco, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska; the preparation for and making hydrographic surveys in the same, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous work and contingencies of all kinds, including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, not specified in the above, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, two thousand dollars.
For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand four hundred dollars. For magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of the Superintendent and his party on duty of inspection, eight hundred dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, one thousand dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named: in all, for party expenses, one hundred and twenty thousand six hundred dollars.
For furnishing points for State surveys, fourteen thousand dollars. Transcontinental geodetic work: For transcontinental geodetic work, including line of leveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, twenty thousand dollars. Pay of field officers.Pay of field officers: For pay of the Superintendent, six thousand dollars. For pay of six assistants, at rates between three thousand dollars and four thousand dollars per annum, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of nineteen assistants, at rates between two thousand dollars and three thousand dollars per annum, forty three thousand dollars.
For pay of twenty one assistants, at rates between one thousand five hundred dollars and two thousand dollars per annum, thirty six thousand dollars. For pay of nine sub assistants, at rates between one thousand one hundred dollars and one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of nine aids, at rates between seven hundred and twenty dollars and nine hundred dollars per annum, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; total pay in field, one hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
Pay of officers and employees, Coast Survey office, etc.Pay of office force: In office of Superintendent, five persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, six thousand and fifty dollars. In office of disbursing agent, three persons, from one thousand four hundred dollars to three thousand dollars per annum, six thousand dollars. 203 In office of hydrographic inspector, five persons from six hundred and forty dollars per annum to two thousand dollars per annum, live thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
In office of the Coast Pilot, three persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. In office of the assistant in charge, nine persons, from six hundred dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, nine thon sand three hundred dollars. In computing division, seven persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
In division of tides, four persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, four thousand six hundred dollars. In drawing division, twelve persons, from five hundred dollars to two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. In engraving division, twenty-six persons, from six hundred dollars to two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, thirty seven thousand dollars. In miscellaneous division, eighteen persons, from three hundred and thirteen dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
In instrument shop, eight persons, from seven hundred and thirty dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, nine thousand three hundred dollars. In San Francisco sub office, three persons, from eight hundred and forty dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, three thousand five hundred and forty dollars ; total pay in office, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. Rent of office buildings:Rent of office buildings. For rent of buildings for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of fireproof building numbered two hundred and five New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic and other records; of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; of instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars, Office expenses:Expenses of office, etc., Coast Survey. For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument-shop for reconstruction and repairs, and for books, maps and charts, including subscriptions, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.
For materials for the drawing division and for chart mounting, including drawing-paper; for copper plates, chart-paper, printer’s ink; copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping; engravers’ and printers’ supplies; materials for carpenter’s shop; for extra engraving, including map of the United States, and the necessary copper plates therefor; and for photolithographing charts for immediate use, seventeen thousand one hundred dollars. For stationery for the office and field parties; transportation of instruments, supplies, and so forth ; office wagon ; fuel; gas; telegrams; ice; washing; extra labor; office furniture and repairs; and for allowances to the assistants in charge of office details, in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. 204 Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office, sent on special duty in the service of the office, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; total general expenses of office, forty four thousand six hundred dollars.
Publishing observations.Publishing observations; Repairs, etc., of vessels.For continuing the publication of observations and their discussion, 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. Miscellaneous, Treasury.For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including new boilers for the steamer Hassler, forty two thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.
Paper and stamps for internal-revenue.For paper and stamps for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, four hundred and ten thousand dollars; the engraving and printing of said stamps to be done in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Violation of Internal-revenue laws.For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act.
R. S. 3653, 719.Collection, safekeeping, and transfer of public moneys.Contracts for transportation of moneys, etc., of United States given to lowest bidder.Freight on bullion and coin.National Currency.Distinctive paper.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, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, fifty five thousand dollars, and hereafter whenever it is practicable contracts for the transportation of moneys, bullion, coin, notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, and paper shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, after notice to all parties having means of transportation.
For freight on bullion and coin: For freight on bullion and coin between the mints and assay-offices, fifteen thousand dollars. For expenses of the national currency : For paper, express charges, and other expenses, twenty thousand dollars. For the distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, including mill expenses, transportation examination, counting, and delivery, thirty five thousand dollars. Silver coin, transportation of.Recoinage of gold and silver coin.United States mint building, Denver.Claim of State of Massachusetts, for certain travel expenses incurred, to le examined, etc., and reported to Congress.12 Stat., 226.For transportation of silver coin :
For transportation of silver coin as required by law, twenty thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinage of gold and silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand dollars. For the repair of the United States mint building at Denver, Colorado, ten thousand dollars. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to examine the claim of the State of Massachusetts for expenses incurred and paid, at the request of the President and Secretary of State, during the war, in protecting the harbors and strengthening the fortifications on the coast, now on file with the Third Auditor, under the act of July twenty-seventh,eighteen hundred and sixty-one (twelfth Statutes at Large page two hundred and seventy-six), and report the amount to Congress. 205 under the commissioner of fish and fisheries.Fish and fisheries.
For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by the UnitedFood-fishes. States Fish Commission into, and to increase in, the waters of the United States of useful food-fishes, including lobsters, 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 Compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of the office of the United States Fish Commission :
ForRent of rooms. rent of rooms in the city of Washington, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For the maintenance of fishponds: For the maintenance of the Unitedfishponds. States fishponds in Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of carp and other young fish, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars. For the maintenance of vessels : For the maintenance of the vesselsVessels. of the United States Fish Commission, including salaries or Compensation of all necessary employees, for storage and wharfage, and for the boats, apparatus, and machinery required for use therewith, forty-five thousand dollars.
For completion of the car for the distribution of carp and otherFish-car for distribution of food-fishes, etc. useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United States, authorized by act approved March third, eighteen bundled and eighty-three, and22 Stat.,332. its equipment, four thousand live hundred dollars ; and the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the construction of a carReappropriation. for the distribution of carp and other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty- five.
For completion of the necessary constructions at Wood’s Holl Harbor,Wood’s Hall Harbor, constructions, etc., at. Massachusetts, and their equipment, for the propagation of and investigation in regard to useful sea-fishes and other marine animals, twenty thousand dollars. For the inquiry of food-fishes: For collecting statistics of the seacoastCollecting statistics of seacoast and lake fisheries, etc. and lake fisheries of the United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For illustrations for the report on food-fishes: For preparation ofIllustrations for report on food-fishes. illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars. current expenses public buildings.Public buildings. 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, For heating apparatus for public buildings, including new buildings:Heating apparatus.
For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings including marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, including new buildings,Vaults, safes, locks, and repairs of. For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, fifty 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 five hundred dollars, 206 Fuel, lights, water, etc.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, including marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, five hundred thousand dollars, Furniture and repair* of, carpets, etc.For furniture and repairs of furniture, including carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas-fixtures for six new buildings, namely:
Buffalo, New York; Frankfort, Kentucky; Jackson, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio; Memphis Tennessee, three hundred thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings in said cities, respectively, shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not, Shore protection of marine hospital, Chicago.For shore protection of the marine hospital near Chicago, Illinois, eight thousand dollars, suppressing counterfeiting and similar felonies;
Detection a n d punishment of counterfeiters, etc.For the expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars, compensation in lieu of moletles. Compensation in hen of moieties, etc.For compensation in lieu of moieties certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty-five thousand dollars, alaskan seal-fisheries, Agents at seal-fisheries.For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows:
For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, Assistant agents.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. Traveling expenses.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. Protection of seal-fisheries, etc.For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the protection of the interests of the Government on the seal-islands and the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, fifteen thousand dollars. LANDS AND OTHER PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES. Custody, care, and sale of lands, etc., of the U. S.For custody, care, protection, and sale of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars. LIBRARY OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Purchase of books for library of Treasury Department. ‘For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars. Chinese immigration, etc.To meet such expenses as may be necessary to be incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act to execute certain treaty 22 Stdt., 58.stipulations-relating to Chinese, approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty- two, five thousand dollars. 207 The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case ofEpidemic, etc. threatened or actual epidemic, to use the unexpended balance of appropriation22 Stat., 315. made by act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and22 Stat., 613. eighty-two, and act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty- three, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and maintaining quarantine at points of danger.
To establish and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide properQuarantine stations for care, etc., of imported neat cattle. shelter for and care of neat cattle imported at such ports as may be deemed necessary twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Commissioner of Agriculture under the general supervision of the secretary of the Treasury. For amount necessary to pay direct-tax purchasers the amount paidPayment to certain direct-tax purchasers. by said purchasers for real estate sold under the direct-tax taws, and from which they have been evicted by judgment of a United States court, two thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars. united states executive departments at the world’s industrial and cotton centennial exposition at new orleans, louisiana.
To enable the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, under act of Congress of February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as follows: For the War Department, fifteen thousand dollars ; for the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars; for22 Stat., 413. the State Department, ten thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, twelve thousand dollars ; for the Interior Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ; for the Post Office Department, ten thousand dollars; for the Department of Agriculture, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, three thousand dollars; for the Smithsonian Institution (including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries), seventy five thousand dollars; for necessary incidental expenses of administration by the board, including office rent, fuel, gas, stationery, telegrams, and expressage, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, three hundred thousand dollars, to be disbursedDisbursements, under whom made. under the direction of the Board on United States Executive Departments appointed under executive order of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four; and no expenses of any kind beyond the amounts herein provided for shall be incurred by any of the said Departments, or any officer thereof on account of said exposition.
To enable the several Executive Departments of the Government includingExecutive Departments, etc., to participate in Cincinnati Industrial Exposition and in Southern Exposition, Louisville. the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, to participate in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the months of September and October, eighteen hundred and eighty four, ten thousand dollars; and to participate in the Southern Exposition, to be held at Louisville Kentucky, from August sixteenth to October twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty four; ten thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars; *Provided,* That in case more than the said sums is required for the*Proviso.* execution of this provision the same shall be paid by said Expositions.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT,Navy Department.Navy-yard, New York.Cob-dock, Brooklyn.22 Stat., 620. For navy-yard, New York; For dredging, thirty thousand dollars, To enable the Secretary of the Navy to continue the improvement of the cob-dock at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty three (twenty-second Statutes, page six hundred and twenty), is hereby re appropriated and made available for expenditures Executive Departments, etc., to participate in World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans. 208 during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Continuation of stone dry-dock, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Coasters’ Harbor Island.For Coasters’ Harbor Island, Rhode Island : For completion of wharf, dredging, heating apparatus, wafer supply for drill hall and training-ships, repairs to old building and main causeway, and for lighting thoroughfares, houses, and vessels at Coasters’ Harbor Island, twenty one thousand dollars, Navy-yards and stations.For navy yards and stations, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Hot Springs Creek.To complete the improvement of the Hot Springs Creek, in the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, seventy-five thousand dollars, bureau of labor. Commissioner of Labor, chief clerk, etc.For salary of Commissioner of Labor, three thousand dollars; salary of chief clerk, two thousand dollars; rent of rooms .for use of Bureau, and for fuel, light, and stationery, three thousand dollars; and for other necessary expenses of said Bureau, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and as provided by law. seventeen thousand dollars ; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars. public buildingsPublic buildings.
Interior Department.For completing the reconstruction of the south and east wings of the building occupied by the Department of the Interior, by completing the work on the south wing and main portico on F street ready for occupancy, ninety-one thousand dollars, For repairing the heating apparatus of the south wing, two thousand dollars, For construction of coal-vaults on the north front of the building, and the replacing of flagging ruined by the debris from fire of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, seven thousand five hundred dollars, For rebuilding of furnaces in the east wing, and putting them in serviceable and safe condition, one thousand dollars, For casual repairs of the Interior Department building:
For casual repairs of the Department building, five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars, Capitol.For the Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and workmen and fresco-painter, forty thousand dollars, Capitol grounds.For improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including the pay to landscape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gardeners, and workmen, fifty-two thousand dollars, For constructing terraces north of the Capitol, section marked A. as shown on printed plan accompanying the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury (Executive Document Number Nine, first session Forty eighth Congress), sixty thousand dollars, including wages of mechanics and *Proviso,*laborers: *Provided,* That the work under this appropriation shall be confined to the north front of the Capitol building, and shall not extend westward beyond the line of the west front of the Senate wing of the Capitol.
Lighting Capitol, etc.For lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden and Senate and House stables: For gas, electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for gas or electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. 209 For the increase of the openings in the floor of the Senate Chamber,Ventilation. the openings in the roof, and the arrangement for the exhaust fans to draw air from the corridors and stairway’s, as recommended by the Chief Engineer of the United States Senate and Architect of the United States Capitol, six thousand dollars.
For cleaning the outside marble walls of the House and Senate wings of the Capitol, and the approaches thereto, three thousand dollars. And hereafter it shall be the duty of the Architect to clean and keep in proper order the exterior of the Capitol. Enlarging courthouse, Washington District of Columbia: For workCourt-house, Washington, D. C. on terrace, water closets in upper story, iron window guards, and for painting roof, and for general repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For paving sidewalk on south and east fronts of National MuseumNational Museum. building, one thousand dollars. New Pension Building: For completion of the new Pension Building,New Pension Building. as per estimate contained in Senate Executive Document Number One Hundred and Eighty-eight, present session, two hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and fifty nine dollars and sixty-two cents. public lands.Contingent expenses of indices of surveyors-genet a 1 for— Office of the surveyor general of Arizona:
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor general of Arizonia:Arizona. 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 California: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor general of California:California. For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Colorado:
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Colorado :Colorado. 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 Dakota: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Dakota :Dakota. For rent of office for the surveyor general fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses two thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor general of Minnesota:
For contingent expenses of the office of surveyor-general of Minnesota :Minnesota. For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor general of Florida: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor general ofFlorida. Florida: For rent of office for the surveyor general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Office of survey or-general of Idaho:Idaho. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Idaho:
For rent of office for the surveyor general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana;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 Montana:Montana. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Montana :
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Office of the surveyor-general of Nevada:Nevada. For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Ne- 210 vada: For rent of office for the surveyor general, fuel, books, stationery, purchase of safe, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Nebraska and Iowa.Office of the surveyor general of Nebraska and Iowa:
For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. New Mexico.Office of the surveyor general of New Mexico: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of New Mexico: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Oregon.Office of the surveyor-general of Oregon: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Oregon: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Utah.Office of the surveyor-general of Utah : For contingent expenses of 1he office of 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.
Washington.Office of the surveyor-general of Washington: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Washington : For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Wyoming.Office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming: For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.
Registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys.Incidental expenses.Expenses of depositing moneys, etc.Expenses of protecting timber.Protection of public lands, &c.Swamp lands.*Proviso.*Agents; allowed per diem, etc.For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys at district land-offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public lands, twelve thousand dollars. To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy- five thousand dollars. For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, seventy-five thousand dollars. For expenses of agents employed in adjusting for swamp lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That agents and others employed under the three preceding paragraphs, while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diemin Heu of subsistence at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.
Worn and defaced plats of surveys.To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue 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. New map of the United States.To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to prepare and publish a new map of the United States, five thousand dollars. 211 surveying the public lands.Survey of public lands.
For surveying the public lands, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at rates not. exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander miles, 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 under growth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines; or where, for any cause not provided for by law, in Oregon or Washington Territory, he is unable to get the necessary surveys made at the rates aforesaid, he may allow a sum, not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township lines, and six dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof may be expended for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coalfields, and timber districts, and for the making of such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States.
For such resurveys of the public lands as, in the discretion of theResurveys, Commissioner of the General Land Office, may be considered necessary, ten thousand dollars. For establishing initial monuments of a permanent character to governMonuments,etc., in mineral surveys. mineral survey, in order to secure accuracy in survey of mineral claims, and to connect the monuments with each other and with the public lands, five thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed and preliminary survey of unconfirmed privatePreliminary surveys, etc., in Arizona. land claims in Arizona, at a rate not exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars.
For survey of confirmed and preliminary survey of unconfirmed privateNew Mexico. land-claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, eight thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the ratePrivate land claims, California. prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, five thousand dollars. For survey of private land claims in Louisiana, at the rates prescribedLouisiana. by law, five thousand dollars.
For purchase of iron monuments, cost of transportation to the officesIron monuments, etc. of surveyors general, and storage, to mark the lines of public surveys passing over public lands*Proviso.* devoid of timber and stone, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all appropriations herein under public lands shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone NationalYellowstone national Park. Park: For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, preservation, and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of superintendent and employees, forty thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of said amount to be paid annually to a superintendent of said park, and not exceeding nine hundred dollars annually to each of ten assistants, all of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and reside continuously in the park, and whose duty it shall be to protect the game, timber, and objects of interest therein; the balance of the sum appropriated to be expended in the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within said park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose. 212 indian affairs.
Creek Nation of Indians.For this amount, to pay the Creek Nation of Indians for one hundred and fifty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy and forty eight, hundredths acres of land, being the amount taken by the United States 14 Stat., 786.in excess of the estimate made in the third article of the treaty with said Indians proclaimed August eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty- six, at thirty cents per acre, forty five thousand five hundred and sixty- one dollars in full payment for said land.
N. J. Smith, payment to,To pay amount found due N. J. Smith, as per certificate of Second Comptroller numbered eighteen hundred and forty-eight, dated June ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under appropriation made by 19 Stat., 197.the act of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for “ payment of indebtedness incurred by Silas H. Sweetland,” one hundred dollars. united states geological survey. United States Geological Survey. Appropriation.For the United States Geological Survey:
For the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, three hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. And the scientific employees of the Geological Survey shall be selected by the Director, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior exclusively for their qualifications as professional experts.
Salaries.For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For salary of five geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For salary of two geologists at three thousand dollars each; For salary of one geologist, at two thousand seven hundred dollars; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand dollars each; For salary of one paleontologist, four thousand dollars; For salary of one paleontologist, two thousand dollars;
For salary of one chemist, three thousand dollars; For salary of one chemist, two thousand dollars; For salary’ of one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For salary of three geographers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For salary of one general assistant, three thousand dollars; For salary of three topographers, at two thousand dollars each, in all sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. tenth census. Tenth census; appropriation for completing.For the work of taking the tenth census, and closing the Bureau on January first eighteen hundred and eighty-five, including the salary of the Superintendent and of all clerks and other employees, thirty thon sand dollars.
Printing.And in addition to the number of printed copies of the reports of the 22 Stat., 341.tenth census authorized by the act entitled “An act to provide for the publication of the tenth census,” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, there shall be printed twenty-five thousand copies of the Compendium of the Tenth Census, of which eight thousand Compendium.copies shall be for the use of the Senate, sixteen thousand copies for the use of the House, and one thousand copies for the use of the Department of the Interior; and there shall also be printed and separately bound in paper covers an edition of each of the following-named monograph reports, the number of copies of each edition to be as follows. 213 namely:
Of the reports on the seal-islands of Alaska, on shipbuilding,Monograph reports on seal-islands of Alaska, shipbuilding, cereals, etc. on the cereals, on the manufacture of glass, on the resources of Alaska, on tobacco culture, on the factory system, on wages paid in manufacturing industries, three thousand copies each; of the reports on the newspapers and publishing interests, on silk manufacture, on chemical products and salt, on flour milling, on meat production, on the production of petroleum, on the manufacture of coke, on the manufacture of tobacco, on the manufacture of shop-tools, two thousand five hundred copies each; of the report on cotton culture in the United States, including reports on cotton fiber and cotton seed oil, three thousand copies; of the report on cotton culture in Louisiana, in Mississippi, in Tennessee and Kentucky, in Missouri, in Arkansas, in Texas, in Alabama, in Georgia, in North Carolina, in South Carolina, in Virginia, in California, and in the Indian Territory, two thousand copies each: *Prodded,**Proviso.*Distribution.
That of the above-named separate editions one-fourth shall be for the use of the Senate, one-half for the use of the House, and one-fourth for the use of the Census Office: *Provided also.* That the copies of the Compendium and monograph reports herein provided for shall be distributed through the Interior Department, according to the provisions of existing law : *Provided further,* That the changes or correctionsCorrections. necessitated by errata in former editions of the reports herein referred to shall first be made by the Superintendent of Census; and theReappropriation. sum of sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray the expenses of printing and binding the publications herein provided for, shall be paid out of the appropriation made by the act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act to22 Stat., 341. provide for the publication of the tenth census”.
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 Revenue-Cutter Service, and those committed from the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, two hundred and eight thousand three hundred dollars; and not exceeding one. thousand dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends.
And in addition to the persons now entitled to admission to the GovernmentAdmission of insane of Soldiers’ Home; expense of maintenance to be paid, etc. Hospital for the Insane, any inmate of the Soldiers’ Home who is now or may hereafter become insane shall, upon an order of the president of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Home, be admitted to said hospital and treated therein; and the expenses of maintaining any such person shall be paid from the Soldiers’ Home fund.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars.Repairs and improvements. To continue the work of protection from fire, five thousand dollars. For building and to complete a barn for stock and the storage of farm products, three thousand dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. For current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf andDeaf and dumb.
Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, for general repairs, and improvements, fifty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no more*Proviso.* 214 Appropriation for salaries, etc., limited.than twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages. Repairs, etc.For the improvement and in closure of the grounds, and repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars. howard university.
Howard University.For maintenance of the Howard University: To be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, a portion of which will be paid from donations and other sources, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars freedmen’s hospital and asylum. Freedmen’s hospital.For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand dollars; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, two assistant, surgeons,engineer,clerk, matron, nurses, laundresses and cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, thirteen thousand dollars; for rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; for fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars, in all forty-nine thousand dollars.
For building four bathrooms and water-closets, relaying floors, and repairing porches, one thousand five hundred dollars; the same to be paid from any unexpended balances of appropriations for the said hospital for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four. national museum. National Museum.For the preservation of collections of the National Museum: For the preservation and exhibition and increase of the collections received from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, Director to report, etc., annually to Congress.ninety-one thousand dollars.
And the Director of the National Museum is hereby directed to report annually to Congress the progress of the museum during the year and its present condition. Transfer of collections of American Institute of Mining Engineers.For transfer and arrangement of the collections of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, presented to the Government, including expenses already incurred, ten thousand dollars. Collections, Armory Building.For the preservation of collections of the National Museum in the Armory Building:
For care of the Armory Building and grounds and expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the duplicate collections of the Government and of the property of the United States Fish Commission contained therein, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, two thousand five hundred dollars. Cases, furniture, and fixtures; salaries, etc., of employees.For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For eases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of the United States National Museum, and for salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars.
Heating and lighting.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. smithsonian institution. Smithsonian Institution.For finishing, heating, gas-fitting, plumbing, and completely furnishing the eastern portion of the Smithsonian Institution, and for finishing the fourth and fifth stories, including liabilities already incurred, fifteen thousand dollars. Ethnological researches; salaries, etc., of employees.For North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution:
For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the American 215 Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island. For completing shop H, an iron-finishing shop, for the armory, fifty- five thousand dollars.
For armory-shop K, an iron-finishing shop, fifty thousand dollars. For completing storehouse numbered four, fifty four thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvement; for building new roads ; for care and preservation of the water ¡lower; 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, ten thousand dollars.
For completion of the improvement of the water-pool above the dam, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. 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 fifty dollars. For Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California:Benicia, Cal. For permanent repairs of post and fences, four thousand and fifty-five dollars.
For Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Frankford, Philadelphia. For connecting outlet of brick sewer in the vicinity of officers quarters with Frankford Creek, one thousand dollars. For woodworking machinery, one thousand six hundred dollars. For one rectilinear lens and outfit for photographing drawings, three hundred dollars. For new slate roof on niter storehouse, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For the San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas:San Antonio. For completing the two-story storehouse, ten thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing one set of officers’ quarters, and sheds to the same, three thousand dollars. For Picatinny Powder Depot, Dover, New Jersey, forty thousandPicatinny powder Depot. dollars. For the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey : For expenses of repairs and alteration of buildings at Sandy Hook;Sandy Hook Proving Ground. purchase and repairs of machinery, steam-engines, shafting and belting, and all other permanent repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For building for storage purposes at the proving-ground, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts:Springfield. For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not. used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen 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, thirty thousand dollars.
For erecting a new wall and underpinning part of old wall of southU. S. arsenal, Gray’s Ferry road, Philadelphia. side of United States arsenal on Gray’s Ferry road, at Philadelphia, twenty thousand dollars. 216 buildings and grounds in and around washington.Public buildings and grounds, Washington, D. C.Site and pedestal for monument to late President Garfield. For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of the late President Janies A. Garfield, thirty thousand dollars; said site to be selected by and said pedestal to be erected under the supervision of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library’, and the chairman of the Garfield Monumental Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland.
Unveiling statue of late Rear-Admiral Du Pont.To defray the expenses attending the unveiling of the statue of the late Rear Admiral Du Pont, to be erected in Du Pont Circle, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, to be expended under the direction of His Secretary of War. Improvement and care of public grounds.Items.For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: For improving, care, and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, six thousand dollars.
For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue between Fourth and Sixth streets east, two thousand dollars. For improving reservation on North Carolina avenue between Second and Third streets east, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars.
For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, two thousand 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, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving, care, and maintenance of various reservations five thousand dollars.
For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, five thousand dollars. For improvement of Washington Circle, two thousand dollars. Executive Mansion.For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows: For care and repair of and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds:
For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, gas-fitting and plumbing, purchase and erection of lamps and lampposts, purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand *Proviso.*dollars: *Provided,* That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and 217 keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for I he same or less price, 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 extendingRepairs of water pipe, dealing of springs, 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 connecting Capitol and Departments.
Printing Office: For care and repair of the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments: ForBuilding for State, War, and Navy Departments. continuing the construction of t be building walls of the several stories of the west and center wings, preparation of cut granite for the upper stories of the same, and for each and every purpose connected with the construction of the building, including the rent of necessary office-rooms, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. military posts.Military posts.
For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred thousand dollars. For the addition of one story to the public building for a quartermaster and commissary depot, in process of construction at Saint Paul, Minnesota, to be used as offices for officers of the Department of Dakota, fifteen thousand dollars. signal service. To be expended by the Secretary of War: For the observation and report of storms:
For expenses of the meteorologicalObservation and report of storms. observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal, or otherwise announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of instruments, five thousand five hundred dollars; for telegraphing reports, one hundred and thirty six thousand dollars; for expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, and other signals on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, ten thousand dollars; for cotton-belt reports, seven thousand dollars; for continuing the connections of stations at life-saving stations and lighthouses, including services of operators, repairmen, materials, and general service connected therewith, five thousand five hundred dollars; *Provided,* That such connections,*Proviso.* in the opinion of the Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service and the Light-House Board, shall be deemed necessary; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument-shelters, two thousand dollars; for rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, and other expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports, outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars; for river and flood reports, ten thousand dollars; maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and*Proviso.* forty-one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the work of no other Department, Bureau, or Commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this Bureau.
For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines, twenty-fourMilitary-tele-graph lines. thousand dollars. For the establishment of signal stations upon the island of Nantucket,Signal stations on Nantucket Island; submarine telegraphic communications, etc. and of submarine telegraphic communication from such stations to the mainland twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. 218 Pay, etc.Pay: For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants, twenty-six thousand live hundred dollars; for longevity pay to officers, to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand dollars; for pay of one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and twenty privates, including payment due on discharge, two hundred thousand dollars; for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders, five thousand dollars; cost of telegrams in regard to discharged men, two hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of contract surgeon, one thousand two hundred dollars; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, eight thousand two hundred and eight dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-five thousand one hundred and fifty eight dollars.
And the Officers d for duty in Service.Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed six commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized bylaw; and of the three officers serving in the Arctic Seas. Subsistence.Subsistence: For the subsistence of Signal Service enlisted men, and for commutation of rations of Signal Service enlisted men, including nine thousand and ninety dollars and ninety cents for subsistence stores, authorized articles for sales to officers and enlisted men and company messes, as allowed by paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
Regular supplies.Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for officers and enlisted men at Fort Myer, Virginia, and for various offices at Fort Myer, Virginia, and on the United States military-telegraph lines, six thousand two hundred dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at nine dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and forty-three enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars; forage for twenty-five mules and six horses, three thousand one hundred dollars; straw for thirty one animals, at seven dollars each per annum, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-right, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and seventeen dollars; straw’ for forty enlisted men at post of Fort Myer, Virginia, and for hospital at that post, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-six, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, forty-six dollars and eight cents; stationery, one hundred dollars; stoves and repairs to heating apparatus, six hundred dollars; lights, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty one dollars and eight cents.
Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses: Office furniture for post of Fort Myer, Virginia, one hundred dollars; horse and mule shoes, five hundred dollars; blacksmith’s and miscellaneous tools, four hundred dollars; veterinary supplies, three hundred dollars; fire apparatus and disinfectants, two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars. Interment of officers and men.For interment of officers and men, two hundred dollars. Deserters.For apprehension of deserters, one hundred and twenty dollars.
Transportation,Transportation : For transportation of material and funds, twenty- five thousand dollars; for transportation of men, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; means of transportation, namely, five mules, at not exceeding two hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars ; one set six-mule harness, eighty-five dollars ; one set four-mule ambulance harness, forty-five dollars ; for leather, iron, and timbers for repairs to means of transportation, five hundred dollars; in all, thirty- five thousand five hundred and five dollars.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For commutation of quarters to enlisted men of the Signal Corps, eighty-four thousand one hundred and eight dollars; work and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, one thousand five 219 hundred dollars; work and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, on hospital account, three hundred dollars ; in all, eighty-live thousand nine hundred and eight dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For six wall tents, complete,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. at nineteen dollars and thirty cents each, and for other articles to replace 1 hose worn out in service, four hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents; clothing issues in kind, say complete outfits for one hundred and twelve men of the Signal Corps, at an average of forty-three dollars and seventy five cents per man per annum, four thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents.
Medical department: For medical attendance and medicines forMedical Department. officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, five thousand dollars ; medical attendance and medicines for officers doing duty in connection with the Signal Service, one hundred dollars; medical and hospital supplies at. Fort Myer, Virginia, seven hundred dollars; medicines furnished to officers and enlisted men from purveying depots and Army dispensaries, one thousand dollars; materials for repairs of hospitals at Fort Myer, Virginia, two hundred dollars ; in all, seven thousand dollars.
And there shall not be expended from any moneys appropriated by*Post,* p. 107. the act entitled ‘‘An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes,” any money for the support of theAppropriation for expenses of Signal Service of Army limited, etc. Signal Service or Corps, except the pay of such commissioned officers as the Secretary of War may detail for service in that corps, and except the appropriation of five thousand dollars therein contained for expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, and excepting also the pay and allowances of fourteen enlisted men detailed from the line of the Army serving with Lieutenant Greely in the Arctic regions.
That a joint commission, consisting of three Senators, to be appointedJoint Congressional committee appointed to secure greater efficiency, etc., in Signal Service, etc.; to report to Congress. by the President of the Senate, and three members of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall consider the present organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, with the view to secure greater efficiency and economy of administration of the public service in said Bureaus; and said joint commission shall report to their respective Houses on or before the third Monday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, their conclusions, by bill or report. national cemeteries.National Cemeteries.
For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-three superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For grading, sodding, and erecting a suitable monument, with headstones, and for curbing or fence for the cemetery lot at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, occupied by the bodies of soldiers dying in the service, three thousand dollars.
For completing the Macadam road from Fort Scott, Kansas, to the national cemetery near said city, ten thousand dollars. To transfer the remains of forty-six soldiers buried at Fort Churchill to the cemetery at Carson City, Nevada, one thousand dollars. To purchase additional grounds at or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a national cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars. For purchase of additional land for the Cyprus Hills National Cemetery, near Brooklyn, New York, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.
For the completion of the road from Chattanooga to the national cemetery near that city, two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That Said work shall be first advertised and let to the lowest bidder; and no 220 part of this sum shall be expended for anything except for labor and material on said road. For the construction and completion of a macadamized road from Springfield, Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, twenty thousand dollars; and none of said money shall be expended until contracts shall be made for the completion of said road for the sum hereby appropriated. miscellaneous objects.
Maps for War Department.For publication of maps for use of the War Department, five thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, electrotyping copperplates for chart-printing, three thousand dollars. Mississippi River Commission.For the Mississippi River Commission, as follows: For salaries and traveling expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, and for salaries and traveling expenses of assistant engineers under them, and for office expenses and contingencies, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Transportation of maps and reports to foreign countries.For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, three hundred dollars. Support, etc., of paupers.For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers: For the care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution us the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars.
Artificial limbs.For artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars. Surgical appliances.For appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars. Publication official records the rebellion.For the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, as follows:
For continuing the publication of the official records, and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, of a compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, of the war of the rebellion, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal 22 Stat.,618.year, to be distributed as required by act of March third, eighteen *Proviso.*hundred and eighty three, thirty-six thousand dollars : *Provided,* That Time for distribution extended.the time fixed in said act during which said publication oh all be subject to the order of Senators Representatives and Delegates and shall be extended from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty five; and any act or joint resolution to the contrary be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Military convicts.For the expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, ten thousand dollars. Replacement of bridge across Republican River, Fort Riley, Kansas.For the replacement of a bridge across the Republican River, near Fort Riley, Kansas, under direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to reserve and retain out of any moneys due or that may become due from the Government of the United States to the State of Kansas a sum equal to the amount expended for the replacement of said bridge in accordance with the action of the legislature of Kansas approved November sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty three Bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs.Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs:
For payment of amounts of bounty to volunteer soldiers who served in the war of the rebellion, and their widows and their legal heirs, which may be cer- 221 tified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, sixty thousand dollars. Bounty under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred andBounty, act July 28, 1866. sixty-six: For payment of amounts of additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty six, which may be certified to be’ due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, forty thousand dollars Pay of two and three year volunteers:
For payment of amounts toPay, two and three year volunteers. two and three year volunteers who served in the war of the rebellion which may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, forty thousand dollars. Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas: For supplyingArmy and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. the bathhouse, main building, and annex with hot and cold mineral waters, eight thousand dollars. united states military prison at fort leavenworth.
For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,United States military prison, Fort Leavenworth. as follows: For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen, twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.Appropriations for. For subsistence for prisoners while being transferred under guard, one hundred dollars.Items For oil, wicking, and for lamps, lanterns, and chimneys for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars.
For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor five hundred and forty dollars. For prisoner’s iron bunks, bed sacks, hay, and blankets, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars. For stationery and blank-books for offices of governor, adjutant, quartermaster; stamped envelopes and letter paper for use of prisoners; and for books, periodicals, and newspapers for prison library, nine hundred and fifty dollars. For hard wood, or its equivalent in coal, for making steam, heating, and cooking, and for rubber hose, belting,oil, cotton waste, steam-pipes, and fixtures, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.
For tools and material in shops, laundry, stables, and for police purposes ; repair of harness and wagons; disinfectants; horse medicines, five thousand dollars. For stoves and stovepipe in buildings not heated by steam, two hundred dollars. For bricks for cisterns and walks, and for coping-stone to complete prison-wall, five hundred dollars. For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, and articles required in the care and treatment of the sick; hospital repairs, furniture, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses for pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars. - For donations of five dollars each for prisoners on discharge, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred dollars For grain and hay for horses and mules, used exclusively at the prison, three thousand five hundred and seventy one dollars and ninety-seven cents. For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month ; one clerk, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty- six cents per month ; one clerk, at one hundred dollars per month ; six foremen of mechanics, at one hundred dollars per month each; two nightwatchmen and five teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents. 222 For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison-guard, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy cents.
For construction and repair of prison buildings and officers’ and guards’ quarters, three thousand dollars. For material for clothing for prisoners, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars. Artillery School, Fortress Monroe.For the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provide for textbooks, drawing materials, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for use of the school, five thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
National Home for Disabled volunteers, Dayton, Ohio.For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers as follows: For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio, five hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars; Milwaukee,Wisconsin.For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one hundred and twenty four thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars;
Togus, Maine.For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine, one hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars; Hampton, Virginia.For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia, one hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and thirty seven dollars ; Clothing and bedding.For clothing and bedding for six thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven members of the Home, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars;
New hospital.For Southern Branch, to build and complete new hospital, eighty-seven thousand dollars; Incidental expenses.For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one million two hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars. Bounty and prize money to colored soldiers and sailors, etc.For the collection and payment of bounty, prize money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors: For payment of agents; rent of offices; stationery, office furniture, and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents; telegraphing, postage, and post office • money-orders, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
UNDER THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Leave of absence to letter carriers,To enable the Postmaster-General to carry out the provisions of the law allowing fifteen days’ leave of absence with pay to letter carriers, fifty thousand dollars. ELECTORAL MESSENGERS. Electoral for President and Vice-President, expenses, etc.,of.Conveying votes of electors for President and Vice President: For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty- five cents for every mile of the estimated distance, by the most usual road traveled, from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for the one distance only, nine thousand dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Home of Little Sisters of the Poor.For the construction of an addition to the building known as the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, in the City of Washington, Po Lieu-court building.District of Columbia, twenty five thousand dollars; for repairs to the police court building, District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred 223 dollars; one half of said sums to be paid out of any money in the Treasury of the United States, and the other half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Reform School, District of Columbia: For one school-bell in tower ofReform School main building, one hundred and fifty dollars; necessary repairs to main building, including painting outside and inside, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs to the court house at’Washington, District of Columbia:Courthouse. 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. miscellaneous.
For the expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: For defrayingTerritorial courts in 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 court; and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suits in claims against the United States. the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia pending in any Department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars. For the prosecution and collection of claims:
For expenses to be incurredProsecution,etc., of claims duo the United States. in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. For punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds: For detectingViolations of intercourse acts and frauds. 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 collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
For the prosecutions of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecution of crimes. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment, and for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including 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, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall beRecords and open to the examination of his duly authorized agents, thirty five thousand dollars.dockets open to examination, etc.
For compiling and printing two hundred copies of the compilation ofCompilation of certain laws affecting the government of Alaska. laws applicable to the. duties of the governor, attorney, judges, clerk, marshals, and commissioners for the district of Alaska, provided for by section eleven of the act approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, five hundred dollars. 224 JUDICIAL united states courts. Expenses of United States courts.For expenses of the United States courts:
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court, the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; of the jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution for offenses committed against the United States; for the safekeeping of prisoners; for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, namely, those stated in the following itemized list:
Marshals and deputies.For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshals and deputies, six hundred thousand dollars. For compensation of the district marshals of the United States, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars. District attorneys and assistants.For payments of United States district attorneys and their assistants, three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. For compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, twenty thousand one hundred dollars.
Clerks.For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Proviso.**Provided,* That the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States shall, on the first day of January next, or within thirty days thereafter, and annually thereafter, make to the Secretary of the Treasury a return of all costs collected by him in cases disposed of at the preceding term or terms of said Supreme Court; and, after deducting his compensation as provided by law, and the incidental expenses of his office, including clerk-hire, said expenses to be certified by the Chief Justice or a justice of said court, shall pay any surplus that may remain into the Treasury of the United States at the time of making said return.
United States Commissioners,Jurors.Witnesses.Support of United States prisoners.Rent of courtrooms.Bailiffs, criers, janitors, etc.For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars, For fees of jurors, four hundred thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses, five hundred thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing: and medical aid, three hundred thousand dollars.
For rent of United States courtrooms, fifty thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs, criers, and for janitors, watchmen, and interpreters experts, and stenographers whose employment is authorized by the Attorney-General; expenses of district judges who may be sent out of their districts to bold a court; furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is a party in interest; meals for jurors, when ordered by the court; compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars for each day actually and necessarily employed, not exceeding three days for any one term of the court; and other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Convicts, support of.Fort be support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, and for the necessary traveling expenses incident to the collection of criminal statistics, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars. Uniform system of bookkeeping for court officials.For providing a uniform system of bookkeeping for court officials, to be expended under direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS. Hartford and New York Transportation Company ; payment to.To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York Transportation Company for labor and money expended in removing obstructions and dredging and improving the bars and piers in the Connecticut River, be- 225 low Hartford, in eighteen hundred and eighty-two and eighteen hundred and eighty-three, under the advice and by the recommendation of the United States engineer officers in charge, six thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-two cents.
To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York Transportation Company for money expended in maintaining a temporary light on the breakwater at the mouth of the Connecticut River from February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, while the work was in progress, and under an arrangement with the United States engineer officers in charge of the work, the same to be paid from the unexpended appropriation for the erection of a Government light there, made in eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and to be immediately available, two thousand one hundred and twenty four dollars.
SENATE To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to J. P. Voorhees, H. G.J. P. Voorhees. Williams, and C. B. Lapham, clerks during the second session of theH. G. Williams. Forty seventh Congress to the Select Committees of the Senate on AdditionalC. B. Lapham. Accommodations for the Library, on the River Front of Washington, and on Woman Suffrage, respectively, an amount sufficient to malto the compensation of each equal to that paid to per diem clerks of other committees during said session, the same being the difference between the sum paid to said clerks by way of compensation during said session and the allowance under the legislative bill of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, construing the words “ during the session ” to mean four months; and a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated and made immediately available.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Mrs. Mary Ross,Mary Ross. widow of James Ross, deceased, late an employee of the Senate, the sum of fifty-one dollars, due him for services rendered in the folding-room of the Senate. To pay W. C. Frye, assistant conductor of the elevator, one hundredW. C. Frye. and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents being the difference between the pay of a laborer and that of a skilled laborer from October fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
To reimburse Benjamin Durfee for money advanced by him and toBenjamin Dur-fee. compensate him for labor bestowed in the compilation of the tariff statistics of the United States (Senate Report Number Twelve, Forty -eighth Congress, first session), in pursuance of Senate resolution or March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Joint Committee on Public Printing to complete theClassified, etc., catalogue of Government publications. preparation, proofreading, and indexing of the classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of Government publications, and of publications of public interest purchased by the United States for use or distribution, four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the final completion of the work, which may be expended us additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For six hundred copies of volume two of Lewis Heyl’s work entitledHeyl’s United States Duties on Imports. “United States Duties on Imports,” edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars; one copy for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate, and the residue for the use of the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. To pay J. C. Courts for clerical services rendered to the House membersJ.
C. Courts. of the Joint commission to consider the question of the salaries of the officers and employees of the House and Senate, authorized by the 226 act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, three hundred dollars. Extra pay.To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives borne on the annual and session rolls on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, including the official reporters of the two Houses and the Capitol police, one months extra pay, at the compensation then paid them by law, which sum shall be immediately available.
Ono month’s extra pay.That all officers and employees of the Senate and House, including the Capitol police, who were employed on the third day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty three, or subsequently by resolution of either House, and who prior to the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty four, ceased to be so employed, shall be paid a sum equal to one months pay at the rate they were severally receiving on the third day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or subsequently, as above provided; and an amount sufficient for this purpose is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not Proviso.otherwise appropriated, and the same shall be immediately available: *Provided,* That but one months allowance shall be paid in any ease, and the same shall not be paid to any person who shall receive one month,s extra pay under the preceding paragraph.
Charles H. Evans.To pay Charles H. Evans, Treasury clerk, for services rendered on request of Ways and Means Committee, one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty cents. W. B. Green.To pay W. B. Green one hundred and eighty dollars, for services as clerk to the subcommittee on accounts from January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, inclusive. Charles Carter.To pay Charles Carter for cleaning extra room of the House Committee on Appropriations, sixty dollars.
J. B. Fay.To pay J. B. Fay for services rendered in the Library of Congress in classifying, cataloguing, and placing in rooms prepared for them in the Library of Congress the collection of bound volumes of newspapers turned over from the State and War Departments, three hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-four cents. Frederick W.To pay Frederick W. Steigelman, being the difference between his Steigelman.salary and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-five cents.
Assistant, preparing general index to Journals of Congress.For the assistant to the person preparing the general index to the Journals of Congress, authorized under the resolution of May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING Public printing, binding, paper, and materials.For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the 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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
Distribution.For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, one million one hundred and fifty three thousand one hundred and seventy dollars; for the State Department, ten thousand eight 227 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.332, 333. 1884. hundred dollars, for the Treasury Department, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and fifty seven thousand five hundred 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, sixty three thousand dollars ; for the Interior Department, three hundred and forty two thousand dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office); for the Department of Justice, nine thousand dollars ; for the Post Office Department, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars ; for the Agricultural Department, twenty two thousand five hundred dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, eighteen thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; for the Court of Claims, nine thousand dollars; and for the Library of Congress, thirteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
And noDisbursement of appropriation. more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. That it shall not be lawful for the head of any Executive DepartmentAuthority for printing. or of any Bureau, branch, or office of the Government, to cause to be printed, nor shall the Public Printer print, any document or matter of any character whatever except that which is authorized by law and necessary to administer the public business, nor shall any Bureau officer embrace in his annual or other report to be printed any matter not directly pertaining to the duties of his office as prescribed by law, That the Joint Committee on Public Printing is hereby instructed toJoint Committee on Public Printing to investigate and report on printing and binding, etc. examine into the numbers printed of the various documents, reports, bills, and other papers published by order of Congress, or of either House thereof, and of the Congressional Record, and to report a bill in December next, making such reductions in the numbers and cost of printing, and such changes and reductions in the distribution of said publications as they may deem expedient with a report giving their reasons therefor; and that the said committee is also instructed to investigate the printing anti binding for the Executive Departments, executed at the Government Printing Office and at the branch printing offices and binderies in the various Departments and report a bill in December next making such reductions in expenses and imposing such checks as they may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons therefor; and said committee is further instructed to make any other investigations calculated in their opinion to reduce the cost of the public printing, and report the result thereof j and the said committee is hereby authorized to summon and to examine experts and witnesses, and to call upon the heads of Executive Departments and the Public Printer for such information regarding the preceding matters as they may desire; and any expenses necessarily incurred in making the investigations aforesaid shall be defrayed equally from the contingent funds of the two Houses of Congress.
Approved, July 7, 1884.