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CHAP. 359.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for prior years, and for other purposes.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriation for year ending June 30, 1885, and for prior years. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen bundled and eighty-five, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.State Department. For contingent expenses, being a deficiency on account of the fiscalContingent expenses. year eighteen hundred and eighty .-four, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-six cents. For salary of stenographer to the Secretary of State from March fifteenthStenographer. to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-four cents. To enable the Department of State to ascertain what records or otherTo further provide for ascertaining and procuring records and documents relating to French spoliation claims, under act of January 20, 1885. documents are in existence either in France or Spain or the French colonies affecting the rights or claims of American citizens under the act of Congress approved January twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty five, entitled “An act to provide for the ascertainment of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and one,” and to procure said records and documents, or certified copies thereof, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, this amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State and to be immediately available.
For payment of a draft of T. McF. Patton, United States consul atT. McF. Patton.Payment of draft of. Osaka and Hiogo, Japan, drawn in payment of salary of the interpreter at said consulate for the third quarter of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents. To pay to Luoise R. S. Wing, the widow of E. Rumsey Wing, lateLouise R. S. Wing.Payment to. minister of the, United States to Ecuador, a sum equal to the salary of said minister for six months, in addition to all legal allowances.
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 359. 1885.447 To pay to Louise F. Hunt, the widow of William H. Hunt, late envoyLouise F. Hunt. extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia, aPayment to. sum equal to the salary of said minister for six months, in addition to all legal allowances. foreign intercourseForeign intercourse. For payment of the annual rental of legation buildings in Tokyo,Rent of legation buildings in Tokio, Japan. Japan, up to March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three thousand four hundred dollar s.
To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money Settlement of accounts of certain consular officers.from the Treasury, to effect a proper settlement of the accounts of certain consular officers by reimbursing the account of consular fees, being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, thirty-five thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, twenty-one dollars and eighty-two cents.
To pay amounts found due to certain consular officers on the settlementPayment of amounts due to certain consular officers. of their accounts, being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty five cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, sixty dollars and thirty-three cents. To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money from theMorton, Rose & Co.
Treasury, to effect a proper settlement of the accounts of Morton, Rose andSettlement of account of. Company, United States bankers at London, for drafts of United States ministers paid by them, by a transfer of the amount to their account of consular surplus fees, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four, thirteen thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and seventy four cents. To pay the balance found due to J. R. Young, United States ministerJ.
R. Young.Payment of balance due on account of contingent expenses. to China, on his account of contingent expenses to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety-three cents. To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any moneyG. H. Heap.Settlement of account of. from the Treasury, to allow from the unexpended balance of said appropriation for the fiscal year ending eighteen hundred and eighty-three the amount disbursed by G.
H. Heap, secretary of legation at Constantinople, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, five hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money John S. Mosby. Settlement of accounts of.from the Treasury, to effect a proper settlement of the accounts of John S. Mosby, United States consul at Hong-Kong, by reimbursing the account of consular fees, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, three thousand dollars.
To enable the accounting officers to pay to Eugene Schuyler, lateEugene Schuyler.Payment to, under R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309. United States minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, the amount allowed under section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes for his transit from his late post (at Athens) to his residence in the United States, namely, from November second, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to December fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six hundred dollars and fifty four cents.
To reimburse Thomas B. Van Buren for expenses incurred by him in Thomas B Van Buren.Payment to.the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy six for the relief and transmission to the United States of three discharged naval seamen, forty-seven dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to pay the bills of expense incurredF. W. Rice.To pay bills for care of abandoned ship. from May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to September sixth, eighteen bundled and eighty three, inclusive, by F.
W. Rice, then consul of the United States at Colon, in caring for an American vessel, the Mary C. Comery, abandoned by her master and crew in the harbor at that place, five hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. 448 To enable the Secretary of State to pay the claim of the native authoritiesClaim of native authorities of Manila. of Manila for assistance rendered in the year eighteen hundred and seventy four to the shipwrecked crew of the American brig Leonora, sixty seven dollars and eighteen cents.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For salary of Commissioner of Navigation from July fifth, eighteen Salary of Commissioner of Navigation.hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, at four thousand dollars per annum, three thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty-eight cents. For additional compensation to the clerk acting as Commissioner ofAdditional compensation to clerk. Navigation from September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to use twoPayment of employees of division of warrants for extra labor. thousand five hundred and fifty dollars of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for his office to pay employees of the division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations of his office for extra labor performed by them prior to May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, outside of the regular office-hours of the Department, to be paid in such sums as shall seem to him to be just and equitable, having reference to the value of the services rendered to the Government by each employee respectively.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay additional compensationAdditional compensation for services rendered and expenses incurred by employees, in exchange of Government securities.Compensation to clerks and employees of Third Auditors Office of the treasury for extra work done at night.*Proviso*. for services rendered by employees of his Department, and for expenses incurred by them, in connection with the exchange of Government securities in London in eighteen hundred and eighty-one. one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To compensate the clerks and employees of the Third Auditor’s Office of the Treasury for extra work done at night during the months of April, May, June, and July, eighteen hundred and eighty three, in copying the roll of pensioners in said office, seven thousand eight bun died and thirty two dollars and eighty-one cents: *Provided*, That each clerk and employee shall be entitled to one half-day’s pay for each night’s work actually performed, to be computed on the basis of his then current salary.
For old customhouse, Saint Louis, Missouri: Paving Third streetSaint Louis. Mo.Paving streets in front of old customhouse. front, one thousand and forty-one dollars and seventy four cents; paying Olive street front, nine hundred and forty six dollars and forty nine cents. For paving and curbing street on north front of court house and post officeSpringfield, Ill.Paving and curbing street on north front of court-house.Lake View. Ill.Paving street. at Springfield, Illinois, eight hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-five cents.
For paving Halstead street adjacent to marine-hospital lot in Lake View, Illinois, two hundred and sixty four dollars. internal revenue. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to collectors of InternalPayment of collectors of internal revenue. revenue for services rendered during the period between the expiration of their first commissions and the date of taking the oath of office under their second commissions, one thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety two cents.
Salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalSalaries of agents, etc. revenue: Additional amount necessary to pay salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, for fees and expenses of gaugers,Fees of gaugers.miscellaneous expenses. for salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, fifty-eight thousand dollars. 449 Salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue:
To pay expensesSalaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue. incurred during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, by collectors of internal revenue, under authority of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in securing a more thorough collection of taxes due upon spirits distilled from fruit, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.Contingent expenses.R.
S.. sec. 3653, p.719. For contingent expenses, under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofAmounts due on account of checks and certificates of deposit. checks and certificates of deposit, independent Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, fourteen dollars and sixty-two cents.
For depositary at Tucson, Arizona in addition to his pay as postmaster,Depositary, Tucson, Ariz. being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars. mints and assay-offices. For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, and other necessaries,Assay laboratory, chemicals, etc. five hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, assay-office at Helena, five hundred dollars.Assay-office, Helena.Workmen and contingent expenses.Assay-office, Boise City.Wages and contingent expenses.A.
Wolters.Reimbursement to. For contingent expenses, assay-office at Helena, one thousand five hundred dollars. For wages and contingent expenses, assay-office at Boise City, four hundred and sixty dollars. To reimburse A. Wolters, late assayer in charge, for amount expended by him, as shown by vouchers paid by him, in excess of the amount of funds advanced, and disallowed by the accounting officers as an expenditure in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-six cents. territories.
For salary of the additional associate justice of the supreme court ofSalary of additional associate justice of supreme court of Washington Territory.*Ante* p. 101. the Territory of Washington, authorized by act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, from September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five at three thousand dollars per annum, two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty cents. And all suits or proceedings pending in the district courts of DakotaSuits pending in district courts, Dakota and Washington Territories, may be transferred to new district. and Washington Territories at the time of the passage of said act, and which would, if instituted after the passage of said act, be required to be brought in the new districts created and provided for in said act, may be transferred by consent of parties to said new district courts, and there disposed of in like manner and with like effect as if the same had been there instituted; and all writs and recognizances relating to such suits and proceedings so transferred shall be considered as belonging to the courts of the said new districts respectively in the same manner and with like effect as if they bad issued or had been taken inSkamania and Spokane counties, Wash.
Terr., made a part of fourth judicial district.Legislative expenses. reference thereto originally; and the counties of Skamania and Spokane, in said Washington Territory, shall constitute part of the fourth judicial district thereof until the legislature shall meet and otherwise provide. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for legislative expenses, Territory of Dakota, four thousand four hundred dollars. 450 To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryAmount due on account of legislative expenses, New Mexico.R.
A. Sidebotham. on account of legislative expenses, Territory of New Mexico, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two hundred dollars. To reimburse R. A. Sidebotham, secretary of the Territory of Idaho,Reimbursement to. the amount over deposited by him and covered into the Treasury, as reported by the First Comptroller ninety dollars. life-saving service. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to expend fromVolunteer surfmen of the Cleveland Life-Boat Station. the appropriation “Life-Saving Service, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” for payment of volunteer surfmen of the Cleveland Life-Boat Station. ten men, ten days each, for services rendered, under the direction of the Keeper of the station named, on the occasion of the great flood of the Ohio River in the month of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, such sum as in bis discretion shall be just, not exceeding five dollars per day to each person for each day’s service.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to expend fromL. M. Clemons.Reimbursement to. the appropriation. “ Life-Saving Service, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,” for reimbursement of L. M. Clemons, keeper of the Point Marblehead Life-Boat Station, ninth district, for moneys expended for the transportation of the life-saving apparatus from the station named to Sandusky, Ohio, and return, on the occasion of the great flood of the Ohio River in the month of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the sum of four dollars. engraving and printing.
For engraving, printing, and finishing United States notes, gold andEngraving, printing, and finishing U. S. notes, etc.National bank notes. silver certificates, registered bonds for transfers, and other securities, fifteen thousand dollars. For engraving (except face-plates), printing, and finishing circulating notes for national banking associations, forty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryAmounts due on account of labor and expenses of engraving and printing. on account of labor and expenses of engraving and printing, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-seven cents. united states fish commission.
For propagation of food-fishes, twelve thousand dollars.Propagation of food-fishes.Clark & Given.Payment to. For coal furnished by Clark and Given, Washington, District of Columbia, for the offices of the United States Fish Commission during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For repairs to the vessels of the United States Fish Commission madeRepairs of vessels. during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents.
Assistant Commissioner.And the assistant to the United States Fish Commissioner authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-two, page six hundred and twenty eight), shall hereafter be designated as assistant commissioner. For amount due George W. Knox, being for freight delivered duringGeo. W. Knox. the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, fifty-eight dollars and ninety cents. For amount due George W.
Knox, being for freight delivered on account of the vessels of the United States Fish Commission during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, twenty-one dollars and seventy-two cents. To pay the New York Herald for advertising, October twenty-eighth,Payment to.N. Y. Herald, Payment to. eighteen hundred and eighty-one, et sequentes, for proposals to build 451 the steamer Albatross, authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, thirty-one dollars and twenty cents. miscellaneous treasury.
The Attorney General of the United States is required to investigateAttorney-General of U. S., to investigate judgements, etc., against United States, arising under act approved 1875, vol. 18, ch. 166, p. 506, and report to Congress.Transfer of appropriations.Treasury Department. the judgments and awards against the United States arising under an act of Congress entitled “an act to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers in the State of Wisconsin ” approved March third eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and to report to Congress at its next session whether the liability of the United States therefor is established and what amount is justly due thereon.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the appropriations for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, gas, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty four”, a sum not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars, and from “ Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, carpets, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty four,” a sum not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars, and from “contingent expenses, Treasury Department, furniture, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” a sum not exceeding two thousand six hundred dollars, and from “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, file-holders and cases, eighteen hundred and eighty four,” a sum not exceeding two thousand eight hundred dollars, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, furniture, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, horses, wagons, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” so much as may be required to supply a deficiency in the appropriation “ Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, miscellaneous items, eighteen hundred and eighty-five,” not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, investigation of accounts, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” so much as may be required to supply a deficiency in the appropriation “ contingent expenses, Treasury Department, freight, telegrams, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars. To pay A. W. Bash on account of expenses of collecting the revenueA.
W. Bash, payment to. from customs prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, seven hundred and forty-six dollars. To pay Phelps, Stokes and Company on account of refunding taxes Phelps, Stokes & Co., payment to.illegally collected prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (internal revenue), four thousand and twenty dollars and thirty-six cents. Repairs and preservation of customhouses, courthouses, and otherRepairs and preservation of customhouses, etc. public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, fifteen thousand dollars For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personalAssistant custodians and janitors. services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shallProviso. so apportion this sum as to avoid any further deficiency on this account during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
Fuel, light, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitorsFuel, light, water.Miscellaneous. and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal service, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, twenty-five thousand dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for care, custody, and protection of lauds and other property of the United States, being for expenses incurred by the Solicitor of the Treasury in perfecting the title 452 of the United States to certain lands in Pennsylvania, and for advertising the sale of lands, as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, twenty-six dollars and ninety-five cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, nineteen dollars and ninety-five cents. For payment to the credit of the Union Pacific Railway CompanyPayment to credit of the Union Pacific Railway Company. (Kansas division) for transportation furnished January tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, on account of the ethnological exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution at the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, thirty-three dollars and forty cents.
To reimburse the keeper and assistant keeper of the Sharp’s Island Light-Station,Reimbursement to keeper and assistant at Sharp’s Island Light-Station, Maryland. Maryland, for actual loss of personal property sustained by them at the time said fight-station was carried away by ice, February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred dollars. That in addition to the amount received from duties on tonnage under section fifteen of the act of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and Unexpended balances of amounts collected from seamen.R.
S., sec. 4585, p. 888.R. S., sec. 4586, p. 888.R. S., sec. 4587, p. 888.Appropriated for expenses of Marine Hospital Service.Expenses of committee of National Academy of Sciences.eighty four, twenty-third Statutes, page fifty-seven, the unexpended balances of amounts, not exceeding one hundred and forty two thousand dollars, remaining in the Treasury of hospital dues collected from seamen under section forty-five hundred and eighty-five, forty-five hundred and eighty-six, and forty-five hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes, be, and the, same are hereby, appropriated and made available to meet the expenses of the Marine Hospital Service for the fiscal year ending, June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
For payment of the expenses of the committee of the National Academy of Sciences, incurred in preparing answers to inquiries of the joint commission considering the Government surveys, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents. national board of health. For salary of the Secretary of the Board from April first, eighteenSecretary of Board of Health. hundred and eighty-four, to March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
For pay of messenger from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Messenger. to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three hundred dollars. For rent of building from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Rent of building. to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, nine bundled dollars. COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of the judgments of the Court of Claims as follows:Judgments of Court of Claims, payment of. To the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars, with interest thereon at five per centum per annum from June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one;
Sallie H. Palmer, thirty dollars; James W. Harvey and James Livesey, forty-four thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents, with interest on sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-five cents thereof at five per centum per annum from November twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; Charles Morton, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seven cents; William H. Emory, one hundred and eighty-dollars; James H. North, three hundred and seventy-five dollars;
John M. Mueller, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-two cents; Joel F. Kinney, six thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty cents ; Jeremiah Harrison and William F. Harrison, nine hundred and forty dollars; Henry G. Brookings, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; Delvaille and Joubert, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-two cents; Levid J. Harris, executor, six thousand six hundred and six dollars and eight cents;
Aristide Delvaille, 453 four hundred and twenty-two dollars and ninety-three cents; theJudgments of Court of Claims, payment of, continued. National Match Company one hundred and thirty dollars; the Richardson Match Company four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; the Alligator Match Company, one thousand and fifty dollars; Frederick P. Newton, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; William Gates’s Sons, eight thousand four hundred and nineteen and eighty cents; Melvin T.
Fripp, administrator of J. E. Lawrence Fripp, four hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents; the Cape Ann Granite Company fifty three thousand two hundred and ninety one dollars; the board of field officers of the Fourth Brigade of South Carolina Volunteer State Troops, five thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents; Edgar A. Walz, twelve thousand three hundred and sixty five dollars and eleven cents; the Barbour Match Company, twelve thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars; the James G.
Hotchkiss Match Company, four hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-one cents; William J. Jenkins, five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents; the Saint Louis Wine Company, thirty-two dollars and thirty cents; the Home Bitters Company, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents; E. Wilder and Company, sixty-one dollars and twenty cents; John F. Henry, and Company, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-two cents; Bernard Riley, administrator of Thomas Gorman, one hundred dollars ;
V. E. Manger and John Petrie, junior, four hundred and sixty-four dollars and ten cents; V. B. Manger, one hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty cents; Seth W. Fowle and Son, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty cents; Robert Selden, one hundred dollars; Alexander C. Rhind, two hundred and fifty dollars; Charles H. McBlair, four hundred and fifty dollars; Stephen P. Quackenbush, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; James H. Watmough, five hundred dollars;
Dabney H. Maury, one hundred dollars; Marius Duvall, three hundred dollars; Douglas F. Forrest, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; Marius Duvall, executor of Joshua R. Sands, deceased, six hundred and twenty-five dollars; Augustus Eichele, six thousand and forty-four dollars and seventy-three cents; Mary H. Lanier, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; Henry H. Lewis, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; Samuel P. Carter, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
William B. Sinclair, three hundred dollars; Duncan N. Ingraham, six hundred and twenty-five dollars; Laura M. Chilton, one hundred and fifty dollars; Sarah L. Chander, one hundred and twenty dollars; Agnes R. Tilghman, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; Eloise J. Minor, four hundred dollars; Charles Thomas, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; John S. Manry, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; Cornelia A. Stanley, three hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Isaac Wilmoth, forty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, four thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-five cents; John W. Beaman, ninety-one dollars and eighty six cents; Thaddeus Thayer, eight hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents; Henry McGowan, three thousand dollars; Ezekial G. Byam, trading in the firm-name of Byam, Carlton Company, six thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents; Austin Messinger, two thousand and forty dollars;
William Roeber, five thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars; the Excelsior Match Company, one thousand and forty-eight dollars and nine cents; Herman W. Newbauer, trading under the name of Newbauer and Company, four thousand six hundred and nine dollars; James Eaton, three thousand four hundred and ten dollars; Henry Stanton, one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents; Phineas T. Ives, six hundred and ninety six dollars and seventy-eight cents;
B. Bendel and Company, two thousand six hundred dollars; the Clark Match Company, three hundred and twenty dollars; Aristides Welch, five hundred dollars; Thomas R. Bootes, three hundred and seventy- 454 five dollars; Lelia I. Sinclair, four hundred and fifty dollars; Elizabeth H. Spotts, two hundred and fifty dollars ; A. F. Warley, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; Merced G. Brent, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; William Leigh, four hundred and fifty dollars;
Eliza M. Fairfax, four hundred and fifty dollars; Eliza H. Ramsay, one hundred and fifty dollars; Van R. Morgan, two hundred and fifty dollars; John T. Mason, three hundred dollars; Frederick Chatard, four hundred and fifty dollars; M. C. Meigs, three thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; Joseph W. Harrison, thirty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents, in all, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty five dollars and nine cents; and a sufficient sum in addition thereto as may be necessary to pay the interest on the judgments in favor of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company and of James W.
Harvey and James Livesey as above provided is hereby Proviso.Not to be paid until right of appeal has expired.District of Columbia.appropriated: *Provided*, That none of the aforesaid judgments shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Metropolitan police, contingent expenses: To pay Washington Washington Gas-Light Company.Payment to.Public Printer, payment to.Gas-Light Company, gas for police headquarters, May and June eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, fifty dollars and eighty five cents.
Executive office, contingent expenses: To pay the Public Printer for printing and binding three hundred copies of Report of Commissioners for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, three hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-one cents. Miscellaneous expenses: To pay W. A. Gordon, for examination ofW. A. Gordon, payment to. title, March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, of lot eleven, block six, by order of A. G. Riddle, attorney District of Columbia, being a deficiency for eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty-five dollars.
Boundary intercepting sewer: That the unexpended balances ofBoundary intercepting sewer. appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, six thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty cents, are hereby reappropriated and made available for labor and material applied to that work under contract numbered three hundred and eighty-nine, dated May twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Assessor’s office: To pay G. A. Hall the difference between salary asAssessor’s office. messenger, at fifty dollars per month, and salary as clerk, at one thousand G. A. Hall, payment to.two hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to June first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eleven months, he having performed the duties of clerk during that lime, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, five hundred and fifty dollars.
Furniture for new school buildings: To pay J. W. Boteler and Son Furniture, new school buildings.J. W. Boteler & Son, payment to.Auditor’s office.Temporary clerk-hire.for furniture for Analostan school, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, six dollars anti fifty cents. Auditor’s office: For temporary clerk-hire to enable the auditor to bring up the books and arrange the records of bis office and to audit the books of the collector, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and forty three dollars and ninety-six cents.
District offices and markets: For fuel, ice, gas, repairs, and insurance,District offices and markets.Fuel, ice, gas, etc. being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, sixty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents. Streets: For cleaning and repairing lateral sewers and basins, fourStreets, sewers, etc. dollars and forty-eight cents; for cleaning tidal sewers, thirty-five dollars and eighty cents; in all, forty dollars and twenty-eight cents, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Metropolitan police: To complete the pay of the six membersMetropolitan police. of the police force detailed under the act of January thirty-first, eighteen 455 hundred and eighty-three, for special services in the detection andPay to members. 1883, vol. 29, ch. 41, p. 412. prevention of crime, for such service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and forty dollars. Fire department, contingent expenses: To pay the Great Falls IceFire depart meat.Great Falls lee Company, payment to.
Company for ice (June), eighteen hundred and eighty-four, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four three dollars and ninety seven cents For repairs to school buildings, being a deficiency for the fiscal yearRepairs, school buildings.Police court.United States marshals’ fees and contingent expenses.Expenses of assessing real property of District of Columbia.Clerks, payment to. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, sixty-four dollars and seventeen cents.
Police court: For United States marshals’ fees, thirty-two dollars and fifty’ cents; for contingent expenses, sixteen dollars and ninety-five cents; in all, forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Expenses of assessing real property of the District of Columbia: To pay the following-named persons for clerical services in making numerical and assessment books, namely: F. G. Cowie, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars;
G. A. Hall, four hundred and thirty five dollars; W. E. Morgan, five hundred and five dollars; George S. Bell, one hundred and eighty dollars; Thomas B. Shoemaker, forty-five dollars; William Griffin, nine hundred dollars; E. W. W. Griffin, nine hundred dollars; R. A. Fish, nine hundred dollars; Frank Wilson, nine hundred dollars; J. T. Thompson, one hundred and seventy-one dollars; Charles D. Mervin, thirty dollars; in all, five thousand one hundred and four dollars. And any balances of appropriations for the District of Columbia underBalances of appropriations for improvements and repairs for fiscal year 1885, unexpended by June 30, 1885, reappropriated.Fire department.Proceeds sale of Georgetown fish-wharf.Pamphlet laws, 48th Cong., 1st SESS., p. 129.Public schools. the head of improvements and repairs for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five that remain unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, may be applied to meeting deficiencies in any item of appropriations for the improvement or repair of streets and country roads for the same year.
Fire department: The proceeds of the sale of the Georgetown fish-wharf, namely, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and five cents, covered into the Treasury by the District appropriations act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall, in lieu thereof, be credited in equal parts to the United States and to the District of Columbia. Public schools: That two thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the contingent fund of the public schools for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
That three thousand dollars of the proceeds of the sale of square oneProceeds of sale of square known as Holmead Cemetery transferred to appropriation for contingent expenses of public schools year ending June 30, 1885.Rent of schoolrooms.Seth L. Phelps, reimbursement to. hundred and nine in the city of Washington, known as the Holmead Cemetery, shall be transferred by the Commissioners to the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the public schools for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
For rent of schoolrooms, three hundred dollars. To reimburse Seth L. Phelps for the costs in the supreme court District of Columbia, March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in the contractors’ eases, paid by him while a Commissioner of the District of Columbia, and which are set forth on page thirteen, House Executive Document Number One Hundred and Fifteen, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents. For payment of judgments against the District of Columbia, includingJudgments against District of Columbia. interest and cost, two thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-one cents.
Washington Asylum: The Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaWashington Asylum.Unexpended balance, 1883, reappropriated. are hereby authorized to transfer the unexpended balance of appropriation for the support of the Washington Asylum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to the credit 456 of the appropriation for support of said asylum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to enable them to complete the construction and furnishing of the new hospital ward, and the said balance is hereby reappropriated for that purpose: *Provided*, *Proviso*.That the total cost of constructing and furnishing said hospital ward shall not exceed four thousand dollars.
That one half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in theOne-half of foregoing amounts for deficiencies to be paid by Treasury of United States and one-half by the District of Columbia.Water Department.E. Francis Riggs, payment to. appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. Water department: To pay E. Francis Riggs for rent of lot three, square one. hundred and seventy-five, for pump house, from October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, payable from the revenues of the water Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and two dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. For compensation of conductor of hydraulic passenger elevator in theCompensation of conductor of elevator in building corn er Seventeenth and F streets. building corner of Seventeenth and F streets from January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-five, six months, at sixty dollars per month, three hundred and sixty dollars. For payment of taxes upon lots numbered six and seven in squarePayment of taxes lots 6 and 7, square 169. numbered one hundred and sixty7 nine, Washington, District of Columbia, assessed prior to July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, including interest and cost of advertising, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, five hundred and Attorney-General to proceed against warrantors to recover sum.forty-three dollars and thirty cents; and the Attorney General of the United States is hereby directed to proceed against the warrantors upon the covenants in the conveyance to recover back said sum, in the name of the United States.
For printing and binding for the War Department and its Bureaus,Printing and binding for War Department and Bureaus. to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, there is hereby reappropriated out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for eighteen hundred and eighty four a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for this purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.Miscellaneous items.
For postage; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks and messengers at Army, division, department, and district headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escort cannot be furnished ; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field or at military posts, and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture ; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to officers of the Quartermaster’s Department ; compensation of forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for rewards for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and for the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the 457 trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, and for medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also generally the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other Department fifteen thousand dollars. For extra pay to soldiers employed as clerks and messengers at ArmyExtra pay to soldiers employed as clerks and messengers at Army division.John Finn, payment to. division, and department headquarters during the first four days in July, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty cents.
To John Finn, two thousand eight hundred dollars, being the purchase-price for mules bought from him in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and payable from the appropriation for “Transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years” (fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty five), which is exhausted building and grounds in and around washington.Public buildings and grounds.Improving, care, etc., of reservations.Executive Mansion.Fuel for Executive Mansion and greenhouses.Increase of water supply of Washington, D.
C.1882, vol. 22, ch. 294, p. 168. For improving, care, and maintenance of various reservations seven thousand dollars For care and repair of and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, five hundred dollars. Increasing the water supply of Washington, District of Columbia: For completing payment for land taken for a reservoir under the act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes, approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in addition to a like amount appropriated for the same purpose by act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be subject to*Proviso*. the same provisions and restrictions named in said act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two signal serviceSignal Service.
To complete the establishment of signal stations upon the island ofSignal stations, Nantucket I.Submarine telegraphic communication. Nantucket, and of submarine telegraphic communication from such Stations to the mainland, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, twenty thousand dollars. Observations and report of storms: For expenses of storm, cautionary,Observation and report of storms. offshore, and other signals on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, one thousand dollars. » For services of special hurricane observer at Barbadoes, West Indies,Special hurricane observer at Barbadoes, West Indies.Maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines.Enlisted men.Commutations for fuel, quarters, etc.Forage for horses.1881, vol, 21, ch. 79, p. 348. being for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, four hundred dollars.
For maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, to pay enlisted men detailed from the line of the Army, for commutations for fuel, quarters, rations, and for extra-duty pay while engaged on extra duty repairing military telegraph lines, to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for prior years, five hundred dollars. For forage for thirteen horses actually kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at one hundred and fifteen dollars each, per annum, one thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For straw for thirteen horses actually kept by officers in the publicStraw for horses.1881, vol. 21, ch.79, p. 348. service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the 458 Army, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at eight dollars and forty cents each per annum, one hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents. Means of transportation, namely: For one horse, to replace one renderedTransportation. unserviceable since appropriation for present fiscal year was passed, two hundred dollars.
Observations and explorations in Arctic seas: For completing the workObservation and exploration in Arctic seas. of scientific observation and exploration on or near the shores of Lady Franklin Bay, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and prior years, as follows: To pay for one watch purchased by Lieutenant Greely and used inWatch purchased by Lieutenant Greely.Negatives, drawings, etc.Translation of stenographic notes.D.
L. Brainard, J. R. Fredericks, D. Lynn, D. C. Ralston, W. S. Jewell, J. Elison, and N. Salor, payments to.Thorlip F. Christainsen and James Edward (Esquimaux), payment to.Gratuity to families of Jens Edwards and Frederick T. Christiansen, deceased. the field, fifty dollars. For negatives, drawings, engravings, and reproduction of maps, charts, specimens, and so forth, and for translation of stenographic notes, eight hundred and forty dollars. For conditional rewards to members of the expedition engaged in making the highest latitudes, namely, Sergeant D.
L. Brainard, Sergeant J. R. Fredericks Sergeant D. Lynn, Sergeant D. C. Ralston, Sergeant W. S. Jewell, Corporal J. Elison, and Corporal N. Salor, one thousand four hundred dollars. For services of two Esquimaux, Thorlip Frederick Christainsen and James Edward, as hunters, fishers, and dog-drivers, from July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to April fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in case of former, and from July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in case of latter, twenty-five dollars per month each, one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventeen cents.
For a gratuity of three hundred dollars each to the families of Jens Edwards, Esquimau, and Frederick Thorlip Christiansen, Esquimau, both of whom perished while in the employ of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, six hundred dollars. national cemeteries. For the removal of the remains of Union soldiers, sailors’ and marines,Removal of remains of Union soldiers, sailors, etc., to new national cemetery. and prisoners of war from the several soldiers’ lots in incorporated cemeteries at Philadelphia and vicinity to the new national cemetery to be established near that city, and for such improvements to these new grounds as may be necessary, seven thousand dollars. miscellaneous objectsMiscellaneous.
Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers : CurrentNational Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, support of.Pay to two and and three year volunteers. expenses, including construction and repairs, bedding and clothing, outdoor relief, and incidental expenses, forty thousand dollars. Pay of two and three year volunteers: For payment of arrears of pay, and so forth, to officers and men who served in the war of the rebellion, which may be certified during the current fiscal year to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fifty thousand dollars.
Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs: For paymentBounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs. of amounts of bounty to volunteer soldiers who served in the war of the rebellion, and their widows and legal heirs, which may be certified during the current fiscal year to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, sixty thousand dollars. Bounty under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six:Payment of amounts of additional bounty.
For payment of amounts of additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which may be certified 459 during the current fiscal year to be due by the accounting officers of1866, vol. 14, ch. 296, p. 322. the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty and prior years, fifty thousand dollars. Commutation of rations to prisoners of war and soldiers on furlough:Commutation of rations to prisoners of war and soldiers on furlough.Navy Department.
For payment of amounts which maybe certified during the current fiscal year to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States and soldiers on furlough, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. For completing the new naval cruisers and dispatch-boat: Under construction and repair, seventy-five thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents; under steam-engineering, eighty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents; and all balances of appropriations heretofore made under any Bureau of the Navy Department for any one of said vessels may be used under the same Bureau for any other of said vessels.
To pay the Harlan and Hollings worth Company for the use and occupationCompletion of new naval cruisers and dispatch boat.Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, payment to. of their shipyard by the iron-clad Amphitrite, and the care of said vessel, and expenses to which they were subject for watching and storage of turrets, pilothouses, guns, and so forth, from July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
To pay William Cramp and Sons for the use and occupation of theirWilliam Cramp & Son, payment to. shipyard by the iron-clad Terror, and for care and storage of the turrets, guns, and so forth, from July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. to December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, seventy-five thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars. To pay John Roach for the use and occupation of his ship yard byJohn Roach, payment to. the iron-clad Puritan, and for the care of said vessel and storage of her turrets, guns, and so forth, from July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, sixty-nine thousand two hundred and one dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. no moneys hereby appropriated for the above three mentioned ships shall be paid except upon full receipt and discharge of all claims of the parties to whom the same may be paid for care and storage of said vessels, turrets, guns, and so forth, for use and occupation of these several yards.
For payment to Royce and Marean for labor and materials in puttingPayment to Royce’ and MayreanF.A. Belt. up electric bells in the Navy Department, two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents; for payment to F. A. Belt for lumber furnished the Navy Department, fifty dollars and forty-five cents: for payment to George C. Maynard for electric bells furnished Bureau of ConstructionGeorge C. Maynard. and Repair, sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; in all, three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
For payment of amount found due by the accounting officers to theUnion Pacific Railroad Company. Union Pacific Railroad Company for transportation of books and charts, per report number two hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and eighty-five, all being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofContingent expenses. contingent expenses, Naval Observatory, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents. naval establishment.Navy.
For payment to the following newspapers for advertising proposalsNewspapers for advertising. for new steel cruisers for the United States Navy, in May, eighteen 460 hundred and eighty-three, namely: Sunday Chronicle, Washington, ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents; Sunday Herald, Washington, one hundred and twenty eight dollars and twenty-five cents; National Republican, Washington, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty cents; in all, four hundred and twelve dollars and twenty cents.
Pay, Navy, miscellaneous: To pay amounts found due by the accountingMiscellaneous.Traveling expenses of officers. officers on account of traveling expenses of officers of the Navy traveling under orders, being for the service of the first half of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two thousand one hundred and ninety one dollars and eighty seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of traveling expenses of officers of the Navy traveling under orders, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand five hundred and two dollars and seventy-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of traveling expenses of officers of the Navy traveling under orders, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofActual expenses. actual expenses, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: To pay amounts found due by the accountingMarine Corps. officers on account of freight and transportation, being for the service Contingent expenses.of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-four cents. To pay accounts on file for payment in Quartermaster’s Office,Quartermaster’s Office. namely: Frank B. Conger, postmaster, Washington, postage, thirty-eightPayment of accounts on file. dollars and seventy-two cents;
John T. Howe, apprehending stragglers, twenty dollars; James Magee, apprehending deserter, twenty dollars; John Clifford, apprehending stragglers, ten dollars; H. Wilson, apprehending stragglers, twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and eight dollars and seventy-two cents, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers, on account of Freight; transportation.freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, forty-eight dollars and ninety font cents.
Miscellaneous, Naval Academy: To pay amount found due by theNaval Academy. accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, twenty-five cents. Contingent, Bureau of Navigation: To pay amounts found due byBureau of Navigation. the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, twenty-five dollars and thirty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six dollars and thirty eight cents.
Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: To pay amounts found due by theBureau of Ordnance. accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two hundred and nine dollars and ninety-eight cents— Contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting: To pay amountsBureau of Equipment and Recruiting found due by the accounting officers on account of freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four, nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-six cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofFreight and transportation. freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, sixty dollars and seven cents. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: To pay amounts found dueBureau of Yards and Docks. by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six hundred and eighteen dollars and ninety-five cents. 461 Contingent Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
To pay amounts foundBureau of Medicine and Surgery. due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, forty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, thirty-seven dollars and eighty cents. Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: To pay amountsBureau of Provisions and Clothing. found due by the accounting officers on account of rations, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and three dollars and ninety-cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of rations, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, fifty-nine dollars. Steam-machinery, Bureau of Steam-Engineering: To pay amountsBureau of Steam-Engineering. found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service, of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and fifty dollars and eleven cents. For payment to Lieutenant W. H. Jaques, United States Navy, forLieut.
W. H. Jaques.Payment to.1883, vol. 28, ch. 97, p. 474. actual and necessary expenses incurred in obtaining information while performing the duties as secretary to the Gun Foundry Board organized by the President in accordance with the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and eighty dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. For reconstructing Interior Department (heating apparatus), eighteenReconstruction. thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars.
To pay amount found due by the accounting officers to the CentralCentral Pacific Railroad Company. Pacific Railroad Company on account of contingent expenses, General Land Office,Payment to. being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, forty-three dollars and eighty cents. public lands service. For compensation of clerks and draughtsmen in the office of theCompensation of clerks and draughtsmen. surveyor-general of New Mexico employed in the completion of surveys under contracts payable from deposits by individuals, for the survey of public lands, and the payment of other expenses connected therewith, three thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receiversSalaries and commissions of registers of land offices, etc.Incidental expenses. of public moneys at district land-offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices twenty-five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofContingent expenses. contingent expenses of land-offices, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, sixty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofDepredations of public timber. depredations on public timber, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-seven cents. For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entryProtection of public lands.Commissioner of General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, etc. or appropriation, twenty-five thousand dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land-offices with the same, three thousand dollars. 462 Expense of depositing public moneys: For expense of depositingExpense of depositing public moneys.Surveying public lands. money received from the sale of public lands, three thousand dollars. Surveying the public lands:
To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of surveying public lands, being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, five thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and six cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two thousand and ninety-four dollars and eighty-one cents. Payment to the legal representatives of William M. Garvey : To payWilliam M. Garvey.Payment to legal representatives of.*Proviso*. amount found due by the accounting officers to William M.
Garvey, late receiver of public moneys at Cheyenne, Wyoming, three hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-three cents: *Provided*, That of this amount the sum of one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twenty cents shall be carried to his credit on bis account as late disbursing agent to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the amount due by him to that date. Payment to Daniel Chaplin: To pay amount found due by the accounting Daniel Chaplin, payment to.officers to Daniel Chaplin, late receiver of public moneys at La Grande, Oregon, one thousand and five dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Payment to P. J. Kaufman: To pay amount found due by the accountingP. J. Kaufman, payment to. officers to P. J. Kaufman, late receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, Alabama, ninety one dollars and twenty-five cents: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That this amount shall be carried to his credit on his account as acting disbursing agent. tenth census. That the office of the Tenth Census is hereby abolished, and theAbolishment of office of Tenth Census. terms of office of the Superintendent and of all employees appointed under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, entitled “An act to provide for the taking of the tenth and subsequent censuses,” or of any subsequent act relating to the Tenth Census, shall cease and terminate from the date of the passage of this act; and no further expenditures, whether for salaries or expenses, shall be made on account of the Tenth Census, except as Work unfinished transferred to Secretary of Interior.hereinafter provided.
The unfinished work of the Tenth Census shall be completed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, to whom the records and other property of the Census Office shall be transferred ; and the Clerks to be appointed.Secretary of the Interior is authorized to appoint from the date of the passage of this act, and for the term of one year from the date of such appointments, a clerical force for duty in said division, which force shall consist of one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three, who shall be a practical printer; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; and one copyist at nine hundred dollars per annum; and for the payment of the salaries of such force the sum of six thousand nine hundred Disposition of unexpended balance.dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated ; and any balances of appropriations for the Tenth Census heretofore made which shall remain unexpended at the date of the passage of this act shall be applied to the liquidation of any liabilities for the work of the Tenth Census which have been incurred heretofore and remain unpaid at such date; but this provision shall not apply to any unexpended balance of the appropriation for printing the report of the Tenth Census made by act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, but such balance shall be applied as provided in that act.
The foregoing provisions relating to the Tenth Census shall take effect from the passage of this act. For payment of obligations outstanding prior to January first, eighteenPayment of obligations. hundred and eighty-five, fifteen thousand dollars. 463 miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. To pay Miss Emma Dowell for clerical services rendered in the InteriorEmma Dowell, payment to. Department in July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty nine dollars and thirty-five cents. Current expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane:
To supply a Government Hospital for the Insane.deficiency in the appropriation for support of the Government Hospital for the Insane, fifteen thousand dollars. Support of Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum : For the necessaryFreedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. alterations in the porches of the several buildings of the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum to make them a means of fire-escapes, to purchase two hundred feet of fire hose, and to replace the wainscot of two wards, one thousand dollars.
Furniture and fixtures, National Museum: To pay sundry bills forNational Museum. miscellaneous fixtures and for glass for exhibition cases for the National Furniture and fixtures.Museum, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand eight hundred and ninety one dollars and forty-two cents. Preservation of collections, National Museum : To meet expenses ofPreservation of collections. receiving, packing, transporting to Washington, and installing, or storing, such new specimens and collections as may be presented to the United States at the New Orleans Exposition, to be available for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five thousand dollars.
For cost of restoring the collections sent to the New Orleans ExpositionRestoration of collection sent to New Orleans Exposition. to their proper places in the National Museum, including repair of cases and renewal of glass, to be available for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars. indian affairs. For this amount to pay claims for material furnished and labor performedPayment to C.
P. Schneider, M. W. Breman, James Thompson, and Albert Baughman. on irrigating ditch and flume at the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, in eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and prior years, namely : To C. P. Schneider, balance due, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents; to M. W. Breman, balance due, one thousand and nineteen dollars and forty-four cents ; to James Thompson and Albert Baughman, balance due, seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety-four cents; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fourteen cents.
For amount due to the Globe Printing Company of Saint Louis, Missouri,Globe Printing Company of Saint Louis, Mo., payment to. for advertising proposals for Indian supplies and stock-cattle in March and April, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as per certificate of Second Comptroller, December twenty second, eighteen hundred and eighty four, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-four cents. To reimburse the Creek Nation for liabilities incurred in defrayinCreek Nation.Reimbursement to.g the expenses of its delegation while engaged in negotiating the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, so much of their funds erroneously used to pay expenses of taking a census in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, not exceeding the sum of one thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars, is hereby reappropriated from the amount of one thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-four cents of the appropriation provided for taking said census carried to the surplus fund.
To enable the accounting officers to adjust certain appropriations onAdjustment of certain appropriations on books of the Department. the books of the Department, the sum of seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents is hereby reappropriated, six hundred and twenty eight dollars and seventy seven cents thereof to be carried to the credit of the appropriation, “ Fulfilling treaties with 464 Creeks, proceeds of lands,” and one hundred dollars to “Payment to certain Creek Indians for individual reserves sold, and so forth,” being amounts found due these appropriations in the adjustment of the accounts of W.
H. Garrett, late Indian agent. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed toOsage Indians.Payment to heirs of.1877, vol. 19, ch. 101, p. 292. pay to the heirs of certain Osage Indians killed while on a hunt on Medicine Lodge Creek, in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the balance on hand of the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated by act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, “ to reimburse the Osages for losses sustained, and in accordance with pledges by their agent,” amounting to two thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty cents, which is hereby reappropriated for this purpose.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the support of theShoshone Indians, Wyoming. Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, two thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry 1882, vol. 22, ch. 434, p.341out the provisions of the act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for appraisement of certain lands belonging to Omaha Payment to Daniel Duggan, Henry Fontanelle, and estate of John B. Detweiler.Indians in Nebraska, being amounts due for services rendered by Daniel Duggan, Henry Fontanelle, and estate of John B.
Detweiler, commissioners for appraisement, said sum to be reimbursed to the United States out-of the proceeds of the sale of said lands, three hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-three cents. For this amount, or as much thereof as may be necessary for theMary Dunnell, relief of. relief of Mary Dunnell, for boarding an insane Chippewa Indian girl, at the White Earth Agency, Minnesota, during eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and eighty-four dollars. Transportation of Indian supplies:
For this amount due Thomas C. PowerThomas C. Power, payment to. for transporting Indian supplies under contract, as per certificate of Second Comptroller, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, sixteen dollars and one cent. For this amount due Thomas 0. Power for transporting Indian supplies under contract, as per certificates of the Second Comptroller, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents.
For this amount due Albert E. Whyland for transporting Indian suppliesAlbert E. Whyland, payment to. under contract, as per certificate of Second Comptroller, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, seven hundred and two dollars and eight cents. Support of schools: For difference between amount appropriated andSupport of schools. one hundred and sixty-seven dollars for each of one hundred and twenty Indian pupils at Hampton School during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty five, one thousand and forty dollars; for additional amount for transportation of pupils to and from said school for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one thousand dollars ; in all, two thousand and forty dollars.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Contingent expenses: For this amount to pay bills for advertising forContingent expenses.Advertising. the Post Office Department, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents. postal service. Wrapping-paper: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation forWrapping-paper. wrapping paper, five thousand dollars. Wrapping twine: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for Cotton,Wrapping-twine. jute, and hemp twines, twelve thousand dollars.
Free-delivery service: To pay substitute letter-carriers for service of Free-delivery service.carriers on leave, fifteen thousand dollars. 465 Railroad transportation : To supply a deficiency in the appropriationRailroad transportation. for transportation on railroad routes, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Clerks in post-offices : To supply a deficiency in the appropriation forClerks in post-offices. clerks in post-offices, seventy five thousand dollars. Railway post-office car service :
To supply a deficiency in the appropriationRailway post-office-car service. for railway post-office-car service, one hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of foreign mails : The Postmaster-General is herebyPanama Rail way Company for transportation of mails. authorized to pay to the Panama Railway Company, for transportation of mails across the Isthmus of Panama, out of the appropriation for transportation of foreign mails for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, not exceeding three thousand dollars.
Railway-post-office-car service: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for rail way-post-office-car service, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundreRailway post-office-car service.d and eighty-four, six thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-six cents. Ship, steamboat, and way letters: For this amount expended by postmastersShip, steamboat, and way letters. in excess of appropriation, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty eight cents.
Compensation of postmasters: Amount retained by postmasters inPostmasters. excess of appropriation, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and thirty three thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and eighty seven cents. Stationery: for amount of authorized expenditure in excess of appropriation,Stationery. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety-three cents. To enable the accounting officers of the Treasury to settle the accountsSeymour W.
Tullock, settlement of accounts of. of Seymour W. Tullock, late acting postmaster at Washington, District of Columbia, on account of stationery for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, three hundred and two dollars and thirty one cents. For allowance for stationery to the postmaster at Richmond, Virginia,Allowance of Stationery to postmaster at Richmond, Va.Railroad transportation. on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eighty-five dollars and seventy cents.
Railroad transportation: To pay amounts found due on account of railroad transportation, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and forty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. Office furniture: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for officeOffice furniture. furniture for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty cents.
Clerk-hire: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for clerk hireClerk-hire. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For allowance for clerk hire to postmaster at Richmond Virginia on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three two hundred and twenty five dollars and fifty cents For balance of expenses incurred by E. B. Dawson, late postmaster,E. B. Dawson. Boonton, New Jersey, in connection with pursuit of parties who robbed the post office in Boonton, New Jersey, in April eighteen hundred and eighty three twenty eight dollars and eighty two cents.
Compensation of postmasters : for this amount retained by postmastersCompensation of postmasters. as compensation, less counter-entries, being a deficiency for eighteen hundred and eighty two and prior years, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents. The foregoing sums for the postal service shall be payable from theForegoing sums for postal service payable from postal revenues of respective years.William E. Blunt, credit account of. postal revenues of the respective years to which they are properly chargeable.
The Postmaster-Generals hereby authorized to credit the account of William E. Blunt, postmaster at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in the sum 466 of two thousand three hundred dollars, being the value of the postage stamps stolen from his office during the night of October thirty-first eighteen hundred and eighty three, he, having accounted to the United States for the amount of said stamps. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For contingent expenses, as follows, being deficiencies on account ofContingent expenses, being deficiencies on account of fiscal year 1884. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four:
For furniture and re pairs, eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty cents ; for Stationery, six hundred and five dollars and ninety five cents; for horses and wagons, twelve dollars and twenty-five cents; for miscellaneous items; one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents, in all two thousand seven hundred and sixty six dollars and eighty eight cents For contingent expenses, as follows, being deficiencies on account ofContingent expenses, being deficiencies on account of fiscal year 1883. the year eighteen-hundred and eighty three:
For furniture and repairs, three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty cents; for horses and wagons, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and ten cents; for miscellaneous items, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-one cents; in all, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-one cents. To enable the Attorney-General to pay the State asylum for the careState asylum, Auburn, N. Y., payment to. of insane criminals at Auburn, New York, for the United States convicts for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty five, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars. judicial.
For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, one hundredFees and expenses of marshals, United States courts.Paul Strobach. thousand dollars. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, forty thousand dollars To enable the accounting officers to settle the accounts of Paul Strobach,Settlement of accounts. late United States marshal for southern district of Alabama, from April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty four to May twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty four, in the manner prescribed by law for the settlement of United States marshals’ accounts, so much money as may be necessary for this purpose, not exceeding nine hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle and pay the accountsEdward S. Kearney.Settlement and payment of accounts. of Edward S. Kearney, late United States marshal of the district of Oregon, from March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four to August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars and forty-six cents, or so much thereof as shall be necessary. For payment of district attorneys and their assistants, forty thousandDistrict attorneys and assistants. dollars.
For payment of district attorneys and their assistants being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four ten thousand dollars. For payment to Andrews and Thornburg on account of fees of DistrictAndrews and Thornbnrg, payment to. attorneys and their assistants, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, two thousand three hundred and sixty seven dollars and five cents For payment of district attorneys and their assistants, being a deficiencyDistrict attorneys and assistants. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, three thousand dollars.
For payment of S. F. Rice on account of fees of district attorneysS. F. Rico, payment to. and their assistants, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, one thousand five hundred dollars. For fees of clerks, twenty thousand dollars.Fees for clerks. 467 For fees of commissioners and justices of the peace acting as CommissionersFees for commissioners and justices of the peace. twenty thousand dollars For fees of commissioners and justices of the peace acting as Commissioners being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four five thousand dollars For fees of commissioners and justices of the peace acting as commissioners, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, three thousand dollars.
For fees of jurors, fifty thousand dollars.Fees for jurors. For fees of witnesses, one hundred thousand dollars.Fees for witnesses. For fees of witnesses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty three, one thousand dollars. For rent of United States court rooms, being a deficiency for theRent of United States court rooms. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four, three thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and forty cents. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, being a deficiency for theExpenses of Territorial courts in Utah. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-six cents.
To pay Hallet Kilbourn, of Washington City, the sum of twenty thousandHallet Kilbourn.Payment to. dollars, with interest thereon from the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and the further sum of one hundred and forty-three dollars and seventeen cents cost, the same being the amount of the judgement rendered in favor of the said Kilbourn against John G. Thompson, late Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, in the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
To pay John G. Thompson the sum of five thousand dollars being theJohn G. Thompson.Payment to. sum allowed him for expenses, labor, and attention in respect to the said case. To pay Shellabarger and Wilson, of Washington City, attorneys atShellabarger A Wilson.Payment to.Walter H. Smith.Payment to. law, two thousand dollars, for professional services in the above case. To pay Walter H. Smith, of Washington City, one thousand dollars, for fees for services rendered in said case.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING For printing and binding as follows: For the Interior Department Printing and binding.Interior Department, State Department, and Court of Claims.fifty thousand dollars; for the State Department, five thousand dollars; and for the Court of Claims four thousand dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AT WORLDS INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION AT NEW ORLEANS. That any surplus arising from appropriations made to either of theTransfer of surplus of appropriation from World’s Industrial Exhibition from any one Department to other Departments.*Ante* p. 207.
Departments by act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for participation in the World’s Industrial Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, may be used for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness of any other Department, subject to the provision affecting the same in the sundry civil appropriation bill passed this session. SENATE For salaries of officers and employees for fiscal year eighteen hundredPay of officers and employés. and eighty-five, seven thousand three hundred and four dollars.
For horses and wagons, five hundred dollars.Horses, etc.Folding documents.Furniture. For folding documents, one thousand dollars For furniture and repairs, seven thousand dollars 468 For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Expenses of investigations ordered by Senate. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four, four hundred and forty four dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, fifteen thousand dollars; and that the four select committee clerks now employed by. the Senate and paid out of this appropriation be paid the same compensation and for the same period as is provided for the payment of session clerks employed by the Senate For clerks to Senators, six thousand eight hundred and fifty-twoClerks to Senators. dollars.
For miscellaneous items, twenty seven thousand dollars.Miscellaneous items.C. H. Hitchcock.Payment to. For pay C H. Hitchcock for services as messenger from eighteenth day of April to thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and ten dollars and seven cents. For pay Thomas W. Manchester for services as messenger fromThomas W. Manchester.Beverly Hudnell. fifteenth day of April to thirty-first of July eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety cents.
For Beverly Hudnell for services as laborer from fifteenth day of May to thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and forty-five dollars. For W. P. Brownlow for extra services in folding room up to MayW. P. Brownlow. twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two hundred and forty dollars. For Ross Broadhead for extra services as clerk in folding-room from Rosa Broadhead.July first, eighteen hundred and eighty four, to January first, eighteen hundred and eighty five, two hundred dollars For W.
H. May for services as messenger from first of August, eighteenW. H. May. hundred and eighty-four, to thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty cents. For A. A. Johnson for extra services as skilled laborer and actingA. A. Johnson. messenger from January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-six cents. For W.
B. Clark for extra services as laborer up to March fourth,W. B. Clark. eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and eighty dollars. To pay Geo F. Potter, an employee of the Senate post-office, fiveGeo. F. Potter. hundred and twenty’ dollars, being the difference between the pay of a laborer and that of a clerk from February sixth eighteen hundred and eighty four, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. For compensation to T. B. Keleher from December, in eighteen hundredT.
B. Kelcher. and eighty two to February, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as skilled laborer and acting messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. For newspapers and stationery, eight hundred and seventy five dollars.Newspapers ; Stationery. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for session employesSession employée. of the House, as follows: For committee clerks, one thousand three hundred and two dollars; for pages, five hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents; for messengers in the post office, eighty-six dollars and sixty cents; for laborers, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars; for cloakroom men, ninety dollars and thirty-two cents; in all two thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty-two cents.
For allowance to the parties named below in full of expensesAllowances t o parties in full of expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases. incurred by them in contested-election cases: To Martin Maginnis, one thousand five hundred dollars; A. C. Botkin, one thousand two hundred dollars; J. O. Broad head, one thousand dollars; J. H. McLean, one thousand 469 dollars; and to Geo. H. Craig, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay George H. Craig for allowance for stationery for first session of the Forty-eighth Congress, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay Charles M. Shelley in full for expenses incurred in his contested election case, five hundred dollars. To pay G. Sessinghaus balance of allowance for newspapers and Stationery due him as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress, two hun- and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents. To pay to Patrick V. Dolan the difference between the pay as laborerPatrick V.
Dolan. at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum and that of a messenger at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day from June sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, six hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty cents. To pay George W. Bauman a sum equal to one month’s pay as assistantPayment to. file clerk of the House, one hundred and eight dollars. For messenger to the official reporters from March fourth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty five, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For miscellaneous items, being a deficiency on account of the fiscalGeo. W. Bauman. year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. To pay Clarence W. De Knight in full for services as a page in thePayment to.Messenger to official reporters.Miscellaneous. House of Representatives from and including December third to and including December tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, together with a sum equal to one month’s pay as a page, ninety-five dollars.
To pay Harry Neal for services as messenger to the Speaker’s room,Clarence W. De Knight.Payment to. in addition to his pay as a laborer, from December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and from December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, at the rate of forty dollars per month, four hundred and nine dollars and thirty cents. To pay Henry Dunlap for services rendered to the Committee on WaysHarry Neal. and Means, five hundred dollars.
To pay the widow of the late J. H. Enns the amount of salary for theHenry Dunlap. unexpired term of bis service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-seven cents. To pay the widow of the late W. A. Duncan the amount of salary forWidow of J. H. Evins, deceased. the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, one thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty cents. To pay James Hall for services rendered as laborer in the Doorkeeper’sWidow of W.
A Duncan, deceased. department from July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, fifty six dollars. To pay Rider Henry and John J Coughlin for services rendered inJames Hall. the Clerk’s document-room, two hundred and forty two dollars and fifty cents each; in all, four hundred and eighty-five dollars To pay Charles H. Evans for compilation of statistics of foreign commoditiesRider Henry and John J.
Coughlin. imported and entered for consumption in the United States, two thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House ofChas. H. Evans. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of their respective Houses borne on the annual and sessions rolls on the third day of March eighteen hundred and eighty-five, including the Capitol Police, one months extra pay at the compensation then paid them by law, which sums shall be immediately available.
To reimburse the Clerk of the House of Representatives for postage-stamps,Extra pay to employees Senate and louse of Representatives, including Capitol police.Postage, House of Representatives. seventy-five dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay each of the pages borne uponBalance due pages. the rolls at the close of the first session of the Forty-eighth Congress 470 the balance due them for the remaining twenty-four days of the month*Ante* p. 278. of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under resolutions of the House, adopted July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars which sum shall be immediately available.
For one clerk to continue the work of making consolidated index ofClerk—indexing Southern claims, under Bowman act. the Southern Claims Commission reports and claims referred to the court, of Claims under the Bownnan act, and authorized by resolution of the House July third, eighteen hundred and eighty four, from March fourth to December first, eighteen hundred and eighty five, at six dollars per day. To pay Willis H. Allen, assistant clerk of the Committee on WaysWillis H. Allen.Payment to. and Means, for additional compensation, four hundred dollars For one page in the Clerks office under the resolution of the House,Page in clerk’s office. of December third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, from March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to December seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty five, at the rate of two dollars per day, five hundred and fifty-six dollars.
To pay Fred C Peck, additional compensation for services rendered Fred C. Peck.Payment to.the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives during the present session of Congress, two hundred dollars. To defray the necessary expenses of a select committee of the HouseExpenses of select committee of the House of Representatives to inquire as to capacity of steel-producing works of the United States. of Representatives raised under a resolution of the House adopted on July sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to inquire as to the capacity of steel producing works in the United States, and for other purposes, five thousand dollars, said sum to be payable on the draft of the chairman of said committee in sums not exceeding one thousand dollars at any one time and said committee with its present membership is continued as a commission until Jany first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; and said sum shall be immediately available.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.Agricultural Department. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryInvestigation of history of insects injurious to agriculture. on account of investigating the history of insects injurious to agriculture, being a deficiency for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-two and eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eight dollars and ten cents. Sec. 2. That for the payment of a portion of the claims certified to bePayment of claims certified to he due, etc.1874, vol. 18, ch. 328, p. 110. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balance of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred *Ante* p. 254.and eighty-four and prior years, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Executive Document number one Hundred and Fifty-three, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, and for other items there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state department. For salaries, consular service, eighteen hundred and eighty-two andSalaries, consular service. prior years one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars, and twenty cents. For contingent expenses of United States consulates eighteen hundred andContingent expenses. eighty-two and prior years, seventy dollars and two cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoRelief and protection of American seamen. and prior years, thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents. 471 treasury department.Treasury Department.Internal revenue.Redemption of stamps.
Internal revenue: For redemption of stamps, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, prior to July first eighteenRefund of taxes. hundred and eighty-two, eight thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-three cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected under the direct tax laws, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty four dollars and two cents.
For expenses of assessing and collecting internal revenue, eighteenAssessments, etc., of revenues. hundred and seventy-five and prior years, one hundred and two dollars and forty-eight cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, eighteenCollectors. hundred and eighty-two and prior years, forty-four dollars and sixty-one cents. For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers ofSupervisors, etc. internal revenue, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and prior years, twelve dollars and fifty cents.
For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalAgents, etc. revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, four hundred and forty-four dollars. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, eighteen hundredViolation of internal-revenue laws. and eighty-two and prior years, five dollars. Miscellaneous objects: For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, eighteen hundredEngraving and printing. and eighty-two and prior years, two hundred and thirty-four dollars, and sixty-seven cents.
For refunding to national banking associations excess of duty, priorRefund excess of duty to national banking associations. to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two one thousand and nine dollars and five cents. interior department.Interior Department. For contingent expenses, General Land Office, eighteen hundred andContingent expenses, General Land Office. eighty-two and prior years, nineteen dollars and fifty cents. Public-land service.Public land service. For contingent expenses of land-offices, eighteen hundred andContingent expenses, land-offices. eighty-two and prior years, thirty five dollars and thirty two cents.
For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, eighteenRegisters and receivers. hundred and eighty-two and prior years, four hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-one cents. For depredations on public timber, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoDepredations on public timber. and prior years, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifteen cents. For examinations of the public surveys, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoExaminations of public surveys. and prior years, one hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For contingent expenses office of surveyor-general of Louisiana,Contingent expenses, office surveyor-general, Louisiana.Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general, Utah.Surveying public and private lands. eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, one dollar. For contingent expenses office of surveyor-general of Utah, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, twelve dollars and thirty cents. For surveying the public lands, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, two thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For surveying public and private lands, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and prior years, ninety-eight dollars. For five, three, and two per centum fund to States, prior to July first,Five, three, and two per centum fund to States. eighteen hundred and eighty two, except the claim numbered thirty- 472 five thousand two hundred and fifty-one, twelve thousand three hundredException. and seventy-six dollars and three cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. For fees and expenses of marshals United States courts, eighteen hundredMarshals United States courts. and eighty-two and prior years, two thousand and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents.
For fees of commissioners United States courts, eighteen hundred andCommissioners United States courts. eighty-two and prior years, seven hundred and eighty dollars and ninety-five cents. For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, eighteen hundredDistrict attorneys. and eighty-two and prior years, seven hundred dollars. For fees of clerks, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoClerks. and prior years, sixty-five dollars and forty-nine cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoJurors. and prior years, sixty-two dollars and twenty cents.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-two Witnesses.and prior years, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoSupport of prisoners. and prior years, three thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty cents. For rent of court rooms, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty twoRent of courtrooms. and prior years, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoMiscellaneous expenses. and prior years, one thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and ninety cents. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, eighteen hundred and eighty two Territorial courts, Utah.and prior years, fifty-four dollars and fifty cents. For fees of supervisors of elections, prior to July first eighteen hundredSupervisors of elections. and eighty two, thirty five dollars CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR AND COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.Claims allowed by First Auditor and Commissioner of Customs.Life Saving service.
For Life Saving Service, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, thirty-one dollars and fifteen cents. For salaries of light-house keepers, eighteen hundred and eighty-twolight-house keepers. and prior years, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty six cents. For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, prior to JulyExpenses of collecting revenue from customs. first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two twenty-five thousand and twenty eight dollars and four cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller.War Department. war department. For bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundredBounty under act July 28, 1866, vol. 14, ch. 296, p. 322. and sixty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty and prior years, one thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirteen cents. For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, eighteenBounty to volunteers, widows, and legal heirs. hundred and senty-one and prior years, forty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty-five cents.
For pay of two and three year volunteers, eighteen hundred andTwo and three year volunteers, pay of. seventy-one and prior years, five thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-six cents. For pay of volunteers (Mexican war) eighteen hundred and seventy-oneVolunteers (Mexican war). and prior years, twenty-two dollars and sixty cents. 473 For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers prior toExpenses California and Nevada volunteers prior to July 1, 1882.Pay of Army, 1882 and prior years.
July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, five thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and five cents. For contingencies of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-two Contingencies of Army.and prior years, two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-seven cents. For expenses of military convicts, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoMilitary convicts. and prior years, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents.
For medical and hospital department, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoMedical and Hospital department. and prior years, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy-cents. For allowance for reduction of wages under eight-hour law, prior toAllowance for reduction of wages under eight-hour law. July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one hundred and forty-one dollars and two cents. interior department.Interior Department. For buildings at agencies and repairs, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoBuildings at agencies, and repairs.Contingencies, Indian Department. and prior years, two hundred and one dollars and fifty seven cents.
For contingencies of the Indian Department, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, two thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty six cents. For incidental expenses Indian service in Arizona, eighteen hundredIndian service, Arizona, incidental expenses. and eighty-two and prior years, three thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents. For incidental expenses Indian service in California, eighteen hundredCalifornia. and eighty-two and prior years, thirteen dollars and ninety-three cents.
For incidental expenses Indian service in Nevada, eighteen hundredNevada. and eighty-two and prior years, nine hundred and fifty three dollars and six cents. For incidental expenses Indian service in Oregon, eighteen hundredIndian service, Oregon, incidental expenses. and eighty-two and prior years, three thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-five cents. For pay of Indian agents, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and priorIndian agents. years, nine hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty cents.
For pay of interpreters, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and priorInterpreters. years, one hundred and nine dollars and fifty one cents. For support of Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico, eighteen hundredApaches of Arizona and New Mexico. and eighty-two and prior years, thirteen thousand nine hundred and five dollars and seventy-two cents. For support of Indians of Fort Peck Agency, eighteen hundred andIndians of Fort Peek Agency. eighty-two and prior years, two hundred and eleven dollars and forty-one cents.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux ofSioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska.Telegraphing, Indian supplies. Nebraska, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and five cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, one thousand nine hundred and ten dollars and forty cents For transportation of Indian supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoTransportation of Indian supplies. and prior years, one thousand and sixty-two dollars and ninety cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller.Army pensions. For Army pensions, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, eight hundred and sixty seven dollars and ninety-two cents. 474 For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, oneRefund to States expenses of raising volunteers.Tenth installment of war claim of Massachusetts. thousand six hundred and forty three dollars and twenty-one cents.
To pay the tenth installment of the war claim of the State of Massachusetts, thirty thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-nine cents. For payment of the twenty-fifth installment of the war claim of theTwenty-fifth installment of war claim of Ohio. State of Ohio, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and six cents. For payment of the twelfth installment of the war claim of the StateTwelfth installment of war claim of Pennsylvania. of Pennsylvania, four thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty cents.
For reimbursement to certain States and Territories for expenses inReimbursement to certain States and Territories for expenses in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities.Twenty per centum additional compensation. repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, three hundred and thirty-two thousand three hundred and eight dollars and thirteen cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents.
For Signal Service, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years,Signal Service. one hundred and twenty dollars. For national cemeteries, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years,National cemeteries. one dollar and fifty cents. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, Clothing, camp, and garrison equipage.Rock Island bridge, Rock Island. Ill.Preservation and repair of fortifications.Transportation of officers and baggage.Pay, transportation, etc., of Oregon and Washington volunteers.twenty-six dollars.
For Rock Island bridge, Rock Island, Illinois, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, forty-eight dollars. For preservation and repair of fortifications, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, two hundred and ten dollars. For transportation of officers and their baggage, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, thirteen dollars and ninety-two cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, three hundred and ninety dollars For subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-two andSubsistence of Army. prior years, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-four cents.
For regular supplies, Quartermasters Department, eighteen hundred and eighty-two andQuartermaster’s Department, regular supplies. prior years, one thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-three cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen hundredIncidental expenses. and eighty-two and prior years, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and eleven cents. For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certain landFifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation. grant railroads, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, twelve thousand eight hundred and five dollars and ninety five cents.
For barracks and quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-two andBarracks and quarters. prior years, one thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-seven cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoHorses for cavalry and artillery. and prior years, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For horses and other property lost in the military service prior toHorses and other property lost in military service. July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, except the claims certified under this appropriation as set forth on pages forty-three and forty-four of said Executive Document Number-One Hundred and Fifty-three, sixty thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the claims allowed byPayment of claims allowed un- the Third Auditor and Second Comptroller under act of March third, 475 eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for horses and other property lost inder act March 3, 1849, vol. 9, ch. 79, p. 414. the military service, as reported in Senate Executive Document Number One Hundred and one, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, by the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty five cents.
For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States priorCommutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States. to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller.Pay of Navy. For pay of the Navy prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, six thousand three hundred and three dollars and eighty-five cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and priorMiscellaneous. years, four thousand and nineteen dollars and nine cents. For pay, Marine Corps, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andMarine Corps. eighty-two, eight hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and priorContingent, Navy. years, two thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-one cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and eighty-two andContingent, Marine Corps. prior years, eighty-two dollars and thirty-two cents.
For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighteen hundredTransportation and recruiting. and eighty-two and prior years, five dollars. For allowance for the reduction of wages under the eight hour law,Allowance for reduction of wages under eight-hour law.Bureau of Yards and Docks. prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two eleven dollars and forty-four cents. For contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, five hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty cents.
For maintenance of yards and docks, Bureau of Yards and Docks, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, fifty-three dollars and seventy-six cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents. For increase and repairs, Bureau of Construction and Repair, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, seventy-two dollars.
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundredBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. and eighty-two and prior years, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoBureau of Ordnance. and prior years, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteenBureau of Provisions and Clothing. hundred and eighty-two and prior years, six hundred and nine dollars and eighty-four cents.
For contingent. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred and eighty-two anti prior years, nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery. and eighty-two and prior years, twelve dollars and eighty-four cents. For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, prior to July first,Bounties. eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two thousand five hundred and one dollars and seventy-one cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, prior to July first, eighteen hundredLost clothing. and eighty-two, two thousand two hundred and five dollars and one cent. 476 For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses andClaims for difference between actual expenses and mileage. mileage, allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of the United States versus Graham, two hundred and nine thousand five hundred and thirty eight dollars and thirty-six cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITORClaims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eighty-twoDeficiency; postal revenues.Exceptions. and prior years, except the claims numbered twelve hundred and three, one hundred and thirty-seven, seventy four, seventy-seven, and one hundred and thirty-eight, twenty thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty cents. For compensation of postmasters readjusted under act of March third,Compensation o: postmasters read justed.1883, vol. 22, ch. 142, p. 600. eighteen hundred and eighty-three, payable from deficiency in postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years including all such claims readjusted up to February fourteenth eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one *Proviso*.Payment of certain claims.hundred and seventy eight thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty three cents: *Provided*, That the said sums herein provided for and allowed under said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be paid directly to the parties named, respectively, in said Executive Document Number One Hundred and Fifty-three.
Sec. 3. That for the payment of certain claims set forth in House Exutive Document Number Fifty-five, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, as follows: CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLERClaims allowed by First Comptroller.Treasury Department.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings. treasury department. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, one thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-two cents. interior department.Interior Department.Office of Secretary of Interior.Contingent expenses.Public-land service.Geological Survey.Surveying private lands in New Mexico.Contingent expenses.
Office of surveyor-general, Nebraska and Iowa. For contingent expenses, office of Secretary of the Interior, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, twelve dollars and ninety-eight cents. public-land service. For Geological Survey, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, forty-six dollars and seventeen cents. For surveying private land-claims in New Mexico, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, two hundred and eight dollars and fifty-three cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, seventy-seven dollars and eighty cents.
For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Florida, eighteenFlorida.Colorado.Department of Justice. hundred and eighty-one and prior years, ninety-five cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Colorado, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, four hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-one cents. department of justice. For support of prisoners, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-one andSupport of prisoners. prior years, one hundred and thirty dollars. 477 WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND THE SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller.
War Department.Contingencies of the Army. For contingencies of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, one hundred and forty-four dollars. For draft and substitute fund, eighteen hundred and seventy-oneDraft and substitute fund. and prior years, one hundred and ten dollars. For pay of volunteers (Mexican war), eighteen hundred and seventy-onePay of volunteers (Mexican War).Traveling expenses California and Nevada volunteers.Prevention, etc., of Indian hostilities. and prior years, fifty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirty seven cents.
For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, nineteen dollars and six cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND THE SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller.Quarter master’s Department; regular supplies.Contingent expenses. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen hundred and eighty one and prior years, five hundred and twenty dollars and two cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen hundred and eighty one and prior years, three hundred and eight dollars and ninety seven cents.
For barracks and quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-one andBarracks and quarters.Exception. prior years, except the claim numbered sixty-six thousand four hundred and seventy-six in said Executive Document Number Fifty-five; one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and forty seven cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, eighteen hundred and eighty oneHorses for cavalry, etc. and prior years, five thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars. For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, eighteen hundred andClothing, camp, and garrison equipage.Subsistence of Army. eighty-one and prior years, fifty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents.
For subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, three thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-five cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonPay, transportation, etc., of Oregon and Washington Volunteers. volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents.
For Rogue River Indian war, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andRogue River Indian War. eighty-one, eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and nine cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation, prior to July first,Twenty per centum additional compensation. eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND THE SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller, Navy Department.Pay of Navy.Exceptions.
For pay of the Navy, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty one, except the claims set forth in said Executive Document Number Fifty-five, on pages twenty six and twenty seven, beginning with the claim numbered six thousand and seventy one and extending down to the claim numbered sixty one hundred and eight, inclusive, six thousand one hundred and ten dollars and ninety five cents For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty one and priorMiscellaneous. years, two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-one cents.
For pay of Marine Corps, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andMarine Corps. eighty-one, three hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents. 478FORTY-EIGHT CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 359, 360. 1885. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, eighteenBureau of Construction and Repair. hundred and eighty one and prior years, five hundred and twelve dollars and seventeen cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundredBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. and eighty one and prior years, one hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-one cents.
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