Chapter 37.
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CHAP. 37.— An act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for other purposes.May 1, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent deficiency appropriations. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and prior years, namely:
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. That from the appropriations for public printing and binding for thePrinting and binding. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, theTransfer of appropriation to Treasury, Navy, War, and Post-Office Departments. Public Printer is hereby authorized to transfer to the allotment of the Treasury Department an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to the allotment of the Navy Department an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to the allotment of the War Department fifteen thousand dollars, and .to the allotment of the Post Office Department an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; but the aggregate amount appropriated for the public printing and binding for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall not be exceeded because of the transfers hereby authorized.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Transportation of subsidiary silver coin. For the transportation of subsidiary silver coin as authorized by law, five thousand dollars. 16 Fuel, lights, etc., for public buildings under control of.For fuel, lights, water, required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars.
Furniture and repairs of, and carpet for building at Boston; Cleveland, O.; Montgomery, Ala.; Philadelphia; St. Louis,For furniture and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for the following public buildings, namely: For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, thirty thousand dollars; for custom-house at Cleveland, Ohio, five thousand dollars; fur court house and post-office at Montgomery, Alabama, ten thousand dollars; for post-office and court-house at Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars; and for custom-house and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri, ten thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand dollars; and each of said amounts shall be so expended as to complete the furnishing of said buildings; and all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings in said cities, respectively, shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not.
Pay of janitors,For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, fifty-six thousand dollars. For completion of public-building at Philadelphia; St. Louis;For post-office and court-house at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For completion of the building, sixty-one thousand dollars. For custom-house at Saint Louis, Missouri: For completion and furnishing of the building, twenty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.
Albany;For custom-house and post-office at Albany, New York: For completion of the building, fifty-five thousand dollars. Cincinnati;For custom-house and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuation of the building, one hundred thousand dollars. Marine-hospital at Memphis.For marine-hospital buildings at Memphis, Tennessee: For completion of approaches, fencing, terracing lot, heating and laundry apparatus, thirty thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. expenses of the tenth census.Tenth census.
For current expenses, twenty thousand dollars. For outstanding liabilities, five thousand dollars. stationery.Stationery. 22 Stat., 344. For stationery for the use of the Department of the Interior in wrapping and mailing the reports of the tenth census ordered by Congress to be distributed by this Department by the act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighteen cents. expenses of band-offices.Expenses of land offices.
For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, fifteen thousand dollars. For expenses of depositing public moneys, five thousand dollars. pensions.Pensions. Fees of expanding surgeons.For fees and expenses of expanding surgeons, five hundred thousand dollars. For fees and expenses of expanding surgeons, two hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventeen cents, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
Per diem pay for special expanders, etc.For per diem, when absent from home on duty, for special expanders or other persons employed in the Pension Office detailed for the pur-17pose of waking special investigation of matters pertaining to the Pension Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, forty thousand dollars. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized toSettlement of accounts of disbursing clerks of Interior Department for disbursements for Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum; transfer of unexpended balances. settle and allow, if found correct, the accounts of the disbursing clerks of the Interior Department for the fiscal years, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighteen hundred and eighty four, for disbursements made on account of support of the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum by transfer of any unexpended balance and apply the same to purposes for which the subdivisions of the appropriations for said institution for the years above mentioned are exhausted.
And the payments made to clerks, watchmen, laborers, laundresses and teamsters of said hospital for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty two, eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighteen hundred and eighty-four, may be allowed and chargeable to the appropriation for clothing, bedding, forage, transportation and miscellaneous expenses for said fiscal years respectively; but the aggregate amounts appropriated for the expenses of the Hospital and Asylum for the above fiscal years shall not be exceeded because of the transfer herein authorized.
The amount of said transfers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four shall not exceed one thousand dollars. indian office.Indian Office. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the employees temporarilyTemporary employees; payment of. Voluntary service for the Government, or employment of personal service other than that authorized by law, prohibited; exceptions. employed and rendering service in the Indian Office from January first up to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand one hundred dollars, and hereafter no Department or officer of the United States shall accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property.
NAVY DEPARTMENT. bureau of equipment and recruiting.Navy, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. Recruiting; transportation of enlisted men and boys. Contingent. For expenses of recruiting, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, fifteen thousand dollars. Fer contingent expenses of the Bureau, five thousand dollars. bureau of construction and repair. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair,Construction and Repair. and incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage, two hundred and thirty four thousand dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. That one thousand two hundred dollars of the sum appropriated by22 Stat., 46S. the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be, and theTransfer of appropriation; schools. same are hereby, transferred from the second to the third school division, without increasing the aggregate expenditure therein provided. For janitors and care of the several school-buildings, three thousandJanitors; repairs of school buildings. nine hundred dollars; for current repairs to school-buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; one-half of said amounts to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia for the current fiscal year. 18 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mary E. Herndon, payment to.To pay Mary E. Herndon, widow of the late Honorable T. H. Herndon, the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. Hon. W. F. Pool, payment to mother of.To pay the mother of the late Honorable W. F. Tool the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents.
Hon. E. W. M. Mackey, payment to widow of.To pay the widow of the late Honorable E. W. M. Mackey the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, five thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. Hon. D. C. Haskell, payment to widow of.To pay the widow of the late Honorable D, C. Haskell the amount of salary and allowances for mileage and stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, six thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Hon. E.M. Cutts, payment to widow of.To pay the widow of the late Honorable M. E. Cutts the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, seven thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents. Alexander B. Thomas, Wilson Grice, payment to.To enable the Clerk of the House to pay-Alexander B. Thomas and Wilson Grice for services rendered under resolution of the House from March fourth to December third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at sixty dollars per month each, one thousand and eighty dollars.
Approved, May 1st, 1884.