Chapter 27.
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CHAP. 27.— 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-six, and for other purposes.Mar. 26, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent, deficiency appropriation. 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-six, and prior years, namely: treasury department.Treasury Department.
Special agents.For compensation of special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several sub treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-five cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four thousand dollars. Repairs.For the annual repairs of the Treasury building, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, six thousand dollars. propagation of food-fishes.Propagation of food-fishes.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the propagation of food-fishes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twelve thousand dollars. war department.War Department. Artificial limbs, etc.For artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Funeral expenses; General GrantTo reimburse the appropriations for the Quartermasters Department of the Army for expenses attending the funeral of General Grant paid by authority of Executive order directing General Hancock to give General Grant an imposing funeral, twelve thousand and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.
Stenographer, telegrams, mileage.To pay the three items of expense referred by General Hancock to the Secretary of War, namely: for hire of stenographer, one hundred and ninety-five dollars; telegrams received and sent, four hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-three cents; mileage expenses, three hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents; in all, one thousand and one dollars and fifty-one cents, or so much thereof as the Secretary of War may find to be due and unpaid.
Undertaker.To pay the bill of Stephen Merritt, undertaker, for embalming, burial casket and ornamentation thereof, canopy, catafalque and other necessary articles and services furnished by him at reasonable prices and which remain unpaid, six thousand three hundred and three dollars and seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and found upon examination by the Secretary of War to be just and proper charges. 7 To enable the Secretary of War to repair the sub-marine cable, BlockSub-marine cable, Block Island Bay, repair of. *Post*, p. 240.
Island Bay, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the judgment of the Secretary of War. navy department—bureau of ordnance.Navy Department. For material for the gun-carriages for the Chicago, ten thousandGun-carriages, the Chicago. dollars. For powder for the Boston, twelve thousand dollars.Powder, the Boston. Labor, armament of new steel cruisers. Freight. Armament. For labor in the Washington Navy-Yard for continuing work on the armament of the new steel cruisers, sixty thousand dollars.
For freight and material for armament of the new steel cruisers, forty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars. For payment of foreign and domestic bills, for which vouchers have been issued and approved by the Bureau of Ordnance, for the armament of the new steel cruisers, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-four cents, or so much thereof as may be found necessary. To enable the Navy Department to pay existing obligations, under contracts made by the Bureau of Ordnance, for armament of the new steel cruisers, eighty-three thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixteen cents. department of justice.Department of Justice.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, being for the service of theJurors’ fees. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, fifty thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, being for the service ofWitnesses’ fees. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. post-office department.Post-Office Department. That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized toGas for money-order and Sixth Auditors, Offices. transfer from the appropriation for gas for the Post-Office Department, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to the appropriation for gas for buildings for the Money-Order and Sixth Auditor’s Offices, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay,Capitol Hill branch city post-office, rent, etc. out of the appropriation for rent, light, and fuel for the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, rent for the building on Capitol Hill used as a branch of the Washington city post-office, at a rate not to exceed thirty dollars per month, for the current fiscal year, or for such part thereof as the said building may be occupied for the purpose aforesaid. interior department.Interior Department.
For repairs to water-tank on the main building of the Freedman’sFreedman’s Hospital, repairs to water-tank. Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, two hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. senate.Senate. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, being a deficiency for theMiscellaneous items. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five thousand dollars. water supply district of columbia.District of Columbia. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,Water-supply, to protect tunnel for increased. to enable the Secretary of War to preserve from flooding or other injury during the suspension of operations thereon the tunnel now being 8 constructed under authority of an act to increase the water supply of Vol. 22, p. 168.Washington City and for other purposes, approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the said sum to be subject to all the Vol. 23, p. 132.provisions and restrictions of said act and of the act approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, making appropriations for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia, as to its apportionment and settlement between the United States and the District of Columbia and the refunding thereof.
Approved, March 26, 1886.