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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · October 19, 1888 · Chapter 1210

Chapter 1210.

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CHAP. 1210.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.October 19, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriations. 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 hundred and eighty-eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department Salaries Foreign Ministers: To pay amounts found due by theMinisters’ salaries. accounting officers on account of salaries of ministers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and four cents. Salaries, Charges D’affaires ad Interim: To pay amountsSalaries, charges d’affaires. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thousand and fifty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents.
Salaries, Consular Officers not Citizens: To pay amountsSalaries, consular officers not citizens. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of consular officers not citizens, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of consular officers not citizens, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty cents.
To pay the balance of compensation due A. B. Keün, vice-consul-generalA. B. Keün.Payment to. at Teheran, while in charge of the consulate-general of the United States at that place from June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, being deficiencies on account of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-six and eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-seven cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-four cents.
Contingent Expenses United States Consulates: To payContingent expenses, consulates. amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses of United States consulates, being a deficiency for the 566FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-four cents. Consular salaries.Salaries, Consular Service: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of salaries, consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries, consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-three cents. Clerks at consulates.Allowance for Clerks at Consulates: To reimburse Robert J. Stevens, United States consul at Victoria, British Columbia, for amount paid for clerk hire at that consulate from May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four hundred dollars.
Loss on exchange, consular service.Loss on Bills of Exchange, Consular Service: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of loss on bills of exchange, consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. French spoliation claims.French Spoliation Claims: For procuring additional evidence relative to the French spoliation claims, one thousand dollars.
International Bureau Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 709.Standard Weights and Measures: To enable the Secretary of State to meet the proportionate part which the United States is asked to bear of the deficit in the revenues provided for the first period of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures established under the Convention of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-three cents. Chinese indemnity.To pay, out of humane consideration and without reference to the question of liability therefor, the sum of two hundred and seventy-six thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-five cents to the Chinese Government as full indemnity for all losses and injuries sustained by Chinese subjects within the United States at the hands of residents thereof.
S. Dana Horton.Payment to.Expenses of International Monetary Conferences: To pay S. Dana Horton for additional services as delegate of the United States to the International Monetary Conference, of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and secretary to the Commission in and about the preparation of the document of said conference, known as Senate Executive Document Number Fifty-eight, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, and for additional services as delegate and secretary to the Monetary Conference of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in and about the preparation of reports of said conference, and for services in said year relating to the proposed Monetary Conference of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, six thousand dollars.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Return of immigrants illegally landed.Vol. 24, p. 414.That the act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to amend an act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in case he shall be satisfied that an immigrant has been allowed to land contrary to the prohibition of that law, to cause such immigrant within the period of one year after landing or entry, to be taken into custody and returned to the country from whence he came, at the expense of the owner of the importing vessel, or, if he entered from an adjoining country, at the expense of the person previously contracting for the services.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.567 That the act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundredAllowance to informers of violation of immigration laws.Vol. 28, p. 333. and eighty-five, entitled “An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to an informer who furnishes original information that the law has been violated such a share of the penalties recovered as he may deem reasonable and just, not exceeding fifty per centum, where it appears that the recovery was had in consequence of the information thus furnished. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Compensation of special agents to examine the books, accounts, andSpecial agents.[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).Vol. 9, p. 62. 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 a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-one cents. To reimburse the Treasurer United States for balance of loss onLoss on recoinage of uncurrent silver coin. recoinage of fifteen thousand dollars in uncurrent silver coins transferred to the mint at San Francisco from the sub-treasury at San Francisco by transfer order number fourteen thousand three hundred and fifty-five, of May fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, sixty-three dollars and ninety-six cents.
To reimburse the Treasurer United States for balance of loss on recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coin transferred from the subtreasuries at Boston, Chicago, and Baltimore, in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, per transfer orders numbers fifteen thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, fifteen thousand seven hundred and sixty, and fifteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, two hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-six cents. Contingent Expenses Independent Treasury:
For contingentContingent expenses.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingent Expenses, Assay Office at Helena: To reimburseAssay office, Helena.Transportation.
Spruille Braden, assayer in charge, for charges for transportation of supplies, included in voucher thirteen June, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, there being no funds available for payment, one dollar. To pay Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company for transportationChicago and Northwestern Railway Company. of public property in March, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, forty cents. To pay Northern Pacific Railway Company for transportation of Northern Pacific Railway Company.public property in March and April, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, eighteen dollars and sixty-three cents.
GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Territorial governments. Territory of Dakota: For salaries of two additional associateDakota.Additional judges.*Ante*, p. 398. justices of the supreme court of said Territory provided for by the act approved August ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, from date of qualification in office at the rate of three thousand dollars each per year, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Territory of New Mexico: For salary of the additional associateNew Mexico.Additional justice. justice of the supreme court of said Territory, provided for by the 568FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, from date of qualification in office to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 24, p. 428.eighty-seven, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. Internal-revenue agents, etc.Collecting Internal Revenue:
For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, for fees and expenses of gaugers, for salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars. Public buildings, heating apparatus.Heating Apparatus: For heating apparatus for public buildings, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars. Paducah, Ky.Supplies to post office.Post-Office and courthouse, Paducah, Kentucky: To pay the account of George O. Hart and Son, of Paducah, Kentucky, for sundry articles furnished for use in and upon the post-office and courthouse building at Paducah, Kentucky, thirty-two dollars and twenty cents.
Minneapolis, Minn.Public building.For Post-Office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: For approaches complete and for an additional elevator, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Port Townsend, Wash.Public building.For customhouse and Post-Office at Port Townsend, Washington Territory: For completion, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Louisville, Ky.Public building.courthouse and Post-Office at Louisville, Kentucky: For continuation of building, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten thousand dollars.
Waco, Tex.Public building.Extra expenses.courthouse, Post-Office, and so forth, at Waco, Texas: To pay the amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury to John Moore, contractor, for extra labor and materials supplied and expenses incurred in connection with his contract of August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the construction of a courthouse, post-office, and so forth, at Waco, Texas, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Concord, N. H.Public building.Public Building at Concord, New Hampshire: For fitting up the attic story; for curbing for approaches, and for other incidentals necessary to finish the building, six thousand live hundred and ninety-four dollars. Engraving and printing.Payment to Elizabeth R. Millegan.Plate Printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: To pay Elizabeth R. Millegan, executrix, and others, the amount found due by the accounting officers, being a deficiency on account of the appropriation for plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, four hundred and eight dollars and three cents.
F. W. Angell.Payment to, for legal services.Payment to F. W. Angell for Legal Service: To pay F. W. Angell for services and expenses under authority of the Secretary of the Treasury in the suit brought by William Lockwood and E. H. McClintock against W. H. Robertson, collector of the port of New York, in a certain injunction proceedings against the disinfection of a cargo of rags imported in the ship Vigilante from Japan, allowed by the First Auditor, June eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (report number ninety-seven thousand five hundred and nine), but suspended by the Commissioner of Customs for want of authority of law to pay the same, five hundred dollars and fifty-five cents.
Samuel H. Robinson.Payment to.For the payment to Samuel H. Robinson for services rendered in connection with the sanitary improvement of the Treasury Department Building in a proper sanitary condition by improved plumbing sewerage, five hundred and ninety-five dollars. Samson B. Allen.Refund of tonnage dues.Refund to Samson B. Allen: To refund to Sampson B. Allen that portion of the amount collected from him by the collector of customs at New York as alien tonnage dues on the schooner Lady Ellen and deposited in the Treasury, which has since been remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred and ten dollars and nineteen cents.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.569 Refund to Peter French: To refund to Peter French, late collectorPeter French.Payment to. of customs at Sitka, Alaska, the amount paid by him for advertising the sale of Government property under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, there being no appropriation available for payment of the same, two dollars and sixty-six cents. Refund to the Clerk of the District Court for Washington Territory:Washington Territory.Payment to clerk of court.
To refund to the clerk of the third judicial district court of Washington Territory the sum of six hundred and sixty-two dollars and eleven cents, being the proceeds of sale of three hundred and thirty-five saw logs deposited with said clerk pending a suit of replevin brought by the United States against George Bratton and Charles Page to recover said logs, as unlawfully cut on public lands, and by him erroneously deposited in the Treasury, judgment in the case having been rendered in favor of the defendants.
Payment for Losses by sinking of Schooner Carrie, of New Haven,Carrie.Payment on account of loss of schooner. Connecticut: To pay to the following-named persons the following sums, respectively, in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims in their behalf against the Government of the United States, or any of its Departments, officers, or employees, on account of the collision between the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey schooner Eagre and the said schooner Carrie, or any of its consequences, namely:
To William A. Woodward, managing owner of the Carrie, in fullWilliam A. Woodward. for himself and all his partners therein, one thousand two hundred dollars. To Joshua M. Chappell, of New Haven, Connecticut, master ofJoshua M. Chappell. the Carrie, in full, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars. To Leopold J. Petersen, of New Haven, Connecticut, seaman ofLeopold J. Petersen. the Carrie, in full, one hundred and ten dollars. To George H. Smith, of New Haven, Connecticut, of and in full, forGeorge H.
Smith. the firm of J. and G. H. Smith and Company, consignors and owners of the cargo of the Carrie, five hundred and ten dollars: in all, two thousand and eighteen dollars. Electoral Messengers: For the payment of the messengers ofElectoral messengers.Mileage for. the respective States for carrying to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the usual road traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for one distance only, for the service of fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Fish Hatchery, Duluth, Minnesota: For the completion of theDuluth, Minn.Completing fish hatchery. fish hatchery on Lake Superior, near Duluth, Minnesota, including its equipment, water supply, and the construction at the station of ponds for the cultivation of trout, four thousand dollars. Refund to Iselin, Neeser and Company: To repay to Messrs,Iselin, Neeser & Co. Iselin, Neeser and company, amount of excessive interest collected in error by the United States district attorney at New York, in the settlement (without suit) of a claim against said firm for duties on merchandise imported by them; the amount having been covered into the Treasury, eighty dollars and ninety-six cents.
To refund to the heirs of C. A. J. Flemister, the balance of theC. A. J. Flemister.Refund of interest to heirs of. proceeds of a sale of certain real-estate of said Flemister, covered into the Treasury, over and above his indebtedness to the Government, four hundred and seventy-five dollars. LIGHT-STATIONS.Light stations. Castle Hill Light-Station, Rhode Island: That the appropriationsCastle Hill, R. I.Appropriations for, available without conditions. made for the establishment and completion of a lighthouse and fog-signal at Castle Hill, entrance to Newport Harbor, Rhode 570FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Vol. 21, p. 225.Island, by the acts of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, are *Ante*, p. 19.hereby made available without condition for the purchase of a suitable site at the entrance of said harbor, and for the erection and completion of a lighthouse and fog-signal. Matagorda, Tex.Sabine Pass, La.Re-imbursing keepers.Reimbursement of Keepers of Light-Stations for Personal Losses: To reimburse the keepers of light-stations at Matagorda, Texas, and Sabine Pass, Louisiana, for personal losses incurred by them during the storms of August and October, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.
Jared A. Smith.Credit in accounts of.Relief of Major Jared A. Smith, United States Army: To enable the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to settle the accounts or Major Jared A. Smith, United States Army, late engineer of the fifth and six lighthouse districts, for Mosquito Inlet light-station, Florida, third quarter of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, authority is hereby granted for the allowance of the sum of two hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, being the balance of a payment made by him under authority of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incurred in connection with the transportation and interment of the remains of Major O.
E. Babcock, United States Army, formerly engineer of said districts, and burial of the remains of L. P. Luckey, his clerk who were drowned while attempting to land on the coast of Florida for the purpose of inspecting the work of constructing the lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet, Florida. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Redemption of certificate of indebtedness.For the redemption of one certificate of indebtedness issued by authority of section seven of the act of the legislative assembly, approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, dated July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, of the denomination of fifty dollars, with interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum, numbered thirteen hundred and seventy-one, payable July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one hundred and ten dollars.
Police matrons.Police Department: For salaries of three matrons for police stations, at six hundred dollars each; for accommodations for matrons at police stations, three thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, five thousand dollars, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Repairs to telegraph lines.To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to repair or reconstruct such portions of the fire alarm and police telegraph lines of the District of Columbia, as may be in their opinion, absolutely necessary for the public safety, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, said sum to be available until March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
Assessor’s office.Assessor’s Office: For stationery, printing, supplies, and recorder of deeds for furnishing list of transfers, eight hundred and nine dollars and sixty-five cents. Collector’s office.Collector’s Office: For printing, stationery, and furniture, three hundred and sixty-four dollars. Markets.Markets: For fuel, hardware, and plumbing, fifty-three dollars and nineteen cents. Engineer’s office.Engineer’s Office: For stationery, printing, fuel, forage, and horseshoeing, three hundred and eighty-six dollars and four cents.
Improvement of streets.Improvements and Repairs: For improvement of streets and avenues, northeast section (granite paving blocks), one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twelve cents. Standard Underground Cable Company.Payment to.Telegraph and Telephone Service, District of Columbia: To pay Standard Underground Cable Company for underground cable laid in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and since FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.571 used by the District Government for fire-alarm, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-cents.
Police Court: For stationery, fuel, ice, gas, and witness fees,Police court. ninety-three dollars and thirty-nine cents. Public Schools: The Commissioners are hereby authorized toPublic schools.Principal normal pay to the principal of the normal school of the seventh and eighth divisions, five hundred dollars, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for salaries of teachers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in order to make the salary of said principal one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds:Miscellaneous. For lumber, cement, paint, and glass, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. For stationery, printing, ice, gas, and supplies, four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-four cents. For industrial instruction, namely, for lumber, hardware, and dry goods, three hundred and thirteen dollars and fourteen cents Miscellaneous Expenses: For advertising special tax list, oneMiscellaneous expenses. thousand eight hundred dollars.
For printing checks, damages, forage, care of horses, horseshoeing, fuel, ice, gas, and repairs, one thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy cents. For Payment of Judgments: For the payment of judgmentsPayment of judgments. against the Distinct of Columbia as follows: Samuel C. Mills, four hundred and ten dollars, together with eighteen dollars and seventy cents costs; Henry Green, by John Jackson, seven hundred and fifty dollars, together with thirty-two dollars and seventy cents costs;
Edward Coleman, nine hundred and fifty dollars, together with ninety-seven dollars and forty-five cents costs; District of Columbia versus Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company (two cases), fifty-one dollars and twenty-five cents costs: Virginia L. Cartwright, one thousand five hundred dollars, together with seventy-one dollars and seventy cents costs; Enoch Ridgeway, five hundred dollars, together with one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents costs; R. S. Thomas, three hundred and seventy-five dollars, together with sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents costs;
William C. McGill (balance), one hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifteen cents; Raleigh Sherman, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-six cents, together with nineteen dollars and ten cents costs; Mary L. Paschal, twenty-eight dollars and thirty cents costs: Abraham Kaufman, eight hundred dollars, together with twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents costs: Henry Ruppert, four hundred dollars, together with forty-three dollars and seventy cents costs; James Stewart, fifty dollars, together with three dollars and twenty cents costs;
Louisa Hilton and Mary Hilton, seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents together with ninety dollars and forty cents costs; Margaret and Catharine Harrigan, five hundred dollars, together with forty-six dollars and fifty cents costs; Annie Clarkson, one thousand dollars, together with thirty-six dollars and fifty cents costs; in all, nine thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-six cents, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest on said judgments from the date the same became due until the day of right of appeal shall have expired.
Sale of Bonds: To supply the deficiency in the amount realizedSale of bonds. from the sale of bonds in which the ten per centum retained from contractors was invested, one thousand five hundred dollars. 572FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Miscellaneous.To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight as follows: For salaries and contingent expenses, streets, public schools, buildings for schools, courts, miscellaneous expenses, health department, judgments, and water department, three thousand and ten dollars and seventy-five cents, as per estimates submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, Senate Executive Document Number Two Hundred and Fifty-two.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as follows: Executive office.Executive Office: For stationery, printing, furniture, and livery, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, seven hundred and two dollars and thirty-seven cents. Assessor’s office.Assessor’s Office: For daily transfers furnished by recorder of deeds from January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, per bill on file in the office of uditor of the District of Columbia, two hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents.
Collector’s office.Collector’s Office: For printing, per bill on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, twelve dollars and thirty-five cents. Attorney’s office.Attorney’s Office: For stationery, printing, and ice, per bills on file in office of the auditor of the District of Columbia, thirty dollars and twenty-nine cents. Pumps.Purchase and Repairs of Pumps: For pumps, per bill on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, fifty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents.
Public schools.Public Schools: For stationery, printing, ice, gas, and supplies, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous Expenses: For general advertising, advertising proposals and notices, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, two thousand and fifty-two dollars and nine cents. William Forsyth.For books for register of wills, printing, checks, damages, and other necessary items:
To pay William Forsyth for surveying, per bill on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and nineteen cents. Health department.Health Department: For rent of office, rent of stable, printing, and forage, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as follows:
Sewers.Cleaning Tidal Sewers: For lime and oil, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, three dollars and fifty-three cents. Fire department.Fire Department: For saddlery, ice, and gas, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, one hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty cents. Miscellaneous expenses.Miscellaneous Expenses: For forage, saddlery, and horseshoeing, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, thirty dollars and sixty-three cents.
For advertising proposals and notices, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, sixty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as follows: Street lamps.Street Lamps: For gas and erection of lamps, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, two thousand and ninety-five dollars and sixty-four cents. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.573 Fire Department:
For horseshoing and gas, per bills on file inFire department. the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, three hundred and ten dollars and seventy-seven cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as follows: Current Repairs to County Roads: For sand, per bill on fileCounty roads. in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, ninety-six dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as follows:
District Offices and Markets: For repairs to wagon used byRepairs to wagon. District offices, per bill on file in office of auditor of the District of Columbia, seventeen dollars and twenty cents. That one-half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies in theOne-half from district revenues. 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.
Employment of Special Counsel: To enable the CommissionersSpecial counsel for Samuel Strong arbitration. of the District of Columbia to employ and pay special counsel to represent the District of Columbia in the case of Samuel Strong, authorized to be submitted to an arbitration board of three persons to be appointed by the President of the United States under the joint resolution of Congress approved July tenth, eighteen hundred and*Post*, p. 1245. eighty-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; one-half of said sum to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Water Department: For stationery, advertising, forage, andWater department. horseshoeing, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-six cents. For pipe distribution to high and low service: Fuel, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, one thousand and sixty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. All being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
To pay William Forsyth for surveying site of pump-house in Georgetown, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, ten dollars. The foregoing items under the water department shall be paid outTo be paid from water revenues. of the revenues of that department. Increase of Water-Supply, Washington, District of Columbia: ForIncrease of water supply. expenses of the Joint Select Committee appointed under a concurrentExpenses of investigation. resolution of Congress to investigate the work upon, and contracts and other matters relating to the Washington Aqueduct tunnel, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives on vouchers approved by said Joint Select Committee.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. To enable the Secretary of War to pay a reasonable additionalAdjutant • General’s Office. compensation to the employees in the office of the Adjutant-GeneralCompensation to employees for extra work. engaged on extra work after office hours in disposing of accumulated pension work during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, at such rates as he may deem just and proper, but not exceeding sixty cents per hour to clerks (regardless of grade) and not exceeding thirty cents per hour to messengers, for the extra time actually employed, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty cents. 574FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Surgeon-General’s Office.Compensation to employees for extra work.To enable the Secretary of War to pay a reasonable additional compensation to the employees in the office of the Surgeon-General who were actually employed after office hours in disposing of accumulated pension work during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, at such rates as he may deem just and proper, but not exceeding sixty cents per hour to clerks’(regardless of grade) and not exceeding thirty cents per hour to messengers, for the extra time actually employed, thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty cents.
Paul Butler.Payment to.Manufacture of Arms at National Armories: To enable the Secretary of War to pay to Paul Butler royalty on sixty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-eight hook attachments or stacking swivels, at eight cents each, as per judgment of the Court of Claims, dated June fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight (numbered fourteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine), these being the number manufactured by the Government and attached to arms from April twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-four cents. pay of the army.
Officers’ mileage.For mileage to officers, when authorized by law, to be disbursed under the limitations prescribed for the appropriation for mileage to Vol. 24, p. 396.officers by the Army appropriation act approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service. Transportation.For transportation of men and their baggage, and for transportation of material, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety-two cents.
For Signal Service transportation, eighteen hundred and eighty-four and prior years, to pay the claim of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, three dollars and one cent. Medical attendance.For medical attendance and medicines to officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, being for the service of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and three cents. engineers department.Engineers’ Department.
Mississippi River Commission.Salaries and expenses.Mississippi River Commission: Salaries and traveling expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, and for salaries and traveling expenses of assistant engineers, and for office expenses and contingencies, being for the period from April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and to be at once available, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mississippi River.Gauging waters.Gauging the waters of Lower Mississippi and its Tributaries:
Annual expenses of gauging the water of the Mississippi and its tributaries: continuing observations of the rise and fall of the river and its chief tributaries as required by joint resolution of Vol. 16, p. 598.February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, rendered necessary for establishing additional gauges at Fulton, Garland, and Collin’s Bluff (mouth of Sulphur River) Arkansas, three thousand six hundred dollars. Hartford and New York Transportation Company.Payment to.To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York Transportation Company for labor and money expended in removing, in an emergency, obstructions and dredging the Connecticut River in eighteen FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.575 hundred and eighty-six, under the same rules and inspections as the work on said river had been conducted by the United States engineer officers in charge, two thousand six hundred and six dollars and eighty cents. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. For payment on account of Army transportation, eighteen hundredTransportation. and eighty-two and prior years, as certified to Congress as due, by the accounting officers of the Treasury, in House Executive Document Number Nineteen, Fiftieth Congress, first session, namely:
To the Hoboken Land Improvement Company of New Jersey, fifteenHoboken Land Improvement Company. thousand eight hundred dollars. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury DepartmentPurchase of horses for the Department. are hereby authorized and directed to credit and allow to Lieutenant-Colonel R. N. Batchelder, deputy quartermaster-general, the voucher for eight hundred and fifty dollars for horses purchased for the use of the War Department on May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the voucher for five hundred dollars for a similar purchase made March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and to charge the same, respectively, to the appropriations for contingencies of the Army for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
Rent, and so forth, Citadel Academy, South Carolina: ToCitadel Academy, Charleston, S. C.Payment of rent.*Post*, p. 629. pay the amount reported as due by the Secretary of War in pursuance of the joint resolution approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to the State of South Carolina for rent of the Citadel Academy at Charleston, South Carolina, from August twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to February second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, including the sum equitably clue to the said State for the loss by fire of the west wing of said building while in the occupation of the United States, seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That this sum shall*Proviso*.To be accepted in full. be accepted in full payment of all claims for rent, wear and tear, and injury to the property by fire, or from any other cause whatever due to the said occupancy by the United States.
Extension of Military Reservation at Fort Thornburgh, Utah:Fort Thornburgh, Utah.Extension of reservation. For payment for private property taken by the Government in extension of the military reservation at Fort Thornburgh, Utah: under the order of the commander of the post, of April fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the President’s order of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, being the amount awarded by a board of officers June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as per their report approved by the War Department, three thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Reimbursement to certain States and Territories for expenses incurredStates and Territories.Refund to.Vol. 22, p. 111. in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, act June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eleven thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-four cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Contingent Expenses, Navy Department: To pay to John WanamakerContingent expenses. for stationery furnished the Navy Department and offices for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-eight cents.
To reimburse the appropriations “Ordnance and Ordnance Stores,Ordnance, etc. Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundredContingent, Bureau of Ordnance. and eighty-six,” thirty-six dollars, and “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,” three dollars, for amounts erroneously paid therefrom; in all, thirty-nine dollars. 576FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. To reimburse the following appropriations for amounts erroneously paid therefrom: Bureau Construction and Repair.Construction and repair Bureau Construction and Repair, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twelve dollars and fifty cents.
Bureau Equipment and Recruiting.Contingent, Bureau Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, nine dollars and fifty cents. Bureau Navigation.Contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three dollars; in all, twenty-five dollars. Hydrographic Office.Telephone rent.Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses Hydrographic Office: To reimburse Pay-Director T. H. Looker, United States Navy, for amounts paid the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, for exchange rental for the branch Hydrographic Office, Washington, District of Columbia, from the appropriation “pay miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.” the accounting officers claiming that these expenditures should have been paid from the appropriation for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval Establishment. Pay, miscellaneous.Pay Miscellaneous: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for actual expenses while traveling under orders, one thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seven cents. Advertising.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fourteen dollars. marine corps.Marine Corps. Clothing.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of undrawn clothing, two thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Freight.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, seventeen dollars. 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-seven, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-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-six, eighty-nine dollars and forty-one cents.
Provisions.To pay account for provisions furnished during fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, seven dollars and fifty cents.” Barracks.To pay accounts on file for repair of barracks at Pensacola, Florida: one hundred and eighty dollars and forty-five cents. Repairs.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of repair of barracks, Marine Corps, sixty dollars and sixteen cents. Provisions: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three cents.
Clothing.Clothing: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. Fuel.Fuel: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. Contingent.Advertising.Contingent: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. Transportation and Recruiting: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, forty-three dollars and fifty cents.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.577 bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountFreight. of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirteen, cents. Naval War College, Bureau of Navigation: To pay the followingNaval War College.Supplies, etc. unpaid bills on account of expenses of the Naval War College for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, namely:
Warren Ward and Company, for furniture, ninety dollars: H. P. Williams and Company, for mattresses, eighteen dollars: Phillip F. Conroy, for plumbing, nine dollars and forty cents; Phillip F. Conroy, for plumbing, six dollars and fifty-four cents; W. K. Covell, for grate to range, one dollar and seventy-five cents; W. K. Covell, for brick for range, two dollars and fifty cents; G. B. Reynolds, for coal, sixty-five dollars and seventy cents; G. B. Reynolds, for coal, thirty-two dollars and eighty-five cents;
Old Colony Steamboat Company, freight, seven dollars and forty-six cents; in all, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty cents. Compass-Testing Houses, Bureau of Navigation: To pay billCompass-testing houses.Supplies. of T. B. Cross, junior, for doors, sash, and so forth, furnished for the compass-testing houses, Bureau of Navigation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofFreight. freight, twenty-one dollars and forty-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-seven, seventy-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingentContingent. service of the Bureau of Ordnance, three thousand dollars. bureau of equipment and recruiting.Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountFreight. of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five dollars. bureau of provisions and clothing.Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountRations commuted. of rations commuted, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountAdvertising. of advertising, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-six cents. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred andFreight. eighty-seven, fifty-five dollars and eighty-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-six, one hundred and ninety-four dollars and seven cents. navy miscellaneous.
Payment to owners of schooner Nellie Woodbury: To pay“Nellie Woodbury.”Payment to owners of schooner. the owners of the schooner Nellie Woodbury for general average, being the proportion due from the United States, as owners of the 578FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. cargo, on account of the damage sustained by the collision of said schooner with the schooner Charlie Henley, in March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, while on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, bound for Washington, District of Columbia, laden with old copper and lead, the property of the United States, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-one cents.
“Kate Fawcett.”Payment to owners of steam-ship.Payment to owners of British Steam-Ship Kate Fawcett: To compensate the owners of the British steam-ship Kate Fawcett for damages sustained by that vessel in consequence of a collision with the United States steamer Atlanta, at the port of Aspinwall, in March, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, under a finding of a hoard of survey appointed under the regulations of the Navy Department, one hundred and twenty dollars. “Lima.”Payment to owners of barkPayment to owners of the Swedish bark Lima:
To compensate the owners of the Swedish bark Lima for damages sustained by said vessel by collision with the United States flagship Richmond, in the harbor of Key West, on March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-nine cents. “H. E. Hart.”Payment to owner of coal-barge.Payment for expenses incurred and losses sustained by sinking of coal-barge H. E. Hart: To pay P. C. O’Rourke, owner of coal-barge H. E. Hart, for expenses incurred and losses sustained by him in consequence of the sinking of the barge at the navy-yard, New York, March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, while in tow of the United States tug Catalpa, three hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy cents; and to pay E.
R. Lowe for services rendered in raising said barge, pumping, and other necessary work in connection with the delivery of her cargo of coal at the navy-yard, six hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents; in all, one thousand dollars and twenty cents. William Cramp and Sons.Payment to, for wharfage, monitor Terror.Wharfage, United States Monitor Terror: To pay William Cramp and Sons for wharfage and for care and protection of the United States monitor Terror, in accordance with letters of the Secretary of the Navy to said firm dated November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. Payment to employees.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay to the following employees in the Patent Office the sums severally due them, being the difference between the amounts received by them and the salaries appropriated by law, for the positions to which they had been appointed or promoted without taking the oath of office prior to November, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, namely: W. L. Aughinbaugh, one hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty cents;
L. B. Wynne, ninety-nine dollars and forty cents; Jay F. Bancroft, fifteen dollars and twenty cents; T. J. Hudson, forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents: James R. Rogers, fifteen dollars and twenty cents; Edward B. Moore, thirty-three dollars and twenty cents; W. A. Cowles, thirty-three dollars and ten cents: Granville Lewis, thirty-three dollars and twenty-cents; A. R. Townshend, fifteen dollars and twenty-five cents; J. McRoberts, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Samuel T.
Fisher, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; S. W. Bunyea, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; I. N. Townsend, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; T. J. Hogan, eight dollars and fifteen cents; A. P. Smith, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; M. D. Wires, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; John W. Frost, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Anne L. Somerville, one dollar and ninety-five cents: W. W. Townsend, fifty dollars and sixty cents; M. R. Sullivan, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Amelia Tyler, sixteen dollars and ninety-five cents;
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.579 W. H. Chadsey, ten dollars and eighty cents; Marie Van Leer, eightInterior Department.Payment to employees—Continued. dollars and forty cents; Bunyan Olive, sixteen dollars and ninety cents; John I. Brown, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Lewis Thompson, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; C. F. Randall, fifty-one dollars; F. P. McLean, thirty-four dollars and sixty cents; O.K. Gaantnar, thirty-three dollars and sixty cents; Robert P.
Haines, twenty-eight dollars; H. E. Baker, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; Sarah J. Noyes, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; George R. Blodgett, sixty-five dollars; B. N. Morris, twenty-four dollars and twenty cents; P. E. Clark, sixteen dollars and fifty cents; J. C. Dowell, sixty-five dollars: F. C. Skinner, twenty-four dollars and ten cents; W. B. Greeley, sixteen dollars and fifty cents; Thomas G. Steward, sixteen dollars and forty cents: Charles H. Richardson, twenty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents;
George A. Nixon, twenty-four dollars and twenty cents; C. M. Catlin, thirty-three dollars and sixty cents; J. Q. Rice, sixty-five dollars; A. P. Greely, twenty-eight dollars; L. D. Wilson, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; E. K. Tyler, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; in all, one thousand four hundred and four dollars and ninety-five cents. That the unexpended balance of the sum of twenty-five thousandInterstate Commerce Commission.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 54. dollars appropriated by the deficiency appropriation act, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to properly carry out the objects of the act to regulate commerce, be and the same is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. public land service.Public lands.
To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account ofNew Mexico.Surveyor-general. salary of surveyor-general of New Mexico, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two cents. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account ofContingent expenses. contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five dollars and ten cents. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, sixty thousandRegisters and receivers. dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-two cents. For expenses of depositing public moneys received from the disposalDepositing public moneys. of public lands, three thousand dollars. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of expenses of depositing public moneys, one thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofSurveying. expenses of depositing public moneys, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-two cents. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of surveying the public lands, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofAbandoned military reservations. preservation of abandoned military reservations, nine hundred and seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. To pay to John W. Gilmore, of Geneva County Alabama, the amountJohn W. Gilmore.Payment to. erroneously collected from him by the local land officers at Montgomery, Alabama, on homestead entry numbered twenty thousand and twenty-five, twenty-six dollars and ten cents. 580FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. indian affairs. Western Miami Indians.Thomas Richardville.Payment to.*Ante*, p. 528.Western Miami Indians: For the payment of Thomas F. Richardville for services and expenses as delegate representing the Western Miami Indians in Washington, one thousand dollars, to be paid out of the appropriation provided for said Indians in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and to be deducted from the amount to be paid said Indians thereunder.
Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians.John Wadsworth.Payment to.*Ante*, p. 528.Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians: For the payment of John Wadsworth for services and expenses as delegate representing the Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians in Washington, one thousand dollars, to be paid out of the appropriation provided for said Indians in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and to be deducted from the amount to be paid said Indians thereunder.
Eastern Band Cherokee Indians.W. B. Ferguson and Frederick C. Fisher.Payment to.Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina: For payment to W. B. Ferguson and Frederick C. Fisher, of Waynesville, North Carolina, for services rendered as attorneys for the eastern band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, from October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to November first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars. W. J.
Hadley.Payment to, superintendent Chilocco school.For pay of W. J. Hadley, as superintendent of the Indian Industrial School at Chilocco, Indian Territory, from October nine, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to November fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, both dates inclusive, one hundred and *Proviso*.fifty dollars and eighty-two cents: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay over to the duly authorized treasurer of the Creek Nation, the sum of eight hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-nine cents now standing to the credit of Creek Orphan Fund.the Creek Orphan Fund on the books of the Treasury, being the aggregate of the sums due the Creek orphans or their heirs under the Vol. 7, p. 368.treaty of March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the provisions of an act entitled “An act to reimburse the Creek Vol. 22, p. 301.Orphan Fund.” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and that the receipt of the treasurer of the Creek Nation shall be a release of the United States and considered a final settlement of the Creek Orphan matter.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Mail depredations.For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, and fees to United States marshals, attorneys, and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-two cents. Postmasters’ salaries.For compensation to postmasters, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-one cents.
Railroad transportation.For inland transportation, railroad routes, five hundred and sixty-two thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars. Clerks in post-offices.For compensation to clerks in post-offices, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-one cents. Foreign mails.For transportation of foreign mails from the United States to foreign countries, sixteen thousand dollars.
Payable from postal revenues.The foregoing sums for the postal service shall be payable from the postal revenues of the respective years to which they are properly chargeable. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.581 For an additional clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General,First Assistant Postmaster-General. for duty in the free delivery division, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand dollars. To enable the Postmaster-General to pay the Assistant Attorney-GeneralExtra compensation for preparing postal laws, etc. of the Post-Office Department for services rendered in the preparation of a new edition of the postal laws and regulations underVol. 24, p. 9. the act of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one thousand dollars.
That the claim of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company,Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company. certified in House Executive Document Number seventy, first session Forty-ninth Congress, shall be paid from any moneys in thePayment of claim. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, instead of “from postal revenues*Ante*, p. 14. of the respective years to which they are properly chargeable,” as provided in the deficiency act of February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
To pay the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company interest,Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. as provided by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five (eighteenth Statutes, page four hundred and eighty-one), fromPayment of interest. September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to FebruaryVol. 18, p. 482. fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the sum of twenty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty cents, withheld from said company pending suit for the recovery of that amount of internal-revenue taxes claimed to be due the United States, judgment having been rendered in favor of the company, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-eight cents.
To pay Thomas L. Hoffman, late postmaster at Fairfield, Iowa,Thos. L. Hoffman. Payment to. amount paid by him for the United States for rent of the post-office at Fairfield, Iowa, in accordance with the terms of a lease of said premises held by the United States, and in pursuance of the instructions of the Post-Office Department, six hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay Thomas F. Gerls, late postmaster at Pontiac, Michigan,Thomas F. Gerls. amount paid by him for rent of the post-office at Pontiac, Michigan,Payment to. in accordance with the terms of a lease of said premises held by the United States, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four hundred dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Improvement of Grounds: To pay amount due John A. Baker,Improvement of grounds. for tools furnished in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, twenty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. To pay amount due Joseph Paul for paving with asphalt the roadways in the Agricultural Grounds, by contract with the Agricultural Department, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, seven hundred and eleven dollars.
Experimental Garden: To reimburse Norman J. Colman forExperimental gardens. amount expended for repairs to heating apparatus, and so forth, inHeating apparatus excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, thirty-nine dollars and three cents. Silk Culture: To reimburse Norman J. Colman for amount paidSilk culture. John H. Wilkinson, for inspecting boiler in silk filature, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five dollars.
To pay W. S. Emans, United States consul at Shanghai, expensessilkworm eggs. incurred in procuring silkworm eggs, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, sixty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay William M. Noyes, for labor in June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at the experimental station, Piedmont, California, being for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twelve dollars. 582FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Travelling expenses.Investigating the History and Habits of Insects:
Transportation of agent of Department of Agriculture, being a deficiency on account of the appropriation for investigating the history and habits of insects for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ninety-six dollars and twenty-five cents. Manufacture of sugar.Experiments in the Manufacture of Sugar from Sorghum and Sugar Cane: To pay unsettled accounts against the Department for experiments for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Contingent expenses.James M. Ewing.Re-imbursement.Contingent Expenses Department of Justice, Horses and Wagons: To reimburse James M. Ewing, late disbursing clerk, Department of Justice, the amount of voucher number eighteen, third quarter of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for lively of horses for April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, improperly paid from the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Department of Justice:
Miscellaneous items, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.” and disallowed by the accounting officers, the said amount having been repaid to the Treasury by James M. Ewing, two hundred dollars. Repairs to courthouse, Washington.Repairs to courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: To reimburse James M. Ewing, late disbursing clerk, Department of Justice, amount paid by him for repairs to courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six dollars and seventy-two cents.
Suits against the Government.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for defending suits in claims against the United States, as reported by the Attorney-General, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventeen cents. judicialJudicial. Marshals’ fees.Fees and Expenses of Marshals: For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fifty thousand dollars. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, forty thousand dollars.
District attorneys’ fees.Fees of District Attorneys: For payment of regular official fees provided by law for official services of United States district attorneys, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. For payment of regular official fees provided by law for official services of United States district attorneys, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, forty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Joseph Campbell.To enable the Attorney-General to pay Joseph Campbell, of Phoenix, Arizona, for assisting in prosecution of certain fifteen Apache Indians charged with murder before the United States court, at Phoenix, Arizona, one thousand five hundred dollars. For payment of regular official fees provided by law for official services of United States district attorneys, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three hundred dollars. Assistant attorneys.Pay of Assistant Attorneys:
For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys who were appointed by the Attorney-General at a fixed annual compensation, and to reimburse them for the reduction of twenty per centum, more or less, made at the beginning of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, forty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.583 Fees of Clerks: For fees of clerks, United States courts, beingClerks’ fees. a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Fees of Commissioners: For fees of United States CommissionersCommissioners’ fees. and justices of the peace acting as such commissioners, fifty-two thousand four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-two cents. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as such commissioners, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, nineteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents. Rent of courtrooms:
For rent of United States court-rooms,Rent of courtrooms. eleven thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Pay of bailiffs, United States Courts: For pay of bailiffs andMiscellaneous expenses. criers: of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals for jurors when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court; for stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate justice of the Supreme Court, at a sum not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Pay of District Attorneys and Assistants: To provide for theDistrict attorneys and assistants.Fees. payment of the claims enumerated on pages two and three of Senate Executive Document Number Two Hundred and Sixty-Six, Fiftieth Congress, first session, as follows, namely: For payment of United States district attorneys for unofficial services for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three hundred and fifty dollars: for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, four thousand and five dollars; for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents; in all, eight thousand and thirty dollars and eighty cents.
For payment of special assistant district attorneys, fiscal year,Special assistants. eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and seven cents: for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five thousand and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents; for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, four hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, eight thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-two cents. To provide for the payment of the claims enumerated in Senate Executive Document Number Two Hundred and Seventy, Fiftieth Congress, first session, for fees of district attorneys as follows, namely:
Fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three hundred and twenty dollars; for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, except the claim numbered one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and forty-nine in said Senate Executive Document, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy cents; in all, four thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy cents. Expenses of Territorial Courts in Utah: For expenses ofUtah.Court expenses. Territorial courts in Utah, including nine thousand five hundred dollars for supplying and caring for the penitentiary in Utah, fifteen thousand dollars.
For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, including eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-six cents for supplying and caring for the penitentiary, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ten thousand and sixteen dollars and eighty-one cents. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, on account of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. 584FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, on account of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, five thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. Prisoners.Support of.Support of Prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twelve thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-four cents.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, being for the service of the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars. Industrial Home, Utah.Industrial Home in Utah Territory: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause all of the unexpended balances of appropriations made by two acts of Congress, one Vol. 24, p. 232.approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to aid in the establishment of an Industrial Home in the Territory of Utah and to provide employment and means of self support for the dependent women who renounce polygamy and the children of such women of tender age, in said Territory, with a view to aid in the suppression of polygamy therein, and the other act approved Industrial Christian Home Association, Utah.*Ante*, p. 13.Disposition of appropriations.February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to aid the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah in carrying on under its articles of incorporation, the work of providing employment and means of self support for the dependent women who shall have renounced polygamy, and their children of tender age, now in the hands of Caleb W.
West, or any other person or corporation, to be immediately paid over and delivered to a properly qualified disbursing officer of the United States to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. And Title in fee to be secured to property.said Secretary of the Treasury is further directed to cause a valid title to the lot or lots of ground in the City of Salt Lake, in said Territory, that were purchased and paid for with money of the United States appropriated in the acts before cited to be immediately vested absolutely and unconditionally in the United States forever.
When said Utah Commission to be board of management.balances are fully paid over to said disbursing officer, the Utah Commission shall be and become the board of management and control hereof and of all expenditures of said money and of such as may be hereinafter appropriated, and the said board of management and control shall proceed at once on plans and specifications to be made or approved by said board to erect or complete on said lot or lots a building adapted and designed to carry out the purposes of this act and which when entirely completed and finished, including the approaches and the fencing and grading of said lot or lots, shall not in cost exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and for these purposes the money appropriated under the two acts of Congress above recited Further appropriation.and unexpended, is hereby reappropriated, and a further sum is hereby appropriated to complete the work above mentioned not exceeding the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars.
Furnishing.There is also hereby appropriated the further sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to suitably furnish said building when the same shall have been completed. Industrial Christian Home Association.To have custody of institution.When said building shall have been completed and furnished it shall be placed in the custody of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory to be used and occupied by it for the purpose of aiding in the suppression of polygamy and of furnishing an industrial home and providing employment and means of self support for the dependent women who renounce polygamy and the children of such women of tender age in said Territory; and for the purpose of extinguishing polygamy the following classes may also be received, to wit:
First. Persons eligible for admission.First or legal wives. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.585 Second. Women and girls with polygamous surroundings in danger of being coerced into polygamy. Third. Girls of polygamous parentage anxious to escape from polygamous influences. Fourth. Women and girls who have been proselyted elsewhere and remove into the Territory in ignorance of the existence there of polygamy. For aiding in the work of said Association for the present fiscalSupport. year, including the transportation of inmates of the Institution who desire to permanently remove from said Territory, four thousand dollars.
Said Utah Commission shall hereafter act as the board of controlUtah Commission.Duties of. over said Association, both in the erection of said building and in the conduct of the work of the Association hereafter. Said Utah Commission shall audit all expenditures of said Association under any appropriation herein or hereafter made, and shall make an annual report to Congress covering their expenditures and work hereunder, together with that of said Association. Said Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory for the work herein defined shall have the use and occupation of said building and grounds free of rent or charge until such time as said work shall be accomplished, or Congress shall otherwise direct, when possession and occupation of the same shall revert to the United States.Reversion. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
Support of Insane Convicts: To pay the State Asylum for InsaneSupport of insane convicts. Criminals at Auburn, New York, for the care and support of United States convicts, seven hundred and two dollars. That the Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed toTransporting Charles Grandison *et al*. to Government Insane Asylum. cause Charles Grandison, Frank Seiver, alias George Selvin, and Anthony Stewart, alias Johnson, alias Frank Harris, who were received in the State Asylum for Insane Convicts at Auburn, New York, while undergoing sentence in the New York State Prison at Auburn, for crimes committed in the District of Columbia, and whose sentences have expired since they thus became insane, to be removed to the Government Hospital for the Insane, at Washington, District of Columbia, by the United States Marshal for the Northern District of New York, the necessary expenses incurred in the same, to be payable from the appropriation for fees and expenses of marshals.
California State Asylum for Insane: To pay the CaliforniaCalifornia Insane Asylum.Payment to. State Asylum for Insane at Napa, California, for the maintenance of Frank Aaron, a citizen of Alaska, committed to said asylum upon an order issued by the United States judge for the district of Alaska, from December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, eight hundred and twenty-seven days, at fifty cents per day, four hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents.
Refund to David Day: To refund to David Day so much of theDavid Day.Refund of fine to. fine of two hundred and twenty-five dollars imposed upon him by the United States court for the southern district of Mississippi at its November term, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, from which he was relieved by a pardon granted by the President, March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING.Public printing. For payment to the printers regularly employed on the CongressionalCongressional Record.Payment to printers.
Record not exceeding ninety dollars each for time unemployed during the present session, to be paid to such printers in proportion to the whole time actually employed in connection with the Record 586FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. during the session, six thousand three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Additional pay to night force.To pay fifteen per centum in addition to the amount paid for day labor to the employees of the Government Printing Office, such as compositors, pressmen, stereotypers, laborers, press-feeders, Record folders, counters, engineers, machinists, firemen; and proofreaders, revisers, copy-holders, makeup, and imposer of the bill force, who were and are exclusively employed on the night forces of the Government Printing Office, but exclusive of compositors on the Record, during the first session of the Fiftieth Congress, ten thousand *Proviso*.Deductions.dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That in estimating the said fifteen per centum credit shall be given to the Government for whatever has been paid or is now being paid the said employees above the rates for day work.
Annual leaves.To enable the Public Printer to comply with the law granting fifteen days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Public Printer is hereby directed to pay forthwith all persons for services covered by deficiencies for said years. SENATE.Senate. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents.
Folding materials.For material for folding for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fourteen thousand dollars. Folding speeches, etc.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight four thousand five hundred dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twelve thousand dollars. Fuel, etc.For fuel, oil, cotton-waste and advertising for the heating apparatus, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents. Furniture and repairs.For furniture and repairs of furniture for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents.
Mores and mail wagons.For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and four dollars and eighteen cents. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred eighty eight, four hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-seven cents. Investigations, etc.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten thousand dollars.
Official Reporter.To reimburse the official Reporter of the Senate for moneys paid for clerical hire during the First Session of the Fiftieth Congress, and for extra clerical services and expenses occasioned by the prolongation of the session Five Thousand Dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.587 To pay George N. Strananan for services as conductor of the newGeorge N. Stranahan. Senate elevator from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred dollars.
To pay Frank E. Waterman for nine days’ services, from DecemberFrank E. Waterman. fifth to December thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven inclusive, as clerk to Senator C. J. Faulkner, fifty-four dollars. To pay Jules Guthridge for seven days’ services, from DecemberJules Gut bridge. fifth to December eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, inclusive, as clerk to Senator George Hearst, forty-two dollars. To pay George H. Boyd, assistant in Senate document-room, forGeorge H.
Boyd. services rendered July eleventh and twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, six dollars and fifty-two cents. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to the widow of theJames T. Farley.Payment to widow of. late James T. Farley, late a Senator from the State of California, deceased, the sum of one thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty cents, being the amount of one mileage from his home to the seat of government and return. That hereafter the statement of all appropriations made duringStatement of appropriations.Contents of. each session of Congress, including new offices created and the salaries of each and salaries of the offices which are increased and the amounts of such increase authorized by the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be prepared under the direction ofVol. 5, p. 117.[R.
S., sec. 64, p. 13, amended](/us/rs/s64/p13). the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, and said statement shall hereafter show also the offices the salaries of which are reduced or omitted, and the amount of such reduction, and shall also contain a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the session for which it is prepared; and to complete this work for the present session the sum of twelvePayment to clerks. hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To pay to the widow of the late William T. Price, a member-electWilliam T. Price.Payment to widow of. to the Fiftieth Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, six thousand dollars. To pay to the widow of the late E. W. Robertson the amount ofE. W. Robertson.Payment to widow of. salary and mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fiftieth Congress, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars. To pay to the widow of the late S.
C. Moffat the amount of salaryS. C. Moffat.Payment to widow of. and mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fiftieth Congress, Five thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay to the widow of the late N. T. Kane the amount of salaryN. T. Kane.Payment to widow and mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fiftieth Congress, seven thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-one cents. To pay to the legal heirs of the late Andrew S.
Herron, a memberAndrew S. Herron.Payment to widow of. elect to the Forty-eighth Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, six thousand dollars. To pay to the widow and legal heirs of the late J. T. Updegraff aJ. T. Updegraff.Payment to heirs of. member-elect to the Forty-Eighth Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, six thousand dollars. To pay accounts for stenographic work done for the committeesStenographic work. of the House during the present session by other than the official stenographers, and which are recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely, to A.
Johns, five hundred and eighty-six dollarsA. Johns.James O. Clephane. and seventy-five cents; and to James O. Clephane, eighty-two dollars and fifty cents: in all, six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents; said claims to be audited by the Committee on Accounts and paid on their approval by the Clerk of the House. 588FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Enrolling room.Page fur.For compensation of a page in the Enrolling Room of the Clerk’s Office, recommended by the Committee on Accounts from and including August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, at sixty dollars per month, six hundred and sixty dollars.
John D. O’Connor.Payment to.To pay John D. O’Connor for services as clerk to Committee on Eleventh Census, from the ninth to the seventeenth of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, inclusive, fifty-four dollars. Thomas Bell.To reimburse Thomas Bell for expenses incurred from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for assistance as laborer in the folding-rooms, two hundred dollars. Official Reporters.Extra compensation.To reimburse the five Official Reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House of Representatives, for moneys paid by them so far during the present session for clerical hire and extra clerical services, one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; one thousand J.
K. Edwards.Payment to widow of.dollars of which shall be paid to the widow of the late J. K. Edwards, he having been one of the said five official reporters as herein provided for. Contested-election expenses.John M. Glover.To pay John M. Glover the sum of two thousand dollars in full of all expenses incurred by him in the contested election case of Frank against Glover in the Fiftieth Congress. Nathan Frank.To pay Nathan Frank the sum of two thousand dollars in full of all expenses incurred by him in the contested election case of Frank against Glover in the Fiftieth Congress.
W. O. Arnold.To pay W. O. Arnold, in addition to the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars allowed him in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for expenses incurred in his election contest, one thousand dollars. C. N. Felton.Frank J. Sullivan.To pay C. N. Felton and Frank J. Sullivan in full for expenses of election contest in the Fiftieth Congress, two thousand dollars each; in all four thousand dollars. B. C. Kuehling.Payment to.To pay B. C. Kuehling for services rendered as locksmith from January eighteenth to January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, forty dollars.
Rent.To enable the Clerk of the House to rent, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, rooms for the use of the clerks employed under the direction of the Committee on Rules in preparing the General Index of the Journals of Congress one thousand two hundred dollars. Maurice Ruddlesden.Payment to.To pay Maurice Ruddlesden for additional services as a laborer in the House Library during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and eighty dollars.
Turner K. Hackman.Payment to.To pay Turner K. Hackman for services rendered as riding page for twenty days previous to the organization of the present Congress, fifty Dollars. Francis D. Smith.Payment to.To pay Francis D. Smith for services rendered during the construction of the elevator in the south wing of the Capitol for the months of July, August and September, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and two dollars. Henry Neal.Payment to.To pay Henry Neal as messenger to the Speaker, in addition to his pay as laborer, the sum of three hundred and one dollars and twenty-one cents, at the rate of forty dollars per month, from December sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven to July eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Charles Carter.Payment to.To pay Charles Carter for extra services rendered during the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress, Fifty dollars. Ralph T. Moses.Payment to.To pay Ralph T. Moses for services rendered as assistant folder in seal room from December fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven to January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. W. E. Burford.Rent.To enable the Clerk of the House to pay W. E. Burford for rent of the premises number two hundred and twenty-nine, New Jersey FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.589 avenue, used as a folding-room for the House from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven to April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Charles H. Evans extra compensation for preparing statisticalCharles H. Evans.Payment to. tables, and for services rendered to the Committee on Ways and Means, five hundred dollars. For allowance to members of the House of Representatives forStationery to members. stationery, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To reimburse the Clerk of the House of Representatives for postagePostage-stamps. stamps eighty dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay George W. Knox forDrayage. hauling books and placing them in the room’s in the terrace of the House wing of the Capitol, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-seven cents. To pay W. D. Hunter for thirty-eight days work during the recessW. D. Hunter.Payment to. of Forty-ninth Congress at the rate of forty dollars per month. To pay Charles L.
Sauer for services rendered as assistant enrollingCharles L. Sauer.Payment to. clerk during the last session of the Forty-ninth Congress, twenty dollars. To pay W. J. Kehoe for services as clerk to the Committee onW. J. Kehoe.Payment to. Rules during the first session of the Fiftieth Congress, two hundred dollars. To pay E. B. Wade, Clerk of the Committee on Printing, for servicesE. B. Wade.Payment to. to June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as clerk to the select Committee investigating the Government Printing Office five hundred dollars.
To pay Edward S, McDonald for services rendered to select committeeEdward S. McDerald.Payment to.Alexander Vangeuder.Payment to. investigating the Government Printing Office, fifty dollars. To pay Alexander Vangeuder as extra compensation for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions during the second session of the Forty-ninth and the first session of the Fiftieth Congresses, five hundred dollars. To pay all session employees of the House of Representatives authorizedSession employeesVol. 24, p. 594. by the act making appropriation for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to the end of the present session of Congress, forty-five thousand dollars.
To pay M. H. Clark for services as additional Clerk to CommitteeH. M. Clark.Payment to. on Enrolled Bills from September Twenty-seventh to October seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, sixty-six dollars. To pay George Winters and L. B. Cook two hundred dollars each George Winters.L. B. Cook.Payment to.being the difference between their pay as conductors of the elevator and one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, four hundred dollars.
For horse and buggy for Department Messenger, House of RepresentativesHorse and buggy for Department messenger. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and fifty Dollars. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress. To enable the accounting officers of the Treasury Department toPostage. settle the account of the disbursing agent of the Library of Congress, for balances of foreign postage due Edward G. Allen of London, for fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-seven nineteen dollars and thirty cents to be paid out of fund for increase of library, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. 590FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. JUDGMENTS COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment of judgments of Court of Claims.For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims as follows: Benjamin P. Runkle, three thousand six hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-three cents; John Whitehead, one hundred and sixty dollars; Charles L. Dingley, four thousand and sixty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents; Charles Goodall, George Clement Perkins, and Edwin Goodall, under the firm name and style of Goodall, Perkins and Company, five hundred and ten dollars;
W. J. Adams, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirty-one cents: William Frank Whittier and William Palmer Fuller, under the firm name and style of Whittier, Fuller and Company, nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-five cents: W. T. Garratt, two thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-two cents: J. M. Phillips, six hundred and sixty-one dollars; Cadwallader J. Pride, fifty-four dollars; Isaac E. Davis and Henry Cowell, under the firm name and style of Davis and Cowell, three thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and fifty-eight cents:
A. H. Faulkner, two hundred and eighty dollars; William Parker Ravenel and others, as follows: William Parker Ravenel, in his own right, seventeen dollars and eighty-three cents; William Parker Ravenel, as administrator of C. E. Ravenel, two hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-eight cents; William P. Ravenel, as administrator of E. P. Ravenel, seventeen dollars and eighty-four cents: Daniel Ravenel, seventeen dollars and eighty-three cents; M. C. Ravenel, seventeen dollars and eighty-two cents; in all, two hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty cents;
Susan H. Peronneau and others as follows: Mary C. De Saussure, sixty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents; Susan H. Peronneau, sixty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents; Henry W. De Saussure, junior, administrator of William H. Peronneau. sixty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents; Henry W. De Saussure, administrator of A. B. Du Bose sixty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents; William E. Breese, administrator of M. S. Peronneau, six dollars and seventy-two cents; in all, two hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty cents;
William McAfee and James Hamilton, under the firm name and style of William McAfee and Company, two thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-nine cents; Benjamin F. Dunham, Andrew Carrigan, and Brace Hayden, successors and 1iquidators of the firm of Dunham, Carrigan and Company, three thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and four cents: William L. Bailie, administrator of Thomas J. Lamdin, deceased, four hundred and ninety dollars: William A. Cromwell, three hundred, and forty-one dollars and thirty-six cents:
Paul Ravesies, four hundred and eleven dollars and thirty cents; William H. Reeder, three hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-one cents; Samuel C. Lemley, one thousand dollars: T. E. D. W. Veeder, one thousand dollars; Paul Butler, fourteen thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty-six cents: Asher C. Baker, eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-one cents;FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.591 Christopher J. Cleborne, three thousand three hundred and fortyJudgments, Court of Claims—Continued. dollars and sixty-nine cents;
Benjamin F. Isherwood, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-six cents; Clara C. Lackey, executrix of Oscar H. Lackey, seven thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-four cents: George Sewell, three thousand one hundred and one dollars and ninety-six cents; William S. Stamm, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty cents; Henry H. Stewart, nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and nineteen cents; George W. Woods, nine thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars and five cents:
Theodore Zeller, four thousand and nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents; Mary F. Danby, administratrix of Robert Danby, deceased, six thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-seven cents; John S. Carpenter, three hundred dollars and eighty-two cents; Allan D. Brown, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents: Charles E. Clark, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; Philip H. Cooper, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents;
William Starr Dana, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; Charles H. Davis, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifteen cents; George T. Davis, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents: Francis W. Dickens, five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifteen cents; Robley D. Evans, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; Henry Glass, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; Casper F. Goodrich, five hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-five cents;
Theodore F. Jewell, five hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-five cents; Augustus G. Kellogg, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; Nicoll Ludlow, three hundred thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents: H. De Haven Manley, twelve dollars and eighty-five cents: James H. Sands, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; Charles D. Sigsbee, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents: Yates Stirling, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents;
Edwin White, six hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-four cents: William H. Whiting, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents; George F. F. Wilde, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty cents; Frank Wildes, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents: William C. Wise, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents;592FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Judgments, Court of Claims—Continued.James J. Barry, six hundred and twenty-one dollars and seven cents:
John J. Bissett, three hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-eight cents; Henry C. Blye, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents: John L. D. Borthwick, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents; Jefferson Brown, four hundred and three dollars and fifty-three cents; James H. Chasmar, four hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-nine cents; Hugh H. Cline, five hundred dollars and fifty-two cents: George W. Hall, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents:
William W. Heaton, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents; Robert B. Hine, two hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-five cents; John P. Kelly, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and eleven cents; Charles J. MacConnell, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents: Henry D. McEwan, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents: William A. Mintzer, two hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-five cents: Lewis W. Robinson, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirteen cents;
John A. Scot, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents; George E. Tower, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents; Nathan P. Towne, three hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty-three cents: William A. Windsor, five hundred dollars and fifty-one cents: Benjamin F. Wood, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents: William T. Hord, six thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ten cents; George W. Roche, three hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-one cents:
Charles E. De Valin, seven thousand eight hundred and four dollars and forty-two cents: Edwin Fithian, eight thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy cents; Thomas W. Leach, three thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents: Robert T. Maccoun, eight thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents: William M. Folger, five hundred and sixty-four dollars and eight cents; John F. Merry, nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents;
Hosea J. Babin, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-two cents; George H. Kearney, seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents: Herschel Main, seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents: William S. Moore, seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents;FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.593 Julius A. Kaiser, fifty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents;Judgments, Court of Claims—Continued. David Jones, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-five cents;
Conway H. Arnold, one hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-six cents: Edward B. Barry, three hundred and six dollars; John K. Barton, four hundred and sixty-three dollars and one cent; William H. Beehler, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety cents; Robert M. Berry, nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents; John M. Bowyer, nine hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-five cents; Benjamin C. Bryan, one thousand dollars; Benjamin H. Buckingham, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-four cents;
George E. Burd, one thousand dollars: James W. Carlin, seven hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-four cents; William P. Clason, six hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-three cents; John F. Knox, one hundred and ninety-six dollars: John W. Calder, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty cents; H. N. Stevenson, seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents; Charles A. Schetky, five hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents: John F. Bingham, five hundred dollars and fifty-one cents;
Daniel Delehanty, three hundred and thirty-six dollars and four cents; Richard C. Derby, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents; Webster Doty, five hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-one cents; Franklin J. Drake, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and six cents; William H. Driggs, four hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninety-four cents; William C. Eaton, four hundred and eighty-two dollars and nine teen cents; William H. Everett, six hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty-six cents;
James H. Fitts, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-five cents; Charles A. Foster, seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; Charles E. Fox, eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty-two cents; James Franklin, two hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-three cents; Horace E. Frick, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents; Francis E. Greene, five hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty cents; Robert S. Griffin, one thousand dollars:
Alexander S. Halstead, three hundred and sixteen dollars and seventeen cents; Eugene D. F. Heald, one hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents;594FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Judgments, Court of Claims—Continued.Franks, Hotchkin, nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-three cents; Edward M. Hughes, four hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-one cents; John J. Hunker, nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents; Andrew M.
Hunt, one thousand dollars: Frederick G. Hyde, one hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents; Robert E. Impey, seven hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-five cents: Henry K. Ivers, eight hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents; Wainwright Kellogg, three hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty cents; Louis Kingsley, seven hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-five cents; Albert F. Sise, administrator of Charles H. Burbank, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-four cents;
Elizabeth L. Snyder, administratrix of Henry L. Snyder, eight thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars and eighty-six cents; James W. Thomson, seven thousand three hundred and twenty-three dollars and fourteen cents: William H. Hunt, five thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty cents: Louis J. Allen, twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; Albert S. Greene, seven thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and four cents; Robert Potts, seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and four cents;
Henry O. Mayo, five thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ten cents; Albert C. Gorgas, four thousand six hundred and twelve dollars and ninety cents; Edward Shippen, seven thousand eight hundred and three dollars and ninety-four cents; Newton L. Bates, four thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy cents; Alexander Henderson, eight thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-eight cents; Jesse S. Wilson, administrator of Joseph Wilson, six thousand four hundred and seventy dollars and fourteen cents;
John Johnson, five thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and seven cents: Archibald C. Rhoades, three thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents; Jackson McElmell, eight thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents; Thomas Hiland, nine thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-nine cents; Stephen D. Hibbert, seven thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-four cents; John C. Spear, three thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-five cents;
J. D. Miller, one thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-six cents; B. B. H. Wharton, seven thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and forty cents: Jacob Y. Shantz, Dilman B. Shantz, and Moses B. Shantz, under the firm name and style of Jacob Y. Shantz and Sons, two thousand and sixty-five dollars and seventy-one cents: J. S. Kennedy and W. R. Moon, one thousand and forty dollars and ninety-five cents;FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.595 Catharine S.
Van Hovenburg, administratrix of John Van Hovenburg,Judgments, Court of Claims—Continued. deceased, nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents; J. Phelps Adams executor of Henry S. Davids, deceased, nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-four cents; Ezra J. Whittaker, eight thousand two hundred and one dollars and ninety-two cents; Emiline Gragg, executrix of Samuel Gragg, deceased, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents:
John K. Winn, fourteen dollars and thirty cents; James E. Reed, four hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents; Charles B. Faris, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars; James E. Hagood, one hundred and eighty-four dollars; James Conlin and John C. Roberts, under the firm name of Conlin and Roberts, nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and eight cents; Daniel B. Hinckley, James Spiers, and Daniel E. Haves, under the firm name of Hinckley, Spiers, and Hayes, seven hundred and four dollars and thirty-six cents;
The Remillard Brick Company, two thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-five cents; Bennett Fulmer, fifteen dollars: Harry H. Bodwell, one thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents; Edward T. Strong, one hundred and eleven dollars and twenty cents; C. Mark Cole, four thousand and ninety-seven dollars; Sarah M. Burge, administrator of Young Burge, deceased, five hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-nine cents; The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, one hundred and forty-four thousand and ninety-two dollars and ninety-two cents;
To pay difference of interest between five per centum as providedAlbeit Grant.Payment of withheld interest.[R. S., sec. 1090, p. 200](/us/rs/s1090/p200).Vol. 18, p. 481.Vol. 23, p. 241. by section ten hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes, and six per centum under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five (eighteenth Statutes, page four hundred and eighty-one), on part of a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of Albert Grant, withheld under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, but afterwards paid, the United States not having prevailed in the suits wherein demands were made against said Albert Grant, two hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-eight cents; in all, four hundred and ninety thousand six hundred and ten dollars and ninety-eight cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided*Proviso*.Appeal. for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
FOX AND WISCONSIN RIVER IMPROVEMENT. For payment of judgments and awards recovered against the UnitedDamages, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improvement. States for flowage damages caused by the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, and reported to Congress by the Attorney-General in Senate Executive Document Number One Hundred and Eighty-one, Fiftieth Congress, first session, namely: U. D. Mihills, five hundred and forty dollars; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, two thousand and forty-three dollars and forty-five cents:
First National Bank of Madison, two thousand and thirty-nine dollars six cents; C. H. Benton, one thousand and nineteen dollars and fifty-three cents; George E. Sutherland, six hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents;596FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Loa Kennan, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-three cents: in all, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents. Payment to Commissioners.To pay the amounts due the several commissioners to ascertain flowage damages caused by the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, as follows:
To Commissioner William F. S. Root, two hundred and seven dollars: To Commissioner J. W. Watson, eighty dollars and fifty cents; To Commissioner Benjamin L. Cornish, two thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars: To Commissioner Joseph C. Burdick, two thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars: To Commissioner J. Volney Swetting, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars: To Commissioner Samuel Vincent, three hundred and twenty-two dollars; To Commissioner George H.
Buckstaff, one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; in all, eight thousand five hundred and ninety dollars and fifty cents. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the claims certified to be due byClaims certified by accounting officers. the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations, the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of Vol 18, p. 110.June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and prior years, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Vol. 23, p. 254.act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Executive Document Number One hundred and eighty-six, Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated, as follows:
CLAIMS FOR ARREARS OF PAY, BOUNTY, AND OTHER ALLOWANCES CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims certified by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. Pay of volunteers.Pay of two and three year volunteers, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-three cents. Bounty.Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-one cents.
Vol. 14, p. 322.Bounty under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, twenty thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and sixteen cents. Pay. Army.Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, three thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and two cents. Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, three hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-four cents.
Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, twenty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. Mexican war volunteers.Pay of volunteers (Mexican war), eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, twelve dollars and eighty-three cents. California and Nevada volunteers.Traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, ninety-three dollars and eight cents. Travelling expenses. First Michigan Cavalry.Traveling expenses of First Michigan Cavalry, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-four cents.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.597 Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims certified by the accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances 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 underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five 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 setVol. 23, p. 254. forth in House Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Seventy-seven, Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated, as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by the First Comptroller. foreign intercourse. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, eighteen hundred andContingent expenses, foreign missions. eighty-five, and prior years, nine dollars and twenty-three cents. treasury department.Treasury Department. Internal Revenue: For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinateInternal revenue agents.Salaries, etc. officers of internal revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, to pay the claim numbered fifty-two thousand three hundred and thirty-five, in said Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Seventy-seven, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.
For refunding taxes illegally collected prior to July first, eighteenRefunding taxes. hundred and eighty-five, ninety-five dollars and thirty-one cents. Miscellaneous: For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes,Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, two hundred and fifty dollars. For Marine Hospital Building, Baltimore, Maryland, eighteen hundredBaltimore, Md., marine hospital. and eighty-five, eight dollars and seven cents. war department.War Department.
For contingent expenses War Department, eighteen hundred andContingent expenses. eighty-five and prior years, nineteen dollars and thirty-three cents. interior department.Interior Department. Miscellaneous: For Geological Survey, eighteen hundred andGeological Survey. eighty-five and prior years, to pay the claim numbered two hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred and one, in said Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Seventy-seven, nineteen dollars. For preservation of collections, National Museum, eighteen hundredNational Museum.Preserving collections. and eighty-five and prior years, to pay the claim numbered fifty-two thousand one hundred and eighty-two, in said Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Seventy-seven, sixty dollars.
For expenses of the Eighth Census, eighteen hundred and sixty,Eighth Census. sixty-four dollars and ninety-six cents. Public Lands Service: For salaries and commissions of registersPublic lands.Registers and receivers. and receivers, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-two cents. For contingent expenses of land-offices, eighteen hundred andContingent expenses. eighty-five and prior years, five hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixteen cents.
For expenses of depositing public moneys, eighteen hundred andDepositing public moneys. eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and sixty dollars. 598FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Timber depredations.For depredations on public timber, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents. Protecting public lands.For protecting public lands, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, sixteen dollars and twenty cents.
Surveying.For surveying the public lands, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-four cents. Five, three, and two per cent.For five, three, and two per centum fund to States, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, forty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-eight cents. Re-imbursing excess of deposits.For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys, excess of deposits, nine dollars and nineteen cents.
Peru, Iowa, Appraisal of lands.For appraisement of lots in the town of Peru, Iowa, act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars. department of justice.Department of Justice. Marshals’ salaries.Judicial: For salaries, district marshals, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and ninety-four cents. Fees.For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents.
Commissioners’ fees.For fees of commissioners, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty cents. Jurors’ fees.For fees of jurors, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, five hundred and ten dollars and forty cents. Witnesses’ fees.For fees of witnesses, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, three hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Prisoners.Support.For support of prisoners, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, thirty-three dollars and three cents. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, six hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-one cents. For expenses of United States courts, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and prior years, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and four cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR AND COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.Claims allowed by First Auditor and Commissioner of Customs.
Customs revenue.For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and ten thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-four cents. Repayment of importers.For repayments to importers, excess of deposits, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-four cents. Public buildings.Heating apparatus.For heating apparatus for public buildings, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, four hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-three cents.
Furniture and repairs.For furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, three dollars and ninety-five cents. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.599 WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of two and three year volunteers, eighteen hundred andPay, volunteers. seventy-one and prior years, eighteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-four cents.
For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs eighteenBounty. hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fifteen thousand six hundred and seven dollars and seven cents. For bounty, act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,Vol. 14, p. 322. prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-fivePay, Army. and prior years, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty-one cents.
For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers priorCalifornia and Nevada volunteers.Travelling expenses. to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and one cent. For contingencies of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-fiveContingencies. and prior years, four hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents. For draft and substitute fund, eighteen hundred and seventy-oneDraft and substitute fund. and prior years, thirty dollars.
For medical and hospital department, eighteen hundred and eighty-fiveMedical Department. and prior years, sixty dollars. For armament of fortifications, eighteen hundred and eighty-fiveArmament, fortifications. and prior years, one thousand and thirty-two dollars and sixty-four cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Interior Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of Indian agents, eighteen hundred and eighty-five andIndian agents. prior years two dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For support of Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, eighteenIndian school, Carlisle, Pa. hundred and eighty-five and prior years, two dollars and sixty-eight cents. For survey and appraisement of Umatilla lands, reimbursable,Umatilla lands.Survey, etc. six hundred and eighteen dollars and forty cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, eighteen hundredIndian supplies. and eighty-five and prior years, seventeen dollars. For transportation of Indian supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-fiveTransportation. and prior years, one thousand and ninety-two dollars and eighty-six cents.
For Army pensions, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and priorPensions. years, six dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. For subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-fiveArmy subsistence. and prior years, seven hundred and nine dollars and sixty-nine cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen hundredQuartermaster’s supplies. and eighty-five and prior years, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirty-four cents.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteenIncidental expenses. hundred and eighty-five and prior years, five hundred and sixty dollars and eighty cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundredTransportation. and eighty-five and prior years, eighteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents. 600FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Fifty per cent, to land-grant roads.For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certain land-grant railroads, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, eighty dollars and eighty-nine cents.
Barracks and quarters.For barracks and quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, five thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.” Horses.For horses for cavalry and artillery, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, six hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-three cents. Observation and report of storms.For observation and report of storms, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Signal Service.Transportation.For Signal Service transportation, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, to pay the claim numbered ninety-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-nine, in said Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Seventy-seven, four dollars.
Loan of scientific instruments by Secretary of Navy, for Signal Service use, authorized.That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to loan any scientific instruments in the possession of any of the bureaus under his charge, and not in use, to persons taking observations, or making investigations in connection with, or for the use of the Signal Service under such regulations as he may prescribe, taking such security for the safekeeping and return of such instruments on demand as he may deem necessary.
Fortifications.Refund to States.For contingencies of fortifications, twenty-eight dollars. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, twenty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and seven cents. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers Vol. 18, p. 455.(act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five), one thousand four hundred and nine dollars and forty cents. Kentucky.Refund to.For reimbursing Kentucky for expenses in suppressing the rebellion, two thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-three cents.
Massachusetts.Refund to.For reimbursing Massachusetts for expenses incurred and paid in protecting the harbors and strengthening the fortifications on the Vol. 28, p. 204.coast (act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four), one hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-five cents. Horses, etc., claims.For horses and other property lost in the military service, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, thirty-eight thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-seven cents.
Commutation of rations prisoners of war.For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, nine thousand eight hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents. Oregon and Washington volunteers.Pay, etc.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, two thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-four cents.
Rogue River Indian war.For Rogue River Indian war, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, eighty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. Freedmen’s Bureau.For support of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, forty dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. Pay, Navy.For pay of the Navy, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and three cents.
Miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-seven cents. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.601 For pay, Marine Corps, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andMarine Corps, pay. eighty-five, eighteen dollars and fifty-one cents. For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred andBureau of Navigation. eighty-five and prior years, five dollars. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteenBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. hundred and eighty-five and prior years, sixty-one dollars and fifty cents.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteenBureau of Provisions and Clothing. hundred and eighty-five and prior years, eight hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy cents. For bounty for the destruction of enemies vessels prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, forty-six dollars and seventy cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-five cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, sixty dollars. For payments on account of clothing or bedding destroyed by order, for sanitary purposes, in preventing the spread of contagious diseases, one hundred and fifty dollars and forty-six cents. For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses and mileage, allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham versus United States, six hundred, and ninety-five dollars and eighty-seven cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eighty-fivePostal revenues. and prior years, except the claim numbered six thousand eight hundred, in said Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Seventy-seven, two thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances 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 underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five 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 setVol. 23, p. 254. forth in House Executive Document Number Three Hundred and Ninety-three, Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated, as follows:
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER. Pay of two and three year volunteers, eighteen hundred and seventy-onePay, volunteers. and prior years, thirty-two thousand and thirty-nine dollars and thirty cents. Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, eighteenBounty. hundred and seventy-one and prior years, thirty thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and sixty-five cents. Bounty, act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,Vol. 14, p. 322. prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, five thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-four cents.
Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-sixPay, Army. and prior years, two thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents. Bounty, destruction of enemies’ vessels. Bounties, enlistment. Lost clothing. Destroyed clothing. Mileage claims. War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. 602FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, nineteen dollars and thirty-two cents.
California and Nevada volunteers.Traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers prior Travelling expenses.to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty-four cents. Contingencies.Contingencies of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifteen cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER. Refund to States.Refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, three thousand four hundred and five dollars and eighty-seven cents.
Horses, etc., claims.Horses and other property lost in the military service prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, fourteen thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents. Commutation of rations, prisoners of war.Commutation of rations to prisoners of war and to soldiers on furlough prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Sec. 5. Claims certified by accounting officers.That for the payment of a portion of the claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of Vol. 18, p.110.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 and eighty-six and prior years, and which have been certified to Congress under Vol. 23, p. 254.section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Executive Documents Number Two Hundred and Fifty-five and Two Hundred and Sixty-nine, Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated, as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state department.State Department. Foreign missions.Foreign Intercourse: For contingent expenses, foreign missions, Contingent expenses.eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, two hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-three cents. Consular salaries.For salaries, consular service, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, fourteen dollars and ten cents. Consulates.For contingent expenses, United States consulates, eighteen Contingent expenses.hundred and eighty-six and prior years, seventy-one dollars and eighty-three cents.
Prisons for American convicts.For expenses of prisons for American convicts, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-two cents. Services to American vessels.For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, fourteen dollars. treasury department.Treasury Department. Secretary’s office.For salaries, office of Secretary of the Treasury, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, sixty-four dollars and seventeen cents.
Drawback on stills. Vol. 20, p.342.For drawback on stills exported (act March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine), one hundred and eighty dollars. interior department.Interior Department Geological Survey.For Geological Survey, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior Public lands.years, twenty dollars and four cents. War Department claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.603 For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, eighteenRegisters and receivers. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, two hundred and eleven dollars and eighty-two cents.
For contingent expenses of land offices, eighteen hundred andContingent expenses. eighty-six and prior years, seventeen dollars and thirty-three cents. For expenses of depositing public moneys, eighteen hundred andDepositing public moneys. eighty-six and prior years, two hundred and eighty dollars and ninety-eight cents. For protecting public lands, eighteen hundred and eighty-six andProtecting public lands. prior years, twenty-two dollars and twenty cents. For expenses of hearings in land entries, eighteen hundred andHearings in land entries. eighty-six and prior years, twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents.
For surveying the public lands, eighteen hundred and eighty-sixSurveying. and prior years, four thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. For five, three, and two per centum fund to States, prior to JulyFive, three, and two per cent, to States. first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-four cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, eighteenMarshals’ fees. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, eighteen hundred andClerks’ fees. eighty-six and prior years, six hundred and four dollars and fifty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, eighteen hundredCommissioners’ fees. and eighty-six and prior years, ninety dollars and twenty cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, eighteen hundred andWitnesses’ fees. eighty-six and prior years, four thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-three cents.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, eighteen hundredSupport of prisoners. and eighty-six and prior years, two hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, eighteen hundredMiscellaneous. and eighty-six and prior years, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and eighty-one cents. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, eighteen hundred andUtah courts. eighty-six and prior years, nine thousand and eighty-five dollars and eighty-four cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR AND COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.Claims allowed by First Auditor and Commissioner of Customs. For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, eighteen hundredCustoms revenue. and eighty-six and prior years, thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seven cents. For Marine Hospital Service, prior to July first, eighteen hundredMarine Hospital Service. and eighty-six, except claims numbered twenty-two thousand one hundred and seven and twenty-two thousand one hundred and nine, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For expenses of revenue-cutter service, eighteen hundred andPublic buildings. eighty-six and prior years, except claims numbered twenty-two thousand one hundred and six and twenty-two thousand one hundred and eight, eighteen dollars. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, eighteenFurniture, etc. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, two hundred and ninety-one dollars. For debentures and other charges, prior to July first, eighteen hundredDebentures. and eighty-six, five cents. 604FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888. Light-houses.Repairs, etc.For repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Supplies.For supplies of lighthouses, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Light-House Establishment.For lighthouse establishment eighteen hundred and sixty-one, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller.
Pay, volunteers.For pay of two and three years volunteers, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, sixty-one thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents. Bounty.For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, forty-eight thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-two cents. Vol. 11, p. 322.For bounty, act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty, and prior years, eight thousand seven hundred dollars.
Pay, Army.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents. Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-five cents. Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-five cents. Contingencies.For contingencies of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, four hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety cents.
Draft, etc., fund.For draft and substitute fund, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, three dollars and seventy-two cents. Medical Department.For medical and hospital department, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, one dollar and sixty cents. Ordnance, stores, etc.For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, seventeen dollars. Suppressing Indian hostilities.For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and one dollars and twenty-nine cents.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Interior Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. Nez Perces.Indian pupils.For fulfilling treaty with Nez Perces, thirty dollars and nine cents. For support of Indian children at school in States, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, twenty-five dollars and thirty cents. Yakamas, etc.For support of Yakamas and other Indians, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, nineteen dollars and seventy-eight cents.
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. Subsistence.For subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, eighty-four dollars and forty-five cents. Quartermaster’s supplies.For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, four hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy cents. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess.
I. Ch. 1210. 1888.605 For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteenIncidental expenses. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, five thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-three cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundredTransportation and eighty-six and prior years, five thousand two hundred and five dollars. For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainFifty per cent, to land grant roads. land-grant railroads, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, sixty-five dollars and forty-two cents.
For barracks and quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-six andBarracks and quarters. prior years, two hundred and sixty-three dollars. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, eighteen hundredClothing and camp and garrison equipage.Horses. and eighty-six and prior years, seventy-eight dollars and forty cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, seven hundred and sixteen dollars. For Engineer depot at Willet’s Point, New York, eighteen hundredWillet’s Point, N.
Y., engineer depot. and eighty-six and prior years, three dollars and forty-four cents. For refunding to States (Kentucky) expenses incurred in raisingKentucky.Refund to.Vol. 12, p. 276. volunteers (act July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one), two thousand and nineteen dollars and fifty-one cents. For reimbursing the State of Kentucky for expenses in suppressing the rebellion (acts June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,Vol. 17, p. 346.Vol. 21, p. 513. and March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), thirty-six thousand eight hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, prior toHorses, etc., claims. July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twenty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States andCommutation of rations, prisoners of war. to soldiers on furlough, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers.Travelling expenses.
Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-three cents. For Rogue River Indian war, priory July first, eighteen hundredRogue River Indian war. and eighty-six, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-nine cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Navy Department claims allowed by Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller.
For pay of the Navy, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andPay. Navy. eighty-six, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-four cents. For pay of the Navy, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the payment of claims set forth in Senate Executive Document, Number Two Hundred and Sixty-nine, Fiftieth Congress, first session, four thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents. For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and priorMiscellaneous. years, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy cents.
For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and priorContingent years, sixty dollars. For contingent, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and eighty-sixMarine Corps. and prior years, one dollar and forty cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteenBureau of Provisions and Clothing.Provisions. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, eleven thousand eight hundred and one dollars and thirty-one cents. 606FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, for the payment of the claim set forth in Senate Executive Document, Number Two Hundred and Sixty-nine, Fiftieth Congress, first session, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Lost clothing.For indemnity for lost clothing, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and twenty dollars. Bounty, enlistment.For enlistment bounties to seamen, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-five cents.
Mileage.For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses and mileage allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham versus the United States, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. Sec. 6. Claims certified by Sixth Auditor.That for the payment of the claims certified to be due by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department under the Vol. 22, p. 487.act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or under appropriations the balance of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six and Vol. 23, p. 254.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 Senate Executive Document Number Two Hundred and Fifty-three, Fiftieth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows:
Postmasters’ salaries.Vol. 22, p. 600.For compensation of postmasters readjusted under act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, payable from deficiency in postal revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, seventy-seven thousand and thirty-eight dollars and forty-two cents. Postal revenues.For deficiency in postal revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty cents. Sec. 7. Claims certified by accounting officers.That for the payment of the following claims certified, to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been” exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.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 and eighty-six and prior Vol. 23, p. 254.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 four hundred and fifty-five Fiftieth Congress first session there is appropriated as follows:
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED RY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. Pay, volunteers.For pay of two and three year volunteers, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, “twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and eight dollars and fifteen cents. Bounty.For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, twenty thousand and sixty-nine dollars and forty-six cents.
Vol. 14, p. 322.For bounty, act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty, and prior years, four thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents. Pay, Army.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and prior years, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1210. 1888.607 For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred and six dollars and twenty cents.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Interior Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of Indian agents, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,Indian agents. and prior years, two hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller.
For transportation of the Array and its supplies, eighteen hundredTransportation. and eighty-six and prior years, sixty-four dollars and eighty-one cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen hundredQuartermasters’ supplies. and eighty-six and prior years, fifty-nine dollars and, twenty-five cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteenIncidental expenses. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-two cents.
For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, eighteen hundredClothing, camp and garrison equipage. and eighty-six and prior years, eighty-eight cents. For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainFifty per cent of transportation to land grant roads. land-grant railroads, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, five dollars and sixty-eight cents. For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States andCommutation of rations, prisoners of war. to soldiers on furlough, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For contingencies of fortifications, forty-nine dollars and thirty-threeFortifications cents. For pay, transportation, services and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonOregon and Washington volunteers.Pay, etc. volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, twenty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, prior toHorses, etc., claims. July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and sixteen cents.
NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Navy Department claims allowed by Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of the Navy, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andPay, Navy. eighty-six, eighteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty cents. For pay, Marine Corps, prior to July first, eighteen hundred andPay. Marine Corps. eighty-six, eleven dollars and forty cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteenBureau Provisions and Clothing. hundred and eighty-six, and prior years, two thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, prior to July first, eighteenBounty, enlistment. hundred and eighty-six, one hundred dollars. For the payment of claims for difference between actual expensesMileage claims. and mileage allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case Graham versus the United States one hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents. Approved, October 19, 1888. Chapter 1211: to secure to the Cherokee freedmen and others their proportion of certain proceeds of hinds, under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
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