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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · March 2, 1889 · Chapter 410

Chapter 410.

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CHAP. 410.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for prior years and for other purposes.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiencies 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-nine; and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. Ascertainment of Electoral Vote: To pay the expenses ofPrinting electoral vote. Vol. 34, p. 373. printing, in compliance with the requirements of the act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice-President, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars and ten cents. Electoral vote of Florida:
To pay the expenses of specialMessenger for Florida electoral vote. R. S., sec. 141, p. 23. *Ante*, p. 613. messenger sent to Florida for the electoral vote of that State, as authorized by section one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-five cents 906 Payment to Union Bank of Australia: To enable the SecretaryUnion Bank of Australia.
Reimbursement. of State to reimburse the Union Bank of Australia (limited), at Suva. Fiji, for losses sustained through the payment of certain drafts drawn on the United States Treasury by S. E. Belford, late commercial agent of the United States at Levuka, Fiji, in excess of amounts due him as such agent, eight hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-six cents, together with one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twelve cents interest thereon: in all. nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Reimbursement of Bywater, Tanqueray and Company, ofBywater, Tanqueray & Co. Reimbursement. London: To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse Messrs By-water, Tanqueray and Company, of London, for losses sustained through the payment of certain drafts drawn on the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury by Julius L. Hudson, of Saint Paul de Loando, while improperly placed in charge of the United States consulate at that place, four hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-six cents.
Payment to the widow of Moses A. Hopkins, late MinisterMoses A. Hopkins. Payment, to widow. to Liberia: For payment to the widow of Moses A. Hopkins, late minister and consul-general to Liberia, the amount of six months’ salary of said officer, two thousand five hundred dollars. foreign intercourse. Salaries and contingent expenses. Foreign Missions: To enableForeign missions. Salaries. F. H. Titus. Credit allowed in accounts. the accounting officers, without the payment of any money from the Treasury, to allow and credit the accounts of F.
H. Titus, late acting United States consul at Guatemala, the sum of five hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty-five cents for compensation while in charge of the legation of the United States in Central America, under the direction of the Secretary of State, from August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. to December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; from April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two: and from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two to July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and to allow H.
C. Hall. Credit allowed in accounts.and credit the accounts of H. C. Hall. United States minister to Central America, the sum of two hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents paid under the direction of the Secretary of State to said F. H. Titus for like service during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four; in all, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To enable the properContingent expenses. accounting officers, without the payment of any money from the Treasury, to settle the accounts of United States ministers and others, on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses of foreign missions” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, by means of utilizing the entire appropriation under that head generally, and, without regard to the division of the amount between specified and unspecified objects, authority is hereby granted for that purpose.
Salaries, consular officers not citizens: to pay amountsConsulars officers not citizens. Payment to. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, seven hundred and nine dollars and seventy-three cents. Contingent Expenses, United States Consulates: To payConsulates. Contingent expenses. amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses of United States consulates for the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-seven cents. 907 To reimburse James W.
Siler the costs and expenses of a suit broughtJames W. Siler. Reimbursement. against him while in the discharge of his duty as United States consul at Cape Town, and which suit was decided against the plaintiff, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-five cents. International Standard Weights and Measures: For theInternational Bureau Weights and Measures. Expenses. contribution of the United States to the expense of constructing the international prototype and the standard and test copies of the measures of length and weight prepared by the International Bureau ofVol. 20, p. 710.
Weights and Measures (see articles four and five of the transient provisions and articles twenty and twenty-one of the regulations of the convention of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-live, providing for the International Bureau of Weights and Measures), twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter service. For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed,Pay. and for rations for the same: for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; shipchandlery and engineer’s stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the interests of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towing, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, thirty thousand dollars, which sum, together with a sufficient amount of the unexpended balance of the current appropriation for the RevenueRepairs to vessels.
Service, shall be expended m completely repairing the revenue-cutters, Bear, Corwin, Forward, Dallas, Grant, and Washington. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to submitTo be estimated for specifically. the estimates for the Revenue-Cutter Service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for each year thereafter, in detail, showing separately, the amount required for pay of officers, rations for officers, pay of crews, rations of crews, fuel, repairs and outfits, shipchandlery, and for traveling and contingent expenses.
He shall also include in the annual Book of Estimates a statement showing the authorized number of officers and cadets in the Revenue Cutter Service, their rank and pay; also, the number of men constituting the crews of vessels in said service coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For copper plates, chart paper, printers ink. copper, zinc, and chemicalsContingent expenses. for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for extra drawing and engraving and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone for immediate use, three thousand dollars.
For damages to schooner Alice Bell by Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Gedney, fifty dollars; “Alice Bell.” Payment of damages.towage and detention, forty-five dollars; in all. ninety-five dollars. For care and safekeeping of Coast and Geodetic Survey chronometer,Care of chronometer. Dent number twenty-one hundred and twenty-six, with T. S. and J. D. Negus, New York, from December ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at five dollars per year, thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. 908 For transfer of Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Gedney fromTransfer of “Gedney.
” New York to San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. For repairs to engine, boilers, and hull of the Coast and Geodetic“McArthur.” Repairs. Survey steamer McArthur, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For purchase of office wagon and harness, two hundred and fifty Wagon.dollars. For payment to J. H. Turner, subassistant Coast and Geodetic Survey.J. H. Turner. Payment to. of the amount of his account for board and subsistence while at work on the survey of the District of Columbia during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, disallowed by the Treasury Department as not chargeable to subheads “Maine” and “West Coast Florida”, forty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
For allowance to W. B. Morgan, late disbursing agent United States W. B Morgan. Payment to.Coast and Geodetic Survey, of thirty days’ pay. from July twenty-fourth to August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for pay of disbursing agent Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and three dollars and eighty cents. internal revenue.Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalAgents’ salaries. revenue, fifty thousand dollars. light-house establishment.Light-house Establishment.
Keepers of light-houses: To reimburse the appropriation forKeepers. salaries of keepers of light-houses the amount paid and to be paid for salaries of the additional employees authorized in the office of the light-house Board by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. but not appropriated for therein, nineteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. light-houses and buildings, for improvements to grounds-connected therewith: for establishing and repairing pier-head lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use. and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, forty thousand dollars.
Point Sur Light-Station. California: For completing the light-house andPoint Sur station, Cal. For completing. fog-signal at Point Sur, California, including one thousand five hundred dollars for right of way and water privilege, ten thousand dollars. Northwest Seal Rock Light-Station, California: For continuingNorthwest Seal Rock. Light-house. the construction of a light-house on Northwest Seal Rock, off Point Saint George. California, two hundred thousand dollars. Duluth Harbor, Minnesota:
For establishing range-lights atDuluth. Minn. Range lights. Duluth Harbor, three thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twelve cents. public buildings.Public buildings. For Court-House and Post-Office at Tyler, Texas: For completionTyler. Tex. in excess of the limit, two thousand dollars. For Court-House and Post-Office at Waco, Texas: ForWaco. Tex. completion in excess of the limit, one thousand dollars. Treasury Building: For repairs to Treasury Building andTreasury.
D. C. Repairs. Winder Building: to enable the Department to replace the disintegrated slate roof with a copper roof on the north and south wings of Treasury Building, to be done by contract, after advertisement for not less than thirty days previously for proposals, with the lowest and best bidder therefor, eight thousand dollars. 909 For plumbing, painting, plastering, carpentering, and general repairs. four thousand dollars. government in the territories.Territories. Contingent Expenses Territory of Washington:
To reimburseWashington. Contingent expenses. Eugene Semple, governor of Washington Territory, amount expended by him. as per vouchers submitted, on account of contingent expenses of Territory of Washington, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. sixty-four dollars. Legislative Expenses Territory of Wyoming: Balance due Bristol and Knabe Printing Company for publishing council journal, sixty-five dollars; balance dueWyoming. Legislative expenses. the Leader Printing Company for publishing house journal, seventy-two dollars and eighty-five cents: balance due E.
A. Slack for publishing session laws, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, in all. two hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-five cents, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. That the next Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Territory mayMeeting of legislature. provide by law that each subsequent legislature shall convene on a fixed day in the month of January each year following the years in which is held a general election for a Delegate in Congress, members of the legislature, and other officers.
Legislative Expenses Territory of Idaho: For printing, beingIdaho. Legislative expenses. a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-six cents. contingent expenses, utah commission.Utah Commission. For expenses of the Utah Commission, namely, for traveling expenses,Contingent expenses. printing, stationery, clerk hire, office rent, gas. fuel, janitor, postage stamps, and other necessary expenses, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand dollars. united states fish commission.Fish Commission.
For the construction of a quarters building at the United StatesBaird. Cal. Quarters. Fish Commission station, Baird. California, and its equipment, four thousand dollars. Maintenance of Vessels of the United States Fish Commission:Maintenance of vessels. For the maintenance of the vessels and steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for the use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, ten thousand dollars. national museum.National Museum.
Heating and Lighting National Museum: For expenses ofHeating and lighting. heating the United States National Museum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous. Expenses of Collecting Revenue from Customs: To defrayCollecting customs revenue. the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Relief of William Caldwell: To reimburse William Caldwell asWilliam Caldwell. Reimbursement. custodian of the customhouse at Cincinnati, Ohio, the amount of a certified check, drawn by Sol P. Kineo. in his favor on the Fidelity 910 National Bank of Cincinnati, which failed before the presentation of said check, for payment, as a guaranty for the faithful performance by Kineon of his contract for furnishing coal to the Government: *Provided*, That any dividends that have been or may be declared on this account shall be covered in the Treasury, one thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: To supply aTreasury Department Contingent expenses. deficiency in the in the appropriation for contingent expenses. Treasury Department, namely: For purchase of gas, electric light, gas brackets. candle, candlesticks, drop-lights. and tubing, gas-burners, gas-torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, two thousand dollars. Punishment for Violation of Internal-Revenue Laws: ToInternal-revenue laws. Punishing violations. supply deficiencies in the appropriations made for punishing violations of the internal revenue laws, being for the payment of claims now on file for the following fiscal years:
For the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and sixty-four dollars. For the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, except accounts of the Central Pacific and South Pacific Railroads, one thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-five cents. Repairs and Preservation and Heating Apparatus for publicPublic buildings. Buildings: To reimburseDaniel Magone. Reimbursement. Daniel Magone, collector of customs at the port of New York, and to adjust his accounts without the further payment of money from the Treasury, the sum of eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents, expended by him out of the appropriation for “collecting the-revenue from customs, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven”, but properly chargeable to the following appropriations:
Repairs and preservation of public buildings, eighteen hundredRepairs, etc. and eighty-seven, eight thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-four cents. Heating apparatus for public buildings, eighteen hundred andHeating apparatus. eighty-seven, one hundred and seventy-three dollars. Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings: To supply aFuel, lights, etc. deficiency in the appropriation for fuel, lights, and water for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, twenty thousand dollars.
Furniture and Repairs of Furniture: For furnishing completeFurniture. etc. New buildings the new public buildings at Augusta, Maine: Baltimore, Maryland; Keokuk. Iowa; Minneapolis. Minnesota; Reading, Pennsylvania; Santa Fe. New Mexico; Fort Scott. Kansas; and Springfield, Ohio, and to complete the furnishing of the public buildings at Harrison-burgh, Virginia: Des Moines. Iowa: and Macon, Georgia, seventy-eight thousand dollars; which sum shall be expended under contract or contracts to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury with the lowest and best bidder or bidders therefor, after advertising once a week for four consecutive weeks for proposals; and in furnishing said buildings all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings in said cities shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not; and in addition to the sum herein appropriated, furniture may be supplied to said buildings out of stock on hand or under contract, and paid for or to be paid for out of the current appropriation for furniture and repairs of furniture.
Repayment to importers of excess of deposits: For paymentImporters. Repaying excess of deposits. of interest and costs to importers in claims on judgments and discontinued suits in custom cases and excess of deposits for unascertained duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Seizure of the schooner Teaser: To pay the expenses incurred“Teaser.” Expenses of seizure. in the seizure of the schooner Teaser, on October tenth, 911 eighteen hundred and eighty-five, district of Puget Sound, Washington Territory, fifty-six dollars and eighty cents.
Payment to E. W. McLean: For payment of judgment renderedE. W. McLean. Payment to. against the collector of customs at San Francisco, California, at the suit of E W. McLean, brought for the recovery of damages for the alleged wrongful seizure and sale of certain opium, together with interest and cost of suit, three thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars. Reimbursement to A. C. Egerter: To reimburse the accountA.C. Egerter. Reimbursement. of A. C. Egerter, surveyor of customs, Wheeling, West Virginia, with the United States assistant treasurer at Cincinnati in the sum of fifty dollars, erroneously deposited by said assistant treasurer in the Treasury of the United States as a fine paid by J.
E. Dana in behalf of the steamer Billy Martin, for a violation of law, and since covered into the Treasury, fifty dollars. Refund to G. Sutherland: To refund to G. Sutherland, captainG. Sutherland. Refund to. of the British steamer Holt Hill, part of a penalty paid by him May eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, under section threeR. S., sec. 3070, p. 589. thousand and seventy of the Revised Statutes, and since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Payment to heirs of C. A. J. Flemister: To pay to the heirsC. A. J. Flemister. Payment to heirs of. of C. A. J. Flemister two hundred and thirty nine dollars and fifty cents, which is in lieu of amount appropriated to said heirs in act of October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, making appropriationLaws. 1st sess. 60th Cong., p. 569.s to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, and for other purposes; and so much of said act as appropriates four hundred and seventy-five dollars for said heirs is hereby repealed.
Secretary’s Office: To pay J. G. McGregor on account of salariesJ. G. McGregor. Payment to. office of the Secretary of the Treasury, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and as certified in House Executive Document Ninety, Fiftieth Congress, first session, sixty-one dollars and eighty-five cents. Sixth Auditor’s office: To pay G. B. Durham for services as laborerG. B. Durham. Payment to. in the office of the Sixth Auditor, from the fourteenth to the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, inclusive, twenty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Seal fisheries in Alaska: For traveling expenses of Thomas.Thomas F. Ryan. Payment to. F. Ryan, late assistant agent seal fisheries, Alaska, being a deficiency for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents. Payment to Alabama: For payment the State on account of twoAlabama. Payment to. and three per centum fund arising from the sale of public land in said State from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-one cents.
Payment to State of Louisiana: To refund the State of LouisianaLouisiana. Refund to. the amount of overpayments of interest to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the bonds of the State held as Indian trust funds by the United States, thirteen thousand six hundred and two dollars and seventy-one cents. Credit in certain accounts of the Treasurer of the United States:Treasurer. Credit to be allowed for unavailable funds. That the Secretary of the Treasury, and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the Treasurer of the United States the sum of twenty four thousand and sixteen dollars and forty-three cents, now carried in the accounts of the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York and in the general account of the Treasurer of the United States as “unavailable funds.” and representing losses incurred in said office without default or negligence on the paid of the assistant treasurer at New York, said sum being the total of the amounts carried in the statement of the 912 Treasurer of the United States in his annual report for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight as unavailable funds office of assistant treasurer at New York.
And for this purpose, the said sum of twenty-four thousand and sixteen dollars and forty-three cents is hereby appropriated. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directedGeorge W. Bishop. Payment to. to pay to George. W. Bishop, assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore. Maryland, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars, the said sum of money representing a loss incurred in the office of said assistant treasurer, without default or negligence on his part, and made good to the Government by him out of his own private means.
National Board of Health: To pay for transportation andNational Board of Health. Storage, etc. storage of books, records, and furniture of the National Board of Health from September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the transportation of the same to the office of the Surgeon-General of the Army, where they shall be hereafter stored, one thousand and four dollars; To pay the members of the Treasury and War Department CommissionsCommissions on methods of business, Treasury and War Departments. selected by the Secretaries, respectively, in pursuance of the recommendation of the Senate Select Committee to inquire into the methods of business in the Executive Departments, and so forth, Payment for extra services.each the sum of four hundred dollars, and to pay to E.
J. Redmond and H. P. Chenoweth, stenographers to the Treasury Commission, each the sum of two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer andPay-rolls of volunteers to be transferred to War Department. deliver to the Secretary of War, from time to time, as may be necessary, the pay-rolls of the volunteer forces during the late war, now on file in the office of the Second Auditor, in order to enable the Secretary of War to have the card-index records of the volunteer forces in the late war made complete from all rolls, pay, muster, and detached, morning and all other reports containing any information as to such soldiers, as to service, pay, bounty, and allowances of all Return.kinds, said rolls to be returned to the Treasury Department in the like condition in which received, unavoidable wear excepted.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay James. H. GilbertJames H. Gilbert. Payment to. balance due him as salary as deputy collector and clerk in charge of inspectors at the Chicago customhouse, from February first to April twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, four hundred and eight dollars. For properly decorating the public buildings in the city of NewNew York. Decoration of buildings. York on the occasion of celebrating the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of the first President of the United States, on the thirtieth of April eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia Public Schools: To enable the Commissioners of the District ofPublic schools. Columbia to increase the salaries of the two female principals of the normal schools to one thousand five hundred dollars each, as contemplated by the District of Columbia appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred dollars. Police Court: To pay Samuel. C. Mills for services rendered asPolice court. judge ad interim of the police court.
November fifth and sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, during sickness of judge of said court, twenty dollars. For the payment of jurors in the police-court of the District ofJurors. Columbia for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, as per act of Congress approved, seven thousand dollars. 913 For the pay of bailiffs in charge of the said jurors for said periods,Bailiffs. two thousand four hundred dollars. Miscellaneous expenses:
To pay three thousand one hundredMiscellaneous. and nineteen dollars and thirty four cents, balance on bills of J add and Detweiler, and one thousand eight hundred and forty eight dollars and thirty cents to The Washington Post for printing and publishingDelinquent tax list expenses. the delinquent tax list in accordance with the act of October twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, entitled “An act prescribing the times for sales and for notice of sales of property in the District of Columbia for overdue taxes;” in all, four thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents.
Harbor and river front: For necessary alteration and repairsPolice patrol boat. Repairs. to the police patrol-boat, ninety-two dollars and sixty-seven cents. Police court: To enable the Commissioners of the District ofPolice court. Columbia to use the unexpended balance of the appropriation for judicial expenses for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight for contingent expenses for the same year, five hundred dollars. Payment of judgments: For the payment of judgments againstPayment of judgments. the District of Columbia, as follows:
Edwin Muller, seven hundred and fifty dollars, together with one hundred and twenty-four dollars and five cents costs; The Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company versus John. F. Cook, collector, and so forth, for one cent damages, together with two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy three cents costs; Emanuel Murray, use of T. H. Christmas, seven hundred dollars, together with twenty one dollars costs; in all, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-nine 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.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as follows; Executive office: Contingent expenses Books, three dollarsExecutive office. and seventy-eight cents. Engineers office: Contingent expenses. Rent of property yard,Engineers’ office. horseshoeing, and livery, eighty-six dollars. Fire Department: Contingent expenses: Duster’s lime, and furniture,Fire department. twelve dollars and eighty-one cents. Public Schools: Instruction in manual training:
Groceries, thirty-fourPublic schools. dollars and seventy-three cents. For building adjoining summer school building: To pay Frank Baldwin for excavating, grading, concreting, and building extra foundation, not included in contract, nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and six cents. Miscellaneous expenses: For forage and sal soda, three dollarsMiscellaneous. and fifty cents. To pay the Evening Star Newspaper Company, advertising, one hundred and eight dollars and three cents.
To pay the Washington Post, advertising, nine dollars and fifty cents. Police Court: To pay witness fees, per bills on file in the officePolice court. Witnesses. of auditor of the District of Columbia, and others known to be outstanding, two hundred and fifty dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as follows: Engineer’s Office: To pay the Public Printer, printing report ofEngineer’s office. engineer department, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, sixty-three dollars and thirty-six cents.
To pay John. H. Gheen, livery, sixty dollars. District offices and Markets: For stationery, furniture, repairsContingent expenses to stoves, fuel, hardware, spittoons, plumbing, gas-fitting, glass, oil, repairs to furniture, washing towels, ice. and gas. one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-three cents. 914 Improvements and repairs: To enable the Commissioners ofImprovements and repairs. the District of Columbia to invest the balance of the ten per centum retained to William Buckley’s contract, number seven hundred and twenty-six, three hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-seven cents.
To pay the National Republican Company, advertising, fourteen dollars and thirty cents. Water Department: Pumping expenses and pipe distributionWater department. for fuel, ten dollars and fourteen cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as follows: Engineer’s Office: For printing, livery, and supplies, one hundredEngineer’s office. and sixty-four dollars and seventeen cents. District offices and Markets: For ice, gas, washing and supplies,Contingent expenses. three hundred and twenty-six dollars and two cents.
Miscellaneous expenses: General advertising: To pay theMiscellaneous expenses Evening Star Newspaper Company, advertising, thirty-four dollars and eighty cents. Water department: Contingent expenses: To pay the EveningWater department. Star Newspaper Company, advertising, ten dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as follows: Fire department: Contingent expenses: For ice, nine dollars andFire department. sixty-eight cents.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as follows: To pay the Evening Star Newspaper Company, advertising, twenty four dollars and sixty-seven cents. Health Department: To pay subscription to the Evening Star,Health department. three dollars and ninety six cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, as follows: Fire Department Contingent expenses: To pay John.
B. LordFire department. for sand, four dollars and eighty cents. To pay William Forsyth in full satisfaction of all demands againstWilliam Forsyth. Payment. the District of Columbia for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty eight and prior years, submitted in House Executive Document number seventy one, second session, Fiftieth Congress, three hundred and fifty dollars. That one half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies in theTo be paid from district revenues and Treasury. appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, shall be paid from the revenue of the District of Columbia, and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise *Proviso*.
Water department.appropriated: *Provided*, That the amounts appropriated for the water department shall be paid wholly from the water fund. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. To enable the Secretary of War to pay the claim of John McGill,John McGill, jr. Payment to. junior, numbered seventy-eight thousand and sixty-three, allowed and certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Government Vol. 24, p. 664.and appropriated for by Congress in the act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, but erroneously paid to another person, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Water Supply, District of Columbia: To enable the SecretaryWater supply, D. C. New 48-inch water main. of War to cause to be constructed and put in operation a forty-eight-inch cast-iron main from the present distributing reservoir above Georgetown, easterly to Rock Creek at M street, and thence along M street to New Hampshire avenue; thence northeasterly along New Hampshire avenue to R street north; thence along R street, to connect with the present forty-eight inch main from the new reservoir 915 at R and Fourth streets, and to make the necessary connections and to provide the necessary apparatus for thereby specially supplying the present deficiencies of water at the higher levels of the city, and in general to increase the water supply, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
The said work shall be done under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, in the shortest practicable time. If it shall appear to the Secretary of War, on the report of the Chief of Engineers, that for any cause the work can not be carried on, or material therefor can not be obtained as rapidly as is necessary for the best and most vigorous prosecution of it, he is authorized to provide material by purchase in open market or by special contract for the fabrication thereof, and to carry on the work by days’ work or otherwise.May be by special contract, etc. as it may seem to him expedient.
This appropriation shall be charged against the revenues applicable to the expenses of carrying on the government of the District of Columbia, so that one-half will be paid from the Treasury of the United States and the other half from moneys derived from taxation in the District. military establishment.Military Establishment. Pay of the Army: For pay of enlisted men, two hundred andPay. Enlisted men, etc. twenty thousand dollars; service pay of enlisted men. thirty-four thousand dollars; pay of hospital corps, fifteen thousand dollars; for allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and interest on deposits, eighty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops,Barracks and quarters. storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, for officers, and for the hire of buildings and of grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables and for repairing public buildings at established posts: *Provided*, That no expenditure*Proviso*. Expenditures excelling $500. exceeding five hundred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster’s Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster’s Department, shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract after due legal advertisement, and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men. fifty-five thousand dollars.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For completion ofHot Springs. Ark. Army and Navy Hospital. Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs. Arkansas: For steam heating of the administration building and two wards, including a new boiler and the necessary connecting pipes, and enlargement of boiler house, live thousand dollars. For completing the work of improvement of the grounds, including grading and securing blanks and slopes against damage from rainfall, planting trees and grass, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For repair of three reservoirs, one for hot water and two for cooling purposes, total capacity, twenty thousand five hundred gallons, five hundred dollars. For adjustable ceiling for bathing rooms in bathhouse, necessary for the proper heating of the rooms in cold weather, four hundred and ninety dollars National Cemetery, Antietam, Maryland: To complete the Antietam national cemetery.construction of a macadam road from Antietam Station to the Antietam (Maryland) National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. 916 signal service.Signal service.
Signal Service, Regular Supplies: For reimbursement ofRegular supplies. Reimbursement for fuel. amounts paid for fuel by the following-named officers of the Signal Corps, United States Army, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, covering the excess over three dollars per cord for the regulation allowance: Lieutenant W. D. Wright, ten dollars and thirty-eight cents; Lieutenant J. E. Maxfield, eight dollars and twenty-eight cents: Lieutenant F.
M. M. Beall, twenty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; Lieutenant B. M. Purssell, thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; Lieutenant J. P. Finley, twenty-eight dollars and forty-seven cents; Lieutenant J. H. Weber, seventeen dollars and thirty-one cents; Lieutenant J. C. Walshe, forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Lieutenant F. Greene, twenty-four dollars and sixty-six cents; in all, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-cents. arsenal.Arsenals. Rock Island Bridge, Rock Island.
Illinois: For expense ofRock Island. Bridge expenses. maintaining and operating the draw, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. war, miscellaenous.Miscellaneous. Military Posts: For construction and enlargement of buildingsMilitary posts. Atlanta, Ga. at the following named military posts: Atlanta, Georgia: For continuing the construction of the post buildings, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fort Snelling: For completion of two sets of barracks for enlistedFort Snelling, Minn. men, fifteen thousand dollars.
Newport Barracks, Kentucky: For completion of the constructionNewport Barracks, Ky. of buildings at this post, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Sidney, Nebraska: For repairs of buildings at Fort Sidney,Fort Sidney, Nebr. Nebraska, fifteen thousand dollars. To reimburse and pay the sum of twelve thousand four hundredMissouri River. Reimbursement for protecting shores at Winthrop, Mo. and twelve dollars to each of the following named companies, to-wit: The Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company, the Kansas City.
Saint Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad Company, the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad Company, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, and the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, for moneys expended by said companies in the construction of works at Winthrop, Missouri, for the protection of the shores of the Missouri River and necessary to preserve navigation at said point; in all, sixty-two thousand and sixty dollars. Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Kansas: For transportationMilitary prison. Fort Leavenworth, Kans. of discharged military prisoners at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas, to place of prisoner’s enlistment at prisoner’s home, provided the cost to the latter does not exceed cost to place of enlistment, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsTelegraph. D. C. Standard Underground Cable company. Payment for cable connecting Capitol. Departments, and Government Printing Office. and Government Printing Office:
To pay the Standard Underground Cable Company, of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, in full, for underground electric cables laid in the city of Washington. District of Columbia, in October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, connecting the Capitol. Executive Mansion. State. War. and Navy Departments, and other Government offices, and the Smithsonian Institution, under terms of permit of War Department, dated October third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, approved October ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, “by H.
G. Wright, Chief of Engineers, or other authority, eleven thousand dollars, which said sum shall be in full payment for the purchase of said cables and for 917 all demands or equities of said Standard Underground Cable company against the Government for underground electric cables laid as aforesaid in the District of Columbia. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. For payment, on vouchers to be approved by the Secretary of theCharles R. Miles. Funeral expenses. Navy, of the expenses of the last illness and burial of Lieutenant Charles R.
Miles, who died of yellow fever, on board the United States steamer Yantic, in New York Harbor, in January, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For amount paid by Pay Director A. W. Russell. United StatesA. W. Russell. Portrait of ex-Secretary Chandler. Navy, to Mathew Wilson for painting portrait of William E. Chandler, on bill approved by W. C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents.
For amount paid by Pay Director, Thomas H. Looker, UnitedThomas H. Looker. Portraits of ex-Secretaries Borie and Woodbury. States Navy, to E. F. Andrews for painting portraits of Adolph E. Borie and Levi Woodbury, on bills approved by W. E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five hundred dollars. naval establishment.Naval Establishment. To reimburse “general account of advances”, created by the act ofReimbursing general account of advances.
Vol. 20, p. 167. June nineteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named, in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal years given, found to be due the “general account on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundredPay. and forty-six thousand and fifty dollars and thirty-six cents. For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, nineMiscellaneous. thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and eighty-four cents;
For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirteen thousand and fifty-five dollars and eighty cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, seven thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and eight cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eight-five and prior years, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-six cents; For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and priorContingent. years, fifty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-four dollars and five cents;
For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighteen hundredMarine Corps. and eighty-eight, seven hundred and sixty dollars and forty-five cents; For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighteen hundredTransportation. and eighty-five and prior years, three thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and eighty-fiveContingent. and prior years, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars; For navigation and navigation supplies, Bureau of Navigation,Bureau of navigation.
Supplies. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents; For navigation and navigation supplies, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, three hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents; 918 For navigation and navigation supplies, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, eight thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-five cents; For contingent. Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred andContingent. eighty-five and prior years, three thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-six cents;
For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteenBureau of Ordnance. Ordnance. hundred and eighty-five and prior years, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-eight cents; For Torpedo Corps, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred andTorpedo Corps. eighty-five and prior years, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,Contingent. one thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. two hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-one cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, two thousand and ninety-three dollars and twenty-nine cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting,Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, four hundred and oneEquipment, etc. thousand and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents;
For transportation and recruiting, Bureau of Equipment andTransportation. Recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-four cents; For transportation and recruiting. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one. thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and forty-six cents; For transportation and recruiting, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, sixteen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ten cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteenContingent. hundred and eighty-six, eight hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-four cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior’ years, twenty-six thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-three cents; For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical department.hundred and eighty-five and prior years, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-five cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredContingent. and eighty-five and prior years, four thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents; For provisions. Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteenBureau of Provisions and Clothing. hundred and eighty-six, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen Provisions.hundred and eighty-five and prior years, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fourteen cents;
For contingent. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred Contingent.and eighty-five and prior years, seven thousand and seventy-four dollars and thirteen cents; For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction, etc. eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, ten thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteenBureau of Steam Engineering.
Machinery. hundred and eighty-six and prior years, one hundred and three thousand and forty-six dollars and thirteen cents; For search for steamer Jeannette, two thousand one hundred and“Jeannette.” Search for. fifty dollars and seventy-five cents; in all, one million four hundred 919and eighty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. Pay of the Navy: To pay amounts found due by the accountingLongevity pays. officers on account of longevity pay (Cook decision), being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-seven cents;
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of longevity pay (Cook decision). being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents. Pay, Miscellaneous: To reimburse Pay Inspector Edwin Stewart,Pay. Miscellaneous United States Navy, for payment of certain bills approved by the Secretary of the Navy, and certificates of settlement paid at the navy pay-office, New York, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,-nine hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of travel under orders, freight, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of travel under orders, freight, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and sixty-five cents.
Pay, Marine Corps: To pay amounts found due by the accountingMarine Corps. Pay. officers on account of undrawn clothing, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents. Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps: For expensesTransportation and recruiting. of transportation and recruiting, two thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent, Marine Corps: To pay bills on file for gas, water,Contingent. straw, freight, stationery, telegrams, cartage, and rent of telephone, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven, seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-eight cents.
Bureau of Navigation: To pay bill of F. Thill for lamp chimneys,F. Thill. Payment to. being a deficiency in the appropriation for navigation and navigation supplies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven. six dollars and forty-nine cents. Bureau of Ordnance: To pay amounts found due by the accountingBureau of Ordnance. Freight. officers on account of freight, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eighteen dollars and seventy-one cents.
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting: To pay the PennsylvaniaBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. Railroad Company for the transportation of enlisted men; one hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents. To pay the Old Colony Steamboat Company for the transportationTransportation. of enlisted men, one hundred and twenty dollars; being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Naval Station, Key West, Florida: To relieve Pay InspectorKey West naval station.
Thomas T. Caswell, United States Navy, of the checkage against his account for fourth quarter, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, being amount paid to A. P. Boller and Company, from appropriation “Contingent, Yards and Docks, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.” in adjusting settlement of claim arising under their contract, dated nineteenth December, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. for building an iron wharf at United States naval station. Key West. Florida,Iron wharf. said amount having been disallowed by the Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller, seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty seven cents. 920 Relief of James E.
Jouett:James E. Jouett. Credit in accounts. To relieve Rear-Admiral James E. Jouett, United States Navy, from accountability for the sum of four hundred dollars paid to him March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, by Pay Inspector John H. Stevenson, United States Navy, upon a voucher for that amount approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, by the Secretary of the Navy, authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers to credit the account of Rear-Admiral Jouett with the said amount expended by him, four hundred dollars.
Relief of Widow of General Hancock: To reimburse Mrs.Almira R. Hancock. Reimbursement of expenses incurred by Major-General W. S. Hancock, Yorktown Centennial. Almira R. Hancock for expenses incurred by her husband, Major General W. S. Hancock, in the entertainment of official visitors at the Yorktown Centennial Celebration, two thousand one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to be disbursed on vouchers to be approved by the Secretary of War. To compensate the owner of the schooner E.
C. Allen for injuries“E. C. Allen.” Payment of damages. sustained by that vessel in a collision with United States ship Constellation in the harbor of Portsmouth. New Hampshire, on the night of October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eighty-four dollars. To compensate the owner of the schooner Amanda Tompkins for“Amanda Tompkins.” Payment of damages. injuries sustained by that vessel in a collision with the United States steamer Nina in East River, New York, in November third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety cents.
That the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated by act of Congress Eclipse of the sun. Re-appropriation. *Ante*, p. 638. Interior Department.approved December twenty-second eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to defray the expenses of observing a total eclipse of the sun, and which, by reason of the delay in the passage of said act, was not expended, is hereby re-appropriated, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to use the said five thousand dollars to defray the expense of sending a scientific expedition to the west coast of Africa to observe the total eclipse of the sun which will occur on the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For the payment of amountCapitol and grounds. Lighting. due for gas furnished during a portion of the month of May and the entire month of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for the months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, eight thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty cents. For electric-light service for months of May and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. three hundred and fourteen dollars.
For amount due W. H. Bailey, deceased, for services as superintendent of gas meters for months of May and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at one hundred dollars per month, two hundred dollars. Rent of Buildings: For this amount, being a deficiency in theRent. appropriation for rent of building northeast corner of Eighth and G streets, northwest, occupied by the Bureau of Education, being amount required for rent of said building, from December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum, two thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars. public land service.Public lands.
Registers and Receivers: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationRegisters and receivers. for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, forty thousand dollars. 921 Expenses of Depositing Public Moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing public moneys. public moneys received from public lands, three thousand dollars. Expenses of Hearings in Land Entries: For expenses of hearings Hearings in land entries.held by order of the Commissioners of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, ten thousand dollars.
Depredations on Public Timber: To pay amounts found dueTimber depredations. by the accounting officers on account of depredations on public timber for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as follows: Abram Hall, receiver of public moneys and disbursing agent, Miles City. Montana, six dollars. Protecting the Public Lands: To pay amounts found due byProtecting public lands. the accounting officers on account of protecting the public lands for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as follows:
S. B. Bevans, special agent General Land Office, Prescott, Arizona,S. B. Bevans. two hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents. M. R. Slater, special agent, General Land Office, Tucson, Arizona,M. R. Slater. three dollars and twenty-five cents. J. F. Applewhite, special agent, General Land Office, Wichita,J. F. Applewhite. Kansas, thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents. Surveying the Public Lands: To pay amount found due by theSurveys. accounting officers on account of surveying the public lands for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven to Myron Willsie for services and expenses in examination of surveys in Dakota, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents.
Office of Surveyor-General, Washington Territory: ForWashington. Surveyor-general. salaries of clerks in his office, two hundred and fifty dollars. For payment to the State of Kansas, on account of five per centumKansas. Payment to. fund arising from the sale of public lands in said State from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as per decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, of date May sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and as stated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, forty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and thirty-two cents.
For payment to the State of Colorado, on account of five per cent-umColorado. Payment to. fund arising from the sale of public lands in said State prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as provided by the act of admission, sixteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For payment to the State of Nebraska on account of five perNebraska. Payment to. cent-um fund arising from the sale of public lands in said State prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as per decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, and as stated by the Commissioners of the General Land Office, thirty five thousand five hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous ObjectsMiscellaneous. Government Hospital for the Insane: For support in the hospital, Government hospital for Insane.including clothing and treatment of indigent insane persons who are by law entitled to treatment, eleven thousand dollars. Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb: For the supportColumbia Deaf and Dumb Institution. of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses for looks and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Education of Children in Alaska: To pay the salary of JohnAlaska. Education in. H. Carr, teacher in Government school at Unga, Alaska, for March, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, one hundred and fifty dollars. 922 Pensions.Pensions. For Army and Navy Pensions, as follows: For invalids widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and with Mexico, eight *Provisos*. Navy.million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions, shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*,Accounts.
That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. Indian Affairs.Indian affairs. Telegraphing, and Purchase of Indian Supplies: To pay theSupplies. Purchase and telegraphing. expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, including rent of warehouse, and pay of necessary employees, advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, five thousand dollars.
Fulfilling Treaties with Seminoles: To enable the accounting Seminoles. Fulfilling treaties with.officers to adjust certain appropriations on the books of the Department, the sum of two thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents is hereby reappropriated, to be carried to the credit of appropriation “Fulfilling treaties with Seminoles,” being amount found due to said Indians in the adjustment of the accounts of the late D. H. Cooper, Indian agent. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department.
Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General: ForStationery. stationery in post-offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand two hundred dollars. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General: ForInland mail transportation. railroads. inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation by railroad routes, one million seven thousand live hundred and twenty eight dollars and forty cents. Railway post-office car service, fifty-three thousand six hundredPostal cars. and forty three dollars and sixty cents.
Railway post-office clerks, fifty thousand dollars.Railway mail clerks. Compensation to postmasters: For amount to reimburse the postalPostmasters. Compensation. revenues of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation, nine hundred thousand dollars. Compensation to clerks in post offices: Benjamin M. Welch, postmaster,Benjamin M. Welch. Payment to. New Martinville, West Virginia. For clerk-hire under credited in— First quarter, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, nine dollars.
Second quarter, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, nine dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay upon the order ofAmerican Grocer Association. Payment to. *Post*, p. 1200. the Postmaster-General to the American Grocer Association of the city of New York the sum of four hundred and eighty six dollars, or so much thereof as may be found equitably due for postage erroneously paid by said association pursuant to the act for the relief of the American Grocer Association of the city of New York, approved October twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Foreign Mail Transportation: Oregon Railway and navigationForeign mails. Oregon Railway, etc. Company. Company: For transportation of the United States mails from Port Townsend. Washington Territory, and Victoria. British Columbia, during the quarter ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, fifty-four dollars and twenty three cents. 923 The foregoing stuns for the postal service shall be payable from the postal revenues of the respective years to which they are properly chargeable.
To imburse of estate of D. O. Adkison, late postmaster at VirginiaD. O. Adkison. Payment to estate of. City, Nevada, for moneys paid by him on money-orders in October twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and not credited in the settlement of his accounts by reason of the destruction of the vouchers for said payments by fire, the sum of one hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-five cents, to be paid to Lucy A Adkison, the only surviving heir of D. O. Adkison.
To pay J. C. Knowlton, late postmaster at Ann Arbor. Michigan,J. C. Knowlton. Payment to. the balance due him for furniture and fixtures purchased by him for the post office at Ann Arbor, two hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. To enable the Postmaster General to pay to Heman D. WalbridgeHeman D. Walbridge and Reginald Fendall. Payment to. and Reginald Fendall, trustees, rent of the post-office at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty five, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being the rent agreed upon between the Postmaster General and the said trustees by the lease entered into between them and him on the first of July, eighteen hundred and eighty four, for the term of four years, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay the rent of the city post-office in Washington, District ofWashington. D. C. Rent of city post office. Columbia, from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine five thousand dollars, said sum to be in full payment for the rent for the time specified. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. For compensation of Secretary of Agriculture, three thousand and sixty-six dollars andSecretary. sixty-eight cents.
For compensation of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousandAssistant Secretary. one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Investigations in ornithology and mammalogy: To reimburse Ornithology and mammalogy. Reimbursement.Norman J. Colman, for amount paid Vernon Bailey for amount expended while in the service of the Department of Agriculture, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven, six dollars. To reimburse Norman J. Colman, for amount paid the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, for advertising and papers, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven, four dollars and eighty cents.
Silk Culture: To pay amount due Z I). Gilman for paints andSilk culture. oils furnished in excess of appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven, two dollars and forty cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. united states court.United States courts. Fees and Expenses of Marshals: For payment of special deputyMarshals. Special deputies at elections. *Proviso*. Advances. marshals at Congressional elections, one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the appropriation of six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, for fees and expenses of United States marshals and deputies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only m the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in sectionR.
S., sec. 856, p. 161. eight hundred and fifty six, Revised Statutes. 924 For fees and expenses of marshals United States courts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty eight, fifty thousand dollars. Support of Prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, Support of prisoners.including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, fifty thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, fourteen thousand one hundred and sixty eight dollars and sixty four cents; eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, seven thousand six hundred and one dollars and eighty-two cents; eighteen hundred and eighty-six, eight thousand one hundred and eighty one dollars and ten cents; eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two thousand five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents; eighteen hundred and eighty-four, thirty dollars; eighteen hundred and eighty one, fifty four dollars and eighty five cents; eighteen hundred and eighty, forty-four dollars and twenty cents; in all, thirty-two thousand five hundred and eighty three dollars and eleven cents.
Fees of Jurors: For fees of jurors United States courts, beingJurors’ fees. for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: Eighteen hundred and eighty-six, seven hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents; eighteen hundred and eighty five, three hundred and fifteen dollars; in all, two thousand and thirty nine dollars and thirty cents. Fees of Witnesses: For fees of witnesses United States courts, Witnesses’ fees.being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
Eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty cents; eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two hundred and thirty-two dollars; eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eight hundred dollars; eighteen hundred and eighty, two dollars and five cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, ten dollars and thirty cents; in all two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty cents.
Miscellaneous Expenses: For payment of miscellaneous expensesMiscellaneous expenses. of United States courts, being oh account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, sixty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents; For payment of miscellaneous expenses of United States court ten thousand dollars. Expenses of Territorial Courts in Utah: For expenses ofUtah. Territorial courts. Territorial courts in Utah, being for deficiencies on account of. fiscal years, as follows: Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-five cents; eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand and seventy-six dollars; in all. six thousand four hundred and two dollars and fifty-five cents.
Fees of District Attorneys: For payment of United StatesDistrict attorney’s fees. district attorneys, the same being for payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, fifteen thousand 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-eight, fifteen thousand 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-seven, six hundred dollars.
To compensate A. L. Rhodes, special counsel in the Mare IslandA. L. Rhodes. Payment to. case, being the remaining portion of his fee of six thousand dollars, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand dollars. To compensate A. J. Fountain, for, services while special assistantA. J. Fountain. Payment to. to United States attorney for Territory of New Mexico, eleven cases 925 for perjury and conspiracy, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven five hundred dollars.
To compensate J. C. Baird, for services as assistant to United StatesJ. C. Baird. Payment to. attorney for the Territory of Wyoming during June term, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at Buffalo, Wyoming, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and thirty-four dollars. To compensate Solomon Claypool for services as assistant to theSolomon Claypool. Payment to. United States attorney for the district of Indiana, in tally sheet cases versus Simon Coy and others, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of S. G. Hilborn for services in the Mare IslandS. G. Hilborn. Payment to. case, in association with A. L. Rhodes, and expenses, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of D. H. Murphy for services under order ofD. H. Murphy. Payment to. court as assistant to district attorney for Alaska, from October ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to October thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty seven, seven hundred and fifty dollars; fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of J. E. Bruce, assistant to district attorney forJ. E. Bruce. Payment to. the southern district of Ohio, to reimburse him for the unpaid portion of the twenty per centum reduction of his salary during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eighty-four dollars and sixty-six cents. For payment of United States district attorneys for unofficial fees,Unofficial fees. as set forth in House Executive Document Number Fifty-six, Fiftieth Congress, second session, as follows:
Fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two. three hundred and forty-four dollars and ninety seven cents; fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, thirty-one dollars and fifty cents; fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five hundred dollars; fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars and fifteen cents; fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and ten cents; in all, six thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-two cents.
To compensate Robert F. Arnold for legal services in the prosecutionRobert F. Arnold. Payment to. of parties charged with robbing the United States mail as shown by estimate transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury January twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand dollars. For payment to William G. Ewing, United States district attorneyWilliam G. Ewing. Payment to. for the northern district of Illinois, for services rendered in the matter of the final report of the assignee of the estate of John McArthur, bankrupt, three hundred dollars.
For the payment to Graham H. Harris, of Chicago. Illinois, forGraham H. Harris. Payment to. services rendered in the prosecution, at Auburn, New York, in November, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, of E. A. Gardner and others for smuggling, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. For salary of the judge of the United States court in the IndianIndian Territory. Salary of judge United States court. *Ante*, p. 783. Rent, etc. Territory for the balance of the current fiscal year and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, four thousand seven hundred dollars; and for preparing suitable rooms and other necessary accommodations for the United States court at Muscogee, in the Indian Territory, and the expenses including fees of jurors of said court for the current fiscal year, five thousand and three hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars.
Fees of Clerks: For fees of clerks United States courts, being aClerks’ fees. deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, ten thousand dollars. Fees of commissioners: For fees of United States commissioners,Commissioners’ fees. and justices of the peace, acting as such commissioners, being a de- 926 ficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars. Reimbursement of A. A. Wilson: To reimburse A. A. Wilson,A. A. Wilson.
Reimbursement. United States marshal for the District of Columbia, the amount of the bill of costs adjudged against him by the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of J. C. Callan, sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents. Payment to W. L. Pinney: To pay W. L. Pinney for servicesW. L. Pinney. Payment to. as stenographer under appointment of the court at Phoenix, Arizona, in the cases of certain Apache Indians indicted for murder, one hundred and eight dollars and twenty cents.
To pay Jacob W Jacobs, late sheriff of Keokuk County. Iowa,Jacob W. Jacobs. Payment to. special deputy marshal, in full for expenses in the apprehension of certain persons concerned in the burglary of the post-office at Webster. Iowa, as shown by House Executive Document Number Fifty-nine, Forty-ninth Congress, second session, three hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. PUBLIC PRINTING.Public printing. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, to be executedPrinting and binding for.
Treasury Depart. under the direction of the Public Printer, fifteen thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department, to be executedWar Department. under the direction of the Public Printer, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Post-Office Department, to bePost-Office Department. executed under the direction of the Public Printer, sixty-nine thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the State Department, ten thousandState Department. dollars.
For printing and binding for the Navy Department, to be executedNavy Department. under the direction of the Public Printer, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of Agriculture, to beDepartment of Agriculture. executed under the direction of the Public Printer, ten thousand dollars. government printing office.Government Printing Office. For rental of storehouses and removal of printed signatures awaitingRent. etc. bindery work, five thousand dollars.
For setting new engine boiler, and altering and underpinning wallsHeating. of boiler-house and making connections with heating plant of office, two thousand dollars. For purchase of six hundred and fifty lamp power dynamo forElectric lights. electric-light purposes, and setting same, and further extension of electric-light plant, four thousand dollars. For renewal and repair of roof of H street wing of office building,Repairs. two thousand dollars. To pay fifteen per centum in addition to the amount paid for dayExtra pay for night work. labor to the employees of the Government Printing Office, such as compositors, pressmen, stereotypes, laborers, messengers, press-feeders, Record folders, counters, engineers, machinists, firemen; and proof readers, 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 during the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be *Proviso*.
Credit for extra pay.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. To enable the Public Printer to pay for extra hours performed inMailing Record. mailing the Congressional Record during the first and second sessions of the Fiftieth Congress, five hundred and thirty dollars and eighteen cents. 927 SENATE.Senate. For salaries of officers, clerks, and employees.
Senate, for the fiscalSalaries. year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars. For maintaining horses and wagons, one thousand five hundred Horses and wagons.dollars. For cleaning and varnishing furniture, eighty-four dollars andFurniture and repairs. sixty-six cents. For purchase of furniture, one thousand dollars. For materials for repairs of furniture, five hundred dollars. For pay of upholsterer for upholstering sofas in committee room on Naval Affairs, forty-four dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, five thousand dollars.Miscellaneous items. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate.Investigations. twenty thousand dollars. For maintaining horses and wagons, for the fiscal year eighteenHorses and wagons. hundred and eighty-eight, ten dollars and fifty cents. For fuel, oil, and cotton-waste for heating apparatus, ninety-twoFuel, etc. dollars and twelve cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, one hundred andMiscellaneous. eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents To pay Benjamin Durfee (in addition to his annual salary, asBenjamin Durfee.
Payment to. Clerk to the Committee on Finance) for additional services to the Subcommittee on the Tariff and for preparing tariff testimony and indexes thereto, two thousand dollars. To pay Henry Talbott, Clerk to the Committee on Ways andHenry Talbott. Payment to. Means, House of Representatives, for extra services rendered during the Fiftieth Congress, one thousand dollars. To pay for clerical work performed and incidental expenses incurredCommittee on Improvement of Mississippi River.
Clerical services. in the investigation ordered by the Senate under resolution of October tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and authorized by the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, such investigation having been made during the last recess of the Senate by direction of said committee, two hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty-five cents. Bust of the late Chief-Justice Waite: To procure and placeChief-Justice Waite. Bust of. in the room of the Supreme Court of the United States a bust of the late Chief-Justice Morrison Remick Waite, one thousand five hundred dollars.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of representatives. To pay the widow of the late James N. Burnes, the amount ofJames N. Burnes. Payment to widow. salary for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fiftieth Congress, five hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty-one cents. To pay to John B Clark. Clerk of the House of Representatives,John B. Clark. Payment to. for services in compiling and arranging for the printer and indexing testimony used in contested election cases, as authorized by the act entitled “An act relating to contested elections,” approved MarchVol. 24, p. 445. second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of one thousand dollars, and the additional sum of one thousand dollars to such employees in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives as the Clerk may designate, and in such proportion as he may deem just, for assistance rendered in this work.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous. ten thousand dollars. For allowance to members of the House of Representatives for Stationery.stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars. For materials for folding, seven hundred dollars.Folding materials. 928 To reimburse the estate of J. K. Edwards, late an official reporterJ. K. Edwards. Payment to estate of. of the House of Representatives, the amount paid to E. D. Easton for services rendered and expenses incurred as a substitute reporter from June eleventh to July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, both inclusive, such payment having been authorized by a resolution of the House adopted July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Extra month’s pay to employees, etc., on the rolls Oct. 20, 1888.Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including the Capitol Police and the Senate and House reporters and all persons paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate for folding speeches and pamphlets, who were continuously employed and paid out of said fund from the fifteenth day of August to the twentieth day of October eighteen hundred and eighty-eight for extra services during the Fiftieth Congress, a sum equal to one months pay. at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available.
To pay Frank B. Gorman, seventy-five dollars for the month ofFrank B. Gorman. Payment to. November, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, extra work as mail To pay George W. Fisher, for services as laborer at the CapitolGeorge W. Fisher. Payment to. from August first, to December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. one hundred and twenty-two days, at two dollars per day, two hundred and forty-four dollars. To pay Edward W. Coughlin, one hundred and fifty dollars, forEdward W.
Coughtin. Payment to. services rendered the Committee on Accounts, during the first and second sessions of the Fiftieth Congress. For horse and buggy for Department messenger. House of representatives.Horse and buggy. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Charles Carter for caring for subcommittee-room of CommitteeCharles Carter. Services. on Appropriations, sixty dollars To pay Charles Holbrook for services as laborer for thirty-sevenCharles Holbrook.
Services. days, at two dollars per day seventy-four dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House to rent, during the fiscal yearRent. eighteen hundred and ninety, 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. To pay Thomas A. Coakley, a messenger employed under the resolutionThomas A. Coakley. Payment to. of the House, adopted January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month from March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, until the assembling of the first session of the Fifty-first Congress, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To pay the clerk to the Committee on Elections for preparing a digestDigest of contested elections. of the contested-election cases of the Forty-eighth. Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses; as authorized by the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Lee Swords for services as folder in the folding room inLee Swords. Services. May. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, forty dollars.
To reimburse 8. C. Wilson, clerk to the Committee on EnrolledS. C. Wilson. Reimbursement. Bills, for expenses incurred in procuring assistance during the first session of the Fiftieth Congress, eighty-seven dollars and thirty cents. For rent of building for use of the folding-room of the House fromRent, folding-room. March first until January first, eighteen hundred and ninety, one thousand dollars. 929 To pay John Prater for services in the cloakroom of the HouseJohn Prater.
Services. from December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at fifty dollars per month, pursuant to resolution of the House adopted October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and fifty dollars. JUDGMENTS COURT OF CLAIMS.Payment of judgments of Court of Claims. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims as follows: Lucius H. Foote, seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-seven cents;
D. D. Davies, two thousand and seventy-one dollars and ten cents; Louis E. Wyne, two hundred and seventeen dollars; William W. Harris, ninety-seven dollars; John P. Rodgers, four hundred and three dollars; Lewis Nixon, one thousand three hundred dollars and eighty-one cents; James A. Bledsoe, one hundred and forty-six dollars; S. G. Lewis, fifty-eight dollars; The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, one hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents;
Will A. McTeer, two hundred and seventeen dollars; John T. Patterson, eight hundred and fifty dollars; Edward W. Turner, two hundred and twenty-two dollars; Charles G. Hornor, eighty-two dollars; Seth M. Walker, two hundred and twelve dollars; Daniel M. Cooper, five hundred and forty-eight dollars; William L. Goodwin, four hundred and sixty-five dollars; B. P. Seals, eleven dollars; Frederick Page Tustin, five hundred and ninety-two dollars; George B. Brooks, five hundred and forty-six dollars;
James F. Cass, twenty-four dollars; David Smith, eight thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and nine cents; Augustus H. Able, eight thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and eight cents: William G. Buehler, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty cents; Edward Farmer, eight thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-two cents; Henry W. Fitch, nine thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents; William S.
Smith, ten thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and ten cents; Samuel L. P. Ayres, eight thousand three hundred and thirty eight dollars and fifty-three cents; Charles H. Baker, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents; Elbridge Lawton, four thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-five cents; Edmund S. De Luce six thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-five cents; Charles H. Loring, eight thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty cents;
Mary P. Brown, administratrix of William H. King, deceased, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-nine cents; Harriet W. Bartleman, administratrix of Richard N. Bartleman. deceased, nine thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents: 930 Grove S. Beardsley, six thousand two hundred and seventy dollarsPayment of judgments of Court of Claims—Continued. and thirty-three cents; John M. Allred, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars; George W.
S. Hart, forty-three dollars; James S. Harbour, one thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars; A. M. Gudger. two hundred dollars: E. R. Tarver, one hundred and forty-two dollars; Samuel T. Poinier, four hundred and forty-one dollars: Robert L. Rogers, two thousand nine hundred and six dollars; Ashland T. Patrick, fifty-seven dollars; Milo J. Wilson, ninety-two dollars: Charles Gibbons. Junior, three hundred and eighty-five dollars; John W. Shook, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars;
Barna Powell, ninety-eight dollars: N. W. Burford, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; John L. Anglim, fifty-one dollars; James H. Tinsley, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars; John C. Moore, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars; Samuel Baird, twenty-four dollars; Witter H. Johnston, one hundred and seventy-one dollars; Edwin E. Marvin, forty-five dollars; Samuel Henry, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; William C. Brown, administrator of William F. Gleason, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars;
John W. Payne, one hundred and sixteen dollars; John S. Bradford, one hundred and seventy-two dollars; James T. Barbee, four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-five cents; John W. Payne, seventy-five dollars; W. H. Faucett. one hundred and eleven dollars; Edwin K. Cunningham, two hundred and sixty-three dollars; McLain Jones, two hundred and forty-seven dollars; James T. Spann, twenty-five dollars: D. D. Davies, four hundred and forty-one dollars; William Bowling, forty-five dollars;
Abner Hazeltine, eighty-one dollars; William B. Ferguson, sixteen dollars; Stephen C. McCandless, seventeen dollars; Henry D. Fitzgerald, seventy dollars: W. G. B. Morris, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars; James D. Stevenson, forty-seven dollars; Elbert Wallace, thirty-four dollars; John W. Burton, seventy-three dollars: William H. Strong, one hundred and eleven dollars; William D. McKinstry, two hundred and five dollars; Eugene W. Hoge, seventy-two dollars; Anson C. Merrick, eighteen dollars;
James S. Groves, twenty-three dollars; Henry C. Goodell, sixty dollars; J. A. Thorn, two hundred and eleven dollars; Joseph M. Stafford, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; John P. Hobart, forty-two dollars; Alfred Hobbs, fifty-four dollars; Edward T. Jones, fifty-five dollars: James P. Waugh, twenty-four dollars: William E. Singleton, one hundred dollars; John C. Wood, thirty dollars: R. A. Donnelly, ninety-one dollars; Fay Hempstead, thirty-three dollars; W. W. Gilbert, one hundred and ninety-two dollars;
Stephen Wheeler, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars; 931 James H. Bone, one hundred and six dollars;Payment of judgments of Court of Claims—Continued. John H. Woodward, three hundred and four dollars; Harvey Cabaniss, sixty-four dollars; William C. Seymour, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents: William Brauner Reuther, one thousand dollars; Cushman and Hurlbut, sixty dollars and eleven cents; Joseph O’Brien, twenty-dollars and fifty-six cents; William H. Perry, three dollars and sixty-seven cents;
William V. Bronaugh, one thousand dollars; De Witt Coffman, one thousand dollars; To pay interest at five per centum per annum from June thirteen,Interest. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to January eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, under section ten hundred and ninety. RevisedR. S., sec. 1000, p. 200. Statutes, on a judgment for one hundred and ninety-six dollars, rendered by the Court of Claims in case number fifteen thousand and fifty-one. in favor of John F. Knox, heretofore paid in the principal sum. five dollars and sixty-four cents;
Joseph McDonald, seventy-four dollars, with interest at five per centum per annum from February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, until paid, under section ten hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes: Simon Cook, one thousand dollars, with interest at five per centum per annum from June twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, until paid, under section ten hundred and ninety. Revised Statutes’; Seth N. Kimball, three thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars;
Patrick J. Kennedy, twenty-six thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars: Charles W. A. Cartlidge, two hundred dollars and seventy-four cents: John T. Green, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; Madison J. Julian, one thousand and seventy-four dollars’ James H. Dennis, seventeen dollars; Hans Hanson, seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars; Marius Duvall, six thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-seven cents; W. H. Grider, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents;
J. C. Irwin and Company, nine thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars; Charles A. Perry and Company, five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars: Alden L. Roadarmour, twenty-four dollars: Sampson Williams, eight hundred and one dollars; William G. Crockett, one hundred and twenty dollars; Harry J. Milligan, one hundred and forty-six dollars; William N. Hayward, forty-eight dollars: Frederic Parsons, twenty-six dollars; Alfred T. Dillard, thirty-three dollars; G. G. Eaves, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars;
J. W. Lingenfelter, seventy-nine dollars; Thomas B. Ford, twenty-six dollars; Ebenezer N. O. Clough. three hundred and ninety-four dollars; Lenoir M. Erwin, forty-two dollars; Joseph M. Stafford, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ten cents; John W. Calder, thirty-five dollars: G. L. Ogden, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars; To pay interest at five per centum per annum from SeptemberInterest. R. S. sec. 1090, p. 200. eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to February twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine under section ten hundred 932 and ninety.
Revised Statutes, on a judgment for two thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-five cents, rendered by the Court of Claims in case numbered twelve thousand four hundred and eighty-seven, of George H. Palmer, already provided for in the principal sum, three hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-eight cents. In all three hundred and eight thousand one hundred and sixty-three*Proviso*. dollars and forty-three cents: *Provided*, That none of the Appeal.judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Sec. 2. 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 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, unless otherwise stated, and which have been Vol. 23, p. 254.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 Fifty-nine, Fiftieth Congress, second session, except such as may be in favor of the several bonded Pacific railroads, and such others as are specially excepted, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by the First Comptroller. state department. Foreign intercourse: For salaries, consular service, one thousandConsular service. two hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-one cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, five dollars.Salaries. treasury department.American seamen. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, twenty-oneTreasury Department. dollars and thirty-six cents. For contingent expenses, independent treasury, six dollars.Collectors’ internal revenue. interior department.Independent treasury.
Contingent expenses. For expenses of the Eighth Census, twenty-nine dollars and fifty-fiveInterior Department. cents. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, three hundred Eighth Census.and forty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, thirty dollars.Registers and receivers. For surveying the public lands, five hundred and one dollarsSurveying. and ninety-nine cents. For five, three and two per centum fund to States, thirty-nineFive, three, and two er cent. thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars and four cents.
For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess of deposits,Reimbursing excess of deposits. sixty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, two thousandFees. Marshals. three hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-four cents. For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, two hundredDistrict attorneys. and twenty-five dollars and twenty cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, four hundred and seventy-fourClerks. dollars and ten cents.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, twenty six dollarsCommissioners. and ten cents. 933 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR AND COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.Claims allowed by First Auditor and Commissioner of Customs. For fuel, light, and water for public buildings, eight dollars andPublic buildings. Fuel, lights, etc. fifty-three cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, one hundred Furniture.and four dollars and twenty-five cents. For repairs of light-houses, one dollar.Light-houses.
For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, except theCollecting customs revenue. claims of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific railroads of Arizona, California, and New Mexico, twenty one thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty-six cents WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of two and three year volunteers, one hundred and fifteen Pay, volunteers.thousand, two hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty-one cents.
For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, oneBounty. hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents. For bounty, act July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,Vol. 14, p. 322. fifteen thousand nine hundred and ninety one dollars and forty three cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.Army pays. and prior years, except the claims of the Union Central, Kansas, and Sioux City and Pacific Railroads, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-two cents.
For pay and so forth, of the Army eighteen hundred and eighty seven, twelve thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, four thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-five cents. For traveling expenses of First Michigan Cavalry, two hundredFirst Michigan Cavalry. and fifteen dollars and forty seven cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, oneCalifornia and Nevada volunteers. hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifteen cents.
For artificial limbs, fifty dollars.Artificial limbs. For Signal Service, medical department, eighteen hundred andSignal Service, medical department. eighty-seven, fifty dollars. For medical and hospital department, three hundred and ninety Medical department.dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT (INDIAN) CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND COMPTROLLER.Indian claims-allowed by the Second Auditor and Comptroller. For pay of Indian agents, one hundred and thirty-one dollars andIndian agents. ninety-four cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. interior department. For Army pensions, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and priorArmy pensions. years, seven hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen cents. war department.War Department. For subsistence of the Army, eight hundred and thirty-seven dollarsSubsistence. and ninety-eight cents. 934 For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, six hundred Quartermaster’s Department.
Supplies.and forty-four dollars and seventy-one cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundredIncidental expenses. and eighty-six dollars and eighty-eight cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundredTransportation. and eighty-seven, except the claims of the Central Pacific. SiouxClaims excepted. City and Pacific, California Southern, Los Angeles and San Diego, and Southern Pacific Railroads of Arizona, California, and New Mexico, and of the Northern Railway Company, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars and sixty-two cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, except the claims of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the Northern Railway Company, the Central Pacific, and the Southern Pacific Railroads of Arizona, California, and New Mexico, three thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-eight cents. For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainFifty per cent to land-grant roads. land-grant railroads, six thousand six hundred and eight dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For barracks and quarters, except the claim numbered sixty-sixBarracks and quarters. thousand four hundred and seventy six in said Executive Document number fifty nine, ninety five dollars and fifty-five cents. For Army and Navy hospital, Hot Springs Arkansas, seventy-fourHot Springs hospital dollars and fifty one cents. For purchase of old Produce Exchange Building and site, NewProduce Building. York City, one thousand five hundred dollarsNew York.. For horses for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and thirty-sevenHorses. dollars.
For contingencies of fortifications one hundred and sixty five Fortifications.dollars. For maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, thirteenMilitary telegraph. dollars and eighty-two cents. For Signal Service, subsistence, fourteen dollars and twenty five cents.Signal Service. Subsistence. For Signal Service, transportation, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,Transportation. to pay claim numbered one hundred and one thousand four hundred and fifty six ninety cents. For Signal Service, transportation, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, to pay claim numbered one hundred and one thousand four hundred and six, one dollar and fifty-three cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers. Pay, etc. Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty six, six hundred and twenty three dollars and eighty-six cents. For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel StatesCommutation of rations. and to soldiers on furlough, six thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. For horses and other property lost in the military service, twentyHorses, etc., claims. seven thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars and thirteen 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, two hundred and fifty-six thousand ninePay. Navy. hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents: *Proviso*. Certain claims barred.*Provided*, That no part of any one of the claims to which this appropriation is applicable shall be paid therefrom which accrued more than six years prior to the date of the filing of the petition in the Court of Claims upon which the judgment was rendered, which, being affirmed by the Supreme Court, has been adopted by the accounting officers as the basis for the allowance of said claim. 935 For pay miscellaneous, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.Miscellaneous.
For pay of Marine Corps, seventeen dollars and eighty cents.Marine Corps, pay. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, thirty oneBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. dollars and fifth-six cents. For provisions. Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, twentyBureau of provisions and Clothing. three thousand live hundred and four dollars and sixty three cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, one hundred and twenty dollars.Lost clothing. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and sixty two dollars Bounty, enlistment.and ninety-one cents.
For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, one hundredBounty, destruction of enemies’ vessels. and nine dollars and twenty-six cents. 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 of Graham versus The United States, two thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fourteen cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor.
For deficiency in the postal revenue eighteen hundred and sixty-sixPostal revenues. and prior years, except the claims of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty one dollars and forty six cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers 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-six and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty four, as fully set forth in Senate Executive Document Number One Hundred and Thirty-two.
Fiftieth Congress, second session, except such as may be in favor of the several bonded Pacific railroads, and such others as are specially excepted, there is appropriated as follows: CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state department. Foreign intercourse: For loss on bills of exchange, diplomaticLoss on exchange, legations. service, eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. treasury department.Treasury Depart meat. Internal revenue: For drawback on stills exported (act MarchDrawback on stills.
Vol. 20, p. 342. first eighteen hundred and seventy-nine), forty dollars. For refunding taxes illegally collected, three thousand six hundredRefunding taxes. Alien shareholders. *Proviso*. and sixty-one dollars and eighty-two cents: *Provided*, That if it appears by legal proof, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that any of the corporations named in said Executive Document as paying said tax never deducted or withheld the same from alien holders of such stock or bonds and the same is not due toPayable to companies not deducting tax. said aliens, payment may be made to the corporation.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to allowTonnage dues. Refund of interest to North German Lloyd, Hamburg, and Norse-American Steamship Companies. and pay out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to the North German Lloyd Steamship Company of Bremen, the Hamburg-American Packet Company of Hamburg, and the Norse American line of Sweden, interest at the rate of four per cent-um per annum on such moneys as have been exacted from such companies in contravention of treaty provisions and heretofore refunded 936 under the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; such interest to be computed from the date of the respective payments by such companies up to the time of refunding the same *Proviso*.
To be accepted in full.under the act aforesaid: *Provided, however*, That such interest shall be accepted by said companies, respectively, in full settlement of all claims on account of said moneys exacted from them in contravention of treaty provisions as above stated. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For post-office and sub-treasury building at Boston, Massachusetts,Public buildings. Boston, Mass. four thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty one cent. For customhouse building at Cleveland, Ohio, two thousand seven Cleveland, Ohio.hundred and eleven dollars and eighty-four cents.
For post-office and court-house building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, Pa. four thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifteen cents. For court-house and post-office building at Jefferson City, Missouri,Jefferson City, Mo. forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents. interior departmentInterior Department. For investigation of pension cases, special examiners, PensionPension investigations. Office, thirty six dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, four dollars and thirtyLand offices.
Contingent expenses. three cents. For protecting the public lands, five dollars and twenty five cents.Protecting, etc. For surveying the public lands, fifty six dollars and twenty-twoSurveying. cents. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess of deposits,Reimbursing receivers. two hundred and forty six dollars and forty-one cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. Judicial expenses: For fees and expenses of marshals, UnitedFees. Marshals. States courts, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts thirty five dollarsCommissioners. and forty cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, seven hundred andWitnesses. twenty dollars and ninety cents. For support of prisoners. United States courts, three hundred and Prisoners support.eighty-seven dollars and thirty cents. For expenses of United States courts, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine andExpenses. prior years, fifteen dollars. For salaries, district marshals, three hundred and ninety four dollarsMarshals’ salaries. and seventy-three 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, eight thousandCollecting customs revenue. three hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits for unascertainedRepaying importers. Vol. 22, p. 260. duties, act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, four hundred and twenty three dollars and sixty seven cents.
For Light House Establishment, eighteen hundred and sixty-oneLight-house Establishment. and eighteen hundred and sixty-two, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-six cents 937 WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller For pay for two and three year volunteers, seventy one thousandPay, volunteers. three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and forty six cents. For bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, seventyBounty. two thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollars and sixty one cents.
For bounty, act July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-sixVol. 14, p. 322. ten thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty eight cents. For pay and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-sixPay, Army. and prior years, two thousand and ninety-four dollars and fifty two cents. For pay and so forth, of the Array, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, seven thousand three hundred and seventy seven dollars and thirty cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, two thousand five hundred and thirty one dollars and fifty five cents.
For expenses of recruiting, thirty dollars and seventy-eight cents.Recruiting. For contingencies of the Army, one hundred and five dollars.Contingencies. For artificial limbs, seventy-five dollars.Artificial limbs. For reimbursing Massachusetts for expenses incurred and paidMassachusetts. Reimbursing. in protecting the harbors and strengthening the fortifications on the coast (act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four),Vol. 28, p. 204. ninety-four thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixteen cents.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT—(INDIAN) CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND COMPTROLLER—Indian claims allowed by Second Auditor and Comptroller. For pay of Indian agents, three hundred and thirty-one dollarsIndian agents. and thirty-seven cents. For incidental expenses of Indian service in Dakota, twenty-two Dakota, expenses.dollars and eighty-eight cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. war department. For subsistence of the Army, sixty-two dollars.Army subsistence.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, except the Quartermaster’s supplies.claims of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, two hundred and one dollars and twenty cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, except theIncidental expenses. claim of the Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky, and the claim of the Union Pacific Railway Company, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty one cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundredTransportation. and eighty-seven, sixty two dollars and twenty-five cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and prior years, except the claims of the Central Pacific and the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Companies four thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-four cents. For barracks and quarters, one thousand and fifteen dollars and fifty-twoBarracks and quarters. cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, nine hundred and eighteen dollars andHorses. eighty four cents. War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. 938 For Signal Service. transportation, except the claims of the UnionSignal Service, transportation.
Pacific Railway Company, four dollars and forty five cents. For contingencies of fortifications, four thousand two hundred andFortifications. three dollars and sixty cents. For reimbursement to certain States and Territories (State of Oregon)Oregon. Reimbursement. expenses incurred in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities,Vol. 22, p. 111. act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty two, thirty eight thousand one hundred and thirty two dollars and ninety eight cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers. Pay, etc. Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty five and eighteen hundred and fifty six, nine hundred and six dollars and twenty two cents. For Rogue River Indian war of eighteen hundred and fifty four,Rogue River Indian war. forty seven dollars and eighteen cents; For keeping, supplying and transporting prisoners of war, onePrisoners of war. hundred and forty-three dollars For twenty per centum additional compensation, one hundred andTwenty per cent. seventy-five dollars and twenty-three cents.
For bridge trains and equipage, thirty dollars.Bridge trains. For commutation of rations to prisoners of War in rebel States andCommutation of rations. to soldiers on furlough, nine thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and twelve cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, twenty-fourHorses, etc., claims. thousand seven hundred and eight dollars and sixty-six 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 one hundred and six thousand dollars: *Provided*,Pay, Navy. That no part or any one of the claims to which this *Proviso*. Certain claims barred.appropriation is applicable shall be paid therefrom which accrued more than six years prior to the date of filing of the petition in the Court of Claims upon which the judgment was rendered, which being affirmed by the Supreme Court has been adopted, by the accounting officers as the basis for the allowance of said claim.
For pay, miscellaneous, ten dollars and twenty-five cents.Miscellaneous. For contingent, Marine Corps, except the claim of the Central PacificMarine Corps. Railroad Company, three dollars and forty three cents. For contingent. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, twenty-fiveBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. dollars and seventy four cents. For previsions, Navy Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.thousand eight hundred and forty three dollars and sixty-eight cents.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of construction and Repair. three hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For payment on account of clothing or bedding destroyed byDestroyed clothing. order, for sanitary purposes, in preventing the spread of contagious diseases, three hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars.Lost clothing. For enlistment bounties to seamen, two hundred and eight dollarsBounty, enlistment. and sixty-seven cents.
For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels twenty eightBounty, destruction enemies’ vessels. dollars and ten cents. For payment of claims for difference between actual expenses and Mileage claims.mileage allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham versus The United States, one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and twelve cents. 939 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenue, eighteen hundred and sixty-sixPostal revenues. and prior years, except the claims of the Central Branch, Union Pacific Railroad, and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California, thirteen thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and five cents.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury be. and he is hereby,Florida. Secretary of the Treasury to examine and report on claim of. authorized and directed to examine the claim of the State of Florida reported in the letter of the Secretary of War, dated May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. and under previous acts of Congress, and to make a report upon the same to the next regular session of Congress, and in connection therewith to report the amount of all claims in favor of the general Government against the State of Florida and in said report to state the account between the general Government and the State of Florida.
Approved, March 2, 1889.
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