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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · September 30, 1890 · Chapter 1126

Chapter 1126.

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CHAP. 1126.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for prior years, and for other purposes.September 30, 1890. *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 ninety, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.State Department. Payment to A. H. Allen: That the proper accounting and disbursingA. H. Allen. officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized Payment to.and directed to audit and pay to Andrew H. Allen, late disbursing agent of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, the sum of one hundred and ten dollars and sixty-nine cents as compensation for his services as such disbursing agent by appointment of the Secretary of State, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to and including the twentieth “day of the same month, and that the said sum of one hundred and ten dollars and sixty-nine cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be reimbursed out of any moneys of the Geneva Award Fund now in the Treasury.
International Boundary Survey, United States and Mexico:Mexican boundary Survey. To enable the President to execute the engagements of the conventionVol. 22, p. 986. of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico, providing for an international boundary survey to relocate the existing frontier line between the two countries west of the Rio Grande, and the convention of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico, seventy-five thousand dollars, in addition Vol. 28, p. 478.to the one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. 505 United States and Venezuelan Claims Commission:
ToVenezuelan Claims Commission. enable the Secretary of State to meet a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the United States and Venezuelan Claims Commission, the same being for clerical assistance and compensation of the agent of the United States, nine thousand dollars. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Salaries of Ministers: To pay amounts found due by the accountingMinisters’ salaries. officers on account of salaries of ministers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-nine cents.
Rent of Legation Building at Tokyo, Japan: That the appropriationRent, Japan. made by the diplomatic and consular appropriation act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for rent of legation buildings in Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen Hundred and ninety, shall be available and may be used for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Salaries, Charges d’affaires ad interim: To pay amountsSalaries, chargés d’affaires ad Interim. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six thousand six hundred and twenty two dollars and eighty-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-nine cents. Reimbursement of Bishop and Company: To reimburse BishopBishop and company. and Company, of Honolulu, the sum of one thousand one hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-three cents, being interest whichReimbursement. they had to pay because of the failure of the State Department lo pay a draft drawn by the consul of the United States at Honolulu, and negotiated through the said Bishop and Company in eighteen hundred and seventy-one for the relief of destitute seamen, the appropriation having been exhausted at the time the draft was drawn.
Salaries, Consular Service: To pay amounts found due by theConsular salaries. accounting officers on account of salaries, consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-four cents. Procuring Evidence Relating to French Spoliation Claims:French Spoliation Claims. For expenses of consul at Jamaica, ninety-nine dollars and fourteen cents, and balance of compensation due Somerville P.
Tuck and H.S. P. Tuck.H. B. Blanchard. Bailly Blanchard, six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and nineteen cents; in all, seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. Contingent Expenses United States Consulates: To payContingent expenses, consulates. amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses of United States consulates, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fourteen thousand and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses of United States consulates, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-nine cents. To meet deficiency in appropriation for contingent expenses of United States consulates thirty-six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Consular officer, not citizens. six thousand dollars of this amount may be used to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety. 506 That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts George Walker.Credit in accounts.of the late George Walker, consul-general at Paris, to credit him with the sum of eight hundred dollars, expended by him for storage of archives of the consulate-general, under authority of the Department of State, while in charge of the United States consulate-general at Paris, and not heretofore allowed in his accounts.
Loss by Exchange, Consular Service: To pay amounts foundLoss by exchange.Consular service. due by the accounting officers on account of loss by exchange, consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of loss by exchange, consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twelve cents.
Salaries, Consular Officers not Citizens: To pay amountsSalaries, consular officers not citizens. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries of consular officers not citizens, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen’ hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand and twenty dollars and five cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. internal revenue.Internal Revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees andAgents’ salaries, etc. expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and’ miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Party Expenses: For Reimbursement to Lieutenant J. M. Helm,Party expenses. United States Navy, of necessary amounts expended by him for coal, water, oil, and so forth, for the use of the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Gedney, while transferring that vessel from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of the United States, under the provisions of the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand and forty-one dollars and forty-five cents. For transcontinental geodetic work in Utah, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-six cents.
Points for State Surveys: For Reimbursement to E. T. Quimby,Points for State surveys. acting assistant, Coast and Geodetic Survey, of sundry small amounts paid by him for freight, hauling, and storage of instruments and camp outfit, during the month of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and originally disallowed in the disbursing agent’s office because the accounts for the same were improperly rendered as chargeable to the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twenty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.
General Expenses: For telegraph, telephone, and expressGeneral expenses. charges, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-one cents. fish commission.Fish Commission. Fish Hatchery, Neosho, Missouri: For the completion andHatchery, Neosho, Mo. equipment of ponds and the erection of a quarters building, four thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery, Lake Erie: For the completion of the equipmentLake Erie. of the fish hatchery on Lake Erie, including the purchase of a steam-launch for the collection of the eggs of the whitefish, ten thousand dollars. 507 Fish Hatchery, Duluth, Minnesota:
For the payment ofDuluth, Minn. George N. Baxter, United States attorney for the district of Minnesota, for services rendered and expenses incurred in connection with the examination of the title to certain land near Duluth, Minnesota, acquired by the United States for the purposes of a fish hatchery, as authorized by the act, approved August fourth, eighteen hundredVol. 23, p. 236. and eighty-six, two hundred and thirty-six dollars. Fish Commission Buildings, Wood’s Holl, Massachusetts:Wood’s Holl, Mass.
Buildings. To pay the amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, as follows: Walworth Manufacturing Company, two hundred and thirteen dollars. smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution. To reimburse the Smithsonian Institution for expenses incurredExchanges. in the exchange of the publications of the Fish Commission for those of foreign countries, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to purchaseFrederick S. Perkins.Copper implements. from Frederick S. Perkins, of Wisconsin, his collection of prehistoric copper implements, seven thousand dollars. Preservation of Collections, National Museum: To supplyNational Museum.Preserving collections a deficiency in the appropriation for preservation of collections, National Museum, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, eleven dollars and forty-five cents. public buildings.Public buildings.
For Court-House and Post-Office at Charlotte, NorthCharlotte, N. C. Carolina: For completion of building in excess of limit, seven thousand dollars. For Court-House and Post-Office at Clarksburgh, WestClarksburgh, W. Va. Virginia; For completion of building and approaches in excess of limit, five thousand dollars. For Custom-House at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuation and Cleveland, Ohio.completion of repairs in excess of limit, ten thousand dollars. For Post-Office at Dayton, Ohio:
For completion of buildingDayton, Ohio. in excess of limit, ten thousand dollars. For completion of court-house and post office at Winona, Minnesota,Winona, Mina. ten thousand dollars. For Court-House and Post-Office at Frankfort, Kentucky:Frankfort, Ky. To pay the sums found due for labor and material supplied in construction as fully set forth in House Executive Document number three hundred and forty-five, Fifty-first Congress, first session, three hundred and ten dollars.
For Court-House and Post-Office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:Pittsburgh, Pa. For heating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For Court-House and Post-Office at Texarkana, Arkansas:Texarkana, Ark. For completion, ten thousand dollars. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.Lighthouse establishment. Salaries, Keepers of Lighthouses: For advertising proposalsKeepers’ salaries. for provisions and fuel for Fifth Lighthouse District, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two dollars and twenty-six cents.
For salary due Mark Gage as keeper of Rebecca Shoal Light-Station, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents. 508 Supplies of Lighthouses: For amounts found due for transportationSupplies. for Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, six hundred and fifty-seven dollars and six cents.
Expenses of Buoyage: For amounts found due for transportationBuoyage for the Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, one thousand seven hundred and one dollars and thirty-four cents. Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents; in all, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-three cents.
Lighthouses.Lighthouses. Northwest Seal Rock Light-Station, California: For continuingNorthwest Seal Rock, Cal. and completing the construction of a Lighthouse on Northwest Seal Rock, off Point Saint George, California, eighty-one thousand dollars. government in the territories.Government in Territories. Territory of Montana: To pay the account of the Journal PublishingMontana.Printing, etc. Company, of Helena, Montana, for printing, binding, and so forth, for the fifteenth legislative assembly of Montana in eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, three thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
Assay Office at Boise City: To pay Chicago, Rock Island and Boise City.Transportation.Pacific Railroad Company for freight transportation of supplies for the assay office during July and August, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five dollars and eighty-five cents. To pay Oregon Short Line and Utah and Northern Railway company for freight transportation of supplies for the assay office at Boise City, during February and March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. miscellaneous objects—treasury.Miscellaneous.
Furniture and Repairs of Furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture, etc. of furniture for the new public buildings named in House Executive Document number three hundred and eleven, Fifty-first Congress, first session, one hundred and forty-two thousand dollars. Assistant Custodians and Janitors: To reimburse the assistantAssistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors whose salaries were reduced during the month of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, because of the exhaustion of the appropriation, ten thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents.
Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: To pay theContingent expenses. amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of freight and telegrams, being for the service of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine as follows: Western Union Telegraph Company, ninety-eight dollars and seventy-one cents. Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentIndependent Treasury.Contingent expenses. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, except accounts of the Central Pacific and 509 Union Pacific Railroads, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-nine cents.
Transportation of Silver Coin: To supply a deficiency in theTransporting silver coins. appropriation for transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin by registered mail or otherwise, thirty thousand dollars. Engraving Statues of Lewis Cass, John Peter GabrielEngraving portraits. Muhlenberg, and Robert Fulton: To pay the amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, as follows: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Redemption of Unsigned National Bank Notes stolen from OfficeRedemption, stolen notes. of the Comptroller of the Currency: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem the remainder of certain unsigned national bank notes stolen from the office of the Comptroller of the Currency during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-four to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, both inclusive, two thousand five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. Suppressing Counterfeiting and other Crimes:
To reimburseSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk Treasury Department, the amount of two vouchers paid lay him on account of suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the balance of said appropriation haying been carried to the surplus fund before said vouchers were audited, one hundred and sixty dollars. Protecting Salmon Fisheries of Alaska: For protecting salmonAlaska Fisheries, etc. fisheries of Alaska: for publishing the President’s proclamation, and for otherwise complying with the requirements of the actVol. 25, p. 1005. of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “To provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska,” one thousand five hundred dollars.
Interest on Tonnage Dues Illegally Exacted: That the SecretaryInterest on refunded tonnage dues. of the Treasury is hereby authorized to allow and pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Eagle Line of Hamburg, interest at the rate of four per centum perEagle Line. annum on such moneys as have been exacted from said company in contravention of treaty provisions, and heretofore refunded under the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, such interest to be computed up to the time of refunding the same under the act aforesaid, one thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents: *Provided, however*, That such interest*Proviso*.Acceptance in full. shall be accepted by said company in full settlement of all claims on account of said moneys exacted from it in contravention of treaty provisions as above stated.
Refund to J. W. Breeden: To refund to J. W. Breeden, ownerJ. W. Breeden.Refund to. of the schooner Maggie E. Breeden, part of a fine collected from him for violation of the navigation laws and covered into the Treasury, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen dollars. Refund to J. L. Somers:J. L. Somers.Refund to. To refund to Captain J. L. Somers, master of the American schooner Emma L. Cottingham, the amount of a fine collected from him for a violation of section forty-two hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes and covered into the Treasury, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, two hundred dollars.
Schooner Rillie S. Derby: To pay the owners of the schooner“Rillie S. Derby.”Payment to owners. Rillie S. Derby, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for injuries received by said vessel in a collision with the United States steamer Juniata in the harbor of New York, April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-three cents. Barges Benefactor and Mayflower: To pay the owners of the“Benefactor” and “Mayflower ”Payment to owners. barges Benefactor and Mayflower for injuries received by said vessels 510 in a collision with the United States steamer Juniata in the harbor of New York, April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-seven cents.
Payment to Susannah George: To pay Susannah George forSusannah George.Payment to. compensation due her husband, Phineas George, for services and expenses incurred while light keeper at Plum Island Light Station, Massachusetts, three hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifteen cents. Life-Saving Station, Muskeget: To reimburse the crew ofMuskeget, Mass.Payment to Lifesaving crew. the life-saving station at Muskeget, Massachusetts, for the loss their personal property at the time of the burning of the station, December twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and seventy-dollars and sixty-five cents.
Refund to the Aberdeen Packing Company, of Ilwaco,Aberdeen Packing Company.Payment to. Washington: To refund to B. A. Seaborg, president of the Aberdeen Packing Company, of Ilwaco, Washington, part of the fine collected from said company for a violation of section forty-four hundred and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes and covered into the Treasury, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, seventy-five dollars. Refund to Rufus A. Ballard:Rufus A. Ballard.Refund to.
To refund to Rufus A. Ballard, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the amount of a license fee as a pilot twice paid by him in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, ten dollars. Refund to George Hazil: To refund to George Hazil theGeorge Hazil.Refund to. amount paid by him for transportation of members of his family from Bremen to New York, and who were returned to the former place by order of the collector of customs at New York on July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, under the provisions of the alien contract labor law, and which action was found to have been erroneous, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-one cents.
Relief of Daniel Magone: To enable the accounting officers ofDaniel Magone.Credit in accounts. the Treasury to credit the accounts of Daniel Magone, late collector of customs for the district of the city of New York, with the sum of one thousand eight, hundred and four dollars and forty-eight cents, disallowed as having been turned over to a collector of internal revenue in the city of New York, not to involve the expenditure of any money from the Treasury. Fur Seals in Alaska:
For advertising for proposals for lease ofAlaska.Advertising lease of taking seals. the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, in the Territory of Alaska, for the exclusive right to engage in taking fur seals on said islands, pursuant to the provisions of section nineteen hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Relief of Charles Dodge: The accounting officers of the TreasuryCharles Dodge.Allowance to. Department are hereby authorized to allow the sum of ninety dollars in the accounts of Charles Dodge, collector of customs at Georgetown, District of Columbia, without involving the further payment of money from the Treasury, being the amount paid by him to F.
G. Davidson, deputy collector and inspector of customs at that port, for thirty days’ leave of absence. Relief of Collector of Customs at New York: The accountingNew York.Allowance for additional customs officers. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized in the settlement of the accounts of the collector of customs at the port of New York to allow payments made to additional customs officers appointed in the district of New York under the provisions of section [R. S., sec. 2722, p. 632](/us/rs/s2722/p632).twenty-seven hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes for the time they actually served, being in amounts for fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and seventy-four cents; for eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eight hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents; in all, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-six cents. And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury 511 are hereby authorized hereafter in the settlement of the accounts of the collector of customs at the port of New York to allow payments for salaries of two additional deputy surveyors at the rate of twoAdditional deputy-surveyors and naval officer. thousand five hundred dollars each per annum, and for one additional deputy naval officer at the rate of two thousand live hundred dollars per annum.
And such clerks and inspectors of customs as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate for the purpose shall be authorized to administer oaths, such as deputy collectors of customsOaths. are now authorized to administer, and no compensation shall be paid or charge made therefor. Relief of Samuel Hein: The accounting officers of the TreasurySamuel Hein.Credit in accounts of. are authorized and directed to pass to the credit of the account of Samuel Hein, deceased, late disbursing agent of the Coast Survey, certain vouchers known as the De Haven vouchers, heretofore suspended against the accounts of the said Hein, amounting to one thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-five cents, and to make the necessary transfers on the books of the Treasury to close the account of the said disbursing agent; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of the said Samuel Hein the salary earned by and retained from him against said vouchers.
Relief of Max Pracht: To authorize the accounting officers ofMax Pracht.Allowance to. the Treasury to allow the following amount, which will not involve any expenditure of moneys from the Treasury, on account of expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, eighteen hundred and ninety: Max Pracht, collector of customs, Alaska: For salary for services rendered by L. M. Churchhill as watchman at Wrangel, Alaska, in August, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, prior to date of official oath, twenty-four dollars.
Relief of A. K. Delaney: To reimburse A. K. Delaney, late A. K. Delaney.Reimbursement.collector of customs, Alaska, for amount deposited in excess of collections for wharfage, August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten dollars. Reimbursement of North Dakota: To enable the Secretary ofNorth Dakota. the Treasury to pay to the State of North Dakota, to reimburse that State for moneys advanced in excess of the amount appropriated by Congress to defray the expenses of the constitutional conventionConvention expenses. held at Bismarck, in said State, in July and August, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten thousand eight hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-one cents.
Reimbursement of South Dakota: To enable the Secretary ofSouth Dakota. the Treasury to pay to the State of South Dakota, to reimburse that State for moneys expended in paying the expenses of the constitutional convention held therein in September, eighteen hundred andConvention expenses. eighty-five, which constitution was readopted by the people of said State under the provisions of the act of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty cents.
Reimbursement of the State of Washington: To enable theWashington. Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the State of Washington, to reimburse that State for moneys expended in paying the expenses of the constitutional convention; held there in July and August,Convention expenses. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six thousand and seventy-six dollars and twenty-seven cents That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall include in hisPostal receipts, etc., to be included in annual finance report. annual report, in the statements of actual and estimated receipts and expenditures of the Government, the revenues from and expenditures on account of the postal service.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a commissionCommission on safes and vaults. of scientific or mechanical experts to report on the best method of safe and vault construction, with a view of renewing or improving the vault facilities of the Treasury Department, three thousand dollars. 512 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Assessor’s Office, Contingent Expenses: To pay the recorderAssessor’s office. of deeds for furnishing records of transfers of real estate, for printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, four hundred and ninety-two dollars and forty-eight cents.
Militia of District of Columbia: Current expenses; For rent,Militia. fuel, light, and care of armories, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. Necessary expenditures: For lockers, gun racks, and furniture for armories, printing, parades, and other current expenses five thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-eight cents. For cost of annual encampment, for clearing grounds, lumber, transportation, camp-supplies, subsistence, horses, band and drum corps, five thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-one cents.
Executive Office: For contingent expenses, six dollars andExecutive office. seventy-five cents. Attorney’s Office: For contingent expenses, fifty dollars andAttorney’s office. fifty cents. Public Schools: For contingent expenses, three hundred andPublic schools. fifty-three dollars and fifteen cents. For fuel, three thousand and eighteen dollars and twenty-five cents. For instruction in manual training, fifty-five dollars and three cents. For purchase of sites and erection of buildings, sixth division, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
Health Department: For contingent expenses, eight dollarsHealth department. and seventy-nine cents. Telegraph and Telephone Service: For general supplies, sixTelegraph, etc., service. hundred and thirty-seven dollars and forty-eight cents. Washington Asylum: For contingent expenses, five thousandWashington asylum. and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. Miscellaneous Expenses: To pay the Evening Star NewspaperMiscellaneous expenses. Company and the Washington Post Company for advertising delinquent tax list, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents each; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars.
For printing, checks, damages and other general necessary expenses of District offices, one thousand three hundred and nine dollars and eighty-seven cents. Courts: To pay S. C. Mills, justice of the peace, compensation forCourts. acting as judge of the police court during the absence of said judge, sixteen days, at ten dollars per day, one hundred and sixty dollars. For witness fees, one thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. For writs of lunacy, six dollars and seventy-five cents.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal yearDeficiencies, 1889. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as follows: Assessor’s Office: For contingent expenses, three hundred and ninety-five dollars andAssessor’s office. thirty-five cents. Collector’s Office: For contingent expenses, seventeen dollarsCollector’s office. and twenty-one cents. Engineer’s Office: For contingent expenses, two hundred andEngineer’s office. thirty-three dollars and seventeen cents. To pay Winfield S.
Hancock for services rendered in the office of the property clerk District of Columbia, from July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, inclusive, at three dollars per day, one hundred and eleven dollars. 513 Permit Work: To pay payroll of special assessment office perPermit work. diem employees for extra time, Sundays and nights, writing up annual tax sale for said office, namely: A. M. Lambeth, twenty days in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at three dollars and eighty-five cents per diem, seventy-seven dollars;
James B. D. Meeds, twenty days in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem, fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars. Miscellaneous Expenses: For general advertising, nineteenMiscellaneous. dollars and five cents. Expenses of Assessing Real Property: To pay the EveningAssessing real property. Star Newspaper Company, advertising, six dollars and fifty cents. To pay B. D. Carpenter, use of horse and buggy, one hundred dollars;
To pay T. L. Croply, use of horse and buggy, one hundred dollars; To pay S. M. Golden, use of horse and buggy, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and six dollars and fifty cents. Public Scales: To pay F. P. May and Company, hardware,Scales. twenty-six dollars. Public Schools: For fuel, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-twoPublic schools. dollars and fifteen cents. For contingent expenses, two thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-five cents. For instruction in manual training twenty-one dollars and twelve cents.
For purchase of sites and erection of school buildings, first division: To pay Charles S. Denham, superintendent, and Samuel C. Mickum, superintendent, five dollars and fifty-eight cents each: sixth division: To pay R. H. Willet for lumber, two dollars and eleven cents; in all, thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents. Fire Department: For repairs to engine-houses, sixty-two dollarsFire department. and nine cents. For fuel, three dollars and seventy-two cents. For contingent expenses, sixty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents.
Police Court: To pay S. C. Mills, justice of the peace, compensationPolice court. for acting as judge of the police court during the absence of said judge, four days, at ten dollars per diem, forty dollars. For books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, and other necessary items, four hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-four cents. For witness fees, to pay certificates which are on file in the office of the auditor of the District, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.
Emergency Fund: To pay the Cumberland Hydraulic CementEmergency fund. and Manufacturing Company, cement, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four dollars and four cents. Miscellaneous Expenses: For general advertising, four hundredMiscellaneous. and sixty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents. For printing, checks, damages, forage, and care of horses, seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-one cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal yearDeficiencies, 1888. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight as follows:
To pay W. Scott Chew for one fire escape at Webster School, twoW. Scott Chew. hundred and thirty dollars. Fire Department: For contingent expenses, five dollars and tenFire department. cents. Miscellaneous Expenses: For general advertising, sixteen dollarsMiscellaneous. and two cents. For general advertising, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fourteen dollars and forty cents. 514 Payments of Judgments; For the payment of judgments againstPayment of judgments against District of Columbia. the district of Columbia, as follows:
To Harriet A. B. Corts six thousand dollars, together with two hundred and two dollars and seventy cents costs; To Fendall E. Alexander one thousand seven hundred dollars, together with one hundred and fifty-five dollars and five cents costs; To Hattie May McPherson two thousand dollars, together with sixty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents costs: To John H. Brewer eighty-six dollars and five cents costs: To Potomac Terra Cotta Company thirty-eight dollars costs: To Griffith M.
Hopkins six hundred and sixty dollars, together with twenty dollars and fifty cents costs; To Robert E. Hall one cent, together with thirty-one dollars and thirty-five cents costs; To Michael McCormick five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents, together with one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-five cents costs; To William C, Murdock, use of Carrie B. Evans, administratrix, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, together with thirty-one dollars and sixty-five cents costs;
The United States ex-relation e Harvey Spalding, nineteen dollars and forty-five cents costs; To William B. Hartley six hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To Frederick S, Mechlin two hundred dollars, together’ with nine dollars and eighty-five cents costs; To C. Maurice Sioussa six hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and ten cents costs; To Robert McMurray two hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and eighty-five cents costs;
To Samuel H. Bacon, six hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and ten cents costs; To Willie L. Arnold, four hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and eighty-five cents costs; To Sophia H. Spalding, twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents costs; To Harvey Spalding, one hundred and thirty-six dollars; To Henry E. Woodbury, fifteen thousand dollars, together with two hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-five cents costs; To Catharine Hennessy, one thousand five hundred dollars, together with ninety-one dollars and twenty cents costs;
To Charles B. Young, thirty-three dollars and eighty-six cents costs; in all, thirty-four thousand and ninety-nine dollars and sixty-five cents; together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. That hereafter interest, when authorized by law, on judgmentsInterest on judgments. against the District of Columbia, in suits begun after the passage of this act, shall be at the rate of not exceeding four per centum per annum.
To pay Daniel Donovan balance due for services as referee in theReferees. case of Thomas S. Lucas against the District of Columbia, four hundred and twenty dollars. To pay James H. Saville for services as referee in the case of Matthew J. Laughlin against the District of Columbia, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. That one-half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies inHalf from District revenues. the 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 appropriated. 515 Water Department:
For deficiencies in the appropriations forWater department. the water department, payable from the revenues of the water department, as follows: For contingent expenses fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents. For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirty-three dollars and twenty-four cents. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. military establishment.Military establishment.
Pay of the Army: For pay of Hospital Corps, thirty-eight thousandHospital corps. dollars; For pay of retired enlisted men, twenty-six thousand dollars;Retired enlisted men.Travel allowances. For travel allowances to discharged men, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and three dollars and thirty-five cents; For mileage to officers when authorized by law, to be disbursedMileage. under the limitations prescribed for the appropriation for mileage to officers by the Army appropriation act approved March second, eighteenVol. 25, p. 827. hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents.
For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andOfficer, public buildings and grounds, D.C. grounds in Washington, District of Columbia, four hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-five Cents. For mileage to officers when authorized by law, to be disbursedMileage. under the limitations prescribed for the appropriation for mileage to officers by the Army appropriation act approved September twenty-second,Vol, 25, p. 488. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars.
Pay of Military Academy: One superintendent (colonel), in additionMilitary Academy.Superintendent. to pay as lieutenant-colonel, from August twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s department. Transportation of the Army and its supplies: To pay amountsTransportation. found due by the accounting officers on account of transportation of the Army and its supplies, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-six thousand two hundred and ninety dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Fifty per centum of Arrears of Army Transportation: ToArrears. pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of fifty per centum of arrears of Arm y transportation due certain land-grant railroads, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, ten thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-three cents. medical department.Medical Department. Army and Navy Hospital: For completion of Army and NavyHot Springs hospital. Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas:
For completion of steam-heating of south ward and mess-house, including radiators, connecting pipes, and so forth, two thousand dollars. 516 engineer department.Engineer department. Mississippi River Commission: For salaries of the Commission,Mississippi River Commission. five thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. signal service.Signal service. Transportation: To pay amounts found due by the accounting Transportation.officers on account Signal Service transportation, except the claims of the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, and Sioux City and Pacific Railroads, and the Southern Pacific Companys of Arizona, California, Kentucky, and New Mexico, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fourteen cents.
Incidental Expenses: For interment of officers and enlisted menIncidental expenses. of the Signal Corps, being an amount required to pay the account of Charles Eppner for the burial of Private F. H. Cox (ten dollars), and for further similar contingencies (five dollars); in all, fifteen dollars. war miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. War Maps: Completing the series of maps now in progress of Chickamauga, etc., maps.execution relating to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns, three thousand dollars.
Reimbursement to Captain E. C Bowen: For re-imbursingE. C. Bowen.Reimbursement. to Captain E. C. Bowen: the expenses incurred by him in defending a civil suit brought against him by William Stuart, a discharged soldier, in Yankton County court, at Yankton, Dakota, fifty-four dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Contingent Expenses: Stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans,Contingent expenses. drawings, drawing materials, horses, carriages, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict for indelible ribbons, forty-five dollars; and E. Morrison for stationery, one hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-three cents; in all, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-three cents, being for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. To pay W. W. Farr for winding and repairing clocks in Bureau of Construction and Repair for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen dollars. naval establishment.Naval establishment.
To reimburse “general account of advances,” created by the actReimbursement in accounts.Vol 20, p. 167. of June nineteenth, 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, thirty-ninePay. thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-two cents;
For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and fifty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-eightMiscellaneous. thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents; 517 For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, oneContingent. thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents; For navigation and navigation supplies, eighteen hundred andBureau of Navigation. eighty-nine, Bureau of Navigation, five thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-one cents:
For equipment of vessels, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, BureauBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. of Equipment and Recruiting, sixty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents: For transportation and recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, nine hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-four cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred andBureau of Ordnance. eighty-nine, five hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-two cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery. and eighty-nine, five hundred and seventy-six dollars and eight cents; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing,Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eleven thousand rive hundred and seven dollars and sixty-three cents; in all, four hundred and five thousand and thirty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents.
Pay of the Navy: To pay amounts found due by the accounting Pay.Longevity claims, etc.officers on account of longevity pay under the Cook, Mullan, and Baker decisions, and for difference between “sea” and “shore” pay on receiving-ships, and so forth, under the decision in the cases of Symonds and Strong, and of other claims, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of longevity pay under the Cook, Mullan, and Baker decisions, and for difference between “sea” and “shore” pay on receiving-ships, and so forth, under the decision in the eases of Symonds and Strong, and of other claims, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, nineteen thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-five cents.
To relieve Pay Inspector T. T. Caswell, United States Navy, ofT. T. Caswell.Allowance in accounts. the checkage against his account for third and fourth quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and first quarter, eighteen hundred and ninety, amounting to one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents, being amount paid to late Naval Cadet J. J. Garth, same having been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountDifference claims of differences of pay on promotion, balances, and other claims, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventeen cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of difference of pay, balances, and other claims, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-seven cents. Pay, Miscellaneous: To pay amounts found due by the accountingPay, miscellaneous. officers for expenses of travel performed by officers under orders, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighteen thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and forty-six cents:
To pay Houghwout Howe, United States dispatch agent for servicesHoughwout Howe. from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifty dollars; 518 To pay Old Colony Steamboat Company for transportation of enlistedOld Colony Steamboat Co. men, twenty-five dollars; To pay Western Union Telegraph Company, telegrams, seventeen dollarsWestern Union Telegraph Co. and twenty-nine cents: To pay S. A. Stevens, rent of navy pay office at Norfolk, Virginia, oneS. A.
Stevens. hundred and one dollars and eighty-eight cents; To pay Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, rent of telephone,Southern Bell Telephone Co. eighty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; To pay George W. Davenport, ice for the Navy Pay Office, six dollars and fourGeorge W. Davenport. cents; To pay Virginia Printing House, binding quarterly report, two dollars;Virginia Printing House. To reimburse George P. Montague for payment of bills approved by the Secretary of the Navy, Western Union Telegraph Company, telegrams, seventeen George P.
Montague.dollars and twenty-one cents; To reimburse George F. Hanscomb for amount paid for telephoneGeorge F. Hanscomb. messages sent to and from commandant’s office, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents; To pay the approved bills filed in Navy Pay Office, Washington, for Navy Pay Office, D.photolithographing telegrams and traveling expenses, nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seven cents;
To pay Pacific Mail Steamship Company for transportation of ten United StatesPacific Mail steam-ship Co. naval officers from Panama to New York, in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nine hundred and fifty dollars; To pay First National Bank, Pensacola, Florida, for “transportationFirst National Bank, Pensacola, Fla. of public funds to the navy-yard, Pensacola, for May and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, sixteen dollars and thirty-seven cents; To pay Western Union Telegraph Company, telegrams, navy-yard, Pensacola, eighty-twoWestern Union Telegraph Co. cents;
To pay J. R. Hathaway for the New York Tribune, delivered at the navy-yard, LeagueJ. R. Hathaway. Island, for April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three dollars and twelve cents: To pay the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company for TelephoneChesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. service, quarter ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and nineteen cents; in all, twenty thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountMileage. of mileage and traveling expenses of officers traveling under orders, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-nine cents. Contingent, Navy: To reimburse Paymaster W. Goldsborough,Contingent.Samoan disaster. United States Navy, for amount paid by him from “general account of advances” to the Oceanic Steamship Company, for transportation of two officers and twenty enlisted men of the Navy from Apia to San Francisco, in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars;
To reimburse Paymaster W. Goldsborough, United States Navy, for amount paid by him from “general account of advances” for charter of the steamer Rockton for the transportation of twenty officers and three hundred enlisted men of the Navy from Apia to San Francisco in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-seven cents; To reimburse Paymaster W. Goldsborough, United States Navy, for amount paid by him from “general account of advances” to John D.
Spreckles and Brothers, agents of the Oceanic Steamship Company, on May twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for transportation of nine officers and sixty-three men from Apia, 519 Samoa, to San Francisco, California, eight thousand one hundred dollars; in all, forty-five thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Navigation and Navigation Supplies: To pay bills on accountSupplies. of the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-three cents;
That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the accounts of the Bureau of Navigation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for articles transferred to that Bureau from other Bureau of the Navy Department not involving a sum exceeding one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents, or any expenditure from the Treasury. To pay William Bond and Son for repairing, cleaning, and rating chronometer, number twenty-five hundred and seven, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, seventy-four dollars and fifty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freights, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents. Transportation and recruiting: Expenses of recruiting forTransportation and recruiting. the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, one thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-three cents. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Contingent: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for theContingent. contingent service of the Bureau of Ordnance for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventeen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and seventy-one dollars and nine cents. bureau of equipment and recruiting.Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.
Equipment of Vessels: For coal for steamer’s and ship’s use, includingEquipment of vessels. expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage; iron for the manufacture of anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, bags, and hammocks; water for steam-launches; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards, one hundred thousand dollars.
To pay bill of Rowland A. Robbins for one thousand feet of rubber hose delivered at the Mare Island navy-yard under contract dated September eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand and seventy-two dollars and seventy-eight cents. 520 To pay bill of William Cramp and Sons, Ship and Engine building Company, for one hundred and three tons of coal, at seven dollars and seventy cents a ton, left by that company on board the United States steamer Yorktown when that vessel was turned over to the Government, and retained for the use of the naval service, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and ten cents.
To pay bills due persons for coal, reservations on contracts, andCoal for revenue cutters, Alaska. general equipment stores, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and to reimburse the appropriation “Expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,” two thousand and ninety dollars and fifty-eight cents, being for coal supplied to United States Navy in Alaska, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty-five thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents.
To pay bill of the S. C. Forsaith Machine Company for fifty hoseS. C. Forsaith Machine Co.Hose, etc. spanners delivered at the navy-yard New York, under contract dated September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight dollars and eighty cents; reservations, six dollars and ninety-two cents; in all, fifteen dollars and seventy-two cents, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. To pay bill of S. C. Forsaith Machine Company, reservation on vouchers for five thousand feet of hose delivered at the New York navy-yard under their contract of September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and thirty-five dollars.
Transportation’ and Recruiting: To pay amounts found dueTransportation and recruiting. by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five dollars. Contingent: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officersContingent. for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fourteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents. bureau of provisions and clothing.Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.
Provisions, Navy: To pay amounts found due by the accountingProvisions. officers for commutation or rations, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred and twenty-six dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for commutation of rations, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, sixteen dollars and twenty cents. To pay Jacob Levi, junior, of San Francisco, California, vouchers for ten per centum reservation from deliveries under contract of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and sixty-one dollars and four cents;
To pay Charles F. Matlage, of New York, vouchers for ten per centum reservation from deliveries under contract of April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighteen cents. Contingent: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officersContingent. for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-six cents. 521 Clothing fund: For loss of clothing by wreck of the UnitedClothing.
States steamer Trenton, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-three cents: For loss of clothing by wreck of the United States steamer VandaliaSamoan disaster. at Samoa, March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and one cent; For issues of clothing to the officers, crew, and marines of the United States steamer Vandalia, by Paymaster Frank H. Arms, United States Navy (accounts unsettled by accounting officers), from January first to March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand and fifteen dollars and eighty cents;
For clothing issued to Lieutenant-Commander W. H. Emery, United States Navy, commanding the United States steamer Thetis, for gratuitous distribution to distressed seamen, two hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-three cents; For clothing bounty issued to apprentices from March second toBounties to apprentices. December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eight thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty-five cents; in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-two cents, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
Small stores fund: For loss of small stores by wreck of the Small stores.United States steamer Trenton, two thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-five cents; For loss of small stores by wreck of the United States steamerSamoan disaster. Vandalia at Samoa, March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-two cents: For issue of small stores to the officers, crew, and marines of the United States steamer Vandalia, by Paymaster Frank H.
Arms, United States Navy (accounts unsettled), from January first to March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-four cents; in all, four thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-one cents, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Contingent: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officersContingent. for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, ninety-four dollars and thirty-one cents. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of construction and Repair. To pay George L. Nevill for timber delivered by him at the navy-yard,George L. Nevill.Payment to. Norfolk, Virginia, as per bills on file in Bureau, approved by commandant of that navy-yard, on requisitions approved by Bureau in February, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-four cents. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Provisions: To pay accounts on file for advertising and for reservationsProvisions. on accounts, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-nine cents. Clothing: To pay accounts for clothing due under contract,Clothing. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, nine thousand four hundred dollars. 522 To pay accounts on file for advertising and to reimburse Quartermaster’s Department, United States Army, for clothing transferred to the Marine Corps, five hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
Fuel: To pay reservation accounts on file for fuel for year endingFuel. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty cents. To pay accounts on file for advertising and for reservations on accounts, three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and twelve cents. Transportation and Recruiting: To pay accounts for transportationTransportation and recruiting. of troops, five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, twenty-three dollars.
Forage: To pay accounts on file for forage fiscal year endingForage. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ninety-nine dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay accounts on file for advertising and for reservations on accounts, three hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty cents. Contingent: To pay accounts on file for per diem pay to enlistedContingent. men on constant labor for year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for prior years, three thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight and transportation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and four cents. To pay accounts on file for advertising, and for gas, water, straw, freight, and other miscellaneous items, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. Contingent Expenses, Department of the Interior:
To payContingent expenses. the accounts of E. F. Brooks, one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-nine cents, and Joseph Rakeman, sixty-three dollars, being additional to the amount authorized by joint resolution of December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to fit up and put in proper repair the rooms in the Interior Department Building assigned by the Secretary for the use of the Commissioner of Patents, and a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents.
To pay Edward Renaud as a clerk of class three in the PensionEdward Renaud.Payment to. Office, from May nineteenth to twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, forty-three dollars and ninety-five cents. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to compensate Commander Royal B. Bradford.Royal B. Bradford, United States Navy, for the preparation of specifications and plans for, and superintending the installation of, anElectric light.Vol. 24, p. 525. electric-light plant in the Interior Department Building, authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five hundred dollars.
Town-Sites in Oklahoma: To carry into effect the provisions ofTown-sites, Ok1ahoma.*Ante*, p. 109. the act approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to provide for town-site entries of lands in what is known as Oklahoma, and for other purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Columbia, Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For salariesColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. and wages, in addition to the amount already allowed, two thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Penitentiary Building in North Dakota: For the purpose ofPenitentiary, North Dakota. erecting, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the 523 Interior, a penitentiary building in the State of North Dakota, upon such tract or parcel of land at or near the city of Grafton, in the county of Walsh, as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation*Proviso*.Restriction. shall be devoted and applied exclusively to the purchase of the necessary grounds and to the erection of a penitentiary in said State, and shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated, including the sum expended for the purchase of grounds upon which to erect said penitentiary.
Protection and Improvement of Hot Springs, Arkansas: ForHot Springs, Ark. laying of mains, purchase of pipe and valves, providing foundations for pumping-engines, expense of superintendence of construction of work, and other expenses incidental thereto, five thousand dollars. public lands service.Public lands service. Reproducing Plats of Surveys: To pay amount found due byReproducing plats of surveys. the, accounting officers on account of reproducing plats of surveys, General Land Office, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as follows:
The Washington Post Company, Washington, District of Columbia, nine dollars and ninety cents. surveying the public lands.Surveying public lands. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of surveying the public lands for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as follows: To pay H. B. Martin, special agent, General Land Office, seventy dollars and fifty cents; To pay R. B. Symington, special examiner of surveys, General Land Office, one hundred and sixty dollars;
To pay Henry Chase, special examiner of surveys, General Land Office, one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and forty cents; To pay Ruffin B. Paine, special examiner of surveys, General Land Office, sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents: in all, one thousand four hundred and seven dollars and sixty-five cents. Office of the Surveyor-General of Louisiana: To payLouisiana.Surveyor-general. amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries, office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as follows;
Benjamin A. Ledbetter, services as draughtsman, forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; Henry Gascon, services as clerk, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; in all, seventy-five dollars. Protecting Public Lands: To pay amount found due by theProtecting public lands. accounting officers on account of protecting public lands for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as follows: S. B. Bevans, special agent, General Land Office, sixty dollars and twenty-five cents. Depredations on Public Timber:
To pay amount found due byTimber depreciations. the accounting officers on account of depredations on public timber for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as follows: J. L. S. Travis, special agent, General Land Office, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents. Yellowstone National Park: To reimburse P. H. Conger, lateYellowstone National Park. superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, for necessary expenditures made by him as such superintendent in providing quarters tor the additional assistants authorized by the act of March third,Vol. 22, p. 626. eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents. 524 indian affairs.Indian affairs.
Ute Commission: For this amount, or so much thereof as may beUte Commission. required to pay indebtedness incurred by the Commission to negotiate with the Southern Ute Indians for the relinquishment of their lands in Colorado, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Relief of B. C. Hobbs: To reimburse B. C. Hobbs, amount expendedB. C. Hobbs.Reimbursement. by him in the purchase for the United States, by and with the approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of a lot of land for a training school for the Eastern Cherokee Indians at Cherokee, North Carolina, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Relief of A. M. Wilson: The Secretary of the Interior is hereby A. M. Wilson.Payment to.authorized to pay, out of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars made by section fourteen of the Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, to A. M. Wilson, the sum of one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty cents, on account of per diem, traveling, and other necessary expenses incurred by him under an order of the Department to visit Washington in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to confer with the Secretary of the Interior in relation to his duties as a commissioner to negotiate with the Cherokee Indians. miscellaneous, interior department.Miscellaneous.
For amount due the reporter of the decisions of the SupremeSupreme Court reports. Court for six hundred and eighty-four volumes of Supreme Court reports delivered to the Secretary of the Interior under the Vol. 25, p. 061.Provisions of section two of act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, relating to the distribution of the Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post office Department.
Contingent Expenses: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationContingent expenses. for telegraphing, Post Office Department, one hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-two cents. For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. For twenty temporary clerks for five months’ services, at sixty dollars per month each, to enable the Postmaster-General to tabulate the returns from all post-offices of a general count of the several classes of mail matter for one week, six thousand dollars.
To enable the Postmaster-General to pay to the employees andAdditional compensation, extra hours of labor. late employees of the Post-Office Department additional compensation for services rendered by such employees as were embraced in orders of the Postmaster-General, dated April eleventh and June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, requiring extra hours of labor, said additional compensation to be regulated by the extra time said employees were actually engaged in rendering service under said orders, twelve thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty cents. out of the postal revenues.Postal service.
Foreign Mails: Balance due foreign countries, being for theForeign mails. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty two thousand dollars. For amount to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amountPostmasters’ accounts. retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred and ninety-two thousand 525 six hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-four cents; for amount due postmasters and late postmasters in delinquent accounts received (estimated), eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and seven thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixteen cents; in all, six hundred thousand dollars.
For compensation of postmasters, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents. That the proper officers of the Post-Office Department are herebyO. M. Lara way.Credit in accounts. authorized and directed to credit in the account of O. M. Laraway, late postmaster at Minneapolis, Minnesota, the sum of eleven thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-eight cents, being the value of certain postal funds which were stolen from the safe in said post-office on the eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, without the fault of said postmaster.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized andM. M. Lynch.Payment to. directed to pay to M. M. Lynch the sum of one hundred and one dollars and sixty-five cents, in full payment and satisfaction of the amount audited and allowed to him by the Treasury Department for carrying the United States mails on route numbered ten thousand six hundred and sixty-five, Old Mines to Old Mines Station, in the State of Missouri, from April first to October tenth, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Mail Transportation: For inland mail transportation by railroadMail transportation.Railroad routes. routes, five hundred and forty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and four cents. For inland mail transportation by steamboat routes, twelve thousandSteam-boat routes. six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents. For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, being a deficiencyRailroad routes. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and ninety-six thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-five cents; *Provided*, That no part of the money herein appropriated*Proviso*.Exceptions. for inland mail transportation by railroad routes shall be for transportation on railroads operated, leased, or controlled y the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Sioux City and Pacific, and Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Companies.
Stamps and Envelopes: For manfacture of adhesive-postage andStamps. special-delivery stamps, ten thousand dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, andStamped envelopes. letter-sheets, sixteen thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Investigating History and Habits of Insects: To pay theInvestigating insects, etc. amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as follows:
To pay the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company forty-seven dollars and thirty cents; To reimburse B. F. Fuller, disbursing clerk, for amount expended for investigating the history and habits of insects in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighty-four dollars and thirty-four cents; in all, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-four cents. Investigations in Ornithology and Mammalogy: To re-imburseInvestigations, ornithology, etc.
B. F. Fuller, disbursing clerk, for amount expended for investigations in ornithology and mammalogy, in excess of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven dollars and sixty-five cents. Bureau of Animal Industry: To adjust the accounts of N. J. Bureau of Animal Industry.Colman, late Commissioner of Agriculture, involving the expenditure of no money from the Treasury, being a deficiency in the ap- 526 propriation for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, thirty-six dollars and fifty-one cents.
To adjust the accounts of N. J. Colman, late Commissioner of Agriculture, involving the expenditure of no money from the Treasury, being a deficiency in the appropriation for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eleven dollars and and eighty-six cents. Botanical Investigations and and Experiments: To adjustBotanical investigations, etc. the accounts of J. N. Colman, late Commissioner of Agriculture, involving the expenditure of no money from the Treasury, being a deficiency in the appropriation for botanical investigations and experiments for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty eight, forty-three dollars and sixty-three cents.
Pomological Information: To pay the amount found due byPomological investigations. the accounting officers to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company for transportation, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-four dollars and forty eight cents. North Dakota Experiment Station: For payment to the StateNorth Dakota experiment station. of North Dakota on account of an Agricultural station established Vol. 24, p. 440.May first, eighteen hundred and ninety, under the act of Congress of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Irrigation Investigations: To enable the Secretary of AgricultureIrrigation investigations. to continue to completion his investigations for the purpose of determining the extent and availability for irrigation of the underflow and artesian waters within the region between the ninety-seventh degree of longitude and the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and to collect and publish information as to the best methods of cultivating the soil by irrigation, forty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Limit of expenditure and completion.*Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended under unless the entire investigation, collection, and publication contemplated herein, including the report thereon, can be fully and finally completed and finished before July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, without any additional expense, cost, or charge being incurred.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For miscellaneous expenditures, such as telegraphing, fuel, lights,Contingent expenses. labor, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, including ordinary repairs of building and care of grounds being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, one thousand one hundred dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents; in all, one thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
Defending Suits in Claims against the United States: ForDefense in claims. defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, being for deficiences on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents;
For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents; 527 For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, except the claims of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad Companies, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all, two thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety-four cents. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport, etc., of convicts, District of Columbia. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety, five thousand dollars: For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, four thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty cents; in all, nine thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty cents. One-half of which sumHalf from District revenues. shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. JUDICIAL.Judicial. expenses united states courts.United States courts, expenses.
United States court in Alaska: For payment to LafayetteAlaska.Lafayette Dawson. Dawson, late judge of the United States court for the district of Alaska, the salary due him from August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to September third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and forty six dollars and sixty cents. Fees and Expenses of Marshals: For fees and expenses ofMarshals’ fees, etc. marshals United States courts, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety, ninety thousand dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-four cents: For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-nine cents: in all, one hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and three cents. For payment of special deputy marshals at Congressional elections,Special deputies. Congressional e1ections. being a deficiency for the fiscal” year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.
To pay Mary C. Elliott, widow of Temp Elliott, late deputy UnitedMary C. Elliott. States marshal, in Oklahoma, the sum of three hundred dollars, in full for his services as deputy marshal during the opening of Oklahoma, Indian Territory, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. To pay Daniel F. Wyatt, for services as deputy United States marshalDaniel F. Wyatt. in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars. That the Attorney-General investigate the claims of such personsOklahoma deputies.Investigation and report oh. as are alleged to have rendered service in Oklahoma since the lands therein were opened to settlement by proclamation of the President under orders of the United States marshal as deputies, in compliance, with directions from the Attorney-General, and estimate to the next Congress for the sum necessary to pay the amounts which he may find properly due for such services.
Fees of Jurors: For fees of jurors United States courts sixty-fiveJurors’ fees. thousand dollars; Fees of Witnesses: For fees of witnesses; United States courts,Witnesses’ fees. being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred thousand dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents; in all, one hundred and one thousand, three hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents. 528 Support of Prisoners:
For support of United States prisoners,Support of prisoners. including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, ten thousand dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eight thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-seven cents; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty seven cents.
Pay of Bailiffs: For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding Pay of bailiffs, etc.three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern Districts of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals for jurors in United States cases when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any term of court, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety, thirty-five thousand dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-four cents: in all, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-four cents. Fees of District Attorneys: For payment of United StatesAttorneys’ fees. district attorneys the regular fees provided by law for official services, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty five thousand dollars:
For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighteen thousand five hundred and two dollars and fifty-nine cents; in all, forty three thousand five hundred and two dollars and fifty-nine cents. District Attorneys and Assistants: For payment to district attorneys of compensation fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salary or fees, being deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
For payment of regular assistants to district attorneys, three thousand dollars.Regular assistants. For payment of assistants to district attorneys employed by theSpecial assistants. Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, being deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, thirteen thousand dollars. For payment of John G. McNutt, assistant to the United StatesJohn G. McNutt. attorney for the district of Indiana, for fees earned and services rendered by him in the circuit and district courts of the United States for said district, in customs case numbered thirty-seven hundred and twenty-five for forfeitures, five hundred dollars.
For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-seven cents; For payment of the accounts for legal services rendered the Government as recommended by the Attorney-General and set forth in House Executive Document Numbered Four hundred and fifty-five, Fifty-first Congress, first session, eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifteen cents. For miscellaneous expenses of United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fees of Clerks: For fees of clerks of United States courts,Clerks’ fees. being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, forty five thousand dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty eight thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-nine cents; 529 For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, seven thousand and seventy-three dollars and twenty-six cents; in all, ninety thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and five cents.
Fees of Commissioners: For fees of United States commissionersCommissioners’ fees. and Justices of Peace, acting as such Commissioners, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, forty five thousand dollars; for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty three thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-six cents; for eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventeen cents; in all, seventy thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirteen cents.
Expenses of Territorial Courts in Utah Territory: ForUtah courts. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, and fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and appoval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety, eight thousand dollars; For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty cents; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty cents. Expenses United States Court, Indian Territory: ForIndian Territory court. expenses of United States court in the Indian Territory, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-two cents.
SENATE.Senate. To pay the heirs-at-law of the late Senator James B. Beck, fiveJames B. Beck.Payment to heirs. thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay William A. Clark andWilliam A. Clark.Martin Maginnis. Martin Maginnis the sum of five thousand dollars each, in full compensation for their time and expenses in prosecuting their respective claims to seats in the Senate as Senators from the State of Montana, ten thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Wilbur F.
SandersWilbur F. Sanders.Thomas C. Power. and Thomas C. Power their counsel fees and expenses in defending the title to their seats, two thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the SenateInquiries, etc. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For the following, being deficiencies on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely:
For postage, for Sergeant-at-Arms’ department, forty dollars andPostage. nine cents. For stationery and newspapers, one hundred and sixty-five dollarsStationery, etc. and six cents. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons,Horses, etc. eighty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents. For fuel, oil and cotton-waste, and advertising for the heating apparatus,Fuel, oil, etc. exclusive of labor, seven hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding oneFolding. dollar per thousand, four thousand dollars.
For packing-boxes, twenty eight dollars and nine cents.Packing boxes. 530FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1136. 1890. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, four thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. For cleaning and sewing carpets, sixteen dollars and twelve cents.Carpets. For the following, being deficiencies on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, namely: For postage stamps, for Sergeant-at-Arms’ department, forty dollars.Postage. For purchase of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars.Furniture.
For fuel, oil, and cotton-waste, advertising, for the heating apparatus, Fuel, oil, etc.exclusive of labor, nine hundred and thirty dollars. For cleaning and sewing carpets and caning chairs, two hundredCarpets. and twenty-seven dollars and fifteen cents. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding oneFolding, Salaries. dollar per thousand, six thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries of officers, clerks, messengers and others in the service of the Senate, three thousand six hundred and thirty dollars, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
For expenses of maintaining and equipping horse and mail wagonsHorses, etc. for carrying the mails for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two thousand dollars. For the folding-room of the Senate, namely: For three folders atFolders. the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum, and ten folders at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum; in all eight thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety one.
For expenses of the investigation concerning immigration orderedImmigration Investigation. by concurrent resolution of the two houses of Congress dated March twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand dollars, or Disbursementso much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration and the chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization; and the Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized to advance the whole or any part of said sum and the whole or any part of any balance remaining in his hands of the appropriation made for said investigation by act of *Ante*, p. 43.Vol. 21, p. 419.April fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to the chairmen of said committees on the receipt of said chairmen, as provided in the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to W. R. Clay theW. R. Clay. usual per diem compensation of clerk to a Senator from the fourth day of May to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, three hundred and forty-eight dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay W. B. Clarke forW. B. Clarke. extra services for typewriting from March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty six, until March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and eighty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Eugene C. Moxley,Eugene C. Moxley. messenger to the official reporter’s room, for services from July first to December seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, during which time he performed the duties of that office without compensation, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay F. P. Holmes as anF. P. Holmes. additional elevator conductor for the Senate wing of the Capitol for four months from September first, eighteen hundred and ninety, at one hundred dollars per month, four hundred dollars.
To reimburse the Official Reporter of the Senate for moneys paidOfficial Reporter. for clerical hire during the first session of the Fifty-first Congress, and for extra clerical services and expenses occasioned by the prolongation of the session, five thousand dollars. 531 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. To pay John B. Clark, Clerk of the House of Representatives ofJohn B. Clark. the Fiftieth Congress, for services in compiling and arranging for the printer and indexing testimony used in contested election casesContested election cases.Vol. 24, p. 445. as authorized by an act entitled “An act relating to contested elections,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of one thousand dollars, and an additional sum of one thousand five hundred dollars to such employees as were actually engaged in the work, designated by the said John B.
Clark, and in such proportion as he may deem just, for assistance rendered in the work; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay to the widow of David Wilber the amount of salary andDavid Wilber.Payment to widow. mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-first Congress, four thousand nine hundred and seventy four dollars and ninety-nine cents. To pay to the widow of Samuel J. Randall the amount of salarySamuel J. Randall.Payment to widow. end mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty first Congress, four thousand five hundred and one dollars and seventy cents.
To pay to the widow of the late R. W. Townshend the amount ofR. W. Townshend.Payment to widow. salary and mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty first Congress, ten thousand six hundred and ninety one dollars and forty six cents. To pay to the widow of the late E. J. Gay the amount of salaryE. J. Gay.Payment to widow. and mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-first Congress, nine thousand nine hundred and four dollars and thirty seven cents.
To pay James D. Gage, administrator of the estate of James Laird,James Laird.Payment to administrator. deceased, a Representative from the second district in the State of Nebraska in the Fiftieth Congress, in full for the mileage of said Laird for the second session of said Congress, six hundred and four dollars. To pay to the widow of S. S. Cox the amount of salary and mileageS. S. Cox.Payment to widow. for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-first Congress, seven thousand five hundred and ninety six dollars and seventeen cents.
To pay to the widow of W. D. Kelley the amount of salary andW. D. Kelley.Payment to widow. mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-first Congress, six thousand two hundred and twenty five dollars and six cents. To pay to the widow of James N. Burnes a member elect to theJames N. Burnes.Payment to widow. Fifty-first Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, six thousand dollars. To pay the widow of James P Walker, the amount of salary andJames P.
Walker.Payment to widow. mileage for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty first Congress, three thousand five hundred ninety three dollars and ninety-six cents. To pay George A. Matthews in full for the unexpired term of theGeorge A. Matthews. Fifty-first Congress, for which he was elected as a Delegate from the Territory of Dakota, namely, from November second, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, six thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy cents.
For allowance to the following contestants and contestees, auditedContested election expenses. and recommended by the Committee on Elections, for expenses incurred by them in contested election cases namely: James R. Chalmers, two thousand dollars;James R. Chalmers. James B. Morgan, two thousand dollars;James B. Morgan. John M. Langston, two thousand dollars;John M. Langston. Edward C Venable two thousand dollars;Edward C. Venable. 532 Edmund Waddill, junior, two thousand dollars;Edmund Waddill, jr.
George D. Wise, two thousand dollars;George D. Wise. Henry Bowen, two thousand dollars;Henry Bowen. John A. Buchanan, two thousand dollars;John A. Buchanan. Thomas E. Miller, two thousand dollars;Thomas E. Miller. William Elliott, two thousand dollars;William Elliott. George W. Atkinson, two thousand dollars;George W. Atkinson. John O. Pendleton, two thousand dollars;John O. Pendleton. J. V. McDuffie, two thousand dollars;J. V. McDuffie. L W. Turpin, two thousand dollars;L. W.
Turpin. Henry Kernaghan, two thousand dollars;Henry Kernaghan. Charles. E. Hooker, two thousand dollars;Charles E. Hooker. Fred. S. Goodrich, two thousand dollars;Fred. S. Goodrich. Robert Bullock, two thousand dollars;Robert Bullock. Francis B Posey, two thousand dollars;Francis B. Posey. William F. Parrett, two thousand dollars;William F. Parrett. Frank H. Threat, two thousand dollars;Frank H. Threet. Richard H. Clarke, two thousand dollars;Richard H. Clarke. James H. McGinnis, two thousand dollars;James H.
McGinnis. J D. Alderson, two thousand dollars;J. D. Alderson. Sydney. E. Mudd, two thousand dollars;Sydney E. Mudd. Barnes Compton, two thousand dollars;Barnes Compton. L: B. Eaton, two thousand dollars;L. B. Eaton. James Phelan, two thousand dollars;James Phelan. James Hill, two thousand dollars:James Hill. T. C. Catchings, two thousand dollars;T. C. Catchings. Charles. B. Smith, two thousand dollars;Charles B. Smith. James M. Jackson, two thousand dollars;James M. Jackson. L.
P. Featherston, two thousand dollars;L. P. Featherston. W: H. Cate, one thousand and eighty-nine dollars;W. H. Cate. S. M. Robertson, three hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents;S. M. Robertson. C. L. Anderson, six hundred and ninety-five dollars and ten cents;C. L. Anderson. Justin R Whiting, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fiftyJustin R. Whiting. Cents; T. R. Stockdale, two hundred and eighty-five dollars;T. R. Stockdale. Allen D. Candler, one thousand six hundred and fifty nine dollars and thirty cents;Allen D.
Candler. W. S. Foreman, one thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents;W. S. Foreman. Wm. Hartsuff, one thousand dollars;Wm. Hartsuff.Clifton R. Breckenridge.John M. Clayton.Administrator of. Clifton R. Breckenridge, two thousand dollars; The administrator of the estate of John M. Clayton, two thousand dollars; T. J. Clunie, two thousand dollars; in all seventy-nine thousandT. J. Clunie. eighty dollars and ninety cents. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous. fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred eighty-nine six hundred twenty-eight dollars and thirteen cents. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, being a deficiency forFuel and oil. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and ninety six dollars and forty cents. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesOfficial reporters. of the House of Representatives, for the moneys paid by them so far during the present session for clerical hire and extra clerical services, one thousand dollars each, except that to the widow of John.
J. McElhone there shall be paid six hundred dollars, and to Fred Irland four hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. To reimburse the official reporters to committees of the House ofStenographers’ to committees. Representatives for the moneys paid by them so far during the pres- 533 ent session for clerical hire and extra clerical services, seven hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, fifteen hundred dollars. To pay additional amount to William W Keiser, telegraph operatorWilliam W.
Kelaer. of the House, to make his salary equal to that of the telegraph operator of the Senate, three hundred dollars. To pay the following which have been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: To pay John W. Chickering one hundred and twenty six dollars;John W. Chickering, J. W. Fisher, J. B. Fisher, W. C. Smith. J. W. Fisher one hundred and thirty dollars; J. R. Fisher sixty-five dollars; and W. C. Smith fifty-six dollars and ninety cents; in all, three hundred and seventy dollars and ninety cents, being for extra work done in indexing the House Journal and miscellaneous documents during first session of Fiftieth Congress;
To pay to the conductors of the elevators in the House wing ofConductors of elevators. the Capitol the difference between their respective salaries and one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each, as follows: To R. W. Goudelock from February fourteenth eighteen hundred and eighty-eight to April sixteenth eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and thirty three dollars and seventy-seven cents; to the mother of Daniel Ratcliffe, from February fourteen, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, to July fifteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents; to Rudolph Gibbs, from March fifteenth to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-nine dollars and forty-four cents;
S: D: Sterne from April fifteenth to July first, eighteen hundred ninety, twenty dollars and ninety two cents; To John Graham from July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents; to L. B. Cook and George Winters, for fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred sixty dollars and forty eight cents;
To reimburse Thomas Bell for expenses incurred from March first,Thomas Bell. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to April first, eighteen hundred and ninety, for assistance as laborer in caring for building rented for use of the folding room, two hundred and seventy dollars; To pay James M. Fisher for stenographic services in reportingJames M. Fisher. hearings and testimony taken by various committees of the House during the present session, two hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars and forty cents.
To pay Charles H. Evans extra compensation for preparing statisticalCharles H. Evans. tables, and for services rendered to the Committee on Ways and Means, five hundred dollars. To pay Beaufort C. Lee and Charles Carter for services in caringBeaufort C. Leo.Charles Carter. for the subcommittee rooms of the Committee on Ways and Means and Appropriations, sixty dollars each; in all one hundred and twenty dollars. To pay Alexander Vangeuder as extra compensation for servicesAlexander Vangeuder. rendered as assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions during the second session of the Fiftieth and the first session of the Fifty-first Congresses, five hundred dollars.
To pay Henry H. Smith for additional services rendered duringHenry H. Smith. the present session to the Committee on Rules and as clerk at the Speaker’s table, one thousand dollars. UNDER THE PUBLIC PRINTER.Public printing. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for a new engine andNew engines. boiler for the Government Printing Office, four hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the sum due Messrs. Sullivan and Ehlers, of Albany New York, for setting the new engine. 534 To enable the Public Printer to pay certain employees of the GovernmentAnnual leaves of absence.
Printing office for leaves of absence due them for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty six, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay twenty 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, book binders, stereotypers, laborers, including one laborer on Record force, messengers, including the Record messenger, press-feeders.
Record folders, counters, gatherers, collators, operators on stitchers, pasters, and mailers, engineers, machinists, firemen, hoisters, and proofreaders, revisers, copy-holders, makeup, and imposers of the bill force, who were and are exclusively employed on the night forces of the Government Printing Office during the first session of the Fifty-first Congress, thirty *Proviso*.Deduction.thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That in estimating the said twenty 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.
JUDGMENTS COURT OF CLAIMS.Payment of judgments of Court of Claims. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims as follows: To Henry Phillips, junior, fifty-six dollars; To John T. Patterson, three hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-five cents; To Lewis Whaley, administrator of Washington P. Parker, deceased, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy cents; To the Pacific Coast, steam-ship Company, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars and ninety-two cents; To Charles C.
Waters, seventy-nine dollars; To Thomas R. Parnell, four hundred and thirty-six dollars; To Henry S. Skaats, five hundred and twenty five dollars; To William H. Scheutze, three hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-eight cents; To Arthur Corse, thirty-eight dollars; To Joseph Walton and Isaac N. Bunton, thirty one thousand six hundred and ten dollars; To William A. Wilson and John S. Goss, eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-seven cents; To Jesse A. Galland, twenty dollars;
To Henry A. Sanborn, twenty-five dollars; To Robert M. Chamber’s, nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents; To Noble C. Butler, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-seven cents; To James A. Torian, executor of Jacob Torian, deceased, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-six cents; To Charles C. Morrow, six dollars; To Malbone F. Watson, one hundred and twenty six dollars and twenty-two cents; To H. B. Lindsay, two hundred and sixty-three dollars;
To J. Russ and Company, five hundred and fifty-one dollars and eighty-nine cents; To Sophia B. Duffy, fifteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars; To the State National Bank of Boston, one hundred thousand dollars; To Nelson W. Evans, twenty-eight dollars; To Adam Theis, fifty-nine dollars; To Frank D. Mead, eighty-five dollars; 535 To Madison W. Stewart, six thousand five hundred and fifty-twoPayment of judgments of Court of Claims—Continued. dollars and ten cents; To J.
Willard Morgan, three hundred and nine dollars; To Edward Q. Keasbey, two hundred and eighty dollars; To John Whitehead, three hundred and thirty-six dollars; To James M. Cassady, thirty-eight dollars; To the State of Georgia, thirty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-two cents: To Joseph Ricketts, two hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifteen cents; To Paul Ravesies, three hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents; To W. A. Rose, twenty-one dollars;
To Lewis F. Churchill, seven hundred and forty nine dollars and ten cents; To Benjamin Gardner, eighty-three dollars; To H. R. Duval, receiver of Florida Railway and Navigation company, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-one cents; To Ezra T. Sprague, twenty dollars; To Robert H. Buck, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars; To John A. Gray, administrator of William Bowen, three thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty cents, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States.
To Charles C. Waters, three hundred and twenty dollars with interest at five per centum from January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; To John A. Walsh, three thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eleven cents; To John C. Guy, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; To Charles J. Nourse, junior, as assignee of Gouverneur Paulding, Gouverneur Kemble, James N. Paulding, and Peter Kemble, composing the firm of Paulding, Kemble and Company, four thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty cents;
To John S. Mosby, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents; To W. Elwell Goldsborough, three hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-four cents; To Frederick T. Dubois, three thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-eight cents. To Catherine C. Crygier, administratrix of John U. Crygier, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty cents; To Paul Ravesies, twenty-four dollars and twenty cents; To John R Musick, fifteen dollars; To Charles G.
Horner, thirty dollars; To John H Kimmons, sixty-five dollars and thirty-five cents; To Delafield Du Bois, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; To Green H. Haigler, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars; To A. Q. Keasbey, seventy-five dollars; To William L. Bryan, two hundred and one dollars and twenty cents; To Samuel Henry, six hundred and four dollars and forty-five cents; To Charles C. Waters, ninety dollars; To Walter J. Warder, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
To Scarborough A. Norris, twenty-seven dollars; To Joseph M. Stafford, three hundred and fifty-five dollars and ten cents; 536 To William J. Guadin, one hundred and sixty-five dollars;Payment of judgments of Court of Claims—Continued. To Thomas Deaton, eighty dollars; To Harvey Cabaniss, one hundred and one dollars and fifty cents; To J. M. Stafford, seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty cents; To John H. Wallace, two hundred and twenty dollars and twenty cents; To William D, Ramey, two hundred and ten dollars;
To James M. Brown, one hundred and sixty dollars; To Charles M Dennison, six thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents; To Jonathan C. Tipton, eighty-seven dollars; To John T. Patterson, two hundred and sixty dollars and ten cents; To Alfred T. Dillard, two hundred and eighty dollars; To Frederick Wetzel, four hundred dollars; To Daniel N Cooper, one thousand five hundred and three dollars and fifty three cents; To George H Scidmore, one thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty cents;
To William E Henry and A. F. Kistler, under firm-name of William E. Henry and Company, three hundred and forty one dollars and twenty-five cents; To William H. Bliss, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; To Frank Hume, one hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty cents; To W. G. B. Morris, six hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty cents; To Edwin K. Cunningham, one thousand and thirty-three dollars and ten cents; To Elijah F. Hall, one hundred and seventy nine dollars and ninety-five cents;
To W. H. Faucett, nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifteen cents; To G. G. Eaves, three hundred and and forty-two dollars and sixty cents; To Frank Ives, eighty-five dollars, with interest at five per centum from April twenty third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; To Richard M. Jones, seventy-six dollars, with interest at five per centum from March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety; To George Truesdell, three thousand dollars; To Finella M. Alexander and Sophia L. Little, one thousand five hundred dollars;
To Joseph Ricketts, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty cents; To John H. Kimmons, thirty-five dollars; To Lovell H. Webb, ninety-five dollars; To Grafton C. Kennedy, thirty-eight dollars and twenty cents; To Patrick Maloney and Andrew Gleason, forty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-eight cents; To M. S. and J. M. Smith, executors of W. B. Smith, deceased, one thousand two hundred and eighty two dollars; To William J. Gaudin, seventy dollars;
To Harvey S. Thompson, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars; To Lee Jarvis, thirty five dollars; To Stimson J. Brown, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars; To John A. B, Smith, five hundred and five dollars and six cents; To Charles P. Howell, five hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; To R. E. Withers, two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-nine cents; FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1126, 1890.537 To Jay F. Shearman, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars;Payment of judgments of Court of Claims—Continued.
To James Hughes, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty five cents; To George Allman, three thousand and eighty-three dollars and eighty-one cents; To John W, Burton, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty cents: To Henry C. Goodell, one hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-five cents; To Robert Barber, two hundred and fifty-three dollars; To James C. Anderson, three hundred and ten dollars; To Bushrod W, Bell, one thousand and seventy-six dollars and thirty-five cents;
To William G. Bogle, eight hundred and seven dollars and twenty-five cents; To Wyatt M. Elliott, seven hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-four cents; To James E. Reed, one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and five cents; To Theodore Yates, four hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and nineteen cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided*Proviso*.Appeal. for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to certify to Congress for appropriation only such judgments ofJudgment claims to be certified to Congress. the Court of Claims as are not to be appealed, or such appealed cases as shall have been decided by the Supreme Court to be due and payable. And on judgments in favor of claimants which have been appealedInterest allowed. by the United States and affirmed by the Supreme Court, interest, at the rate of four per centum per annum, shall be allowed and paid from the date of filing the transcript of judgment in the Treasury Department up to and including the date of the mandate of affirmance by the Supreme Court: *Provided*, That in no case shall*Proviso*.Limit. interest be allowed after the term of the Supreme Court at which said judgment was affirmed.
JUDGMENTS UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments United States Courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment. of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government ofVol. 24, p. 505. the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Executive Documents Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven, and four hundred and thirty-four, forty-three thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and seventeen cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.
For the payment of the final judgments and decrees rendered under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundredVol 24, p. 505. and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its last session in Senate Executive Document Numbered One Hundred and twenty-nine, and in House Executive Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven, Fifty-first Congress, first session, sixteen thousand three hundred and four dollars and eighty-eight cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay such costs of suit as have been adjudged in each 538 case, and also interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. *Provided*, That no one of the foregoing judgments shall be paid*Proviso*.Certificate of Attorney-General. except upon the written certificate of the Attorney General that the question of law which it was necessary to decide adversely to the United States in rendering such judgment, is not involved’ in any case of the United States then pending and undecided in the Supreme Court.
FOX AND WISCONSIN RIVERS IMPROVEMENT.Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improvement. To pay in full the amounts certified by the Attorney General in Senate Executive Documents numbered Forty-two and Ninety-nine, Fifty-first Congress, first session, to be due the several commissioners for services and expenses in ascertaining the flowage damages caused by improvements of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, as follows: To Commissioner Joseph C. Burdick, six thousand eight hundredPayment to commissioners. and forty-two dollars and fifty cents:
To Commissioner J Volney Swetting, four thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars; To Commissioner B. L. Cornish, six thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars; To Commissioner Samuel Vincent, three thousand one hundred and five dollars; To Commissioner J. W. Watson, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents; To Commissioner Franklin Bowen, two thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; To Commissioner Otis F. Chase, one thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars;
To Commissioner William Decker, two thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents; To Commissioner W. F. S. Root, two thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars; To Commissioner George H. Buckstaff two thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents; in all, thirty-five thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. To pay E. E. Chapin for rent of office for use of the special assistantE. E. Chapin.Rent. United States attorney appointed to represent the Government in the Fox and Wisconsin River suits, and the Government commissioners, from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and January first, eighteen hundred and ninety, at the rate of two hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum, seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For payment of the judgments and awards rendered against thePayment of judgments and awards. United States for flowage damages caused by the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, under the Vol. 18, p. 506.act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as reported to Congress by the Attorney-General in compliance with Senate resolution of August first, eighteen hundred and ninety, in Senate Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and six, Fifty-first Congress, first session, one hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and two dollars and seventy cents.
And any suit now pending in the courts of the State of WisconsinRemoval of pending suits. brought under the provisions of the “Act to aid in the Vol. 18, p. 606.improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers in the State of Wisconsin,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to recover from the United States damages for alleged flowage of lands, may be removed for trial into the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Wisconsin by either party thereto upon the 539 filing in the court where said suit is pending of a petition for such removal and a bond as now provided by law for the removal of causes.
The presentation and filing of said petition and bond shall operate to remove said suit, and thereafter it shall be proceeded with in said circuit court of the United States: *Provided*, That no bond*Proviso*. on such removal shall be required of the United States. Sec. 2. That for refunding to States expenses incurred in raisingRefund to States.Vol. 12, p. 374. volunteers under act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as certified to Congress at its present session in House Executive Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, namely:
To the State of Massachusetts, twenty-six thousand two hundredMassachusetts. and twenty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. To the State of Pennsylvania, seven thousand five hundred andPennsylvania. forty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. To refund to the State of Iowa amount certified under same act,Iowa. six hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety-four cents. To reimburse the State of Texas, in full, for expenses incurred inTexas. repelling invasion and suppressing Indian hostilities, ascertained toSuppressing:
Indian hostilities, etc.Vol. 22, p. 111. be due under act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and certified to Congress at its present session in House Executive Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, one hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-seven cents: *Provided*, That out of this sum the Secretary of*Proviso*.F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. the Treasury shall pay to F. R. Diffenderffer and Company, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, three thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents, and the balance thereof to the State of Texas.
To reimburse the State of Missouri the amount found due underMissouri.*Ante*, p. 57. the act approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and certified to Congress at its present session in House Executive Document numbered four hundred and forty-eight, for moneys expended by it since eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for military services rendered by officers and enlisted men of the Missouri militia in the suppression of the war of the rebellion, nine hundred ninety-six dollars and thirty-six cents.
Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified toClaims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 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 House Executive Document Numbered one hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, there is appropriated, as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state department.State Department. For contingent expenses State Department, seven dollars andContingent expenses. sixty-five cents. For foreign intercourse, as follows:Foreign intercourse.Chargés d’Affaires. For salaries chargés d’affaires ad interim, two hundred and eight dollars and thirty three cents. For contingent expenses foreign missions, fifty-two dollars andContingent expenses missi ns. nineteen cents.
For salaries consular service, thirty-one dollars and sixty-six Consular salaries.cents. 540 For salaries consular officers not citizens, thirty-one dollars and forty-three cents.Consular officers, not citizens. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, three hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-eight cents.American seamen, etc. For contingent expenses United States consulates, three hundred and twelve dollars and thirteen cents.Contingent expenses consulates.
For relief and protection of American seamen, fifty-three dollars and ninety-seven cents.American seamen. For refund of consular notarial fees, one hundred and thirteen dollars.Notarial fees. treasury department.Treasury Department. Internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents.Internal revenue.Collectors. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, one hundred and fourteen dollars.Agents, etc.
For expenses of assessing and collecting internal revenue, ten dollars.Assessing, etc. For redemption of stamps, sixty dollars.Redeeming stamps. For refunding taxes illegally collected, five hundred and fifty-oneRefunding taxes. dollars and sixteen cents. For drawbacks on stills exported, act March first, eighteen hundredDrawback on stills.Vol. 20, p. 260. and seventy-nine, forty dollars. Miscellaneous: For repairs and preservation of public buildings,Miscellaneous.Repairs, public buildings.Janitors, etc. eighteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, fifty-nine dollars and forty cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, seventy-three dollars and seventy-eightFurniture, etc. cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars andFuel, etc. nine cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, one hundred and fifty-sixHeating apparatus. dollars. interior department.Interior Department. For expenses of inspectors General Land Office, one hundred andLand Office, inspectors. eleven dollars and twenty five cents.
Public land service: For salaries and commissions of registersRegisters and receivers. and receivers, thirty-two dollars and twenty cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, two dollars and fiftyContingent. cents. For expenses of depositing public moneys, thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.Depositing moneys. For depredations on public timber, two hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty cents.Timber depredations. For protecting public lands, three hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-five cents.Protecting, etc.
For expenses of hearings in land entries, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-four cents.Hearings. For surveying the public lands, two thousand and sixty-six dollars and eighteen cents.Surveys. For resurveys of the public lands, seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-five cents.Resurveys. For Reimbursement to receivers of public moneys excess of deposits, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents.Reimbursing excess of deposits. For payment to the State of Kansas on account of sales of land,Kansas. one hundred and sixty thousand and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. 541 department of justice.Department of Justice.
For traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska, twenty dollars.Alaska courts. For rent and incidental expenses office of marshal, Territory of Alaska, sixty-four dollars and sixty two cents. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, one hundred dollars.Utah courts.Marshals. For salaries district marshals, thirty dollars and ninety-two cents. For fees and expenses marshals United States courts, ten thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and forty-five cents. For fees of clerks United States courts, four thousand nine hundredClerks. and thirty-eight dollars and sixty five cents.
For fees of commissioners United States courts, two thousand fiveCommissioners. hundred and fifty dollars and ninety cents. For fees of jurors United States courts, seventy nine dollars andJurors. fifteen cents. For fees of witnesses United States courts, two hundred and forty-fourWitnesses. dollars and fifty-five cents. For support of prisoners United States courts, three thousand seven Prisoners.hundred and forty-three dollars and forty three cents. For rent of courtrooms United States courts, one hundred andRent, courtrooms. eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For miscellaneous expenses United States courts, one thousandMiscellaneous. four hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty-five 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, five thousandCollecting customs. two hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty nine cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, sixteen dollars andRepaying importers. thirteen cents.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, one hundred and sixty-six dollars andRepairs, buildings. fifteen cents. For supplies of Lighthouses, eight hundred and fifteen dollars.Lighthouse supplies.Lighthouse keepers. For salaries of keepers of Lighthouses, five dollars and fifty-four cents. For expenses of fog-signals, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,Fog-signals. eleven dollars and fifty cents. For expenses of buoyage, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and twenty-six dollars andBuoyage. sixty-eight cents.
For Lighthouse Establishment, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,Lighthouse establishment. two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty four cents. For Life-Saving Service, one hundred and eighty-one dollars andLife Saving Service. eighty two cents. For salaries and expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, sixteenAlaska seal fisheries. dollars and ninety cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-sevenArmy pay. and prior years, twenty-seven thousand and thirty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, one hundred and seventy-nineMexican volunteers. dollars and forty-three cents. For pay of mounted riflemen (volunteers) under Colonel John C.Mounted volunteers.
Fremont, twenty-five dollars. 542 For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, twenty-threeSuppressing Indian hostilities. dollars and sixty-seven cents. For support of four companies of volunteers mustered into theVolunteers, Camp Scott, Utah. United States service at Camp Scott, Utah, ninety dollars and ninety-six cents. For pay of companies of Texas Mounted Rangers, thirty-seven dollarsTexas Rangers. and forty-three cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation,Twenty per cent. twelve dollars, and thirty cents.
For contingencies of the Army, three hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-oneContingencies. cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, four hundred and seventy dollarsMedical Department. and forty cents. For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, one hundred andCollecting, etc., volunteers. twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. For expenses of recruiting, three dollars and sixty cents.Recruiting. For ordnance service, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred andOrdnance service. nine dollars and ninety cents.
For ordnance service, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine twenty-eight dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT (INDIAN) CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Indian claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For contingencies Indian Department, except the claims of theContingencies, Indian Department Central Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railway Company, one thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-four cents. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, support, one hundred andLawrence, Kansas, school. ten dollars.
For pay of Indian agents, four hundred and seventy-four dollarsAgents. and thirty-one cents. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, one thousandSupport of Indians, Arizona, and New Mexico.Fort Peck Agency. one hundred and thirty-two dollars and nineteen cents. For support of Indians at Fort Peck Agency, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, sixty-eight dollarsSurveying reservations. and five cents.
For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, except theSupplies, etc. claims of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Companies, sixteen dollars and fifty cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, except the claims of theTransportation. Central Pacific Railroad Company, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and five cents. For traveling expenses of Indian inspectors, except the claims ofInspectors. the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad Companies, four dollars and fifty cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. interior department.Interior Department. For Army pensions, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars andArmy pensions. forty-three cents. For fees of examining surgeons, Army pensions, nine dollars andExamining surgeons. twenty-five cents. 543 war departmentWar Department. For subsistence of the Army, two thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars andSubsistence. thirty-nine cents.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one thousandQuartermaster’s supplies. five hundred and ninety-one dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, six thousandIncidental expenses. nine hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-eight cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, except the claimsTransportation. of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and the Southern Pacific Railroad Companies of Arizona, California, and New Mexico, nineteen thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars and seventy cents.
For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainArrears. land-grant railroads, eleven thousand and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-four cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, five hundred andClothing, etc. thirty dollars and eighty-three cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, one thousand nine hundred andHorses. sixty-one dollars and ninety-one cents. For barracks and quarters, two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollarsBarracks, etc. and sixty cents.
For Signal Service transportation, three hundred and sixty-fiveSignal Service.Transportation. dollars and twenty-four cents. For Signal Service, barracks and quarters, two hundred and thirty-three dollarsBarracks, etc. and ten cents. For Signal Service, subsistence, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars.Subsistence. For geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, sixSurveys. dollars and forty-five cents. For military post at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, three hundredFort D.
A. Russell and nine dollars and eighty cents. For military post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, one thousand threeFort Robinson. hundred and thirty dollars and one cent. For national cemeteries, one dollar.National cemeteries. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers,Refund to States raising volunteers. one thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-two cents. For Rogue River Indian war of eighteen hundred and fifty-four,Rogue River Indian war. two hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For gunboats on Western rivers, forty-four dollars and ninety-oneGun-boats, western rivers. cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation, three hundredTwenty per cent. and three dollars and twenty cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers, etc. Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty six, two thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller.
For pay of the Navy, certified claims reported in House ExecutiveNavy pay. Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, for difference between sea and shore duty payReceiving-ship duty. on receiving-ships, which accrued since July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, eleven thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents. For pay of the Navy, certified claims reported in House ExecutiveLongevity claims. Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, allowed under the decisions of the United States Supreme Court in the cases of Mullan, Baker and Cook, act March third, 544 eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and twelve cents.
For pay of the Navy, certified claims reported in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, commencing with number one hundred and forty-one, on page one hundred and thirty-eight, and including number four, on page one hundred and forty of said document, six thousand *Proviso*.Limitation.five hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-six cents: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment of any claims for sea pay on receiving-ships, or for the payment of any claim which may have been allowed under the decisions of the Supreme Court which have been adopted by the accounting officers as a basis for the allowance of said claim which accrued prior to July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
For provisions of the Navy, certified claims reported in HouseProvisions, Navy. Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, as follows: Number one hundred and fifty-six, John Harrington, five dollars and twenty-five cents; number thirty-seven, Charles W. Livermore, seventy dollars and fifty cents; number one hundred and sixteen, Frank M. Perry, one dollar and eighty cents; number fifty-four, Christopher Stem, sixty dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-five *Proviso*.Limitation.cents: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment of any claim for rations on receiving-ships, or for the payment of any claim which may have been allowed under the decisions of the Supreme Court which have been adopted by the accounting officers as a basis for the allowance of said claims which accrued prior to July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
For pay, miscellaneous, five hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy cents.Pay, miscellaneous. For pay, Marine Corps, one thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and sixteen cents.Marine Corps, pay. For repair of barracks, Marine Corps, thirty dollars and ninety cents.Barracks. For contingent, Marine Corps, thirty-two dollars and ten cents.Contingent.Naval Advisory Board. For pay, civilian members Naval Advisory Board, thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, forty dollars and ten cents.Bureau Medicine and Surgery.
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, two hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents.Bureau Equipment and Recruiting. For enlistment bounties to seamen, three thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-nine cents.Enlistment bounties. For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirteen cents.Bounties, destruction of enemies’ vessels. For indemnity for lost clothing, one thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventeen cents.Lost clothing.
For extra pay to officers and men for service on Pacific coast, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy cents.Extra pay, Pacific coast. For relief of the widows and orphans of officers, seamen, and marines lost on the United States sloop Albany, two hundred and forty dollars.“Albany,” crew of. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and three cents.Destroyed clothing. For twenty per centum additional compensation, seven hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty cents.Twenty per cent.
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 United States, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-six cents. 545 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-sevenPos l revenues. and prior years, except the claim numbered nineteen thousand and thirty-two, thirteen thousand three hundred and three dollars and sixty-one cents.
Sec. 4. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of theClaims allowed. Treasury Department, being deficiencies for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, as follows: STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. For contingent expenses of the United States consulates for fiscalContingent expenses, consulates. year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and four cents.
For loss by exchange, consular service for the fiscal year eighteenLoss by exchange, consulates. hundred and eighty-nine, twenty dollars and forty-four cents. treasury department.Treasury Department. For salaries of keepers of Lighthouses for the fiscal year eighteenLight-house keepers. hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and forty dollars. For lighting of rivers for the fiscal year eighteen hundred andLighting rivers. eighty-nine, one hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-three cents. navy department.Navy Department.
For pay of the Navy, on account of difference of pay and otherNavy pay. claims for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-four cents. For pay, miscellaneous: On account of mileage and traveling expensesMiscellaneous. of officers traveling under orders, and so forth, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ninety-three dollars and fifty-three cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:
ForBureau Provisions and Clothing. commutation of rations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty dollars and fifty cents. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-office Department. postal service.Postal service. For inland mail transportation—Railroad, For the fiscal yearRailroad routes. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, payable out of the postal revenues, seventy-eight thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture.
For contingent expenses Department of Agriculture for the fiscalContingent expenses. year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty-two dollars and eighty-five cents. 546 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. expenses of united states courts.United States courts, expenses. For fees and expenses of marshals for fiscal year eighteen hundredMarshals. and eighty-nine, eighteen thousand and forty dollars and forty-five cents. For fees of district attorneys for fiscal year eighteen hundred andAttorneys. eighty-nine, six hundred and ten dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For special compensation to district attorneys for fiscal year eighteenSpecial compensation. hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-eight cents. For fees of clerks for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Clerks. sixty-four dollars and sixty cents. For fees of commissioners for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Commissioners. six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents. For fees of witnesses for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, oneWitnesses. thousand and seventy-two dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For support of prisoners for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Prisoners. six thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and six cents. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, for fiscal year eighteen hundred andBailiffs, etc. eighty-nine, one hundred and one dollars and seventy cents. For miscellaneous expenses for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, twoMiscellaneous. thousand six hundred and one dollars and forty four cents. For expenses United States court, Indian Territory, for fiscal year eighteenIndian Territory court. hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-six cents.
Sec. 5. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toCertified claims. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of Vol. 18, p. 110.the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, as set forth in Senate Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and eleven, Fifty first Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. State Department.State Department. Foreign intercourse, as follows:Foreign intercourse.Ministers. For salaries of ministers, eight hundred and one dollars and twenty cents. For contingent expenses foreign missions, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-two cents.Contingent expensed, missions. For salaries, consular service, four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents.Consular salaries.
For loss by exchange, consular service, forty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents.Loss by exchange, consulates. For buildings and grounds for legation in China, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and five cents.Buildings, etc., China. For contingent expenses United States consulates, four hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty-six cents.Contingent expenses, consulates. For relief and protection of American seamen, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels andAmerican seamen. seamen, twenty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. 547 Treasury Department.Treasury Department.
For salaries, office of Third Auditor, three hundred and sixty-twoThird Auditor’s office, salaries. dollars and eighty-eight cents. Internal revenue, as follows: For refunding taxes illegally collected, thirty-one thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty-three cents.Internal revenue.Refunding taxes. For drawbacks on stills exported, act March first, eighteen hundredDrawbacks on stills.Vol. 20, p.342. and seventy-nine, sixty dollars. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalAgents’ salaries, etc. revenue, sixteen dollars and eighteen-seven cents.
Miscellaneous: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, twenty-four dollarsCustodians, etc. and thirty-five cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, seven dollars andPublic buildings.Fuel, etc. fifty-three cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, twenty-seven dollarsFurniture, etc. and forty-seven cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, thirty-nine dollars andRepairs, etc. ninety-three cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, seven dollars andHeating apparatus. fifty-five cents.
For international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution (except claimsSmithsonian Institution.International exchanges. numbered fifty-six thousand six hundred and seven, fifty-six thousand six hundred and eight, fifty-six thousand seven hundred and ten, and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and eleven), one dollar and five cents. For contingent expenses, independent treasury, four hundred andIndependent Treasury. forty-two dollars and seventy cents. For contingent expenses, mint at Denver, two hundred and thirty-oneDenver, Colo., mint. dollars and twenty-four cents.
For legislative expenses, Territory of Montana,Montana. seven hundred and fifty dollars. For salaries, governor, and so forth, Territory of Alaska, one thousandAlaska. three hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-eight cents. Interior Department.Interior Department. For Geological Survey (except claims numbered two hundred andGeological Survey. seventy-three thousand eight hundred and ninety eight and two hundred and seventy-three thousand nine hundred), forty-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents.
For expense of hearings in land entries, eight dollars and twenty-two Public lands.Hearings.cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, ten dollars and forty-fourContingent, land offices. cents. For expense of depositing public moneys, one dollar and one cent.Depositing moneys.Registers and receivers. For salaries and commission of registers and receivers, forty-four dollars and fifty-seven cents. For surveying the public lands, thirty thousand three hundredSurveys. and sixty-three dollars and eighty-three cents.
For resurveys of the public lands, one thousand six hundred andResurveys. twenty-four dollars and six cents. For surveying private land claims in New Mexico, five hundredNew Mexico, private-land claims. and thirty-six dollars and eighteen cents. For Reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess ofRe-imbursing receivers. deposits, ten dollars and eighty-two cents. For payment to Colorado on account of sales of land, seventy-eightSale of lands.Colorado. thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
For payment to Michigan on account of sales of land, four thousandMichigan. nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-nine cents. 548 For payment to Nebraska on account of sales of land, one hundredNebraska. and eleven thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and eight cents. Department of Justice.Department of Justice. For pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts, oneUnited States courts.Assistant attorneys. hundred and eight dollars. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, thirteenSpecial assistants. thousand nine hundred and two dollars and sixty-two cents.
For special compensation of district attorneys, United StatesSpecial compensation. courts, three thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and three cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, one hundred and nineClerks. dollars and twenty-five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, thirty dollarsWitnesses. and eighty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, two hundred andCommissioners. twelve dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, one hundred andMiscellaneous. eighty-seven dollars and sixty 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, seven thousandCollecting customs. nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and six cents. For Life-Saving Service, four hundred and seventy-eight dollars andLife-Saving Service. sixty-one cents. For repairs of Lighthouses, ten dollars and nineteen cents.Light-houses. For Marine-Hospital Service, ninety-nine cents.Marine Hospital service.Lighting, etc., rivers.
For lighting and buoyage of rivers, forty-eight dollars and eighteen cents. For expenses of light-vessels, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.Light-vessels. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. claims allowed by the second auditor and second comptroller.Claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-sevenArmy pay. and prior years, eleven thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and thirty-nine cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand three hundred and forty dollars and three cents.
For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, two hundred and eighty-eightVolunteers, Mexican war. dollars and twelve cents. For traveling expenses of First Michigan Cavalry, two hundred First Michigan Cavalry.dollars and seventy cents. For pay of Military Academy, three dollars and thirty-nine cents.Military Academy. For Signal Service pay, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred andSignal Service.Pay. one dollars and nine cents. For Signal Service, medical department, eighteen dollars andMedical department. ninety-five cents.
For contingencies of the Army, three hundred and six dollars andContingencies. fifty-six cents. For medical and hospital department, two hundred and nine dollarsMedical, etc., Department. and seventy cents. 549 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. claims allowed by the second auditor and second comptroller.Claims allowed by Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For contingencies Indian Department, one hundred and fifty-threeIndian Department.Contingencies. dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For incidentals in California, three hundred and ninety dollarsIncidental expenses.California, Dakota, New Mexico and Utah. and forty cents; Dakota, fifty dollars; New Mexico, including employees and support and civilization, four dollars: Utah, including employees and support and civilization, eight dollars. For Indian schools, support, twenty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents.Schools. For pay of Indian agents, one hundred and twenty-three dollarsAgents. and fifty-eight cents.
For support of Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans, twelveMiscellaneous supports. dollars; Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, sixteen dollars. Chippewas of Lake Superior, eight dollars. Chippewas of Red Lake and Pembina, ten dollars. Confederated bands of Utes, beneficial objects, eighteen dollars. Gros Ventres in Montana, twelve dollars. Indians of Fort Peck Agency, thirty-two dollars. Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, seventy-four dollars. Modocs in the Indian Territory, two dollars.
Nez Perces of Joseph’s band, fourteen dollars. Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, clothing, sixteen dollars. Shoshones, clothing, eighteen dollars. Shoshones in Nevada, fourteen dollars. Sioux of different tribes, clothing, four hundred and forty-six dollars. Sioux of Lake Traverse, fourteen dollars. For survey of Indian reservations, one thousand seven hundredSurvey of reservations. dollars and eighteen cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, two thousandSurvey, allotting, etc. seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents.
For transportation of Indian supplies, twenty-three dollars andTransporting supplies. twelve cents. claims allowed by the third auditor and second comptroller.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. For Army pensions, seventy-three dollars and sixty cents.Army pensions.Examining surgeons. For fees of examining surgeons, four dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. claims allowed by the third auditor and second comptroller.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller.
For subsistence of the Army, four thousand eight hundredSubsistence. and eighty-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundredQuartermaster’s department.Supplies.Incidental expenses. and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents. For incidental expenses Quartermaster’s Department (except two claims in settlement numbered ninety-six thousand seven hundred and forty-six and claim numbered ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven), one thousand and seventy-four dollars and forty-five cents. 550 For transportation of the Army and its supplies (except claimsTransportation. numbered one hundred and one thousand six hundred and one, one hundred and one thousand six hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and two thousand nine hundred and eleven, one hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and six thousand four hundred and ninety-eight, and one hundred and five thousand six hundred and sixty-three), one hundred and three thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-five cents.
For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainArrears. land-grant railroads, three hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, two dollars.Clothing, etc.Horses. For horses for cavalry and artillery, one thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-five cents. For barracks and quarters, two thousand seven hundred and nineBarracks, etc. dollars. For Signal Service transportation (except claim numbered one hundredSignal Service transportation. and one thousand and ninety-four), ninety-six dollars and twelve cents.
For gunboats on Western rivers, seventy-five dollars and forty-twoGun-boats, Western rivers. cents. For contingencies of fortifications, two thousand six hundred andFortifications. eighty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents. For contingencies of fortifications, to adjust the accounts of JohnJohn C. Fremont.Adjusting accounts. C. Fremont, Major-General United States Army, to be credited in his accounts, involving the payment of no money from the Treasury, seventy-four thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents.
For observation and report of storms (except claims numberedSignal Service.Observation and report of storms. ninety-five thousand four hundred and sixty-three, ninety-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, ninety-two thousand five hundred and fifty-seven, ninety-five thousand and eighty-four, ninety thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine, ninety thousand six hundred and fourteen, ninety-seven thousand and thirteen, ninety-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, ninety-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, ninety-two thousand nine hundred and forty-three, ninety thousand six hundred and twenty-five, ninety thousand one hundred and fifty-five, ninety-two thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, ninety-one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven, and ninety-one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight), nine thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and seventy cents.
For improvement Saint Francis River, Arkansas, thirty-fourSaint Francis River, Ark. cents. For construction and repair of hospitals, seven dollars and twentyHospitals. cents. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers,Refund to States for volunteers. act July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as follows: Ohio.To the State of Ohio, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation, five hundred andTwenty per cent. thirty-six dollars and seventy-one cents.
For pay, transportation, service, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers. Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fourteen cents. For pay of claims adjudicated by board of officers, act of AugustJohn C. Fremont.Payment to.Vol 19, p. 108. thirty-first eighteen hundred and fifty-two, in the case of John C. Fremont, Major-General United States Army, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty-nine cents.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, fifty-fourHorse claims, etc. thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-three cents. 551 NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. claims allowed by the fourth auditor and second comptroller.Claims allowed by the Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of the Navy, other than claims for sea pay for servicesNavy pay. on receiving ships, ten thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-six cents.
For pay of the Navy, allowed under the decision of the UnitedLongevity. States Supreme Court in the case of Rockwell, Mullan, Baker, and Cook, fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and eight cents. For pay of the Navy, for difference between sea and shore dutyReceiving-ship duty. pay on receiving ships, which accrued since July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Strong, five thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, eight hundred and forty-four dollars andMiscellaneous. sixty-nine cents. For contingent Navy, two dollars.Contingent.Marine Corps, pay. For pay of the Marine Corps, three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents. For contingent Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting four hundredBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. and eighty-four dollars and ninety-two cents. For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, three hundredBounty, destruction of enemies’ vessels. and one dollars and twenty-six cents.
For payment on account of clothing and bedding destroyed byDestroyed clothing order for sanitary purposes, ninety-four dollars and ninety-seven cents. For extra pay to officers and men who served in the Pacific,Extra pay, Pacific coast. allowed under act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventeen cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, nine hundred and ninety-six dollars Lost clothing.and sixty-six cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation allowed underTwenty per cent.Vol. 14, p. 509. joint resolution, February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, ten thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-seven cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, seven thousand two hundredEnlistment bounty. and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-two 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 case of Graham versus The United States, forty one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-three cents. For provisions, Marine Corps, two hundred and thirty-one dollarsProvisions, Marine Corps. and twenty-seven cents.
For provisions, Navy, thirty-four dollars and fifty-five cents.Provisions, Navy. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eighty-eightPostal revenues. and prior years, seven thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-seven cents. Approved, September 30, 1890. Chapter 1127: to provide for the sale of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas. Chapter 1127 26 Stat. 552 1890-09-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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