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CHAP. 540.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal .year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for prior years, and for other purposes.March 3, 1891. *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-one, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE.Executive. For contingent expenses Executive Office, including stationeryExecutive office. Contingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses and harness, one thousand five hundred dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 540. 1891.863 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Salaries, Charges d’Affairs, ad Interim:
To pay amounts Salaries, charges 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 ninety, two thousand two hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty-five cents. 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 ninety, seventeen thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-one cents.
Salaries, Consular Officers not Citizens; To pay amountsConsular 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 ninety, four thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five 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 ninety, six thousand and five hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-three cents.
Loss by Exchange, Diplomatic Service: For loss by exchangeLoss by exchange. Diplomatic service. in remittances of money to and from legations, six thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of loss by exchange, diplomatic service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on Account of loss by exchange, diplomatic service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, sixteen dollars and eighty cents.
Loss by Exchange, Consular Service: For actual cost andLoss by exchange. Consular service. expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and consulates general, three thousand dollars. 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 ninety, three hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers, ,011 account of loss by exchange consular service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, sixteen dollars and sixty-one cents.
Relief of Johann Zeckert and Son and others: To enableJohann Zeckert and Son et al. Payment to. the Secretary of State to pay the claims of Johann Zeckert and Son and others named in House Executive Document One hundred and eighty-nine, Fifty-first Congress, second session, for goods sent to the New Orleans Exposition, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight dollars and seventy-four cents. International American Conference: For printing and distributingInternational American Conference.
Printing. reports and proceedings of the International American Conference, fifteen thousand dollars. Publication of Customs Tariffs: To meet the share of thePublication of customs tariff. Annual expense. United States in annual expense for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two of sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariff, one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents. 864 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department.
Sixth Auditor’s Office: For the purchase of metallic files casesSixth Auditor’s office. File eases. for the tiling of books, money orders, and postal notes, in the new money-order building erected for the money-order branch of the office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of furniture, carpets, or other suitable floorFurniture,, etc. coverings for the rooms and halls of said building, ten thousand dollars. For compensation of the following employees in the office of theAdditional employees. money-order division of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department during the months of May and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, namely:
For two firemen, at sixty dollars per month each; one elevator conductor, at sixty dollars per month; one laborer, at fifty-five dollars per month; and three charwomen, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, five hundred and ninety dollars. Tugboat A. F. Walcott: To reimburse the owners of the tugboat,“A. F. Walcott.” Reimbursement to owners. A. F. Walcott for the expenses incurred by them in repairing the injuries sustained by that vessel in a collision with the United States tug Catalpa in the East River, New York, June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, five hundred and ten dollars; and for compensation for the detention of the vessel while undergoing such repairs, twelve days, at forty dollars per day, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all. nine hundred and ninety dollars.
Fishing Schooner Lucy Ann: For payment to Samuel Haskell,“Lucy Ann.” Payment to Samuel Haskell. of East Gloucester, Massachusetts, for damage to the fishing schooner Lucy Ann by the United States Fish Commission schooner Grampus, caused by collision in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, on December fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-five dollars. Independent Treasury: To pay the amount found due by theIndependent Treasury. Northern Pacific Express Company. accounting officers to the Northern Pacific Express Company for transportation, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty-eight cents.
To pay the amount found due by the accounting officers to QuincyQuincy A. Brooks. Payment to. A. Brooks, late collector of customs, Puget Sound, Washington, on account of transportation of public funds, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-eight dollars and forty cents. For the following employees in the office of the assistant treasurerNew York. Employees, assistant treasurer’s office. at New York during the remainder of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, namely:
Two clerks, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum; four clerks, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum: two clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum; and two messengers, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum; in all, three thousand seven hundred and five dollars. public buildings.Public buildings. For courthouse and post office at Atlanta. Georgia: For completionAtlanta. Ga. of heating apparatus and for additional repairs and painting, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For post office at Saint Joseph, Missouri; For completion of clockSaint Joseph, Mo. in the tower, six hundred dollars. For post office and courthouse at Auburn, New York: For completionAuburn, N. Y. of building and approaches, ten thousand dollars. For enlarging improving and completing the public building atDallas, Tex. Dallas, Texas, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for said building, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 865 For post office at Richmond, Kentucky:
For purchase of site and Richmond, Ky.completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office, Augusta, Georgia: For heatingAugusta, Ga. and ventilating apparatus, two thousand dollars; For courthouse and post office, Binghamton, New York: For completionBinghamton, N. Y. of approaches and to adjust certain contract liabilities, three thousand dollars. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. For wages of workmen, assay office at Helena, Montana, sevenHelena, Mont. hundred and one dollars and fifty cents. internal revenue.Internal Revenue.
For expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of the act ofSugar bounty. October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, relative to the bounty*Ante*, p. 583. on sugar, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees andAgents’ salaries, etc. expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and miscellaneous expenses, one hundred thousand dollars. For paper for internal revenue stamps, freight, and salary ofPaper for stamps, etc. superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, five thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for punishment forPunishing violation of laws. violation of the internal-revenue laws for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, five hundred dollars. light-house establishment.Lighthouse establishment. For supplies of lighthouses for the fiscal year eighteen hundredSupplies. and eighty-nine, two hundred and forty-four dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. To reimburse George Davidson, assistant.
Coast and GeodeticGeorge Davidson. Reimbursement. Survey, for expenses incurred by him as American delegate to the general conference of the International Geodetic Association held at Paris, France, in October, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the sum of fifty-one dollars and twenty eight cents. For payment of balance due the Huntington and Hopkins Company,Huntington and Hopkins Company. Payment to. of San Francisco, California, for material supplied in the construction of the new boiler for the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer McArthur, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, sixty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents, Office Expenses:
For the purchase of new instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions, seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. For copperplates, chart-paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for extra engraving and drawing: and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone, and copper for immediate use. one hundred and twenty-rive dollars, For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture. repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, fifty dollars.
Office of Construction of Standard Weights and Measures:Standard weights and measures, materials. For purchase of materials and apparatus, and incidental expenses, four hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty cents. 866 under the smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution. To meet custom duties on glass, tin, and other dutiable articlesNational Museum. Customs duties on materials. and supplies imported for the United States National Museum, one thousand dollars. To pay the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company,Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company.
Freight. amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, sixty-six cents. fish commission.Fish Commission. For the maintenance of the vessels and steam launches of the Maintenance of vessels.United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, and machinery required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, ten thousand dollars. interstate commerce commission.Interstate Commerce Commission.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to properly carryExpenses. out the objects of the “act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and amended March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, during the fiscal year, twenty-five thousand dollars. government in the territories.Government in the Territories. Territory of Arizona: For salary of an additional associate Additional judge, Arizona.justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Arizona, provided for by the act of February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (public, number seventy-five), from date of qualification to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, so much therefor as may be necessary. miscellaneous objects, treasury.Miscellaneous.
Contingent Expenses. Treasury Department: Purchase ofContingent expenses. carpets, carpet bonier and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, laying and relaying of same, by contract, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase of boxes, book-rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, deficiencies, on account of fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one thousand five hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, seven dollars and sixty cents. For washing and hemming towels; for the purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine. varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather; lye, nails, oil. plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of the same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels towel-racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals, and for sale at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury, payment of auction fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, one thousand dollars. 867 To pay amounts found clue by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of contingent expenses Treasury Department, binding, newspapers, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, seventeen dollars and eighty-six cents.
Treasury Building: For repairs to Treasury and Winder buildings.Repairs to budding. four thousand dollars. Fuel, Lights, and Water: For fuel, lights, water, and miscellaneousPublic building. Fuel, etc. items for public buildings, fifty thousand dollars. Furniture: For furniture, and repairs to furniture for publicFurniture, etc. buildings, as follows: For courthouse and post office. Bridgeport, Connecticut; courthouseBridgeport, Conn. and post office, Brooklyn. New York; courthouse and postBrooklyn, N.
Y. office Dayton, Ohio; customhouse, Key West, Florida; courthouseDayton, Ohio. Key West, Flu. Louisville, Ky. Pittsburgh, Pa. Ellis Island, N. Y. Asheville, N. C. Statesville, N. C. and post office, Louisville, Kentucky; courthouse and post office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; immigration buildings. Ellis Island, New York; courthouse and post office. Asheville, North Carolina, and courthouse and post office, Statesville, North Carolina, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: and all furniture now owned by Hie United States in other buildings shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not.
For work done by E. F. Gobel, in altering Post office screens andE. F. Gobel. Payment to. counters in the post office and custom house building in Chicago. Illinois, one thousand and ninety-six dollars and sixty-eight cents Collecting Revenue from Customs: To defray the expenses ofCollecting customs revenue. collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five hundred thousand dollars.
And the salary of the appraiser of merchandise at theSalary of appraiser, New York. Port of New York shall hereafter be six thousand dollars. Payment to City of Louisville, Kentucky: For payment toLouisville, Ky. Payment to. the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the amount found due, under the act of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and*Ante*, p. 157. ninety, and reported to Congress in House Executive Document numbered two hundred and sixty, of the present session, forty-two thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and three cents.
Relief of Treasury of the United States: That the SecretaryTreasurer. Credit in accounts for losses at San Francisco. Cal. of the Treasury and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the Treasurer of the United States the sum of ten thousand dollars now carried in the accounts of the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco and in the general account of the Treasurer of the United States as unavailable funds, and representing losses incurred in the office without default or negligence on the part of the assistant treasurer at San Francisco, said sum being the amount carried in the statement of the Treasurer of the United States in his annual report for the year eighteen hundred and ninety as unavailable funds, office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco.
And for this purpose the said sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Protecting Seal and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska: For publishingAlaska. Proclamation, etc., seal and salmon fisheries. the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheries of Behring Sea and for protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Vol. 25, p. 1009. “to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses in carrying out lease of, and protecting seal life on. islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sectionsR.
S., secs. 1959, 1971, pp. 844, 3443. nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one, Revised Statutes, seven hundred and fifty dollars. 868 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District ot Columbia. That the action of the Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaCertain building permits ratified. in heretofore granting permits for the extension of any building or buildings, or any part or parts thereof, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, beyond the building line, and upon the streets and avenues of said city, is hereby ratified, without prejudice, however, to the legal rights of the Government in the event Approval of future permits.of the destruction by fire, or otherwise, of any such structure.
And hereafter no such permits shall be granted except upon special application and with the concurrence of all of said Commissioners, and the approval of the Secretary of War. Contingent Expenses: To enable the register of wills to completeContingent expenses. the reproduction of the old administration and guardian dockets of his office, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For printing, expenses of parades, inspections, and rifle practice,Militia. and other current expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars;
For clearing camp grounds, building rifle range, water supply, water barrels, camp supplies, subsistence supplies, horses, laborers, cooks, and incidental expenses, three thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars; For freight and transportation, six hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty-five cents; For labor and teams breaking camp, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars and thirty-five cents. For enforcement of the provisions of an act entitled “Au act toContagious diseases act.
Enforcement expenses. *Ante*, p. 691. prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of blumbia” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to be immediately available, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Police Court: To pay witness fees, three thousand dollars.Police court. To pay S. C. Mills compensation for acting as judge of the police court during the absence of said judge, seven days, at ten dollars per day, seventy dollars;
Public Schools: For contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.Public schools. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, as follows: Assessor’s Office: To pay the recorder of deeds balance due onAssessor’s office. his account for furnishing record of transfers from January to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two dollars and fifty-two cents. Attorney’s Office: For contingent expenses, six dollars and fiftyAttorney’s office. cents.
Improvements and Repairs: To pay the Barber Asphalt PavingImprovement and repairs. Bartier Asphalt Paving Company. Company balance due for work on streets, under contract numbered one thousand one hundred and sixty-one, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and seventeen cents. Streets: To pay John Dugan balance due on his account for workStreets. John Dugan. on Massachusetts avenue extended, under contract numbered one thousand and eighty-five, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-six cents.
To pay the Brandywine Granite Company balance retained onBrandywine Granite Company. payments under contract numbered one thousand and seventy, four hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-two cents. To pay E. G. Wheeler for hinges, ten cents. Public Schools: To pay Kennedy Brothers for fuel, fifty-onePublic schools. dollars and forty-six cents. For contingent expenses; three hundred and forty-two dollars and three cents. For material for instruction in manual training three hundred and two dollars and five cents. 869 Fire Department:
To pay Johnson Brothers for fuel, fourteenFire department. dollars and eighteen cents. Police Court; To pay witness fees, per bills on file in the officePolice court. of the auditor and others known to be outstanding, six hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents. Miscellaneous Expenses: For printing, checks, damages, forage.Miscellaneous. and care of horses, fife hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal yearDeficiencies, 1889. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as follows:
Assessor’s Office: To pay the recorder of deeds for furnishingAssessor’s office. record of transfers of real estate from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and ten dollars and seventy-two cents. Engineer’s Office: For contingent expenses, six dollars.Engineer’s office. Expenses of Assessing Real Property: To pay the WashingtonAssessing real property. Post Company for advertising, fifteen dollars and forty cents. To pay Evening Star Newspaper Company for advertising, sixteen dollars and fifty cents.
To pay T. B. Shoemaker. F. P. Hackney. E. Nash, and T. L. Cropley, twenty dollars each; to pay A. F. Barker, W. T. Bright, T. B. Kalbfus, and John A. Rheem, twenty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and eighty dollars. Public Schools: For contingent expenses, twenty dollars and ten cents.Public schools. Police Court: To pay J. B. Bryan and Brother, for soap, fifty-ninePolice court. cents. To pay witness fees, per bills on file in the office of the auditor and others known to be outstanding, sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
Miscellaneous Expends: For general advertising, thirty-twoMiscellaneous. dollars and fifty-nine cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal yearDeficiencies. 1888. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: Streets: To pay John Miller for fuel, two dollars and four cents.Streets. Public Schools: For contingent expenses, one dollar and fortyPublic schools. cents. Public Pumps: To pay E. G. Wheeler, for marline, five dollars,Pumps. on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
Completion of Sewerage System: To pay E. G. Wheeler forSewers. nails, sixty-two cents, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Payment of Judgments: For payment of judgments against the Judgments against D. C.District of Columbia, as follows: To Anglo-American Insurance Company, twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To Peter H. Hill, six hundred dollars, together with thirty-seven dollars and forty cents costs: To the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, threeWashington and Georgetown Railroad Company to pay judgment or forfeit charter. hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifteen cents costs; and the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, of the District of Columbia, shall pay to the District of Columbia, within eighteen months from the approval of this act, the full amount of the judgment that was rendered against the said company by the supreme court of the District of Columbia at the suit of the said District, in cause number twenty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-seven, at law, on the dockets of said court, with the cost of said cause and interest on said amount from the date said judgment was rendered until paid, and that upon the failure of the said company so to pay said amount, costs, and interest within the time aforesaid, the charter of the said company shall become forfeit, and all its rights, 870 privileges, and franchises as a body corporate shall cease and determine:Judgments against D, C.—Continued.
Metropolitan railroad Company to pay judgment or forfeit charter. And the Metropolitan Railroad Company of the District of Columbia shall pay to the District of Columbia within eighteen months from the approval of this act the full amount of the judgment that was rendered against the said company by the supreme court of the District of Columbia at the spit of the said District, in cause numbered twenty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-eight, at law, on the dockets of said court, with the costs of said cause and interest on said amount from the date said judgment was rendered until paid, and that upon the failure of the said company so to pay said amount, costs, and interest within the time aforesaid the charter of said company shall become forfeit, and all its rights, privileges, and franchises as a body corporate shall cease and determine.
To S. Preston Moses, junior, five hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, together with nine dollars and ten cents costs; To John T. Schaaf, four hundred dollars, together with eight dollars and eighty-five cents costs; To Samuel S. Edmonston, six hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and ten cents costs; To Warrington C. King, six hundred dollars, together with nine dollars costs: To Mary Pike, administratrix, six hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and thirty-five cents costs;
To Frank Popplein, four hundred dollars, together with eighteen dollars and thirty-five cents costs; To George L. Muth, two hundred and fifty dollars, together with seventeen dollars and seventy cents costs; To Martin J. Brandmiller, two hundred dollars, together with seventeen dollars and seventy cents costs; To William A. Yates and Company, one thousand dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To William F. Brookes, six hundred dollars, together with seven dollars and seventy cents costs;
To Phillips Brothers and Company, four hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and sixty cents costs; To Herman A. Seligson, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To Theodore Friebus, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To Frank A MacNichol, two hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To Morris Price, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs;
To Arnold, Constable and Company, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars costs; James W. McKee, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and seventy-five cents costs; John S. McCeney, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and seventy-five cents costs; John A. Downs, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs; Samuel Lindheimer. four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs: James C. Addison, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs:
Samuel Gauss, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs; John M. Follen, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and sixty-five cents costs; Thomas C. Thompson, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars cost; 871 Robert S. Fletcher, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollarsJudgments against D. C.—Continued. costs; Harry King, four hundred dollars, together with ten dollars and twenty-five cents costs Abraham King, two hundred dollars, together with eight dollars and ninety-five, cents costs;
To the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To Edward S. Lacey, Commissioner Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents, together with one hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-five cents costs; To the First National Bank of New York, seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents, together with two hundred and one dollars and ninety-five cents costs; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-one cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgment as provided by law from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
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. 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-six dollars and sixty-five cents.
For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-one dollars and sixty cents. For general expenses fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. For stationery for the War Department (Record and PensionStationery. Division), ten thousand five hundred dollars. Buildings and Grounds in and around Washington: For introducingBuildings and grounds. D. C. Executive Mansion electric lights. electric lamps and wires into the Executive Mansion and connecting the same by underground cable-with the source of electricity, five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Military Establishment.Military establishment. Quartermaster’s Department.Quartermaster’s department. Transportation of the Army and its Supplies: TransportationTransportation. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from Army depots or place of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for transportation of signal officers or parties, and their equipments, instruments, stores and supplies, when ordered by proper authority for military purposes only: freights, wharfage, 872 tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation and employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army; the expense of sailing transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water and introducing the same into buildings; for the disposal of sewage and drainage; for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operation of troops in the field; for the transportation of discharged military prisoners to their places of enlistment; for Payment of 50 per cent, to land-grant roads.the payment of transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of the service be paid:*Provisos*. *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by Payment to railroads receiving lands but not bond-aided.this act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of tire United States and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroad, shall only be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoingMay receive 60 per cent. provision, such rate not to exceed sixty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to he and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:Computing rates. *Provided further*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such services, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand and sixteen dollars and eighty-six cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryPacific railroads. on account of transportation of the Army and its supplies, except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eighty-five thousand five hundred and seven dollars and twenty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of transportation of the Army and its supplies, except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirteen dollars and sixty cents.
That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directedPay of certain retired officers not to be withheld. not to suspend or withhold the pay of any retired officer of the Army whose name was upon the retired list prior to the passage of Vol. 18, p. 512.the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and having lost an arm or leg, or having an arm or leg permanently disabled by reason of resection on account of wounds or having lost both eyes by reason of wounds received in battle has been retained 873 upon said list by the Secretary of War in obedience to the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five notwithstanding such officer accepted and held a diplomatic or consular office.
Shooting Galleries: To reimburse the Quartermaster’s Department Shooting ranges, etc.the amount found due by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for shooting galleries and ranges for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and five cents. To reimburse the Quartermaster’s Department the amount foundColumbus, Ohio. Military post. due the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for the officers’ quarters, military post at Columbus, Ohio, four hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety cents.
Regular Supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s department,Supplies. consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same; for heating offices and barracks and quarters; of ranges, stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sales to officers; for the equipments of bake houses to carry on post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipments for the post schools; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls; and for garden utensils and agricultural implements for post gardens, each and all for use of the enlisted men of the Army; of forage in kind, including its protection, for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry; the batteries of artillery and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing division and department orders and reports: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in printing unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in cases where the emergency will not admit of giving notice for competition, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
Incidental Expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on officialIncidental expenses. business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for period of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts, and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department; for the apprehension, securing, and delivery of deserters and the expense incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit;
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ 874 tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movement and operation of the Army, and at military posts not expressly assigned to any other department: *Provided*, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside tor the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days in the Quartermaster’s Department; but no such payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed at the work done therein, nine thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifteen cents.
Horses for Cavalry and Artillery: Purchase of horses forHorses. the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service, and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War, seventy thousand dollars.
Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage: Cloth, wolens, materials,Clothing, camp, and garrison equipage. and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary: for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar *Proviso*.necessaries: *Provided*, That out of the money hereby and heretofore appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army for the Limit for military prison.fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, there shall not be expended at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and two dollars and eighteen cents.
Burial of Indigent Soldiers: For expense of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers. Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to he disbursed by the Secretary of War at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, five hundred dollars. subsistence department.Subsistence Department.
Purchase of Subsistence Supplies: For issue, as rations toSupplies. troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, contract surgeons, hospital matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), estimated for the fiscal year on the basis of ten million two hundred and thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army: for authorized extra issues of candles, and salt and vinegar for public animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts.
For payments: For cooked rations for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationary, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for bake-ovens 875 at posts and in the field, and repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies tor the Army.
For the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance-sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can be economically issued to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department, division, and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, two hundred thousand dollars.
To pay Julius Stahel the amount found due him by judgment renderedJulius Stahel. Payment to. in the Court of Claims, five thousand one hundred and ninety dollars medical department.Medical Department. For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutationArtificial limbs, etc. therefor, and necessary transportation, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service. Pay: That the appropriation for the pay of the fourteen secondPay of officers. lieutenants of the Signal Corps in the Sundry Civil act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby made available for the pay, regular supplies, and allowances of one major, four captains, and four first lieutenants, appointed in the Signal Corps under act of Congress approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety.
For amounts due by law to enlisted men of Signal Corps and discharge,Enlisted men. sixty-four thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents. Observation and Report of Storms: For the expenses of theObservation and report of storms. removal of offices and the re-erection of instruments, nine hundred dollars. For maps and bulletins, eight hundred and ten dollars.Maps and bulletins. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Mississippi River Commission: For salaries of the MississippiMississippi River Commission.
River Commission from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety, to September eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, inclusive, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That in acquiring*Proviso*. land for the enlargement of the Military Post at Plattsburgh, NewEnlarging post, Plattsburgh, N. Y. York, as provided for by the act of Congress approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the Secretary of War is*Ante*, p. 734. authorized to proceed in accordance with section four, five, and sixVol. 14, p. 400. of the act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An act to establish and protect National Cemeteries,” but all costs and expenses incurred in procuring said site shall be paid by the Citizens of New York furnishing such site as provided in said act of February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: ContinuingState, etc., homes, disabled soldiers. the aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, being a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, 876 eighty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty two dollars and forty-two cents. Arms for Wyoming: For furnishing arms and quartermaster’sWyoming. Arms, etc., to militia. stores to the State of Wyoming for the equipment of its militia Vol. 54, p. 401.under the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, to provide arms and equipment for the militia, five thousand sixty hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. naval establishment.Naval establishment. To be reimburse “General account of advances.” created by the actReimbursement in accounts. Vol. 20, p. 107. of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight (twenty Statutes, one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named, in excess of the sum appropriated therefor the fiscal year 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 ninety, thirty fourPay. thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and sixty six cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-sixMiscellaneous. thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty eight cents; For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighteen hundredMarine Corps. and ninety, one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty two cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundredBureau of Ordnance. and two dollars and two cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundredBureau of provisions and Clothing. and ninety, eighteen thousand and forty dollars and seven cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, four thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and nine cents: For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, fourContingent. thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and six cents; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteenBureau of Medicine and Surgery. hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-six dollars and ninety-eight cents:
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nineteen dollars and thirty five cents; For navigation and navigation supplies, Bureau of Navigation,Bureau of Navigation. eighteen hundred and eighty nine, eighteen dollars and eighty eight cents; For ocean surveys, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars andOcean surveys. twenty eight cents; in all, eighty-nine thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty nine cents. Pay of the Navy;
To pay amounts found due by the accountingPay. Longevity, etc. officers on account of difference of pay and arrears at date of death, under “Pay, Navy,” being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ninety-three dollars and seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for expensesTravel. of travel performed by officers under orders, under appropriation “Pay miscellaneous,” being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, fifty three dollars and sixty five cents.
Marine Corps: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officersMarine Corps. on account, of freight and transportation, under transportation and recruiting, Marine Cows, and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight, under appropriation “Contingent, Marine Corps,” being for the serv- 877 ice of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and nineteen dollars and eight cents.
Bureau of Navigation: To pay reservation on contract made byBureau of Navigation. Rowland A. Robbins. the Paymaster-General of the Navy with Rowland A, Robbins, dated September thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, for log lines signal halliards, and so forth, furnished to Mare Island navy yard, one hundred and twenty five dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay the amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight,Freight. under appropriation “Contingent, navigation,”and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eighty-three dollars and twenty six cents.
Bureau of Ordnance: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationBureau of Ordnance. for the contingent service of the Bureau of Ordnance for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight, under appropriation “Contingent, Ordnance,” and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and sixty dollars and seventy-two cents. Bureau of Equipment:
To pay amounts found due by theBureau of Equipment. accounting officers for freight, under appropriation “Contingent, Equipment,” and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, three hundred and sixty-six dollar’s and six cents. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: To pay an amount foundBureau of Medicine and Surgery. due by the accounting officers for medical attendance, under appropriations “Medical Department,” and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, twenty-five dollars and fifty four cents.
Bureau of Provision and Clothing: To pay amounts foundBureau of Provisions and Clothing. due by the accounting officers for the commutation of rations, under “Provision, Navy,” being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four dollar’s. Increase of the Navy: Toward the construction and completionIncrease of the Navy. New vessels, etc. of the new vessels heretofore authorized by Congress, with their engines, boilers, and machinery; being the amount required to carry on work on said vessels, one million dollars.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed toJoseph A. Smith. Relieved from charge of provisions. charge to the appropriations for provisions for the Navy for the years eighteen hundred and eighty three, eighteen hundred and eighty four, and eighteen hundred and eighty five, and for clothing for the Navy, the various sums amounting to sixty-five thousand seven hundred and forty two dollars and one cent, paid by disbursing officers by direction of Pay Inspector Joseph A.
Smith when Paymaster-General, and to relieve said Smith from any charge on account of said payments: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy*Proviso*. Satisfaction of Secretary. shall be satisfied that said sums were paid in good faith and that the United States received the full benefit of the same. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department To enable the Secretary of the Interior to compensate John W.John W. Wallace. Payment to. Wallace for balance claimed to be due him for services rendered and expenses incurred under his appointment as special commissioner, appointed under the act of Congress approved March second, eighteenVol. 25, p. 994. hundred and eighty-nine, to take testimony and report relative to the rights of freedmen Delaware and Shawnee claimants to share in the appropriation made by the act of Congress approved OctoberVol. 25, p. 609. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eighth, and also for expenses incurred and to be incurred in making the payment authorized by 878 the said act of October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior,Contingent expenses. and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior department, including the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry-goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food and shoeing for horsts, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases, cases for drawings, file-holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, five thousand dollars.
For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its severalStationery. bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Survey, fifteen thousand dollars. Patent Office: For photolithographing or otherwise producingPhotolltbographing. plates for the Official Gazette, twenty-two thousand dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents for producing copies of designs, trademarks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies, said photolithographing or otherwise producing plates and copies referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, if it can there be done at reasonable rates; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to make contracts therefor, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Education of Feeble-Minded Children of the District ofFeeble-minded children, D. C. Columbia: For the amount due the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one and prior years, two thousand four hundred and seventy five dollars and sixty cents. Capitol Terraces: For paving terrace and completing the InteriorCapitol terraces. of rooms and corridors, including steam heating, and for the payment of amounts retained on contracts, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Government Hospital for the Insane: For the purchase ofGovernment hospital for the insane. additional farm land, ten thousand dollars. Public Lands Service: For clerks in the office of the surveyor-generalPublic lands. of Montana, three thousand five hundred dollars. For clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming, TwoSurveyors-general. thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the account of J. F. Gardner, late United States surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, for services as such, from August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to October fifteenth eighteen hundred and eighty-six, inclusive, four hundred and eight dollars and eighty-six cents.
For compensation of registers and receivers of local land offices,Registers and receivers. at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, sixty-two thousand, nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty cents. For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the severalClerks, etc. land offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulentProtecting public lands. entry or appropriation, twenty thousand dollars; To pay balance of salary to E.
R. Ruggles, custodian of the Fort E. R. Ruggles.Sisseton abandoned military reservation in South Dakota, for May, eighteen hundred and ninety, as found due by the accounting officers, fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents. For care and preservation of abandoned military reservations forAbandoned military reservations. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. 879 For the appraisement of the lots and blocks within the Port AngelesPort Angeles,Wash. town-site reservation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, as provided in section twenty-three hundred and eighty-oneR.
S., 2381, p. 436. of the Revised Statutes, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary: *Provided*, That instead of the provision *Provisos*.contained in the sundry civil act of August thirtieth, eighteen*Ante*, p. 390. hundred and ninety, any person who has actually established a residence upon any one regulation lot, fifty by one hundred and forty feet, and has made valuable improvements upon one such additional lot prior to the date of the passage of this act, and has maintained such residence and improvements to this time shall, upon presenting satisfactory proof of these facts to the register and receiver, after the usual notice of intention by publication, be entitled to purchase the same, at their appraised value, at any time before the day of public sale: *Provided*, That James Sampson, who settled upon thisJames Sampson.
Allotment. land in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and prior to the same being withdrawn as a reservation, shall be entitled to have surveyed for him by the surveyor-general of the State of Washington forty acres upon which he has made valuable improvements, and to enter the same under the land laws of the United States. indian affairs.Indian Department. Indians in Arizona and New Mexico: For this amount toArizona and New Mexico. subsist and properly care for the Apache and other Indians in Arizona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in New Mexico or Arizona, three thousand dollars.
Sioux of different tribes: For support and civilization of theSioux. Sioux as per agreement ratified by act of Congress approved FebruaryVol. 19, p. 254. twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Indian Inspectors: For necessary traveling expenses of five IndianIndian inspectors. inspectors, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand dollars. Indian School Superintendent: For necessary traveling expensesSuperintendent of schools. of superintendent of Indian schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That he shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses Per diem.when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and ten dollars and three cents. For payment to the executors of the estate of Charles E. Hedges,Charles E. Hedges. Payment to executors. deceased, for subsistence supplies furnished by him in eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, under the direction of the Indian agent, to the Yankton Sioux Indians, as fouud due by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars. pensions.Pensions.
For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows,Army and Navy pensions. minor children, and dependent relatives; survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and with Mexico, twenty-eight million six hundred and seventy eight thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*. appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income Navy pensions.of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose *And provided further*, That the amount expended Accounts.under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services renderedExamining surgeons. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five hundred thousand dollars. 880 For clerk hire, thirty-five thousand dollars.Clerk hire. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountExamining surgeons 1890. of fees of examining surgeons. Army pensions, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-five cents.
UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. out of the postal revenues.Postal service. Postal Laws and Regulations: For printing and publishingPostal laws, etc. a new edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations, consisting New edition.of eighty-five thousand copies; such edition to be prepared under the direction of the Postmaster-General, and printed at the Government Printing Office; and the Postmaster-General may authorize the sale of copies of such edition not needed for the use of the Department, to individuals, at the cost thereof, with ten per centum added; the proceeds of such sales to be deposited in the Treasury, as part of the postal revenues, forty thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, being a deficiencyInland transportation, mail routes. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eight-nine; two thousand and nine dollars and twenty-four cents. Compensation of Postmasters: For amount to reimburse thePostmasters’ salaries. postal revenues of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation, one hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents.
To pay the amount certified to be due the Flint and Pere MarquetteFlint and Pere Marquette R. R. Co. Payment to. Railroad Company for additional transportation, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and prior years, fourteen thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. To reimburse O. M. Laraway for disbursements made by himO. M. Laraway. Payment to. while postmaster at Minneapolis in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-two to eighteen hundred and eighty-six, inclusive, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and one cent.
That the proper officers of the Post-Office Department are herebyH. Hubert. Credit in accounts. authorized and directed to credit in the account of H. Hubert, late postmaster at Quitman, Georgia, the sum of one hundred dollars, being the amount of money-order funds remitted by him to Savannah Dy registered package and stolen at Way cross while in transit without any fault on the part of said postmaster. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Clement A, Lounsberry,Clement A.
Loans-berry. Payment to. late postmaster at Bismarck, North Dakota, for official expenses incurred by him for rent and light during the third and fourth quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and first, second, and third quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as allowed by the Post-Office Department, three hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-five cents. To pay L. J. Worden, late postmaster at Lawrence, Kansas, forL. J. Worden. Payment to. amount expended by him for clerks necessarily employed in said office from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. To reimburse B. F. Fuller, disbursing clerk, for amount expendedB. F. Fuller. Reimbursement. for investigation in ornithology and mammalogy, in excess of appropriation for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighteen dollars and twenty-five cents. 881 To pay the Washington Post Company for advertising in the fiscalWashington Post. Payment to. year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten dollars.
To pay the estate of Eugene Schuyler, late agent and consul-generalEugene Schuyler. Payment to estate of. of the United States at Cairo, Egypt, for expenses incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, for purchasing and shipping to the Department of Agriculture, young date trees and onions from Egypt, three hundred and four dollars and seventy-nine cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the State ofWyoming. Wyoming, for the use of Wyoming University, the sum which said State would have been entitled as a Territory to receive for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-eight and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine under the provisions of an act entitled “An act to established agricultural-experiment stations in connection with the Agricultural experiment stations.colleges established in the several States, under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and ofVol. 24, p.440. the acts supplementary thereto,” and of other acts making appropriations to carry into effect the provisions of such acts thirty thousand dollars; *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available*Provisos*. until satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary ofProof required. the Treasury that said university maintained such experimental stations in compliance with said law during said years eighteen hundred and eighty-eight and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of justice. Fees of Marshals: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsMarshals’ fees. for fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, for the fiscal year as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars*Provisos*. of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accountedAdvances. for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, RevisedR.
S., sec. 836, p. 161. Statutes. For eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents. Fees of District Attorneys; To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsAttorneys’ fees. for fees of district attorneys, United States courts, for the fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, twenty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, eight thousand and sixty-one dollars and ninety-four cents.
For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-eight cents. Pay of Special Assistant Attorneys: To supply deficienciesAttorneys’ special assistants. in the appropriations for pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, for the fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, eight thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-four cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-six cents.
Fees of Clerks: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsClerks’ fees. for fees of clerks, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, forty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty cents. 882 For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-eight cents. Fees of Commissioners: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsCommissioners’ fees. for fees of commissioners, United States courts, for the fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, forty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars and nineteen cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars and forty cents. Fees of Witnesses: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsWitnesses’ fees. for fees of witnesses, United States courts, for the fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three hundred thousand dollars.
For eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and eight thousand and ninety dollars and fifty-six cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight hundred and two dollars and twenty cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and ten cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two hundred dollars.
For eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eight hundred dollars. Support of Prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,Support of prisoners. including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, 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, seven thousand and sixty-three dollars and forty-seven cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, eleven dollars and fifteen cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-five, eighty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. Pay of Bailiffs: For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceedingBailiffs, etc. three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district 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 one term of court, being deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eighty-nine dollars and ninety cents. Miscellaneous Expenses: For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous. expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United 883 States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, twenty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, sixty-five dollars and seventy cents. Rent of Court Rooms: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationRent of court rooms. for rent of court rooms, United States courts, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, fifteen thousand dollars. For the payment of salaries and expenses in the execution of theLand court expenses. act entitled “An act to establish a court of private land claims, and*Ante*, p. 854. to provide for the settlement of private land-claims in certain States and Territories,” passed at this present session of Congress, as follows:
For the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary. Expenses of Territorial Courts in Utah: To supply deficienciesUtah courts. in the appropriations for expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, ten thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty cents.
For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eleven thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand five hundred dollars. Rent and Incidental Expenses, Territory of Alaska: ToAlaska. supply deficiencies in the appropriations for rent and incidental expenses, office of marshal, Territory of Alaska, for the fiscal years as Marshal’s office.follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-five, sixteen dollars.
For means of transportation of witnesses and the arrest of murderersTransportation, etc. in that section of Alaska that lies west of Sitka, to be furnished by the Revenue Cutter Service, seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; the same to be available until expended. Support of Convicts: To pay for support, and so forth, of convictsSupport of convicts. of District of Columbia in penitentiaries in the State of New York, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eight hundred and forty-six dollars and ten cents.
To pay for support, and so forth, of convicts of District of Columbia in the Albany County, New York, penitentiary, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy cents. Defending Suits in Claims against the United States: ToDefending suits in claims. I. S. Lyons. pay for services rendered by I. S. Lyons, the sum of one thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and five cents, is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine in lieu of eighteen hundred and ninety, it having been erroneously appropriated for,the latter year in the deficiency act approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.
For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defenseFrench spoliation claims. for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, three thousand dollars.
For the salary of the Assistant Attorney General in chargeAssistant attorney-general, Indian Depredation Claims. of defense of the Indian depredation claims, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum from the date of his appointment 884 and during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. and to enable the Attorney General to pay incidental Expenses.expenses necessary to the preparation for the proper defense of such claims in the Court of Claims; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.
To pay Edward Mitchell. United States district attorney for theEdward Mitchell. Services. southern district of New York, for services rendered and expenses incurred in defending the rights of the United States in the case of a proposed encroachment upon Government property in New York City. Known as “Number twenty three Pine street,” as approved by the Attorney General, six hundred and five dollars and fifty cents. For the salaries and other expenses provided for in the act passedCircuit Court of appeals.
Expenses. *Ante*, 827. at this session of the present Congress entitled “An act to establish circuit court of appeals, and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction ot the courts of the United States, and for other purposes,” sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and this appropriation shall be available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. For salary of additional judge of the police court of the District ofPolice Court, D.
C. Additional judge, etc. Columbia, one thousand and eight dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For salary of deputy clerk for the police court of the said court, five hundred and five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For pay of one deputy marshal for said court, three hundred and twelve dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For pay of bailiff for said court, three hundred and twelve dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For compensation of jury for said court, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For repairs and furniture for additional judge and jury for said court, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For compensation of Senators, eight thousand dollars.Compensation, Senators.Furniture.Folding materials. For purchase of furniture, three thousand dollars. For materials for folding, one thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifty-one thousandMiscellaneous. dollars: and no part of this appropriation shall be expended except for items accruing during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
To pay ex-Senator F. A. Sawyer, under Senate resolution of FebruaryF. A. Sawyer. Payment to. twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,six thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay ex-Senator George E. Spencer, under Senate resolution ofGeorge E. Spencer. Payment to. February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. six thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries, etc. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty *Proviso*.five cents per printed page, fifteen thousand dollars; *Provided*, That the amount hereby appropriated for the expenses of said inquiries and investigations, with any unexpended balances heretofore Distribution.appropriated for similar purposes shall be equitably distributed by the Secretary of the Senate between the committees charged with such Balances.duties.
Any balance remaining of the appropriation made by act of April fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the expense of the Immigration.investigations of the Senate Committee on Immigration and the 885 House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization under current resolution of March twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, may be used by said Senate Committee on Immigration upon vouchers to be approved by the chairman thereof. For expenses of equipping and maintaining horses, and mail-wagons,Horses, etc. for carrying the mails, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents.
For payment to Julia A. Wilson widow of the Honorable E. K.E. K. Wilson. Payment to widow. Wilson, deceased, late a Senator of the United States from the State of Maryland, five thousand dollars. That Edward D. Martin, clerk to the late Honorable E. K. Wilson,Edward D. Martin. Senator from the State of Maryland, be continued on the pay roll of the Senate from the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-one during the residue of the present session of Congress.
That John Wedderburn. clerk to the late Honorable George Hearst,John Wedderburn. Senator from the State of California, to be continued on the pay roll of the Senate from March the first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, during the residue of the present session of Congress. To reimburse W. P. Canaday, ex-Sergeant-at-Arms of the UnitedW. P. Canaday. Reimbursement. States Senate, for moneys paid by him to employees of the Senate for services alleged to have been rendered at various times from May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to October thirty-first eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the accounts for the same and all vouchers to be audited by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and to be subject to the revision and approval of said committee, both as to the amounts and extent of actual services rendered, two thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty cents.
To pay Charles H. Evans extra compensation for preparing statisticalCharles H. Evans. Services. tables, and for services rendered to the Committee on Finance, five hundred dollars. For salary of one telephone page from April first to June thirtieth,Telephone page. eighteen hundred and ninety-one at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and fifty dollars. For salaries of ten laborers from April first to June thirtieth,Laborers. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For collating, arranging, and indexing testimony and statisticsTariff statistics. submitted in connection with the tariff legislation of the Fifty-first Congress, one thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairman of the Committee on Finance to do the work. For clerks to the Committees on Patents, Coast Defences, and EngrossedClerks to Committees on Patents, Coast Defences, and Engrossed Bills. Bills, from March fourth to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one at the rate of two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, two thousand three hundred dollars. house of representativesHouse of Representatives.
For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives,Compensation and mileage. two thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and four cents. For stationery for members of the House of Representatives, fiscalStationery. year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the HouseMonth’s extra pay, Senate and House employees. of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House, borne on the annual and session rolls both on the first day of October eighteen hundred and ninety and the third day of March eighteen hundred and ninety-one, including the Capitol Police and official reporters of the Senate and House, for extra services during the Fifty-first Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at 886the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available.
To pay to the clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the InteriorExpenditures in Interior Department Committee, clerk. Department, for extra services rendered, a sum equal to one month’s pay, one hundred and eighty dollars. To enable the Librarian of Congress to pay the employees in theLaw library. Extra month’s pay. law department of the Congressional Library one month’s extra pay, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
To pay to George W. Rae assistant clerk to the Committee onGeorge W. Rae. Claims for extra services one hundred and eighty dollars. To pay Jehu Baker for expenses incurred by him in his electionJehu Baker. Contested election. contest, in the Fifty-first Congress, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight dollars. To reimburse Philip S. Post for expenses necessarily incurred inPhilip S. Post. Contested election. defense of his title to his seat as a member of the House of Representatives, Fiftieth Congress, five thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty cents For rent of building for use of the folding room of the HouseFolding room. from March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, until January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay Amos L. Allen for services as clerk to the CommitteeAmos L. Allen. on Rules during the Fifty-first Congress, four hundred dollars. To pay George H. Watkins and H. G. Clement three hundredGeorge H. Watkins, H. G. Clement. dollars for extra services performed as clerks in the folding room, six hundred dollars. To pay the two special messengers employed under the resolutionSpecial messengers. of the House adopted January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month each from March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one until the assembling of the Fifty-second Congress, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars.
To pay the assistant foreman of the folding room employed underAssistant foreman folding room. the resolution of the House, adopted May third eighteen hundred and ninety, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month, from March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one until the assembling of the Fifty-second Congress, nine hundred and twelve dollars To pay Ferris Finch in full for services in preparing for the Forty-fourthFerris Finch. Services. to the Forty-ninth Congress, inclusive, a statement of appropriation, and so forth, under tire act approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, one thousand dollars To pay for the services of the assistant journal clerk for two monthsAssistant journal clerk. after the expiration of the present session at the same rate of compensation he now receives, three hundred and sixty dollars To pay Samuel Hosmer, acting postmaster of the House of Representatives,Samuel Hosmer.
Payment to. the difference between the pay of postmaster and that of assistant postmaster from October first to December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, inclusive, one hundred and one dollars and ninety-four cents. To pay Alexander Vangeuder as extra compensation for servicesAlexander Vangeuder. Payment to. rendered as assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions during the second session of the Fifty-first Congress, two hundred dollars. To pay D. S. Porteras extra compensation for services renderedD.
S. Porter. Payment to. as assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions during the Fifty-first Congress, two hundred dollars. To pay Beaufort C. Lee and Charles Carter for services in caringBeaufort C. Lee, Charles Carter. for the subcommittee rooms of the Committees on Ways and Means and Appropriations, sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty dollars. 887 To reimburse Thomas P. Bell for expenses incurred from MarchThomas P. Bell. first eighteen hundred and ninety, to March first eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for assistance as laborer in caring for building rented for use of the folding room, one hundred and eighty dollars.
For expenses incurred by the Committee on Immigration andImmigration Committee expenses. Naturalization Laws, as authorized by resolution of the House Marell twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, five hundred and one dollars and fifteen cents, which sum shall be paid on the order of the chairman of said committee. To pay William W. Keiser, telegraph operator of the House, threeWilliam W. Keiser. Payment to. hundred dollars to make his salary one thousand two hundred dollars for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
To pay John H. Rogers for additional services rendered in theJohn H. Rogers. Payment to. preparation, in manuscript form for the Public Printer, of eulogies delivered upon the deceased members of the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses five hundred dollars. under the public printer.Public Printer. To supply a deficiency for the last half of the fiscal year endingPublic printing and binding. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, in the appropriation for the public printing, for the public binding, and tor paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including the salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or employees for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all necessary material which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. from the appropriation hereby made printing and binding maybe done as follows:
For the Treasury Department, not exceeding fifty thousandAllotment. dollars. For the Navy Department, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of the Interior, not exceeding sixty thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars. For the Department of State, not exceeding five thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, not exceeding ten thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, not exceeding two thousand dollars.
For the Supreme Court of the United States, not exceeding four thousand dollars. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, not exceeding one thousand dollars. For the Department of Labor, not exceeding one thousand dollars. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing for the use of the National Museum, not exceeding one thousand dollars. To pay twenty per centum in addition to the amount paid for dayTwenty per cent, for night work. labor to the employees of the Government Printing Office, such as compositors, assistant foreman of press-room, pressmen,bookbinders, 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, bolsters, and the assistant foreman, 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 from October second, eighteen hundred and ninety, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and 888 ninety-one inclusive, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars, or so *Proviso*.much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That in estimating the said twenty per centum, credit shall be given to the Government for Deduction.whatever has been paid or is now being paid the said employees above the rates for day work.
To enable the Public Printer to continue the operations under jointStorage. resolution approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 22, p. 637.eighty-three, for removal and storage of certain property of the Government mentioned therein, five thousand dollars. The reports of the Eleventh Census shall be printed at the GovernmentEleventh Census. Printing Office, and in addition to the usual number there Digest of leading statistics.shall be printed fifty thousand copies of a digest of the leading statistics not to exceed two hundred octavo pages, of which fifteen thousand shall be for use of the Senate, thirty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, two thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Department of the Interior, and two thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Census Office.
In addition to the above there shall be printed twenty-five thousand copies of Compendium.the Compendium, of which seven thousand five hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, fifteen thousand copies shall lie for the use of the House of Representatives, one thousand two hundred and fifty for the use of the Department of the Interior, and one thousand two hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Census Office. In addition to the above, five thousand copies of each of the following Other volumes.final volumes shall be printed:
On Mines and Mining; On Wealth, Debt, and Taxation; On Recorded Indebtedness; On Transportation; On Insurance; On Social Statistics of Cities; and On Alaska. One thousand two hundred and fifty copies of each shall be for theDistribution. use of the Senate, two thousand five hundred copies for the use of the House of Representatives, eight hundred and thirty-four for the Department of the Interior, and four hundred and sixteen copies for the Census Office. These reports shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions made for the distribution of the Reports of the Vol. 22, p. 344.Tenth Census as contained in act of Congress approved August seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and for the printing of said census reports there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Said appropriation shall apply to the fiscal year ending July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. To pay Nehemiah G. Orway for balance of rent due on premisesNehemiah G. Orway. Payment to. leased by the House of Representatives for stables and carpenter shop, eight hundred and forty dollars. This sum to be in full of all demands for rent of said lands. JUDGMENTS COURT OF CLAIMS.Payment of judgments of Court of Claims. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims, as follows:
To William M. Griffith, twenty four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars and twenty four cents. To A. Q. Keasbey, one hundred dollars; To John E. W. Thompson two thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty eight cents; To J. A. Thorn, six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty five cents: To Mervin B. Converse, one thousand and twenty eight dollars; 889 To William Thompson, ten dollars;Payment of judgments of Court of Claims—continued. To Benjamin C. Kandall, five dollars;
To Charles F. Fackler, ten dollars; To Walter P. Blackwood, forty dollars; To Thomas W. Beattie, twenty-five dollars; To James H. Wriggins, five dollars: To Frederick H. Rex, fifteen dollars; To Alfred B. Munyan. ten dollars; To Frank R. Brandt, forty dollars; To Charles R. Aitken, twenty-five dollars; To John‘Bucknum, twenty-five dollars; To Willet B. Drake, ten dollars; To Isaac M. Yard, ten dollars; To Frederick A. Lanning, ten dollars; To Charles T. Carter, ten dollars; To Thomas Farrell, ten dollars;
To Oliver Howell, ten dollars; To David Levins, ten dollars; To George D. Bower, fifty dollars; To William L. Morris, ten dollars; To Peter S. Mitchell, ten dollars; To William Brandt, ten dollars; To Ralph P. Baker, ten dollars; To Robert Crosbie, ten dollars; To John Hagerty, ten dollars; To Richard McCracken, ten dollars; To Matthias C. Gulick, ten dollars; To William H. Jones, ten dollars; To Thomas F. Hamilton, ten dollars; To Charles Spohr, ten dollars; To Frederick Fahrenwahl, ten dollars;
To Robert J. Edge, ten dollars; To Charles J. Bier, ten dollars: To George W. Bessant, ten dollars; To Dennis M. Buck, ten dollars; To Richard B. Fosdick, ten dollars; To William W. Fosdick five dollars; To James E. Foster, ten dollars; To Edwin A. Odell, fifteen dollars; To Gustavus Piercez, ten dollars: To Leonhard Schroeder, ten dollars; To George W. White, junior, ten dollars; To Joseph Temple, ten dollars; To John Green, ten dollars; To Frederick A. Hopkins, fifteen dollars;
To John A. Rodrigo, fifteen dollars; To James Buchanan, five dollars; To Albert H. Hewes, five dollars; To William Demmer, five dollars; To Walter J. Adams, five dollars; To John S. Beardsley, five dollars; To Henry Bouchy, five dollars; To James Bone, five dollars: To Parke Burnett, five dollars; To Frederick Hauserman. five dollars; To Peter Rilev, five dollars; To Henry H. Webb, ten dollars; To Peter McGowan, ten dollars; To Patrick McHugh, forty dollars: To John T. M. Kaylar, thirty-five dollars;
To John Nixon, fifteen dollars; To Jarvis P. Wanser, forty dollars; 890 To Philip Vera, ten dollars;Payment of judgments of Court of Claims—continued. To John H. Sullivan, twenty dollars; To George W. Scudder, ten dollars; To John M. Reingruber, forty dollars; To Arthur Quaife, ten dollars; To Daniel Murphy, ten dollars; To William F. Midlige, forty dollars; To Walter Kip. thirty dollars; To John Isenhart, ten dollars: To Edward T. Flanley, ten dollars; To Jacob Elier, ten dollars;
To Joseph Eiden, ten dollars; To John Burhaus, ten dollars; To Asa M. Dolen, ten dollars; To Howard M. See, forty dollars; To William Patterson, ten dollars; To Frank Noirot, fifteen dollars; To John Murphy, five dollars; To Peter F. Lowery, ten dollars; To Robert Edgeworth, ten dollars; To John Dwyer, ten dollars; To William T. Dey, ten dollars; To Joseph Connelf, ten dollars; To Edward G. Bullock, ten dollars; To A. A. Coy Kendall, forty dollars; To Michael Gilligan, ten dollars;
To Robert G. Booth, ten dollars; To Patrick Reilley, five dollars To Otto Crouse, ten dollars; To Richard C. Fessenden, forty dollars; To Benjamin J. Downer, ten dollars; To Charles Freeman, forty dollars; To Samuel McCarthy, five dollars; To Benjamin L. Crane, forty dollars; To Stephen B. Crane, five dollars; To Thomas Bennett, ten dollars; To James English, ten dollars; To Frank M. Hyde, ten dollar’s; To Albert H. Garretson, ten dollars: To Lewis M. Crosby, thirty dollars; To Jacob Ulrich, ten dollars;
To William H. Eaton, fifteen dollars; To Michael J. Neville, forty dollars; To Thomas J. Hughes, ten dollars; To James J. McCafferty, one hundred and seventy three dollars and five cents; To Jared D. Bitting, surviving partner of the firm of Bitting and Davidson, to the use of William H, West, administrator of Robert Davidson, deceased, two thousand three hundred and thirty two dollars and forty nine cents; To Edward Williams, eight hundred and forty one dollars; To Edmonia Semmes, Alexander H.
Semmes, and James L. Barbour, eight thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars; To Edmonia Semmes and James L. Barbour, sis thousand and twelve dollars; To Elbert Wallace, four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty eight cents; To Letitia Tyler Semple, five hundred dollars; To John W. Orr, one thousand five hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents; To Evan Lyons, nine hundred and fifty dollars; To James S. Groves, three hundred and eighteen dollars; 891 To Benjamin L.
Benedict, one hundred and sixty dollars;Payment of judgments of Court of Claims—Continued. To McLain Jones, one thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and fifteen cents; To William H. Faucett, five hundred and ninety-five dollars and eighty cents; To Gustave Becker, four thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents; To Lafayette Greene, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; To Joseph Ricketts, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-five cents; To Stephen P.
Hale, three hundred dollars; To James M. Brown, thirty-two dollars and seventy-two cents; To D. Sheffey Lewis, five hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty cents; To the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, nineteen thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents; To John H. Finks, seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifteen cents; To Stanley W. Martin, eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-five cents; To George W. S. Hart, fifty-eight dollars and fifty-cents;
To Will A. McTeer, one hundred and fifty dollars; To W. L. Carter, junior, fifty-one dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-four cents. *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be*Proviso*. Appeal. paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS UNITED STATES CORTS.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 toVol. 34, p. 506. provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-one, except the judgments in favor of Henry Schofield and John O’Keefe, the same having heretofore been provided for, and House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-one, six thousand seven hundred and forty one dollars and fifty-one 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: *Provided*, That so much of the deficiency appropriation*Proviso*. act approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, imposing the following limitation upon the payments of certain judgmentsLimitation repealed. *Ante*, p. 538. against the United States under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, namely:
“That no one of the foregoing judgments shall be paid except upon the written certificate of the Attorney-General that the questionCertificate of attorney-General. 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.” Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims certified toClaims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventyVol. 18, p. 110. four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been 892 certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, Vol. 23, p. 254.eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Executive Document numbered one hundred and seventy-one, Fifty-first Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state department.State Department. For Foreign Intercourse, as follows: For relief and protection Foreign intercourse. Relief, etc., to American seamen.of American seamen, forty-three dollars and twenty-one cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, twenty-nine dollars andLoss by exchange, diplomatic service. forty-nine cents. For loss by exchange, consular service, sixty-seven dollars andConsular service. eighty-nine cents. treasury department.Treasury Department.
Internal Revenue: For salaries and expenses of agents andInternal Revenue, agents, etc., salaries. subordinate officers of internal revenue, one hundred and sixty dollars. For punishment for violation of internal revenue laws, two hundred andViolations. fifty-five dollars. For refunding moneys erroneously received and covered, four thousandRefund of moneys. and three dollars and ninety-two cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, twelve thousand three hundredRefunding taxes. and seventeen dollars and sixty-two cents.
Miscellaneous: For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings,Public buildings. Fuel, etc. ninety cents. For furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings, four hundredFurniture, etc. and thirty-four dollars. interior department.Interior Department. Public Lands Service: For salaries, office of surveyor-general ofPublic Lands. Arizona, nine hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents. For salaries, office of surveyor-general of Idaho, six hundred andSurveyors-general. thirty-one dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses of land offices, two dollars and seventyContingent. cents. For expenses of depositing public moneys, fifty-nine dollars.Depositing moneys. For expenses of hearings inland entries, seventy-seven dollars andHearings. eighty cents. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excessReimbursing receivers. of deposits. ninety-four cents. For surveying the public lands, nine thousand eight hundred and sixtySurveying. dollars and thirty-nine cents. department of justice.Department of justice.
For rent and incidental expenses, office of marshal, TerritoryAlaska court. of Alaska, eight dollars. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, sixMarshals. thousand one hundred and ten dollars and eighty-nine cents. For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, threeAttorneys. thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty cents. For special compensation of district attorneys, United States Attorneys, special compensation.courts, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
For pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts,Assistant attorneys. two hundred and eighty-two dollars. 893 For pay of special assistant attorneys. United States courts, threeSpecial assistant Attorneys. hundred and ninety dollars. For fees of clerks. United States courts, five thousand one hundredClerks. and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, three thousandCommissioners. nine hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, fourteen dollars.Jurors. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, three hundred andWitnesses. fifty dollars and ninety-six cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, six hundred andPrisoners. eighty-five dollars and sixty-six cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, one thousandMiscellaneous. nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and six 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, ten thousandCollecting customs. six hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-six cents. For Light-House Establishment, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,Light-House establishment. one hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents. For supplies of lighthouses, one thousand five hundred and fifty-sevenSupplies. dollars and forty-six cents. For expenses of buoyage, thirty-five dollars and forty-two cents.Buoyage. For Life-Saving Service, thirty dollars.Life-Saving Service.
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLERWar Department Claims, Second Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay, of the so forth, and Army, five thousand seven hundredArmy pay. and forty six dollars and forty-two cents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, one hundred and eighty-nineMexican war volunteers. dollars and sixty-three cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, seventy-oneCalifornia and Nevada volunteers. dollars and fifteen cents.
For Medical and Hospital Department, one hundred and fourteenMedical Department. dollars and six cents. INDIAN CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Indian Claims, second Auditor and. second Comptroller. For pay of Indian agents, eight hundred and ninety-four dollarsIndian agents. and sixty-nine cents. For Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, support, two dollars andGenoa, Neb., school. seventy-five cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, two thousand nine hundredSioux. and fifty-six dollars and sixteen cents.
For transportation of Indian supplies, two hundred and seventy-fiveSupplies. dollars and eighty-two cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department Claims, Third Auditor and Second Comptrol- For subsistence of the Army, seven hundred and ninety-eightSubsistence. dollars and ninety-four cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundredQuartermaster’s supplies. and six dollars and ninety-one cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundredIncidental expenses. and sixty-one dollars and eighty-one cents. 894 For transportation of the Army and its supplies (less Pacific railroad Transportation.claims), three thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and fourteen cents.
For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainArrears. land-grant railroads, three thousand and ninety-four dollars and two cents; For horses for cavalry and artillery, three hundred and seventy-threeHorses. dollars. For contingencies of fortifications, thirteen dollars and ninetyFortifications. cents. For observations and report of storms (less Pacific Railroad claims)Observations, etc., storms. nine thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents.
For twenty per centum additional compensation, five hundred andTwenty per cent. twenty-five dollars and twenty-seven cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers. Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred, and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers,Refund to States raising volunteers. sixteen thousand and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, twentyHorses, etc., claims. thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-two cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Navy claims, Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of the Navy, except the claims allowed under the decisionNavy pay. of the Supreme Court in the case of Strong, ten thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-four cents. For pay, miscellaneous, two hundred and eighty-two dollars andMiscellaneous. fifty cents.
For pay. Marine Corps, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars andMarine corps pay. eighty-eight cents. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, fourteen dollarsTransportation. and forty cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, thirty dollars and thirty cents.Contingent. For transportation and recruiting. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting,Bureau of Equipment. one hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-one cents. For contingent. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting three hundred and two dollars and seven cents.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, exceptBureau of provisions and clothing. the claims allowed under the decision of the Supreme Court, in the case of Strong, two hundred and sixteen dollars. For indemnity for lost clothing, two hundred and twenty three dollars.Lost clothing. For twenty per centum additional compensation, one hundredTwenty per cent. and seventy-five dollars and fifty-six cents. For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, one hundredBounty, destruction of enemies vessels. and eighty dollars and forty cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, oneDestroyed clothing. hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ten cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, three thousand one hundredEnlistment bounties. and twenty-one dollars and thirty-six cents. For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses and mileageMileage claims. allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the cases of Graham versus the United States, thirteen thousand and fifteen dollars and fifty-seven cents. 895 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor.
For deficiency in the postal revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-eightPostal revenue. and prior years, three thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-seven cents. Sec. 3. For the payment of the following accounts, which are fully set forth in House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Twenty-two, Fifty-first Congress, second session, namely: To pay the items embraced in Exhibit A. and which are approvedPayment of accounts allowed by Second Comptroller. by the present Second Comptroller of the Treasury, fifty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents.
To pay the items embraced in Exhibit B, and which are approved by the present Second Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirteen cents. Sec. 3. 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 the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, andVol. 18, p. 110. under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundredVol. 28, p. 354. and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Executive Document numbered sixty-seven, Fifty-first Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state departmentState Department. For Foreign Intercourse, as follows: For salaries of charges Foreign Intercourse. Charges d’affaires.d’affaires ad interim, thirteen dollars and forty-eight cents. For contingent expenses of foreign missions, twenty-three dollarsContingent expenses, missions. and fifty-eight cents. For contingent expenses of United States consulates, ten dollarsConsulates. and sixty cents.
For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels andServices to American vessels. seamen, seventy-one dollars and thirteen cents. treasury department.Treasury Department. Internal Revenue: For refunding taxes illegally collected, tenRefunding taxes. thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-three cents interior department.Interior Department. Public Lands Service: For surveying the public lands, threeSurveying. hundred and seventy-nine dollars. department of justice.Department of justice.
For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, one thousandMarshals. six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-four cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one hundred andCommissioners. seventy-eight dollars and thirty-five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, sixty-six dollars andWitnesses. fifty cents, For support of prisoners, United States courts, twenty-four dollarsPrisoners. and fifteen cents. 896 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, three thousandCustoms revenue. one hundred and nine dollars and eighty-five cents. For Marine-Hospital Service, twenty-two dollars and six cents.Marine Hospital. For expenses of revenue-cutter service, sixty-eight cents.Revenue cutter. For supplies of light houses, nineteen dollars and eighty-six cents.Light-house supplies. Repairs. For repairs of lighthouses, seventy-nine cents. For expenses of buoyage, two hundred and seventy dollars and fifty-nine cents.Buoyage.
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims, Second A u d i-tor and Second Comptroller. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four thousand six hundred andArmy pay. sixteen dollars and fifty-two cents. For pay of two and three-year volunteers, one thousand nine hundredVolunteers pay. and four dollars and sixty-eight cents. For Signal Service, medical department, eight dollars and twenty-five Signal Service.cents. INDIAN CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Indian claims, second Auditor and second Comptroller.
For pay of Indian agents, six hundred and thirty dollars andIndian agents. ninety-two cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, fifty-six cents.Transportation. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims. Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. For subsistence of the Army, one hundred and seventy-five dollarsSubsistence. and sixty-two cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, forty-threeQuartermaster’s incidental expenses. dollars;
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, three hundredTransportation. and sixteen dollars and seventy-three cents; For fifty per centum of arrears of Army transportation due certainArrears. land-grant railroads, one, dollar and sixty-eight cents. For barracks and quarters, one hundred and eighty dollarsBarracks and quarters.Clothing, etc. For clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, two dollars and twenty-two cents For contingencies of fortifications, twenty-eight dollars.Fortifications.
For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers,Refund to States. seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-four cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, sixHorses, etc., claims. thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Navy Department claims. Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of the Navy, except the claims allowed under the decisionNavy pay. of the Supreme Court in the case of Strong, four thousand and ninety-three dollars and eight cents.
For pay, Marine Corpse, ninety-eight dollars and thirty-nine centsMarine Corps, pay. For provisions, Marine Corps, one hundred dollars and fifty cents.Provisions. 897 For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, twenty-threeBureau of Equipment. dollars and forty-six cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, except the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.claims allowed under the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Strong, ninety-one dollars and fifty cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollarsLost clothing. For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, one hundredBounty, destruction of enemies vessels. and eighty-two dollars and forty cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, six hundred and twenty-sixEnlistment bounties. dollars and sixty-six cents. For the payment of claims for difference between actual expensesMileage claims. and mileage allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the cases of Graham versus the United States, two thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-six cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenue, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight and prior years, three thousand and thirty-five dollars and fifty-five cents. FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS.French spoliation claims. Sec. 4. To pay the findings of the Court of Claims on the followingPayment of findings of Court of Claims in. claims for indemnity for spoliations by the French prior to July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and one, under the act entitled “AnVol. 23, p. 283. act to provide for the ascertainment of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and one.” namely:
On the schooner Industry, Benjamin Hawkes, master, namely:Schooner “Industry.” Thomas Cushing, administrator of Marston Watson, six thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars; Charles F. Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, three thousand dollars. William Solder, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, one thousand dollars: H. W. Blagge, administrator, and Susan B. Samuels, administratrix of Crowell Hatch, one thousand dollars: On schooner Delight, Stephen Curtis, master, namely:Schooner “Delight.
” George Holbrook, administrator of Edward Holbrook, six thou-.sand three hundred and two dollars; Charles F. Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, four thousand dollars; Charles F. Hunt, administrator of Joseph Russell, one thousand dollars; H. W. Blagge. administrator, and Susan B. Samuels, administratrix of Crowell Hatch, one thousand dollars; On schooner Little Peg, William Aidd, master, namely: FrancisSchooner “Little Peg.” King Carey, administrator of Samuel Hollingsworth, five thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents;
On ship Theresa, James Brown, master, namely: R. Stewart StrobleShip “Theresa.” and Henry L. Bruns, administrators of Thomas Stewart, six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; On the schooner Industry, Joseph J. Knapp, master, namely: WilliamSchooner “Industry.” Gray, administrator de bonis non of William Gray, junior, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents: On the schooner John, C. Blackler, master, namely:Schooner “John.” William Gray, administrator of William Gray, deceased, nine thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety cents:
William R. Hooper, administrator of William Blackler, deceased. 898three thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy cents;French spoliation claims—continued. On the brig Eliza, Daniel Francis, master, namely:Brig “Eliza.” John K. Myers, administrator de bonis non of Nathaniel Eaton, deceased, seven thousand and eight dollars and fifteen cents; Thomas J. Boardman, administrator de bonis non of Daniel Francis, deceased, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents;
On the ship John, Levi Putnam, master, namely: William Gray,Ship “John.” administrator de bonis non of William Gray, junior, deceased, forty-five thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-six cents; Fisher Ames, administrator de bonis non of Fisher Ames, deceased, three thousand five hundred dollars; Fisher Ames, administrator de bonis non of John Worthington, deceased, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars; On the brig Volante. Thomas Barker, master, namely:
William Gray,Brig “Volante.” administrator with the will annexed of the estate of William Gray, junior, of Massachusetts, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixty-five cents; On the schooner Sallie, Benjamin Russel, master, namely:Schooner “Sallie.” William Gray, administrator, and so forth, eight thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and eight cents; Benjamin Russell, administrator, and so forth, eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents;
On the ship Accepted Mason, Eph. Delano, master, namely:Ship “Accepted Mason.” John P. Delano, administrator of Eph. Delano, eight thousand and seventeen dollars; Richard H. T. Taylor, administrator of Joshua Hilton, eight thousand and seventeen dollars; Thomas H. Perkins, administrator of John C Jones, six hundred and forty dollars; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, seven hundred dollars; On the schooner Nancy, Augustus Black, master, namely;Schooner “Nancy.
” Francis King Cary, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Samuel Hollingsworth, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine-dollars and twelve cents; Sands Smith, administrator of William Respass, two thousand two-hundred and ten dollars; On the schooner Two Brothers, H. Fry, master namely: Francis-King Carey,Schooner “Two Brothers.” administrator de bonis non of the estate of Samuel Hollingsworth, two thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-seven cents; On the brig Fortune, William Tuck, master, namely:Brig “Fortune.
” Thomas H. Perkins, administrator of John C. Jones, one thousand five hundred dollars; Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, assignee-of Boardman. Gorham and Homer, two thousand dollars; Henry W. Blagge and Susan B. Samuels, administrator of Crowell Hatch, one thousand dollars; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, one thousand dollars; Francis M. Boutwell, administrator of Benjamin Cobb, one thousand dollars; William Vernon, administrator of Samuel Brown, one thousand dollars;
On the brig Mary, John Choate, master, namely:Brig “Mary.” Charles Francis Adams, administrator, and so forth of Peter Chardon Brooks, assignee of William Smith, five hundred dollars; Charles Francis Adams, administrator, and so forth, of Peter Chardon Brooks, assignee of Stephen Gorham, five hundred dollars; 899 Charles Francis Adams, administrator, and so forth, of PeterFrench spoliation claims—continued. Chardon Brooks, assignee of Daniel Sargent, five hundred dollars; Charles Francis Adams, administrator, and so forth, of Peter Chardon Brooks, assignee of Isaac Rands, administrator of Caleb Hopkins, five hundred dollars:
Charles Francis Adams, administrator, and so forth, of Peter Chardon Brooks, assignee of John Brazer, five hundred dollars; Charles Francis Adams, administrator, and so forth, of Peter Chardon Brooks, assignee of Tuthill Hubbard, five hundred dollars; Thomas H. Perkins, administrator of John C Jones, five hundred dollars; Robert C. Mackay, executor of William Mackay, five hundred dollars; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, five hundred dollars; Napoleon Harvey, as administrator of the estate of Samuel Welsh, one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and five cents;
Napoleon Harvey, as administrator of the estate of Ezra Welsh, one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and five cents; On the schooner James, Hugh Gemmill, master, namely ,Schooner “James.” William E. Wood year, administrator de bonis non of Jeremiah Yellott, deceased, seven thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-four cents; On the ship Hope, John Rogers, master, namely:Ship “Hope.” Susan Buchanan Shaeffer, administratrix, with the will, and so forth, of James Buchanan, twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars;
George M. Gill, administrator of Gabriel Wood, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars; David Stewart, administrator of Henry Lee, two thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars; On the schooner Betina, John Lanier, master, namely:Schooner “Bethia.” John O. G. Allmand, administrator, three thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents; R. Mason Smith, administrator of Francis Smith, six thousand two hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty-three cents;
Gilbert R. Fox, junior, administrator de bonis non of Thomas Willock six thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; On the schooner Neutrality, Thomas Gray, master namely:Schooner “Neutrality.” Charles Francis Adams, administrator de bonis non of Peter C. Brooks, deceased, assignee of Tuthill Hubbart, six hundred dollars; Charles Francis Adams, as assignee of Isaac Rands, administrator of Caleb Hopkins, six hundred dollars; William Sohier, administrator de bonis non of Nathaniel Fellowes. deceased, six hundred dollars:
Pelham Holmes, administrator de bonis non of Ebenezer Lobdell, deceased, five thousand and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents; On the brig Marcus. Isaac Miles, master, namely:Brig “Marcus.” Charles F. Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, assignee of Tuthill Hubbart, William Smith, David Green, and Caleb Hopkins, one thousand two hundred and one dollars; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, two hundred and ten dollars; Henry W. Blagge and Susan B Samuels, administrators of Crowell Hatch, three hundred dollars;
On the schooner Phoenix, Solomon Babson, master, namely:Schooner “Phoenix.” Thomas Cushing, administrator of Marston Watson ten thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents: William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, two thousand dollars; Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, assignee 900of Stephen Gorham. David Greene, and William Smith, two thousandFrench spoliation claims—continued. five hundred dollars; Thomas H. Perkins, administrator of J.
C. Jones, one thousand dollars; Charles F. Hunt, administrator of Joseph Russell, surviving partner of Jeffrey and Russell, one thousand dollars; Francis M. Boutwell, administrator of Benjamin Cobb, one thousand dollars; Frederick 0. Prince, administrator of James Prince, five hundred dollars; James C. Davis, administrator of Cornelius Durant, three hundred dollars; On the brig Mary. Alexander Ross, master, namely:Brig “Mary.” Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, assignee of William Smith.
Daniel D. Rogers, David Green, Benjamin Bussey, Benjamin Homer, and Tuthill Hubbart, five thousand four hundred and sixty dollars; Francis M. Boutwell, adminisistrator of Samuel Cobb, eight hundred and forty dollars; William Vernon, administrator of Samuel Brown, two thousand one hundred dollars; H. Burr Crandall, administrator of Thomas Dickason, one thousand and fifty dollars; Henry W. Blagge and Susan B. Samuels, administrators of Crowell Hatch, one thousand and fifty dollars;
William S. Bowden, administrator of James Scobie, five thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-six cents; On the ship Hannah, Richard Fryer, master, namely: George H.Ship ° Hannah.” Gorman, administrator of John Cox, deceased, fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars; John A. Brimmer, administrator of John Gilliat, deceased, thirty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars and forty-four cents; On the ship John of Richmond, Edward Watson, master, namely:Ship “John of Richmond.
” Robert M. Banks, administrator de bonis non of John Banks, deceased, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents; On the ship Triumph, Thomas McConnell, master, namely:Ship “Triumph.” Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore, administrator of Alexander Mactier, two thousand three hundred dollars: Henry L. Dashiell and David Stuart, administrators of James Corrie, the older, two thousand three hundred dollars: On the ship Catharine, John Farraday, master, namely:Ship “Catharine.
” Charles Biddle, administrator of John Craig, five thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars; On the schooner Betsy. William Dennis, master, namely:Schobner “Betsy.” William B. Ropes, administrator de bonis non of Hardy Ropes, six thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars; On the ship Louisa, Holden Tallman, master, namely:Ship “Louisa.” Samuel Wells, administrator of John Clarke, fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; On the ship Joanna, Philip Fosdick, at first, afterward Zebdiel Coffin, master, namely:Ship “Joanna.
” Gardner S. Lamson. administrator de bonis non of Paul Gardner. George Gardner, Lubni Gardner, and Zenas Gardner, nineteen thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-two cents; Philip Macy, administrator de bonis non of Obed Macy, four thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-five cents: David P. Eldridge, administrator de bonis non of Sylvamts Macy, four thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-five cents; Robert F. Gardner, administrator de bonis non of Prince Gardner, nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-one cents; 901 On the brig Sally, James Crowdhill, master namely:
French spoliation claims—continued.Cassius E. Lee. junior, administrator of William Hodgson, eight thousand nineBrig “Sally.” hundred and twenty-six dollars; On the brig Betsey, John Cushing, master, namely:Brig “Betsey.” James F. Breuil, administrator of Francis Breuil, deceased, eleven thousand nine hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-six cents; On the ship Raven. Thomas Reilly, master, namely:Ship “Raven.” D. Fitzhugh Savage, administrator of John Savage, deceased, nine thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars:
James Crawford Dawes, administrator of Abijah Dawes, deceased, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars; M. H. Messchert, administrator of Jacob Garard Koch, deceased, nine hundred and eighty dollars; James Crawford Dawes, administrator of James Crawford, deceased. surviving partner of James Crawford and Company, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars; George Blight, administrator of Peter Blight, deceased, five hundred and thirty-nine dollars; William A M. Fuller, administrator of John Leainy, deceased, five hundred and thirty-nine dollars:
D. Fitzhugh Savage, administrator of John Savage, deceased, surviving assignee of Rundle and Leech, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars; George W. Guthrie, administrator of Alexander Murray, deceased, surviving partner of Miller and Murray, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars; Francis A. Lewis, administrator of John Miller, junior, deceased, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars; Henry Pratt McKean, surviving executor of Henry Pratt, deceased, surviving partner of Pratt and Knitzing, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars;
James S. Cox, administrator of James S. Cox, deceased, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars; The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, administrator of Thomas M. Willing, deceased, surviving partner of Willing and Francis, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars; William Rumford Howell, administrator of Samuel Howell, deceased, four hundred and ninety dollars; Samuel Bell, administrator of John G. Wachsmuth, deceased, nine hundred and eighty dollars;
Francis R. Pemberton, administrator of John Clifford, deceased, surviving partner of Thomas and John Clifford, four hundred and ninety dollars: On the brig Pratt, Joseph Hawkins, master, namely:Brig “Pratt.” Joseph T. Brobson, administrator of James Brobson, deceased, three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents; Joseph T. Brobson, administrator of Isaac Starr, junior, deceased, surviving partner of the firm of Starr and Pritchett, three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Craig D. Ritchie, administrator of Joseph Sumraerl, deceased, surviving partner of the firm of Sumraerl and Brown, three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents: Sidney J. Rumford, administrator of Isaac Hendrickson, deceased, three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents; On the brig Susan. Major Lines, master, namely:Brig “Susan.” Jeremiah A. Bishop, administrator of Richard Cutler, deceased, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-eight cents;
Jeremiah A. Bishop, administrator of Jeremiah Atwater, deceased, 902six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-two and three-fourthsFrench spoliation claims—continued. cents; Jeremiah A. Bishop, administrator of Jeremiah Townsend, second, deceased, six hundred and twenty-eight-dollars and seventy-two and three-fourths cents; Jeremiah A. Bishop, administrator of Major Lines, deceased, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-two and three-fourths cents; Jeremiah A.
Bishop, administrator of Andrew Hull, deceased, six hundred and twenty-eight-dollars and seventy-two and three fourths cents; Jeremiah A. Bishop, administrator of Seth De Wolf, deceased, three hundred and fourteen dollars and ten cents; On the brig Hope, Richard Toppan. master, namely:Brig “Hope.” Catherine C. Woodside, administratrix of William Stanwood, deceased, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and eleven cents; Francis A. McKeen, special administratrix of Richard Toppan, deceased, four thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and eleven cents;
David D. Gilman, administrator de bonis non, will annexed, of estate of John Dunlap, deceased, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-four cents; On the brig George Washington, John Devereaux, master,Brig “George Washington.” S. Kingston McCay, administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexe of Stephen Kingston, deceased, five thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-eight cents: On the schooner Mary. John Douglass, master, namely:Schooner “Mary.
” George G. Sill, administrator of Daniel Douglass, two thousand two hundred and two dollars and ninety-eight cents; George G. Sill, administrator of Josiah Douglass, two thousand two hundred and two dollars and ninety-eight cents; The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, three thousand three hundred dollars; On the brig Sally, John Cruft, master, namely:Brig “Sally.” Charles F. Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, deceased, nine thousand nine hundred dollars; Henry W. Blagge and S.
B. Samuels, administrators of C. Hatch, two thousand dollars; Francis M Boutwell, administrator of Mungo Mackay, deceased, six hundred dollars: David Green Haskins, junior, administrator of D. Greene, deceased, five hundred dollars; John C. Ropes, administrator of Thomas Amory, deceased, three hundred dollars; John H. Moriarity, administrator of James Scott, deceased, two hundred dollars; Thomas H. Perkins, administrator of John C. Jones, deceased, five hundred dollars; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, deceased, three thousand dollars.
On the sloop Farmer, Samuel Freeman, master, namely:Sloop “Farmer.” Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; David Greene Haskins, junior, administrator of David Greene, three thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars: Blagge and Samuels, administrators of Crowell Hatch, one thousand one hundred dollars; Ou the ship Speculator, John S. Billings, master, namelyShip “Speculator.”: Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter C.
Brooks, deceased, eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; 903 Henry W. Blagge and Susan B Samuels, administrator of CrowellFrench spoliation claims—continued. Hatch, deceased, four hundred and thirty three dollars and seventy-five cents: William Solder, administrator, of Nathaniel Fellows, deceased, one thousand four hundred and thirty three dollars and seventy five cents; John W, Apthorp, administrator of Caleb Hopkins, deceased one thousand dollars William S, Carter, administrator of William Smith deceased one thousand dollars Daniel D.
Slade, administrator of Daniel D. Rogers deceased, five hundred dollars: Robert Grant, administrator of William H. Boardman, deceased four hundred dollars Frank Dabney, administrator of Samuel W. Pomeroy, deceased, six hundred dollars On the schooner Elizabeth, Thomas Trott, master, namely:Schooner “Elizabeth.” Frederick J. Huntington, as administrator de bonis non of the estate of Jabez Huntington, deceased, three thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and nine cents;
Charles Francis Adams, junior, as administrator as aforesaid, one thousand six hundred dollars; Henry W Blagge and Susan B. Samuels, as administrators a aforesaid, eight hundred dollars; On the brig Anthony, John Garrett, master, namely:Brig “Anthony.” James Crawford Dawes, administrator of James Crawford, surviving partner of James Crawford and Company three thousand seven hundred and ninety six dollars and thirty two cents. On the ship Arethusa, Robert McKown master, namely:Ship “Arethusa.
” William Keith and Ormus B. Keith, surviving executors of Samuel Keith, four thousand two hundred and twelve dollars; On the ship Confederacy, Scott Jenckes, master, namely:Ship “Confederacy.” Henry E. Pierrepont, executor of the will of Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, the last surviving partner (deceased) of the firm of Leffingwell and Pierrepont, one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents; On the schooner Isabella: Robert Mercer: master: namely;Schooner “Isabella.
” M. H. Messchert, administrator of Jacob Gerard Koch, deceased; four thousand and thirty four dollars and fifty-four cents; On the brig Maria, Samuel Taylor, master, namely:Brig “Maria.” Horace B. Sargent, junior, administrator of Daniel Sargent, deceased, fourteen thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-three cents; On the scow Polly, Anthony Sanky. master, namely:Scow “Polly.” James F. Brueil, administrator of Francis Brueil, deceased, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and nineteen cents;
On the ship William, Richard Barker, master, namely;Ship “William.” William F. Gardner, administrator with the will annexed of Caleb Gardner, deceased, forty-one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars; William Vernon, administrator of Samuel Brown, deceased, ten thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents; Philip Harwood Vernon, administrator de bonis non estate of William Vernon, deceased, thirty-one thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents;
On the schooner Alert, Jacob Oliver, master, namely:Schooner “Alert.” William Gray, administrator of William Gray, junior, two thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-six cents; On the ship Betsy, Josiah Obear, master, namely:Ship “Betsy.” William Gray, administrator of William Gray, junior, fourteen thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars and thirteen cents; 904 Francis A. Gray, administrator of Samuel Gray, seven thousandFrench spoliation claims—continued. two hundred and fourteen dollars and eight cents;
On the brig Alert, Robert Gray, master, namely:Brig “Alert.” William Gray administrator with the will annexed of the estate not administered of William Gray, deceased, one thousand five hundred dollars. On the schooner Elizabeth, Thomas Trott, master, namely:Schooner “Elizabeth.” John Wetherbee, administrator of the estate of James Tisdale, deceased. six hundred dollars; On the schooner Frederick, John Gilbert Clark, master, namely:Schooner “Frederick.” Marion Adeline Caverlv, administratrix cum testamento annexo estate of John Gilbert Clark, deceased, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
The Union Trust Company of New York, administrator of JacobDoty, deceased, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars; William Milligan, administrator of George Wattles, deceased, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars; On the brig Ruby, William Bartlett, master, namely:Brig “Ruby.” Jeremiah Nelson, administrator of Jeremiah Nelson, deceased, two thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-two-cents; Charles Savory, administrator of Moses Savory, two thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-two cents;
Charles G Wood, administrator of Abner Wood, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-nine cents; Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter C. Brooks, assignee of William Smith and David Green, two thousand dollars Charles H. Ladd, surviving executor of Nathaniel A. Haven, four hundred dollars; Amos Noyes, administrator of Zebudee Cook, one hundred dollars. William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellows, one thousand dollars; Henry W. Blagge and Susan B.
Samuels, administrators of Crowell Hatch, one thousand dollars; On the ship Light Horse. John Hoff, master, namely;Ship “Light Horse.” Julia M Sands, administratrix of Comfort Sands, seven thousand, three hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-six cents; On the ship Eliza, James Odell, master, namely:Ship “Eliza.” Wilmon W. Blackmar, administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo estate of Francis Amory, deceased, twelve thousand throe hundred and forty-one dollars and forty cents;
Charles Francis Adams, administrator of Peter Chardon Brooks, assignee, two thousand seven hundred and thirty nine dollars; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, six hundred and sixty-four dollars: William Vernon, administrator of Samuel Brown, four hundred and ninety-eight dollars: Francis M. Boutwell, administrator of Benjamin Cobb, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; Abel H. Bellows, administrator of Fred. W. Geyer, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; Henry W.
Blagge and Susan B. Samuels, administrators of Crowell Hatch, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; Francis M. Boutwell, administrator of Joseph Blake, one hundred and sixty-six dollars: William Gray, administrator of William Gray, three hundred and thirty-two dollars; William G. Perry, administrator of Nicholas Gilman, three hundred and thirty-two dollars; 905 Charles K Cobb, administrator of John Codman, one hundred French spoliation, claims—continued.and sixty-six dollars; John H.
Moriarty, administrator of James Scott, eighty-three dollars; Edward I. Browne, administrator of Israel Thorndike, eighty-three dollars; John C. Ropes, administrator of Thomas Amory, six hundred and sixty-four dollars; Thomas Cushing, administrator of Marston Watson, three hundred and thirty-two dollars; Robert Grant, administrator of William H. Boardman, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; David G. Haskins, administrator of David Greene, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; Horatio H.
Hunnewell, executor of John Welles, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; William Powell Perkins, administrator of Thomas Perkins, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; Horace B. Sargent, junior, administrator of Daniel Sargent, eighty-three dollars; Horatio H. Hunnewell, administrator of Arnold Welles, junior, . one hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty cents; Horatio H. Hunnewell, administrator of Arnold Welles, three hundred and thirty-two dollars; Edward I. Browne, administrator of Moses Brown, sixty-six dollars and forty cents;
Frank Dabney, administrator of Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, one hundred and sixty-six dollars; Lawrence Bond, administrator of Nathan Bond, eighty-three dollars; -Edward Hooper, administrator of Benjamin Bussey, three hundred and thirty-two dollars; On the ship Rosanna, John Pollard, master, namely:Ship “Rosanna.” James S. Humbird, trustee, and so forth, sixty-six thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; On the ship Rebecca, Daniel Brazier, master, namely:Ship “Rebecca.” ., Stephen L.
Stephenson, administrator of Samuel Stephenson, deceased, two thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-one cents; William Gray, administrator of the estate of William Gray, deceased, two thousand dollars; On the brig Mary, Thomas Boyle, master, namely:Brig “Mary.” JohnMervin Carrere and David Stewart, administrators de bonis non of John Carrere, deceased, two thousand two hundred and seven dollars; John Stewart, receiver of the Baltimore Insurance Company, eleven thousand dollars.
On the brig Two Sisters, Joseph Hubbert, master, namely:Brig “Two Sisters.” Sarah S. Owings and Francis R. Griffith, .administrators de bonis non of Nicholas Owings, surviving partner of Rogers and Owings, five thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents: William E. Woodyear, administrator de bonis non of Jeremiah Yellott, deceased, five thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; On the ship Friendship. John Rodgers, master, namely:Ship “Friendship.
” Mary Ann B. Smith, administratrix de bonis non of John Smith, junior, thirteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars; On the ship Port Mary. Thomas Hewitt, master, namely:Ship “Port Mary.” Alexander Maitland, administrator de bonis non of Robert Lenox, six thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars; 906 James K. Gracie, administrator de bonis non of Archibald Gracie,French spoliation claims —continued. six thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars: On the brig Virginia, Mark Butts, master, namely:Brig “Virginia.
” Samuel R. Adams, administrator of Richard Veitch, surviving partner of Thompson and Veitch, nineteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars: E. Francis Riggs, administrator of James Laurason, surviving partner of Shreve and Laurason, three thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-three cents; Anthony Hyde and Charles M. Mathews, executors of W. W. Corcoran, seventy-nine dollars and nine cents; James M. Johnston, administrator de bonis non of George W. Riggs,-seventy-nine dollars and nine cents;
Robert I. Chew, administrator of Richard Smith, seventy-nine dollars and nine cents; On the schooner Hero. Thomas Hammet, master, namely:Schooner “Hero.” Ann Elizabeth Marshall, administratrix de bonis non of William Robb, eight thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars; On the sloop Endeavor, James Miller, master, namely:Sloop “Endeavor.” Henry J. Gardner, administrator of Matthew Cobb, five thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents: On the schooner Eliza, William Cheever, master, namely:Schooner “Eliza.
” William Gray, administrator of William Gray, junior, six thousand dollars; William P. Andrews, administrator of Samuel Page, five thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty cents, On the schooner Trial, Daniel Ropes, junior, master, namely:Schooner “Trial.” George M. Whipple, administrator de bonis non of John Morris, eleven thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars; On the schooner Richard and Edward, Ebenezer Giles Evans, master, namely:Schooner “Richard .and Edward.
” William Gray, administrator of William Gray, junior, three thousand four hundred and thirty dollars; Richardson Knowland, administrator of E. G. Evans, three thousand four hundred and thirty dollars; On the schooner Eutaw, William Smith, master, namely:Schooner “Eutaw.” John Merven Carrere and David Stewart, administrators of John Carrere, one thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty cents: On the schooner Sisters, John Bradish, master, namely:Schooner “Sisters.
” Robert S. 0. Griffith, administrator of Nicholas Owings, surviving partner of the firm of Rogers and Owings, six hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents; Henry W. Rogers, administrator of John Bradish, three thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents; On the ship Lydia, John Moore, master, namely:Ship “Lydia.” Augusta H. Chapman, administratrix of Reuben Shapley, eight thousand two hundred and seventy dollars; James W. Emery, administrator of Thomas Manning, one hundred dollars;
J. Hamilton Shapley, administrator of Edward Cutts, one hundred dollars; George W. Haven, administrator of Moses Woodward, one hundred dollars; Stephen Decatur, administrator of Samuel Stover, one hundred dollars; Francis E. Langdon, administrator of Clement Stover, one hundred dollars. Fred P. Jones, administrator of Martin Parry, one hundred dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 540. 1891.907 On the brig Minerva, Samuel Endicott, master, namely:French spoliation claims—continued.
Brig “Minerva.” William Gray, administrator of William Gray, ten thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-eight cents. On the schooner Emily, William Emerson, master, namely:Schooner “Emily.” John Stewart, receiver of the Baltimore Insurance Company, twelve thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; Robert T. Owings Griffith, administrator of Beale Owings, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-two dollars and twelve cents. On the schooner Lucretia, John Grant, master, namely:Schooner “Lucretia.
” William D. Lee, Thomas D. Lee, Henry A. Lee, Joseph A. Lee, and Virginia Waters, administrators de bonis non estateof William Duncan, ten thousand four hundred and seven dollars and twenty-seven cents. On the brig General Wayne. William Allen, master, namely:Brig “General Wayne.” Charles Francis Adams, administrator estate of Peter Chardon Brooks, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty cents. Henry W. Blagge and Susan B. Samuels, administrators of Crow-ell Hatch, one thousand and eighteen dollars and eighty cents;
Thomas H. Perkins, administrator of John C. Jones, five hundred and nine dollars and forty cents; William Sohier, administrator of Nathaniel Fellowes, one thousand and eighteen dollars and eighty cents; Francis M. Boutwell, administrator of Benjamin Cobb, five hundred and nine dollars and forty cents. On the sloop Cicero, Thomas Taggart, master, namely:Sloop “Cicero.” Mary T. Latrobe, administratrix of Thomas Tenant, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighteen cents;
On the schooner Sally. Gideon Rea, master, namely:Schooner “Sally.” William Gray, administrator with the will annexed of the estate not already administered of William Gray, deceased, testate, two thousand dollars; William P. Andrews, administrator with the will annexed of the estate not already administered of Samuel Page, deceased, testate, six thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars; On the schooner Commerce, John W. Russell, master, namely:Schooner “Commerce.” William 0.
Gladding, second, administrator of John W. Russell, one-third of value of vessel, cargo, freight, and cost of insurance, less amount received from insurer, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty cents; William O. Gladding, second, administrator of the estate of Allen Munroe, one third of value of vessel, cargo, freight, and cost of insurance, less amount received from insurer, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty cents; William 0. Gladding, second, administrator of the estate of Nathaniel Howland, one-third the value of the vessel, cargo, and freight, amounting to three thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty cents;
On the sloop Union, Louis Bosworth, master, namely:Sloop “Union.” Sarah E. Bosworth, administratrix of the estateof Lewis Bosworth, deceased. who was the sole owner of the vessel and cargo, five thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars; On the sloop Packet, Joseph Smith, junior, master, namely:Sloop “Packet.” David Plummer, administrator of the estate of David Plummer, deceased, one thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars; Charles T. Hough, administrator of the estate of Benjamin K.
Hough, deceased, one thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars; On the brig Ranger, Benedict Peckham, master, namely:Brig “Banger.” William B. Phillips, administrator of Thomas Jackson, deceased, three thousand one hundred dollar’s and seventy-four cents; 908FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 540, 541. 1891. William B. Phillips, administrator of Moses Lippett, deceased,French spoliation claims—continued. three thousand one hundred dollars and seventy-four cents: On the brig Little Sam, William Hacquin, master, namely:Brig “Little Sam.
” Charles Hazlehurst, administrator de bonis non of Samuel Hazlehurst, deceased, four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents; William Stokes Boyd, administrator de bonis non of William Stokes, deceased, four thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-three cents; On the brig Experience, James Houston, master, namely:Brig “Experience.” Mary B. Scott, administratrix de bonis non of Jacob Clement, deceased, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty dollars and thirty-three cents;
In the matter of the brig Polly, Hugh Smith, master:Brig “Polly.” Mary B. Scott, administratrix de bonis non, and so forth, of Jacob Clement, deceased, six thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents; Daniel Steinmetz, administrator de bonis non, and so forth, of John Steinmetz, deceased, three thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars; in all, one million three hundred and four thousand and ninety-five dollars and thirty-seven cents. *Provided*, That in all cases where the original sufferers were adjudicated*Proviso*. bankrupts the awards shall be made on behalf of the next of Payment to next of kin instead of bankrupts’ assignees.kin instead of to assignees in bankruptcy, and the awards in the cases of individual claimants shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the personal representatives on whose behalf the award is made represents the next of kin, and the courts which granted the administrations, Certificate of security for distribution.respectively, shall have certified that the legal representatives have-given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the awards.
Approved, March 3, 1891.