'V^9 m ^5e#DPoDCC^ , \^^frQri:k 'WT' i ^^^S^M mi' i*Xa hSi 22'-,aAh;;';^ ^A^re^?^;^wKrNAS9«f 'fifmW^W^^^^^ ^pJ^r/V!^^^, \nr\rirJ»:':-i r,' |S|4 mm- <''-^V^J ^ ^J/i If 3' i,*Vi '^># to;? 11 mmfSfifSf1^. — To pay to Albert Ordway for services performed in preparing the general index of the journals of Congress from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the date on which he entered on his duties, to July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the date on which he took an oath of office, the sum of one hundred and one dollars and ninety cents; to enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House to pay M. M. Herr for ninety-four days' services as messenger in Sergeant-at-Arms' office, four hundred and seventy dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. To pay Charles Christian for services as laborer in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House from July first to March fourth, in- clusive, four hundred and six dollars and sixty-six cents. — Act of March 3, 1879. To pay eight messengers in the post office of the House, two of them from and including April first and the remaining six from and including April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, until the conclusion of the present session of Congress during the present fiscal year, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each for seven months. [The correct amount appro- priated is two thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and fourteen cents.]— Act of May 10, 1879. That the Clerk of the House be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Patrick Doran for his services as messenger to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department during the last session of Forty-fifth Congress, the sum of two hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty cents, in full and final settlement for such ser- vices. And the amount to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.— Eesolution June 18 1879. To pay Johan C. Kondrup, messenger of reporters of debates. House of Eepresentatives, for the present session, at the rate of eighty- three dol- lars and thirty-three cents per month, a sufficient sum is hereby appronri- ated.— Eesolution June 20, 1879. To enable the Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives to pay John E. Kelley, for services as messenger to the Committee of Ways and Means, during the present session of Congress at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; to enable the Clerk of the House to pay a sum equal to one month's pay from the date of their dis- charge from the "disabled soldiers' roll" of the House of Eepresentatives respectively, to William H. Prescott, Eugene McSweeny, and Eobert e' Median: Provided, Such pay has not already been provided for by law to pay A. E. Potts and C. F. Eainey for services in the office of the Sereeant- at- Arms, House of Eepresentatives, five dollars per day each for the first Eesoluti j' \ ^^^^'^^^^^ Congress, a sufflcient sum is hereby appropriated.— Salaries, Officers and Employ h. House of Repre'smtatlves, 1878.— To pay John W ' Polk late ^' ^^^ ^^ Doorkeeper of the House of Eepresentatives, two nTonths' extra pay under 2,327 60 LEGISLATIVE — HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 15 resolution of tlie House of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents.— Act March 3, 1879 $416 66 Salaries, Officers and UmploySs, House of Representatives, 1877.— To enable tlie Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives to pay the following-named persons, for services rendered in the Doorkeeper's department during the Forty-fourth Congress, the amounts specified, to wit: To Eobert Coates, the sum of two hundred and ten dollars, for services rendered from August fifteenth to first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; to Charles Carter, J. Cook Nickens, James Hall, and Henry Hall, each the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars, for services from the first day of September to the first day December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; in all, nine hundred and thirty dollars.— Act March 3, 1877. To pay John E. Kelly balance due for services under the Doorkeeper from December, eighteen himdred and sev- enty six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hun- dred and forty-seven dollars and sixty cents.— Act March 3, 1879. That the Clerk of the House be, and he is hereby, instructed to pay to L. H. Fitzhugh, in full and final settlement for his claim for services as Door- keeper for the Forty-fourth Congress, and for services after his removal from the said position as Doorkeeper, the sum of one thousand two hun- dred and fifty dollars; and for said payment there is hereby appropriated said amount of money out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap- propriated. — Resolution July 1, 1879 .*. . Salaries, Officers and Employes, Souse of Representatives^ 1876 and 1877.— To pay Henry G. Hays and Andrew Devine, official stenographers for committees of the House of Eepresentatives, the difference between their compensation as fixed by law and actually received by them during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and in the months of July and August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine hundred dollars each, eighteen hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 800 00 One Month's Compensation to Certain Employes of the House of Representatives. — That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives are hereby authorized and directed to pay all committee clerks, pages, messen- gers, and other employes of the Senate and House of Eepresentatives who do not receive annual salaries, their present rate of compensation, respec- tively, for thirty days from the date of the adjournment of this Congress; and the money required to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be immediately available: And further. The provisions of this resolution shall apply to the persons holding their respective positions at the date of its approval, and they "shall receive no other compensation for said time than that herein provided.— Eesolution March 3, 1879 13,922 32 One MontVs Extra Compensation to Annual Employes, House of Representatives. — That the Clerk of the House be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the employes of the House borne on the annual roll, one month's extra pay at the same compensation as now paid them by law, and an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Resolution July 1, 1879 19, 382 16 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : ClerJcs to Committees, 1880. — For thirty-five clerks to committees, at six dollars per day during the session, forty-four thousand one hundred dollars. [The correct amount is forty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars.] — Act June 21, 1879. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives are hereby author- ized and directed to pay all committee clerks, pages, messengers, and other employes of the Senate and House of Eepresentatives who do not receive annual salaries, and who are in such employ at the passage of this resolu- tion, their present rate of compensation, respectively, for fifteen days from the date of the adjournment of this session of Congress; and the money required to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be immediately available. — Eesolution July 1, 1879 - 47, 790 00 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Clerhs to Committees, 1879.— To pay Charles J. Wiener for services as clerk to the Committee on Printing during the Ig DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. recess of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, said committee beSig authorized by resolution of the House to si* during the recess, thirty days, at six dollars per day, one hundred ^nd eighty doUars.- Act March 3, 1879. To enable the Clerk of the House of Eepresentatiyes to pay A. Erdman, for services rendered by him in indexing and analyzing the testimony taken by the Committee on Public Expenditures injelatiou to the public printing and binding, three hundred doUars.-Act March 6, -1 Q7C) - - Contingent Expenses, "House ofBepresentatives : Clerics to Committees, 1^1^ ffV^^^'T^^ pay H. W. Spofford the balance of salary due him as clerk to the Committee on the Census, from May thirteenth to January thirty-first, inclusive, two hundred and sixty-four dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 --■■-■■-• ■ ■ ■ ■ - ■ -04 uo Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Clerics to Committees, 1877.-10 pay ^dward L Parris for services as clerk of the Special Committee on the Florida Elec- tions, appointed under resolution of December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, from December seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for expenditures made by him for said committee, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 .- - ■ 715 00 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives: Clerics to Committees, 1876.— To pay services of L. Q. Washington as clerk to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, from January eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to February twenty- fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one hundred and eighty-four dol- ]g^^g_ ^Q^ March 3 1879 l^^ ^^ Contingent Expense's, House of Representatives: Pages, 1880.— For twenty-nine pages, while actually employed, (including one riding-page and one telegraph-page,) at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, and for hire of horses, (five hun- dred dollars,) fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. [The correct amount is fifteen thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents.]— Act June 21, 1879. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives are hereby authorized and directed to pay all committee clerks, pages, messengers, and other employes of the Senate and House of Eepresentatives who do not receive annual salaries, and who are in such employ at the passage of this resolution, their present rate of compensation, respectively, for fifteen days from the date of the ad- journment of this session of Congress ; and the money required to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated, and shall be immediately available. — Eesolution July 1, 1879 17, 030 00 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Pages, 1878. — To pay George B. Hilton for forty-two days' services as page during the second session of the Forty- fourth Congress, one hundred and five dollars; to pay F. M. Schulteis for forty-seven days' services as page in the House in the second session of the Forty -fourth Congress, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. — Act March 3, 1879 222 50 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Pay of Folders, 1880. — For labor in folding books, speeches, and pamphlets, the following employes are hereby author- ized to be appointed by the superintendent of the folding-room, namely : One foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; fifteen laborers, ten thou- sand eight hundred dollars; one messenger, one thousand two hundred dol- lars; one folder in the sealing-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; one page, five hundred dollars; one laborer, four hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars; in lieu of the sum heretofore appropriated in gross ; for five folders in the folding-room, three thousand six hundred dol- lars. — Act June 21, 1879 19 200 CO Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Materials for Folding, 1880. — For materials for folding, fourteen thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 14 000 00 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Stationery and Newspapers, 1880. — For news- papers and stationery for Members of the House of Eepresentatives, officers of the House, and committees of the House, including six thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, forty- three thousand three hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 43 300 00 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Stationery and Newspapers, 1879. — To supply ' a deficiency in the appropriation for stationery and newspapers for the 10, 000 00 7, 000 00 5, 000 00 2, 200 00 700 00 70, 000 00 LEGISLATIVE HOUSE OF REPEESENTATIVES. 17 House of Eepresentatives, for tlie fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, eight hundred dollars. — Eesolution July 1, 1879 $800 00 Contingent Uxpenses, House of Representatives : Fuel for Heating Apparatus 1880— For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, and for steam-pump and condenser for same, ten thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Furniture and Repairs, 1880.— For furniture and repairs of the same, seven thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. . .' Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Horses and Wagons, 1880.— For hire of horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives: Packing- Boxes, 1880.— For packing-boxes two thousand two hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 .' Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Cartage, 1880.- For cartage, seven hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives: Miscellaneous Items, 1880.— For misceila- neous items, seventy thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Miscellaneous Items, 1879.— To meet the mis- cellaneous expenses of the House of Eepresentatives, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House, the sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropri- ated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available after the passage of this act.— Act January 29, 1879. To meet the miscellaneous expenses of the House of Eepresentatives during the current fiscal year, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House, twenty thousand dollars; to pay Watson Boyle, H. A. Olcott, and W. H. Smith, employed under resolutions of the House, at three dollars and sixty cents per day each, from and including March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one thousand three hundred and seventeen dol- lars and sixty cents; to pay William Douglass, in charge of water-closet, from and including March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and thirty cents; to pay person employed in preparing general index to journals of Congress under resolution of the House of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, from and in- cluding March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eight hundred and forty dollars and thirty cents. — Act May 10, 1879 62, 440 20 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives: Miscellaneous Items, 1878, and prior years. — To enable the Clerk of the House to pay certain accounts properly charge- able to the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the House for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-seven, and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, respectively, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives : Salaries of Capitol Police, 1880. — ^For one captain, one thousand six hundred dollars ; three lieutenants, at one thou- sand two hundred dollars each; twenty-one privates, at one thousand one hundred dollars each ; and six watchmen, at nine hundred dollars each ; in all, thirty-three thousand and seven hundred dollars, one-half to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate, and the other half to be paid into the contingent fund of the House of Eepresentatives. For two additional watchmen on the Capitol-police force, at nine hundred dollars each, eighteen hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 17, 750 00 Contingent Expenses, Souse of Representatives : Capitol-Police Contingent Fund, 1880. — For contingent fund, one hundred dollars, [one-half for the contingent fund of the House of Eepresentatives.] — Act Jime 21, 1879 50 00 Postage, House of Representatives, 1880. — For postage-stamps for the oflcers of the House of Eepresentatives, namely : For the Sergeant-at-Arms, three hundred dollars ; the Clerk, one hundred and fifty doUars ; and the Postmaster, one hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 600 00 Reporting Testimony before Committees of the House of Representatives, 1879.— For the pay- ment of the foUowing-named persons for reporting testimony before com- mittees of the House of Eepresentatives at the third session of the Forty- fifth Congress, (at times when the ofdcial stenographers were engaged with other committees,) to wit : Joseph I. Gilbert, E. W. Grant, E. C. Bartlett, 5 D A 18 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. B. D, Easton, C. J. Hayes, and William F. Bouyuge, three thousand seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, on accounts to be rendered by them respectively, certified by the official stenographers for the committees of the House, and approved by the chairman of the several committees for which the work was done, and by the Committee of Ac- counts.— Act March 3, 1879 - ■ - ■ • $3, 700 00 Investigation of Epidemic Diseases, Rouse of Representatives. — That the sum of fifty thou- sand dollars be appropriated out of any money now in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses that may be incurred in investigating the origin and causes of epidemic dis- eases, especially yellow-fever and cholera, and the best method of prevent- ing their introduction and spread in the United States, as provided for by resolutions of the Senate and House of Eepresentatives, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended, one-half by the Sergeant- at-Arms of the Senate, and one-half by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Eepresentatives, under the direction of the Senate and House Committees on Epidemic Diseases, acting concurrently. — Eesolution December 21, 1878. 25, 000 00 Cleaning Statuary Hall, House of Eepresentatives, 1879 and 1880. — For services rendered and to be rendered in cleaning Statuary Hall and watching statuary therein, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars, to be disbursed as contingent expenses of the House of Eepresentatives, subject to the approval of the Architect of the Capitol.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 440 00 Summary Reports of the Commissioners of Claims, 1879 and 1880. — To enable the Clerk of the House to have prepared for the Public Printer copies of the "Summary Eeports" of the Commissioners of Claims in cases reported to Congress as disallowed under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, of which twenty-five copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the Senate, and twenty-five copies for the use of the House of Eepresentatives, one thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary.— Act March 3, 1879. 1, 000 00 Payment to the Heirs or Legal Representatives of the late John E. Leonard. — To pay the heirs or legal representatives of the late John E. Leonard amount of salary due him, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 . ; 4 §28 57 Payment to ike Widow and Heirs of Hon. Rush ClarTc, deceased. — To pay the widow and heirs ' of Honorable Eush Clark, deceased, to be distributed in the proportion prescribed by the law of descent of the State of Iowa, six thousand dol- lars. — Eesolution June 20, 1879 6 000 00 To Reimburse N. 0. Ordway, late Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives.— To enable ' the Clerk of the House to reimburse N. G. Ordway, late Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, the amount of sundry bills paid by him for the House of Eepresentatives, one thousand three hundred and five dollars and fifty- eight cents: Provided, Said bills be approved by the Committee on Ac- counts. — Act March 3, 1879 2 305 58 Payment to J. C. Kondrup, Messenger House of Representatives, 1879— To pay " J. 6.' Koia"- ' drup for services as messenger to the official reporters of debates during T, ,• . ^ , ^*^® present session, two hundred and fifty dollars— Act March 3, 1879. . . 250 00 Relief of ths Widow of Alpheus S. Williams.— To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the widow of Alpheus S. Williams one thousand and seven dollars and eighty-eight cents.— Act March 3, 1879 ... 1 007 8S Reluf of the Widow of Frank Welch.— To enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the' House' to pay the widow of Frank Welch two thousand five hundred dollars.— Act Relief of the Widow of Gustave Schleicher.-To 'pay the' wid'o'w 'of Gustave s'chleicher, 'seven ^' ^^^ ^^ hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-five cents.— Act March 3, 1879 lo pay the widow of Honorable Gustave Schleicher, deceased, six thousand T?i- f ^ .J, ^r w*^ "^^'71"^^ ^"^^ ^® hereby appropriated— Act June 20, 1879. . . 6 738 85 Relief of the Children of B.B. Bouglas.-To pay Bessie Dandridge Douglas, Evelyn Spot's- ' wood Doug as, and Mary Ellen Douglas, children of B. B. Douglas nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and forty-three cents: to be divided and i?.h:f nf ,1, w^ '? r*^?- ^^^ to them respectively.— Act March 3, 1879 994 43 Relief of the Widow of Julian Hartridge.-To pay the widow of Julian Hartridge, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.-Act March 3, 1879. 765 75 LEGISLATIVE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER. 19 Relief of the Widow of Terrenoe J. Quinn. — To pay the widow of Terrence J. Quinn, three thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-five cents. — Act T^v. ^^ March3,1879 $3,52595 Kelwfof V. M. McGormicTc.—Tha,t the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, au- thorized and instructed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated, to V. H. McOormick, the sum of five hundred and fifty- five dollars and fifty-six cents, in full of all claim by said McOormick, for salary as special messenger and watchman to the Special Committee on Investigation of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company during the Fourty-fourth Congress, from the sixteenth day of August, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-six, to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, inclusive.— Act March 3, 1879 555 56 JOINT RESOLUTION fixing the date on whida the pay of the committee clerks, pages, and laborers of the House of Representatives, who are paid during the sesssion only, shall begin for this session, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pay of the thirty-five clerks to committees of the House of Eepresentatives heretofore authorized by reso- lutions of the House, and of the twenty-nine pages, and of the laborers of the House, heretofore authorized by law or by resolution of the House, who are paid during the session only, shall begin for this session on the day of the organization of the House, the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-nine; and the Clerk of the House is hereby authorized and directed to pay them from that date without regard to the date of their respective oaths of office. Approved June 24, 1879. That the Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund, to the clerks authorized to be employed by the resolution adopted by the House March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, such compensation as may be fixed by the Committee of Accounts, upon proper certification by the chair- man of the respective committees named in said resolution, whether said clerks were sworn or not at the time they were respectively employed. — Act March 3, 1879. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, immedi- ately after the adjournment of the present session, to issue to the officers and employes of the Senate and House borne on the annual rolls, their respective salaries for the month of July, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, which shall be in anticipation of their pay for the month of July. — Eesolution July 1, 1879. OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PEINTEE. Salaries, Office of Public Printer, 1880. — For compensation of the Public Printer, three thousand six hundred dollars; for chief clerk, (whose appointment is hereby authorized,) two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 13, 600 00 Contingent Uocpenses, Office of Public Printer, 1880.— For contingent expenses of his office, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, travelling expenses, horses and waeons, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 2, 000 00 Public Printing and Binding, 1880.— For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Eecord, and for litho- graphing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Su- preme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, and the Departments, and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution 20 DIGEST OP APPEOPEIATIONS. Of the work, one million five hundred thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the J-uDiic Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing ana binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, seven hunorea and fifty-seven thousand dollars; for the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, one hundred and eighty thousana dollars; for the War Department, one hundred thousand dollars; tor tJie Navy Department, thirty-nine thousand dollars; for the Interior Depart-^ ment, one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars; for the Department ot Justice, seven thousand dollars; for the Post-Offtce Department, one hun- dred and forty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eleven thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, thirty thou- sand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, one thou- sand dollars; for the Courbof Claims, ten thousand dollars; and for the Library of Congress, nineteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. That the sum of four thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of printing fifteen thousand copies of the letter of the Secretary of State, with consular reports showing the rates of wages, hours of labor, prices of food, the general condition of the working classes in the several countries of Eu- rope; to be available immediately.— Act June 21, 1879 $1, 504, 000 00 Public Printing and Binding, 1879.— For the public printing and binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceed- ings of Congress in the Congressional Eecord, and for lithographing, map- ping, and engraving, the amounts following, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars ; for the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars; for the War Department, twenty thousand dollars ; for the Interior Department, forty thousand dol- lars; for the Post-Offtce Department, thirty thousand dollars; for the Li- brary of Congress, ten thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 , 350, 000 OO Printing and Binding First and Second Volumes Catalogue of Library of Surgeon-GeneraVs Office. — For printing and binding the first and second volumes of catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General's Office, twenty thousand dollars ; to be immediately available.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 AN ACT to amend an act entitled " An act making appropriations for sundry civil ex- penses of the Governmeat for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June tTf entieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled " An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sev- enty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the clause of said act relating to the binding of books for the Departments of the Govern- ment, after the words " Congressional Library," the following words : "nor to the Library of the Surgeon General's Office." Approved, January 27, 1879. AN ACT to amend an act entitled " An act making appropriations for sundry civil ex- penses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled " An act mak- ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the clause of said act relating to the binding of books for the Departments of the Govern- LEGISLATIVE — OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER. 21 ment, after the words " Congressional Library," the following words : "nor to the Library of the Patent Office," nor to the Library of the Department of State. Approved, February 26, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Public Printer to bind in cloth two volumes of Sail- ing Directions for the United States Hydrographio Ofdce. Whereas the first and second volumes of a book entitled the " Coasts and Islands of the Mediterranean Sea," published by the United States Hydrographio Offtce, have been bound in cloth, and the third and fourth volumes are now in course of preparation : Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Printer be, and hereby is, authorized to bind in cloth, for the United States Hydrographio Office, the third and fourth volumes of the edition of the book of Sailing Direc- tions entitled "Coasts and Islands of the Mediterranean Sea," published by the United States Hydrographio Office : Provided, That the dilference in cost of the paper covers and cloth binding shall not exceed two hundred dollars. Approved, Jime 9, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION accepting from Professor Edward Fontaine, of Louisiana, certain maps, drawings, and explanations of the same. Whereas Professor Edward Fontaine has exhibited certain maps and drawings, with full explanations of the same, of his improved methods of hydraulic engineering and controlling water-currents, which are believed to be valuable, which he proposes to present to the Government of the United States, on the condition that they be printed: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the maps and drawings, with the explanations thereof, of Professor Edward Fontaine's improved methods of hydraulic engineering and controlling water-currents, which Professor Edward Fontaine proposes to give to the Government of the United States, on condition that they be printed, be, and the same hereby are, accepted. Seo. 2. That the regular niimber of these maps and drawings, with the explanations, be printed in quarto form ; and that one hundred additional copies be printed for the use of Professor Fontaine. Approved, June 19, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION to print five thousand copies of the Final Reports of the United States Centennial Commission upon the International Exhibition and Centennial Cele- bration of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That there be printed and bound, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, five thousand copies of the Final Eeports of the United States Centennial Commission upon the International Exhibition and Celebration of eighteen hundred and seventy- six: one thousand copies thereof for the use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, five hundred copies for the use of the State Department, and five hundred copies for the use of the Centennial Commission. Approved, June 20, 1879. AN ACT providing for the binding of the Internal-Revenue Laws and Manual. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Printer is hereby authorized to bind in cloth three thousand copies of the Compilation of Internal-Eevenue Laws, and three thousand five hundred copies of the Internal-Eevenue Manual for the use of the Internal-Eevenue Bureau.— Act June 27, 1879. 6 D A" 22 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Fire-Extinguishers, Government Printing Offlce, 1880.— For the purchase of portable fire- extinguishers, one thousand dollars, after competitive test of such apparatus as may be presented by the agents or owners thereof.— Act March J, 187y. *l, uuu w" Telephonic Connection between the Capital and Oovernment Printing Office, 1880. — For the annual rental and necessary repairs of the telephones and lines connecting the Capitol with the Government Printing Oface and the several Executive Departments, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- Act March 3, 1879 600 00 sary.- LIBEAEY OF CONGRESS. Salaries, Library of Congress, 1880.— For compensation of the Librarian, four thousand dol- lars; and for twenty-one assistant librarians, two at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each, one at two thousand dollars, four at one thousand six hundred dollars each, two at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each, two at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each, five at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four at one thousand dollars, and one at nine hundred and sixty dollars per annum; in all, thirty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. That the Librarian of Congress be authorized to employ three additional assistants, at a yearly compensation of twelve hundred dollars each; and the sum necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Three thousand six hundred dollars is appropri- ated for the fiscal year 1880.1- Act May 14, 1879 36, 840 00 Salaries, Library of Congress, 1879. — That the Librarian of Congress be authorized to em- ploy three additional assistants, at a yearly compensation of twelve hundred dollars each ; and the sum necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Pour hundred and seventy- four dollars and seventy-two cents is appropriated for the fiscal year 1879.] — Act May 14, 1879 474 72 Increase of Library of Congress, 1880. — For purchase of books for the Library, five thou- sand dollars; for purchase of law-books for the Library, two thousand dollars; for purchase of files of periodicals and newspapers, two thousand five hundred dollars; for expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, one thousand dollars ; in all, ten thou- sand five hundred dollars. For purchase, by the Librarian of Congress, of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased under the direction of the Chief Justice, three thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 14^ 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Library of Congress, 1880. — For contingent expenses of said Library, one thousand dollars. For expenses of the copyright business, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 50O 00 Worlcs of Art for the Capitol. — To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase works of art, five thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 5 OOO 00 BOTANIC GAEDEN. Salaries, Botanic Garden, 1880. — For pay of superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; for assistants in Botanic Garden and greenhouses; and two addi- tional laborers, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress eight thousand four hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars.— Act June21,1879 10 000 00 Improving Botanic Garden, 1880.— For improving the garden, procuring manure, tools, fuel ' and repairs, and purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, four thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 4 000 00 Improving Buildings, Botanic Garden, 1880.— For improvements and repairs to tlie build- ' ings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, as follows: For two new boilers and additional pipe for conservatory and one propagating-house, seven hun- dred and fifty dollars ; slate tables for west wing of the conservatory to re- place rotten wood, three hundred dollars; plumbing, two hundred dollars- painting and glazing, eight hundred dollars ; carpenter's work, three hun- dred dollars; concrete bottom and completing rim to fountain, and curb for beds around the same, five hundred and fifty-five dollars; hardware, one hun- LEGISLATIVE — COURT OF CLAIMS. 23 dred dollars; concrete walks, one thousand two hundred dollars; brick- work, one hundred dollars; soil to fill beds to conform to new grade, and for resetting and raising main walk, one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 - $5, 495 00 COUET OP CLAIMS. Salaries, Judges, &c.. Court of Claims, 1880.— For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each ; chief clerk, three thou- sand dollars; one assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff, one thou- sand five hundred dollars, and messenger thereof; in all, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 29, 840 GO Beporting Decisions, cfcc. Court of Claims, 1880.— For reporting the decisions of the court, clerical hire, labor in preparing and superintending the printing of the four- teenth volume of the Eeports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 , . . . 1, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Court of Claims, 1880.— For stationery, books, fuel, labor, postage, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, two thousand five hundred dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 2,500 00 Payment of Judgments, Court of Claims. — For payment of judgments of the United States Court of Claims, as follows : To Frank O. Kihlberg, six hundred and eight dollars and ninety-nine cents ; Andrew C. Bradley, to use of A. E. Shep- herd, to use of George Taylor, and others, trustees, one thousand eight hundred dollars; the International Steamship and Eailway-Supply Com- pany, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ; William C. Eawolle, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sev- enty-six cents; Edward Hunter, seventy-three dollars and four cents ; F. H. E. Ebstein, one hundred and fifty dollars ; George F. Foote, two hundred and twenty dollars and eighty -three cents; Frank K. Upham, eighty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents ; Thomas T. Knox, two hundred and eight dol- lars and thirty- three cents; WilUam V. Eichards, three hundred and twenty- three dollars and three cents; James Miller, one hundred and forty-five dol- lars; Francis Moore, one hundred and forty dollars and twenty-seven cents; Eichard I. Eskridge, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy- seven cents; George Searing, four thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-four cents; George W. Grifftn, surviving partner of the firm of Grif&n & Porch, two thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dol- lars and twelve cents; David E. Godwin, dative tutor of the minor children of Henry S. Hall, deceased, one thousand five hundred and ninety-one dol- lars and sixty-two cents; James W. Goslee, two hundred and eight dollars and eighty-six cents; Adolphus Erdman, two hundred and forty-six dol- lars; William Crosby, four hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy- eight cents; E. M. Peterson, administrator of Samuel Euth, deceased, one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-one cents; James F. Buckner, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-six cents; Adolph & Samuel Woolner, copartners under the name of A. & S. Woolner, eight hundred and one dollars ; Kyran A. Murphy, two hun- dred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents; Joseph S. Emery, forty- three thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-nine cents; John C. Grand and Company, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; Joseph S. Farden, one hundred and sixty- three dollars and five cents ; Jane Quinn, administratrix of David Quinn, deceased, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; Piatt M. Thorn, five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents; to the Denver Pacific Eailway and Telegraph Company, fifty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; In aU, one hundred and forty-eight thousand one hun- dred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-four cents.— Act March 3, 1879. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary : Provided, That no judgment shall be paid until the right of appeal has expired.— Act June 28, 1879 373, 152 84 24 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. AN ACT for the relief of the officers and privates of the New Mexico Mounted Volunteers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of Claims shall take jurisdiction of aud adjudge the claims of oflacers and privates of the New- Mexico Mounted Volunteers in the service of the United States during the war of the rebellion, on account of losses of horses and equipments, although the same shall not be presented within six years from the time they ac- crued: Provided, That no such claim shall be considered unless the petition setting forth the same be filed within one year from the passage of this act. Approved, March 1, 1879. AN ACT granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the schooner Don Pedro. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the claim or claims of the legal or equitable owners or claimants of the schooner Don Pedro, her cargo, freight, and personal effects contained in her, alleged to have been dam- aged, injured, and sunk, by collision with the United States revenue-cutter U. S. Grant, on or about the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction and au- thority to hear and determine the same to judgment, with right of appeal, as in other cases : Provided, That no suit shall be brought under the pro- visions of this act after six months from the date of the passage thereof. Approved, March 3, 1879. SOUTHEEN CLAIMS COMMISSION. Salaries, Southern Claims Commission, 1880. — For pay of three Commissioners to the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum each ; one clerk, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars; one stenographer, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars • one messenger, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars; three ad- ditional clerks, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, seventeen thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty- one cents. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is seventeen thou- sand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents.] — Act June JiL, 1879 $17 IfiQ '>! Salaries, Southern Claims Commission, 1879.— For salaries of the Commissioners, the clerk ' reporter, and messenger, six thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dol- lars and seventy-four cents: Provided, That so much of the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Southern Claims Commission made by the legislative act approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, as may be necessary, not exceeding seven thousand dollars, is herebv transferred for the payment of salaries of investigating agents and their expenses, and for additional clerks, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy -nine.— Act March 3, 1879 Salaries and Expenses of Agents, Southern Claims Commission, 1880. For 'compensation" of ' ^^ three investigating agents, at five dollars per day when actually emploved • also travelling expenses of agents, fees and mileage to Government wit' nesses, costs of summoning Government witnesses, fees to commissioners for takmg testimony, fees for abstracts and exemplifications of public records relating to claims and claimants, six thousand dollars: Provided That said agents shall give notice to claimants, whose claims it is proposed to investigate, of the time and place of taking testimony, who shall have fhl right to cross-examine every witness who may testify in behalf of the Gov ernment; and said agents shall also take at the same time the testimonVof any and all witnesses who may be presented by the claimant, on his pavinJ A ^^^P*^J^^^^ *®^®ofj ^l\^^l such testimony, both on behalf of the claiman r and the Government shall be taken under the law and rules which usSv govern the taking of testimony ; and the judges of the Southern Claims Som mission shall prescribe and publish rules for the taking of the tes^fmoT,^" and shall provide in all cases for full and fair notice to be given of tSme LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATIVE MISCELLANEOUS. 25 and place thereof; and sections, two, three, four, five, and six of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, authorizing the Southern Claims Commission, are hereby repealed, to take effect on and after the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eightv.— Act June 21, 1879 ... $6 000 00 tonttngent Expenses, Southern Claims Commission, 1880.— For contingent expenses, namely • ' Oface-rent, furniture, fuel, stationery, printing and binding, postage and expressage, labor, and assistance to short-hand reporter, when needed, four thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 4 000 00 And so much of section thirty-six hundred and eighty-nine of the Ee- vised Statutes of the United States as makes the appropriation for "sal- aries and expenses of Southern Claims Commission" permanent annual appropriations, is hereby repealed.— Act June 19, 1878. LEGISLATIVE MISCELLANEOUS. Payment for Contesting Seats, Forty-fifth Congress.— To pay D. T. Corbin, late contestant for a seat in the United States Senate from the State of South Carolina, his expenses of such contest, ten thousand dollars. That the parties named below be allowed the amounts set opposite their names on account of ex- penses incurred by them, respectively, in contested-election cases : Charles M. Shelley, two thousand five hundred dollars; Jere Haralson, two thousand five hundred dollars; P. D. Wigginton, two thousand five hundred dollars; Eomualdo Pacheco, two thousand dollars; T. M. Patterson, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty- five cents; J. B. Belford, six hundred and sixty-six dollars; J. J. Pinley, one thousand two hundred and sixty -two dollars and seventy-one cents; Horatio Bisbee, jr., four thousand dollars; J. H. Acklen, two thousand dollars; C. B. Darrall, one thousand dollars; J. B. Elam, five hundred dollars; C. E. ISTash, one thousand dollars; E. W. Robertson, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Benjamin Dean, one thousand and five hundred dollars; Walbridge A. Field, one thousand and five hun- dred doUars; John E. Lynch, one thousand dollars; Lyne S. Metcalfe, one thousand and seven hundred dollars ; E. Graham Frost, two thousand dol- lars; James L. l^utting, four thousand dollars; James B. Eeilly, four thou- sand dollars; John S. Eichardson, two thousand dollars; Joseph H. Eainey, two thousand five hundred dollars; G. D. Tillman, two thousand dollars; Eobert Smalls, two thousand five hundred dollars; Joseph Jorgensen, one thousand dollars; in all, forty-six thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and six cents, to be immediately available. That hereafter no contestee or contestant for a seat in the House of Eepresentatives shall be paid exceed- ing two thousand dollars for expenses in election contests; and before any sum whatever shall be paid to a contestant or contestee for expenses of election contests, he shall file with the clerk of the Committee on Elections a full and detailed account of his expenses, accompanied by the vouchers and receipts for each item, which account and vouchers shall be sworn to by the party presenting the same, and no charges for witness-fees shall be allowed in said accounts unless made in strict conformity to section one hundred and twenty-eight, Eevised Statutes of the United States. — Act March 3, 1879 56, 616 06 MeyVs " United States Duties on Imports." — That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives be, and they are hereby, directed to purchase and procure, as early as practicable, for the use of Congress, five hundred copies of "Heyl's United States Duties on Imports," edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to wit, one copy for each Senator, Eepresenta- tive, and Delegate, and the residue for the use of the committees of the Senate and House of Eepresentatives; the price to be the same as was paid for a like niimber of copies purchased for the Forty-fourth Congress, namely, two dollars and fifty cents per copy. And the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the same, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be avail- able immediately. — Eesolution July 1, 1879 1, 250 00 Joint Committee on Reorganization of the Army.— For expenses of the Joint Committee to take into consideration the subject-matter of reform and reorganization of 7 D A 26 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. the Army, two hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents.— Act January 29, 1879 -■ y:.- $232 b7 Joint Committee on Transfer of Indian Bureau to War Department— For expenses ot tJie Joint Committee to take into consideration the expediency of transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department, nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents.— Act January 29, 1879 953 60 AN ACT to provide for taking testimony, to be used before Congress, in oases of private claims against tbe United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any committee of either House of Congress before which any private claim against the United States may at any time be pending, being first thereto authorized by the House appoint- ing them, may order testimony to be taken, and books and papers to be examined, and copies thereof proved before any standing master in chancery of the circuit of the United States within the judicial district where such testimony or evidence is to be taken. Such master In chancery, upon re- ceiving a copy of the order of such committee, signed by its chairman, setting forth the time and place when and where such examination is to be had, the questions to be investigated, and, so far as may be known to the committee, the names of the Avitnesses to be examined on the part of the United States, and the general nature of the books, papers, and documents to be proved, if known, shall proceed to give to such private parties reason- able notice of the time and place of such examination, unless such notice shall have been or shall be given by such committee or its chairman, or by the attorney or agent of the United States, or waived by such private party. And such master shall issue subpoenas for such witnesses as may have been named in the order of such committee, and such others as the agent or other representative of the United States hereinafter mentioned shall request. And he shall also issue subpoenas at the request of such private party or parties for such witnesses within such judicial district as they may desire: Brovided, That the United States shall not be liable for the fees of any officer for serving any subpoena for any private party, nor for the fees of any witness on behalf of such party. Said committee may inform the dis- trict attorney of the United States for the district where the testimony is to be taken of the time, place, and object of such examination, and request his attendance in behalf of the Government in conducting such examina- tion, in which case it shall be his duty to attend in.person, or by an assist- ant employed by him, to conduct such examination on the part of the United States; or such committee may, at its option, appoint an agent or attorney, or one of its own members, for that purpose, as they may deem best; and in that event, if the committee shall not be unanimous, the mi- nority of the committee may also appoint such agent or attorney or member of such committee to attend and take part in such examination. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the marshal of the United States for the district in which the testimony is to be taken to serve, or cause to be served, all sub- poenas issued in behalf of the United States under this act, in the same manner as if issued by the circuit court for his district; and he shall, upon being first paid his fees therefor, serve any subpoenas that may be issued at the instance of such private party or parties. And the said master may in his discretion, appoint any other person to serve any subpoena. Such master shall have full power to administer oaths to witnesses, and the same power to issue attachments to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents as the circuit or district court of his district would have in a case pending before it; and it shall be his duty to report the conduct of contumacious witnesses before him to the House of Congress appointing such committee. The compensation of such master m chancery, and of marshals and deputy marshals, and of any per- son appointed to serve papers, shall be the same as for like services in equity cases in the circuit court of the United States; and the compensation ot witnesses shall be the same as for like attendance and travel of witnesses before such circuit courts; and all such fees and compensation of officers and witnesses on behalf of the United States, and other expenses of all EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE PEOPEE. 27 investigations which may be had under the provisions of this act on the part of the United States shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the branch of Congress appointing such committee. Said master, when the examination is concluded, shall attach together all the depositions and ex- hibits, and attach thereto his certificate setting forth or referring to the authority by which they were taken, any notices he may have given, the names of the witnesses for whom subpoenas or attachments were issued, the names of witnesses who attended, with the time of attendance and mileage and fees of each witness on behalf of the United States, which he may re- quire to be shown by afiddavit, his own fees, the fees of the marshal, his deputies, or other persons serving papers, giving the items and such other facts m relation to the circumstances connected with the taking of the depo- sitions as he may deem material. He shall then seal up such depositions and papers securely, direct them to the chairman of such committee at Washington, stating briefly on the outside the nature of the contents, and place the same in the post office, paying the postage thereon; and said package shall be opened only in the presence of such committee. The chair- man of any committee ordering testimony to be taken under this act shall, at least ten days before the time fixed for such examination, and within two days after the adoption of such order, cause a copy thereof to be directed and delivered to the Attorney-General of the United States, or sent to him by mail at the Department of Justice, to enable him to give such instruc- tions as he may deem best to the district attorney of the district where such testimony is to be taken, who may, and, if required by the Attorney- General, shall, though not requested by the committee, appear for the United States in person or by assistant, and take such part in such exami- nation as the Attorney-General shall direct. Approved, February 3, 1879. EXECUTIVE. EXECUTIVE PEOPEE. Salary of the President, 1880. — For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 $50, 000 00 Salary of the Vice-President, 1880. — For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, eight thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 8, 000 00 Salaries, Ilxecutive Office, 18 SO. — For compensation to the following in the office of the President of the United States : Private secretary, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two executive clerks, at two thousand dollars each; sten- ographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; steward, at one thousand eight hundred dollars ; and messenger and usher, at one thousand two hun- dred dollars ; in all, fourteen thousand three hundred dollars. And the duties prescribed by section of the Eevised Statutes numbered four hundred and fifty shall devolve upon and be discharged by one of the executive clerks, to be designated by the President for that purpose. For the follow- ing employes at the Executive Mansion, namely : For furnace-keeper, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars ; one night-watchman, at nine hundred dol- lars, one night-usher, at one thousand two hundred dollars ; two day-ushers, one at the President's door, at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at the door of the secretary, at one thousand two hundred dollars ; and two doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, seven thou- sand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars. Also, for the following additional employes for the Executive Office in lieu of those at present detailed from other Departments, namely: For one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two ; and one clerk of class one ; and four messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; in all, nine thousand two hundred dollars. And the Secretary of War is authorized to furnish two horses for the use of two of said messengers on public business ; and the force above enumerated for the 28 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. use of the Executive Office and Mansion shall be in full for the same; and all details from other Departments for such service are hereby excluded.— ^^^ ^^ Act June 21, 1879 'J Vu' ' •c' V' M ' Contingent Expenses, Executive Office, 1880.— For contingent expenses ot the ^xecum e Office, including stationery therefor, six thousand dollars.— Act June ^i, ^ ^^^ ^^ DBPAETMENT OF STATE. Salaries, Department of State, 1880.— For compensation of the Secretary of State, eight thou- sand dollars; two Assistant Secretaries of State, at three thousand five hun- dred dollars each; for third Assistant Secretary of State, three thousand five hundred dollars; for chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; eleven clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; one superintendent of the watch, at one thousand dollars; six watchmen; twelve laborers; chief engineer, who shall be a machinist, one thousand two hun- dred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; six firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; ten charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; and a conductor for the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars^ in all, ninety-six thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; for four chiefs of bureau and one translator, at two thousand one hundred dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; for extra clerk- hire and copying, four thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Ill, 340 00 Proof-reading, Department of State, 1880. — For proof-reading, and packing the laws and documents for the various legations and consulates, including boxes and transportation of the same, two thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 2, 000 00 Stationery, Furniture, &c.. Department of State, 1880. — For stationery, furniture, and fixtures, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Boolcs and Mays, Department of State, 1880. — For books and maps, two thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 2, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Department of State, 1880. — For contingent exi)enses, namely: For fuel, three thousand dollars; for lights, two thousand dollars; for repairs, two thousand dollars; for care and subsistence of horses and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand two hundred dollars; and for miscel- laneous items, not included in the foregoing, two thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For care of grounds, clock, telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same, one thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 11, 200 00 Bent of Stable and Wagon-shed, Department of State, 1880. — For rent of stable and wagon- shed for the new State-Department building, six hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 600 00 Lithographing, Department of State, 1880. — For services of lithographer, and necessary materials for the lithographic press, one thousand two hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 200 00 Editing, Publishing, and Distributing Revised and Annual Statutes, 1880 For expenses of ' editing and distributing the laws enacted at the third session of the Forty- fifth Congress, and for editing and distributing the Statutes-at-Large, five thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 5 qoO 00 STATE MISCBLLA]N^EOUS. International Exhibitions at Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in 1879 and 1880. Whereas the British Government have communicated to the Government of the United States an invitation on behalf of the colony of New South Wales to take part in a universal exhibition of products, manufactures, and arts, to be held in Sydney in the month of August next; and whereas, the colony of Victoria has set on foot a similar exhibition, to be held at Melbourne during the coming year, and in the organization and conduct of which the commis- sioners and exhibitors of the United States are desired to participate: Re- solved by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That to provide for the acceptance of said EXECUTIVE — STATE MISCELLANEOUS. 29 invitation and the representation of the United States in said exhibitions, there be, and herebj- is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to effect the purpose of this resolution, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of effecting such representation at both or either of the said exhibitions. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmit to Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures which may have been incurred under the provisions of this resolution ; together with all reports which may be submitted by the person or persons delegated to carry out the purposes hereof, as commissioners or otherwise; which reports shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and con- venient reference. — Eesolution June 10, 1879 $20, 000 00 International Bemoneiization of Silver. — For negotiation with foreign governments with a view to the international remonetization of silver, to be expended in the discretion of the President, twenty thousand dollars; and an account of the expenditures thereof shall be submitted to the Congress that meets Decem- ber, eighteen hundred and eighty.— Act June 21, 1879 20, 000 00 International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 1880. — For contribution to maintenance of International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with terms of convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy -five, one thousand nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 900 00 Awards under Convention between United States and Peru of December 4, 1868. — M. Vidal, awards under convention between United States and Peru, one thousand and twenty-five dollars and six cents. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 025 06 Allowance to the Widow of the late Bayard Taylor. — To enable the Secretary of State to make such allowance as he shall deem just and equitable to the widow of the late Bayard Taylor, late Minister to Germany, for the extraordinary expenses and losses incurred by the estate of said minister in consequence of his dying within a short period after his arrival at his post of duty, the sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Act March 3, 1879 7, 000 00 Allotcance to the Widow of the late Justin U. Golburn. — To enable the Secretary of State to make such allowance as he shall deem just and equitable to Mary B. Col- burn, widow of the late Justin E. Colburn, late consul-general to Mexico, for the extraordinary expenses and losses incurred by the estate of the said consul-general in consequence of his dying within a short period after his arrival at his post of duty, the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.— Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Monument to mark the Birthplace of George Washington. — That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting a monument at, and to mark the birthplace of George "Washington, which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, who shall have the management and control of the erection of said monument. — Eesolution June 14, 1879 3, 000 00 Payment to B. B. Leicis and J. J. Coffee. — To pay B. E. Lewis and J. J. Coffee the balances due them as marshal and clerk, respectively, at the consulate-general at Shanghai, China, during their absence attending on subpoenas as witnesses before a committee of the House of Eepresentatives, the sum of two thou- sand two hundred and three dollars and sixty-nine cents, to be available at once; and said Lewis and Coffee shall receive no allowance for witness-fees and travelling expenses. — Act March 3, 1879. That the clause in the "Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, making appropriation to pay B. E. Lewis and J. J. Coffee the balances due them, respectively, as marshal and clerk at the consulate- general at Shang- hai, China, be amended by striking out the words "and said Lewis and Coffee shall receive no allowance for witness-fees and travelling expenses."— Eesolution June 20, 1879 2, 203 69 8 DA 30 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. To Reimburse A. D. Sliaw, late Consul at Toronto.— To reimburse A. D. Shaw, late consul at Toronto, the sum of six hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty- seven cents, that being the amount of Government funds deposited by him in the banking-house of H. J. Morris and Company, of Toronto, at the date of their failure in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, no part of which has been reimbursed to him. — Act March 3, 1879 $633 37 Payment to E. U. Bice, for Property Conveyed to the United States at SaJcodadi, Japan. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Blisha E. Eice, late United States consul at Hakodadi, Japan, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, coin— the same being in full pay- ment for certain lots, and improvements thereon, in Hakodadi, Japan, con- veyed by said Eice to the United States, and used for consular purposes. — Act June 18, 1879 2, 250 00 Relief of Br. C. W. Brink.— Tha,t Dr. C. W. Brink be paid, for compensation and expenses as bearer of despatches from the United States Minister at Mexico in eigh- teen hundred and sixty-nine, five hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty- nine cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Eesolution June 18, 1879 552 69 Relief of the Estate of Renry Conard. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Adela Conard, widow and sole legatee of the late Henry Conard, of Pennsylvania, the sum of seven thousand dollars, to reimburse his estate for expenditures made and losses sustained by him in consequence of protection, and so forth, extended by him to Hay- tian refugees under the authority of the Government of the [Jnited Stat«s, while in the consular service thereof, at Port-au-Prince, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.— Act July 1, 1879 7, 000 00 JOINT EESOLUTION relative to certain accepted drafts and other papers in the Depart- ment of State. Resolved by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, directed to deliver to the person, justly entitled to the possession thereof, three several drafts for the sum of five thousand dollars each, dated New York, August second, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and drawn by Santiago Vidaurrie, Governor of ISTuevo Leon and Cohuahuila, by Ignatius Gulindo, agent, on J. M. Mata, Mexican Minister, Washington, District of Columbia, and accepted by said J. M. Mata, and made payable at the Bank of the Eepublic, isTew York, and all other papers relating to said drafts, the same having been deposited in the Department of State by error. Approved, June 28, 1879. FOREIOIV INTERCOURSE. Salaries oj Ministers, 1880.— For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipo- tentiary to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Eussia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars ; for salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers pleuipotentiary to Spain, Austria, Italy Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and China, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty- four thousand dollars; for salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars; for ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Argentine Eepublic, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the United States of Colombia, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, sixty thousand dollars; for minister resident and consul-general at Bohvia, five thousand dollars; for minister resident accredited to Guate mala, Costa Eica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, to reside at the place that the President may select in either of the States named, ten thousand dollars; for minister resident and consul-general to Havti, seven thousand FOREIGN INTEECOUESE. 31 five hundred dollars; for minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars; for salaries of charges d'affaires to Portugal, Den- mart, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. — Act January 27, 1879 $280, 500 00 Salaries of Ministers, 1872 and prior years. — John F. Delaplaine, salary as United States minister, one thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and twelve cents. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 186 12 Salaries, Secretaries of Legation, 1880. — For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty -five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of the secretary of legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars ; for salaries of the secretaries to the legations at Austria, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thou- sand dollars; for salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain, France, and G-ermany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; for salary of a clerk to the legation at Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars ; for the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also as interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars; for the salary of the interpreter to the legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars ; for the in- terpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act January 27, 1879 39, 700 00 Salaries, Secretaries of Legation, 1879. — For salaries of second secretaries of legation to Great Britain, Prance, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Foreign Missions, 1880. — For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all the missions abroad, eighty thousand dollars. — Act Jan- uary 27, 1879 80, 000 00 SCHEDXJLE B. Salaries, Consular Service, 1880. — For the agent and consul-general at Cairo, four thousand dollars; for the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Eio de Ja- neiro, each six thousand dollars, twenty-four thousand dollars; for the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, each five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars; for the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the consuls-general at Kanagawa and Montreal, each four thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars; for the consul-general at Berlin, four thousand dollars; for the consuls-general at Vienna, Frankfort, Eome, and Constantinople, each three thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars; for the consuls-general at St. Petersburg and Mexico, each two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars ; for the consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars; for salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, three hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars, namely: Class I— At $4,000 per annum.— G^rea* Britain— Rong-Kong. Sa- waiian Islands — Honolulu. Class II— At $3,500 per annum. — China — Foochow; Hankow; Can- ton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chiu-Kiang; Ningpo. Pera— CaUao. Class III— At $3,000 per smnnm.— 6h-eat Britain— MauchesteT; Glas- gow; Bradford; Demerara. French Dominions- Havre. Spanish Bonmi- ions- Matanzas. Mexico— Yera, Cruz. United States of GolomUa—V a.nama, ; Colon, (Aspinwall.) Argentine Eepublic—Bnenos Ayres. Barbary States- Tripoli; Tunis; Tangier. Japan — Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. Siam — Bangkok. Chili — Yalparaiso. Class IV— At $2,500 per annum.— -^70 00 Salaries, Office of Third Auditor, 1880.— For Third Auditor, three thousand six hundred dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; five chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each ; six clerks of class four ; fourteen clerks of class three; fifty-five clerks of class two; thirty-seven clerks of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each ; one assistant messenger; and seven laborers ; and one female laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and ninety-one thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 191,370 00 Salaries, Office of Fourth Auditor, 1880.— For the Fourth Auditor, three thousand six hun- dred dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each ; two clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three ; eight clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each ; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, sixty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879. 69, 390 00 Salaries, Office of Fifth Auditor, 1880.— For the Fifth Auditor, three thousand six hun- dred dollars ; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hun- dred dollars each; one messenger; and one laborer; in all, forty thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 40, 450 00 Salaries, Office of Sixth Auditor, 1880. — For compensation of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, three thousand six hundred dollars; deputy auditor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; eight chiefs of divis- ion, at two thousand dollars each; seven clerks of class four, and, additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; fifty-two clerks of class three; sixty -nine clerks of class two; forty -five clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; nineteen laborers; twenty assorters of money-orders, twenty thousand dollars; alscf fifteen female assorters of money-orders, at nine hundred dollars each; ten charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, three hundred and twenty-two thousand and ten dollars. For one skilled laborer in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, one thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 323, 010 00 Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States, 1880. — For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, six thousand dollars ; assistant treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand six hundred dollars ; assistant cashier, three thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; five chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dol- lars each ; one principal book-keeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars ; one assistant book-keeper, at two thousand four hundred dollars; two tellers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each ; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each ; twenty-six clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; twenty- three clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eighty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six messengers; six assistant messen- gers; twenty-six laborers; and seven laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two hundred and seventy-three thousand six hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 273 600 00 Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States, 1880, (National Currency, Reimbursable.)^ ' For the force employed in redeeming the national currency, namely: For superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars ; two principal tellers and one principal book-keeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars each • one assistant book-keeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; and two assistant tellers, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four- four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; twenty -nine clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; eighteen clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant messengers- and TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 37 two employes, at four hundred and thirty -two dollars each; in all, one hun- dred and one thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 $101, 584 00 Salaries, Office of BegisUr, 1880.— For compensation of the Eegister of the Treasury, four thousand dollars; assistant register, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; six clerks of class four, one of whom shall receive two hundred dollars additional for services as disbursing clert, and shall give bond jn such amount as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; six clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and three laborers; in all, fifty- seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 57, 750 00 Salaries, Office o/Begister, 1880, {Loans.) — For the division of loans, namely: Five chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-four copyists and counters, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; and four laborers ; in all, one hundred thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 100, 840 00 Salaries, Office of Comptroller of the Gurrencfy, 1880. — For Comptroller of the Currency, five thousand dollars; deputy comptroller, two thousand eight hundred dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one stenographer, at one thousand six hundred dollars; eight clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; eleven clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger ; two assistant messengers; and three laborers; and two night-watchmen ; in all, one hundred and one thousand four hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 101, 400 00 Salaries, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, 1880, (JSfational Currency, Beimhursable.) — For expenses of the national currency, namely: One superintendent, at two thousand dollars; one teller and one book-keeper, at two thousand dollars each; and one assistant book-keeper, at two thousand dollars; fifteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 22, 220 00 Salaries, Office of Commissioner of Internal Bevenue, 1880. — For Commissioner of Internal Eevenue, six thousand dollars ; one deputy commissioner, three thousand two hundred dollars; two heads of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; five heads of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty- three clerks of class four; twenty-six clerks of class three; thirty-six clerks of class two; twenty-one clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thou- sand dollars each; fifty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four assistant messengers; and ten laborers; in all, two hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is two hundred and fifty-three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.]- Act June 21, 1879 ■ 253, 330 00 Salaries, Office of Light-home Board, 1880.— For chief clerk of the Light-house Board, two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred dollars. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is fourteen thousand and eighty dollars.]— Act June 21, 1879 14, 080 00 Salaries, Bureau of Statistics, 1880.— For the officer in charge of the Bureau of Statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five copy- ists, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and one female laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 40, 760 00 Salaries, Office of Life- Saving Service, 1880.— For General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, four thousand dollars ; assistant general superintendent of the Life- 10 D A 38 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. Saving Service, two thousand five hundred dollars; one principal clerk and accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dol- lars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 ■• $19, 420 00 One Month's Pay to Discharged Employes, Treasury Department, 1880. — Sec. 4. That there be paid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one- month's pay to each of the persons discharged from the Treasury Depart- ment by reason of reduction in the force under the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and eighty, and for other purposes ;" but this payment shall not apply in any case where leave of absence for thirty days has been granted as pre- liminary to said discharge. — Eesolution July 1, 1879 1, 275 00 Sec. 4. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, and laborers provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated in par- ticular cases in the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, which it continues and makes available, (except as declared in the first section of this act,) shall be as follows : For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each ; for laborers, six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; and a sufficient amount to meet the provisions of this section is hereby appropriated. — Act June 21, 1879. TEEASUEY MISCELLANEOUS. Stationery for Treasury Department, 1880. — For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, forty thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 40, 000 00 Postage, Treasury Department, 1880. — For postage, one thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively, of the Departments of State, of the Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Postmaster-General for the neces- sary amount of postage-stamps for the use of their Departments, not ex- ceeding the amount stated in the estimates submitted to Congress; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post- OfBLce Department for the same fiscal year. — Act June 21, 1879 201 600 00 Postage-Stamps, Executive Departments, 1879 and 1880. — For official postage-stamps for the ' Executive Departments, as required under Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, ten thousand dollars; to be available immediately. [For the Treasury Department, two thousand six hundred dollars; State Department, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; War Department, two thousand six hundred dollars; Interior De- partment, two thousand one hundred dollars; and Department of Justice fifty dollars.]— Act March 3, 1879. For the purchase of ordinary postage- stamps for use on official matter, to be sent to foreign countries in pur suance of the requirements of the United Postal Union Treaty, five thousand dollars; to be available on and after April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. — Act February 14, 1879 2 - ««/. /.., Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Binding, Newspapers, &c., 1880.— For arranging ' and binding canceUed marine-papers, requisitions, and other important records; seahng ship's registers; for foreign postage, newspapers, books hand-stamps, and repairs of the same, ten thousand dollars; and of this amount not more than five hundred dollars may be used in the purchase of current publications.— Act June 21, 1879 ... ^r. f.(,r, ,.,. Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Binding, Newspapers, &c., 1879.— For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, as set forth in detail in House Ex ecutive Document number thirty-one, third session of the Forty-fifth Con gress. * * * [Binding, newspapers, &c.: For arranging and binding cancelled marine-papers, requisitions, and other important records: seaUnI ship's registers; for foreign postage, newspapers, books, hand-stamps and ■': TREASURY DEPARTMENT— TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. 39 repairs of the same; being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1879, two thou- ^ *.- .X. sand doUars.]— Act March 3, 1879 ' ""^ *o nnn on Contingent Expenses, Treasury D^artment: Binding, Newspapers, &e., 1878.-Por contingent ' expenses of the Treasury Department, as set forth in detail in House Ex- ecutive Document number thirty-one, third session of the Forty-fifth Gon- f^f\ T 1 t?^^. °^' newspapers, &c.: To pay bills for advertising, as follows: John k Zittle, Weekly Kegister, Shepherdstown, W. Va., safe n!r^ ^^- ^'^'"^U twenty-eight dollars; Werner Kock, Washington Jour- SiS. ""^w ' ?■■ ^-l '^^^ ^^ ""^^ material, two dollars and fifty cents; Daily Nation, Washmgton, D. C, sale of old material, two dollars and eighty r^ ^- . r, °^°*®L'^®^°^'l®ficienciesforthefiscalyearl878.1— Act March 3, 1879 33 SO Gontmgent Expenses, Treasury Department : Binding, Newspapers, &e., 1877.-For contlu^mi expenses of the Treasury Department, as set forth in detail in House^Ex- ecutive Document number thirty-one, third session of the Forty-fifth Con- fffnti.w. ^ !• [^/^dmg newspapers, &c.: To pay biUs for advertising, as follows: National Eepubhcan, Washington, D. C, proposals for suppHei ten dollars and fifty cents; Daily Critic, Washington, D. C, proposals for supplies and sale of waste paper, eight doUars and thirty-three cents: beinff ^ .• . -r, *i®fi^i«°cies for the fiscal year 1877.]— Act March 3, 1879 .. . . 18 83 Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Investigation of Accounts and Travelling 'Ex- penses, 1880.— For investigations of accounts and records, two thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 2 500 no Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department : Freight, Telegrams, t&c, 1880.— For 'freight" ex- ' P^essage, telegrams, and car-tickets, four thousand dollars.— Act June 21, Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department ': ' Freight, 'Telegrams', &o.', 1877.— For ' contingent *' ^^^ ^^ expenses, Treasury Department, freight and telegrams, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two dollars and sixty-four cents.— Act March 3, 1879 ^ ca. Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department : Bent, 1880.— For rent of buildings," seven thou- sand eight hundred dollars Act June 21, 1879. 7 sno OO Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Horses, Wagons, &c., 1880.— For care 'and s"ub- ' sistence of horses for office and mail- wagons, including feeding and shoeing and for wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, six thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 g qqq qq Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Ice, &c., 1880.— For ice, buckets, file-holders ' book-rests, labor, clocks, and repairs of the same, seven thousand five hun- dred dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 7 qqq qq Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Fuel, &o., 1880.— For coal, wood, grates, grate- ' baskets and fixtures, stoves and fixtures, blowers, coal-hods, hearths, shovels, tongs, pokers, matches, and match-safes, nine thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 9 qqq qq Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Gas, &c., 1880.— For gas, drop-lights and ' tubing, gas-burners, brackets, and globes, candles, lanterns, and wicks, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 12 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department : Gas, &c., 1879. — For gas, drop-lights, and tub- ' ing, gas-burners, brackets, and globes, candles, lanterns, and wicks, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 4 qqq qq Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department : Carpets and Repairs, 1880. — For carpets, oil- cloth, and matting, and repairs, cleaning, and laying of the same, seven thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 7 qoo 00 Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Furniture, if;c., 1880. — For desks, tables, and chairs, and shelving for file-rooms, and cases, repairs of furniture, boxes, rugs, chair-covers and caning, cushions, cloth for covering desks, locks, screws, handsaws, turpentine, and varnish, twenty-five thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 25, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: Miscellaneous Items, 1880. — For washing towels, brooms, brushes, crash, cotton, cloth, cane, chamois-skins, dusters, flour, keys, lye, matches, nails, oil, powders, sponge, soap, tacks, wall-paper, and the other miscellaneous expenses required for the current and ordinary business of the Department, and for repairs of machinery, baskets, spit- toons, files, water-coolers, tumblers, ice-picks, bowls and pitchers, traps. 40 DIGEST OF APPEOPEUTIONS. thermometers, ventilators, towels, awnings and fixtures, alcohol, window- shades and fixtures, wire-screens, hemming towels, axes, bellows, chisels, canvas, candlesticks, door and window-fasteners, bells and bell-pulls, ham- mers, mallets, leather, gum and other belting, stencil-plates, tools, whet- stones, wire, and zinc, and other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty thou- sand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 $20, 000 00 Contingent Ucc^enees, Treasury Department: Miscellaneous Items, Transfer Account, 1877. — To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, for printing commissions of revenue-marine officers, involving no expenditure of money from the treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, sixty-three dollars and eighty cents. — Act March 3, 1879. Eoopenses of National Currency, 1880. — For paper, engraving, printing, express-charges, and other expenses, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 120, 000 00 Transportation of Coin and Bullion. — That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to meet the expenses of the " transportation of coin and bullion," sixty thousand doUars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated: Provided, That this appropriation be made available on and after the passage of this act, and that the amount paid for the trans- portation of gold coin from San Francisco to IS'ew York shall not exceed one-fourth of one per cent., and for the transportation of silver, one per cent., and for intermediate points at proportionate rates, corresponding to the distance. — Act January 29, 1879 60, 000 00 Transportation of United States Securities, 1880. — For transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, sixty thousand dollars. And so much of the act "making appropriation for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as authorizes the Secre- tary of the Treasury to issue coin certificates in exchange for bullion depos- ited for coinage at mints and assay offlces other than those mentioned in section thirty-five hundred and forty-five of the Eevised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; said repeal to take effect at the end of the present fiscal year.— Act March 3, 1879 60 000 00 Pay 0/ Custodians and Janitors, 1880.— For pay of custodians and janitors for all public ' buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, ninety thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 90 qoo 00 Repairs and Preservation of Public Buildings, 1880. — For repairs and preservation of public ' buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thou- sand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 j^OO 000 00 Repairs and Preservation of Public Buildings, 1873, 1874, 1875, and 1876.— Eepairs and pres- ' ervation of public buildings, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and fiffcv- nine cents.— [For the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, six dollars- for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one hundred and twentv- three dollars and five cents; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five twenty-one dollars and ninety cents; and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, seventy-one dollars and sixty-four cents, in accordance with the estimates in House Executive Document ifo. 30, Fortv-fifth Coneress third session.]— Act March 3, 1879 ^ ' „„„ -(. Furniture and Repairs of same, for Public Buildings, 1880.— For furniture and 'repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all pubUc buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including furniture for three new buildings namelv Appraiser's stores at San Francisco, court-house and post ofBce at Atlanta Georgia, and court-house and post oflace at Little Eock, Arkansas, one hun- dred and twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. . ion nnn na Furniture and Repairs of same, for Public Buildings, 1872, 1875, and 1876.— Furniture arid ' repairs of same, for public buildings, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-two cents. [For the year eighteen hundred and seventy two sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seventeen doUars; and for the year eilhteen hunS and seventy-six, nmety-flve dollars and ninety-six c'ents ; i#accordance with the estimate m House Executive Document No. 30, Forty-fifth C on grLr Third Session.]— Act March 3, 1879 . , j ^i^ v^uugiess, j.nira ' 179 62 TREASURY DEPARTMENT TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. 41 Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings, 1880. — For fuel, light, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the build- ings, furniture, and heating apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, hatchets, and hammers, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, three hundred and eighty thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 $380, 000 00 Heating Apparatus for Public Buildings, 1880. — For heating, ventilating, and hoisting ap- paratus, and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 75, 000 00 Seating Apparatus for Public Buildings, 1876. — Heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 28 50 Vaults, Safes, and Lochs for Public Buildings, 1880. — For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs of the same, for all public buUdings under the control of the Treasury De- partment, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Plans for Public Buildings, 1880. — For photographing materials, and labor for duplicating plans for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Salaries and Travelling Uxpenses of Agents at Seal Fisheries, in Alasha, 1880. — For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ; one assistant agent, two thou- sand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thou- sand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary travelling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 13, 350 GO Salaries and Travelling Expenses of Agents at Seal-Fisheries in Alaska, 1877. — ^For salary to Charles Bryant, late special treasury agent of the seal islands in Alaska, from May fifteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, inclusive, at the rate of three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per annum, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, four hundred and seventy-one doUars and twenty-nine cents. — Act March 3, 1879 171 29 Protection of Sea-Otter Hunting- Grounds and Seal- Fisheries in Alaska, 1880.— To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue-steamers for the protection of the interests of the Government on the seal islands, the sea-otter hunting- grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Suppressing Counterfeiting and other Crimes, 1880.— For expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other crimes against the Govern- ment, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars.— Act March3,1879 yyvy- 60,000 00 Suvvressina Counterfeiting and Fraud, 1876.— For suppressing counterfeitmg and fraud, lorty- six dollars and fifty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 46 50 Compensation in Lieu of Moieties, 1880.— For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March Standard Weights and "Measure's, 1880.— For construction and verification of standard weights and measures, including metric standards, for the custom-houses and other offices of the United States, and for the several States, and of mural standards of length in Washington, District of Columbia, five thou- sand dollars: for rent of workshops in building number two hundred and fifteen, South Capitol street, four hundred dollars; for rent of fire-proof rooms in building number two hundred and five, New Jersey avenue, south, for the safe-keeping and preservation of finished weights, measures, balances, and metric standards, one thousand dollars; for fuel and lights, materials, transportation, travelling, and other miscella,neous expenses, six hundred dollars ; in all, seven thousand doUars.-Act March 3 1879 ....-- 7, 000 00 Examination of Rebel Archives and Records of Captured Property, I88O.-T0 enable the •'secretary of the Treasury to have the records of captured and abandoned property examined, and information furnished therefrom for the use and protection of the Government, five thousand dollars.-Act March 3, 1879 . . 5, 000 00 11 D A 20,000 00 42 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. ReUrn Of Proceeds of Captured and Abandoned Property.-Yov ^^^'^''\''J,XZ^lf^M''Ll& tured and abandoned property, twenty-six thousand and eighty-eigHt dollars ^^^ ^^ and sixty-two cents.— Act March 3, 1879 - - ■ - ■■-.;;.■- ■ > ^ ' Lands and other Property of the UnUed Slates, 1880._For custody, care, fj^^ protect on ot lands and other properly belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars.-Act March 3, 1879 VT •■^,■ T" " " V •;'w';"wv« »;""""" Library of the Treasury Department, I880.-For purchase of law books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treasury Department, one thousand del- lars.— Act March 3,1879 ,,.•.■■• T^-l-" '" '■ a ^^ """ "" Collecting Statistics relating to Commerce, 1880.-And for the additional duties imposed upon the Bureau of Statistics by the legislation of the second session of the Forty-third Congress, the sum of eight thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in payment of the services of experts, and for other necessary expenditures connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and foreign commerce ot the United States— Act June 21, 1879 •■■■•-.•,- .-■ »,»WUU maminations of National Banks and Bank-Plates, 1880.— For expenses of special examina- tions of national banks and bank-plates, two thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 V T V : ■ ; ■ ;^- ■ - V ■ ■ ^. ""l> "" Propagation of Food- Fishes, 1879 and 1880.— For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf and Great Lake States, and of salmon, white-fish, carp, gourami, and other useful food-fishes, into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best adapted ; also for the propagation of cod, herring, mackerel, halibut, and other sea-fishes, and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available ; for maintenance of the United States carp-ponds in the city of Washington and elsewhere, five thousand dollars.-Act March 3, 1879 ... 80, 000 00 Steam-Vessel, Food-Fishes, 19,19 and 1880.— For constructing, equipping, and fitting a steam- vessel for the hatching of shad, cod, mackerel, halibut, and other fishes along the coast of the United States, to be built under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, according to the plans of the United States Pish Commission, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; to be available from the passage of this act.— Act March 3, 1879 . 45, 000 00 Expenses of Inquiry respecting Food-Fishes, 1880. — For collecting statistics of the sea-coast and lake fisheries of the United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, three thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 500 00 Illustrations for Report on Food-Fishes, 1880. — For preparation of illustrations for the Ee- port of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Repayment to Importers Excess of Deposits for Unascertained Duties, " Gliarges and Commis- sions Ga^es." — To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to refund excess of duties and to pay costs in suits and proceedings in " charges and commissions cases" in which judgments may hereafter be obtained, or which may be compromised by said Secretary, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Repayment to Importers Excess of Deposits for Unascertained Duties. — The unexpended bal- ance of the appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, made by the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for the repayment to importers of the excess of deposits for unascertained duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, including interest and costs in judgment cases, is hereby continued and made available for the payment of all claims to which the appropriation is applicable, which are not payable from the permanent annual appropriation provided for in section thirty-six hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes : Provided, That the claims known as the "charges and commissions cases" shall not be paid without further legislation.— Act March 3, 1879. Collecting Revenue from Customs prior to July 1, 1876. — For collecting revenue from customs, for this amount certified by the Commissioner of Customs under section four, act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, nine thou- sand five hundred and forty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents; and the TEEASUET DEPAETMENT — TEEASUEY MISCELLANEOUS. 43 further sum of two thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars aud seventy-six cents is hereby appropriated to pay the amount found due the late surveyor of customs at Portland, Maine, and certified by the Commis- sioner of Customs to the Secretary of the Treasury as due, subsequent to the Secretary's letter of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine. — Act March 3, 1879 ^n 930 44 Detection and Prevention of Frauds upon the Customs Revenue, 1880.— That the Secretary of ' the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend out of the appropria- tion for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the cus- toms revenue.— Act March 3, 1879. Marine-Hospital Service prior to July 1, 1876.— For Marine-Hospital Service, three dollars and twenty-five cents. — Act March 3, 1879 3 25 Refunding Taxes Illegally Collected.— The unexpended balance, amounting to forty thousand dollars, of the appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, made by the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to refund and pay back taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collected under the internal-revenue laws, is hereby continued and made available for, and during the present and next fiscal years only, the payment of all claims to which the appropriation is applicable.— Act March 3, 1879. Refunding Taxes Illegally Collected prior to July 1, 1876.— For refunding taxes illegally col- lected, four hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-four cents.— Act March 3, 1879 442. 34 Allowance or BrawhacTc prior to Julyl, 1876.— For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, fifty dollars and seventy-six cents. — ^Act March 3, 1879 50 76 Redemption of Stamps prior to July 1, 1876.— For redemption of internal-revenue stamps, two thousand five hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents. — Act March 3, 1879 2,564 20 Refunding to Xational Banking Associations Excess of Buty prior to July 1, 1875. — To refund excess of duty paid on deposits by national banking associations, one thou- sand and ninety -three dollars and eight cents. — ^Act March 3, 1879 1, 093 08 Refund of Duties to Saint MichaeVs Church of Charleston, South Carolina. — To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties paid by the trustees of Saint Michael's Church, of Charleston, South Carolina, on a chime of eight bells imported into the port of Charleston, one thousand five hundred and eighty- eight dollars and sixty-five cents. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 588 65 Refund to B. Maddocks, Owner of Schooner Ocean King. — To refund to B. Maddocks, owner of the schooner Ocean King, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the sum of forty- five dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 45 00 Refunding to Certain Parties Taxes Illegally Collected. — That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to reopen and recon- sider the following claims for the refunding of certain taxes alleged to have been improperly and illegally assessed and collected, namely: William S. Morris, for the amount of three thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and twenty- two cents; William S. Mann, for the amount of five hundred and seventy- two dollars and sixty-six cents; Charles A. Oakman, for the amount of one thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty cents ; George W. Hillman, for the amount of two hundred dollars; the Union Transfer Company of Philadelphia, for the amount of five thousand and fifty-five dol- lars and fifty cents; the Union Transfer Company of Baltimore, Maryland, for the amount of nine hundred and seventy -four dollars and seven cents ; and John E. Graham, for the amount of seventeen hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents, as claimed by them, respectively, in the papers now on file in the Treasury Department; and also consider and examine the claim of Matthew Smith, late of the city of New York, for one thousand six hundred dollars, for the repayment of taxes similarly assessed and col- lected improperly. And if upon reopening and reconsidering said claims said Commissioner shall find said taxes, or any part of the same, to have been illegally or improperly assessed and collected from said claimants, it is hereby made his duty to audit and ascertain the amount of taxes so ille- gally and improperly collected from each of said claimants, deducting, however, any legal unpaid taxes which claimants should have paid, and did 44 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. not, if any there shall be, under section one hundred and three of the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to provide internal revenue to support the Government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes." And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the several amounts of taxes so found by said Commissioner of Internal Eevenue, as aforesaid, to have been illegally and improperly assessed and collected, to the persons and companies hereinbe- fore named, respectively. [The amounts paid under authority of this act are as follows : To William S. Morris, $3,420 80 ; to William S. Mann, $494 76 ; to Charles A. Oakman, $908 25 ; to George W. Hillman, $41 28 ; to Union Transfer Company of Philadelphia, $5,055 50 ; to Union Transfer Company of Baltimore, $974 07 ; to John E. Graham, $834 79 ; to Matthew Smith, $1,231 73.]— Act January 15, 1879 $12,961 18 Refunding Taxes to Cumberland Valley Railroad Company of Pennsylvania.— Whereas, by section one hundred and three of the internal-revenue act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, a tax of two and one-half per centum was imposed upon the gross receipts of railroad companies ; and whereas, by section nine of the act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the said tax was limited to receipts from passengers and mails after August first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and as to the transportation of prop- erty after that date the act imposing said tax was repealed; and whereas, by section two of the act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, all parts of acts imposing said taxes after October first, eighteen hundred and seventy, were repealed; and whereas it is represented that the Cum- berland Valley EaUroad Company of the State of Pennsylvania was com- pelled to pay, and did pay, taxes upon the gross receipts of their road, including a tax for the transportation of property from the said thirteenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the first of October, eighteen hundred and seventy: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to examine and adjust the claim of said company for the taxes alleged to have been so erroneously assessed and collected upon said gross receipts after August first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and to refund to said company the amount of said taxes found by him on examination to have been collected as aforesaid without the authority of law ; and there is hereby approi)riated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the necessary sum, not exceeding thirty-six thousand dollars, to pay said claim when adjusted as aforesaid. [Paid in the sum of thirty-five thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-two cents.] — Act February 15, 1879 35, 341 52 Salaries and Eoopenses, National Board of Health. — That there shall be established a Na- tional Board of Health, to consist of seven members, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more than one of whom shall be appointed from any one State, whose compensa- tion, during the time when actually engaged in the performance of their duties under this act, shall be ten dollars per diem each, and reasonable expenses, and of one medical officer of the Army, one medical officer of the Navy, one medical officer of the Marine-Hospital Service, and one officer from the Department of Justice, to be detailed by the Secretaries of the several Departments and the Attorney-General, respectively, and the officers so detailed shall receive no compensation. Said board shall meet in Wash- ington within thirty days after the passage of this act, and in Washington or elsewhere from time to time upon notice from the president of the board, who is to be chosen by the members thereof, or upon its own adjournments, and shall frame all rules and regulations authorized or required by this act, and shall make or cause to be made such special examinations and investigations at any place or places within the United States, or at foreign ports, as they may deem best, to aid in the execution of this act and the promotion of its objects. Sec. 2. The duties of the National Board of Health shall be to obtain information upon all matters affecting the public health, to advise the several departments of the Government, the execu- TREASURY DEPARTMENT — TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. 45 tives of the several States, and the Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia, on all questions submitted by them, or whenever in the opinion of the board such advice may tend to the preservation and improvement of the public health. Sec. 3. That the Board of Health, with the assistance of the Academy of Science, which is hereby requested and directed to co-oper- ate with them for that purpose, shall report to Congress at its next session a full statement of its transactions, together with a plan for a national public-health organization, which plan shall be prepared after consultation with the principal sanitary organizations and the sanitarians of the several States of the United States, special attention being given to the subject of quarantine, both maritime and inland, and especiaUv as to regulations which should be established between State or local systems of quarantine and a national quarantine system. Sec. 4. The sam of fifty thousand dol- lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salaries and expenses of said board, and to carry out the purposes of this act.— Act March 3, 1879. That it shall be unlawful for any merchant ship or vessel from any foreign port where any contagious or infectious disease exists, to enter any port of the United States except in accordance with the provisions of this act, and all rules and regulations of State boards of health, and all rules and regulations made in pursuance of this act ; and any such vessel which shall enter, or attempt to enter, a port of the United States in violation thereof, shall forfeit to the United States a sum, to be awarded in the discretion of the court, not exceeding one thousand dollars, which shall be a lien upon said vessel, to be recovered by proceedings in the proper district court of the United States. And in all such proceedings the United States district attorney for such district shall appear on behalf of the United States, and all such proceedings shall be conducted in accord- ance with the rules and laws governing cases of seizure of vessels for viola- tion of the revenue laws of the United States. Sec. 2. All such vessels shall be required to obtain from the consul, vice-consul, or other consular officer of the CJnited States at the port of departure, or from the medical officer, where such officer has been detailed by the President for that pur- pose, a certificate in duplicate setting forth the sanitary history of said vessel, and that it has in all respects complied with the rules and regula- tions in such cases prescribed for securing the best sanitary condition of the said vessel, its cargo, passengers, and crew; and said consular or med- ical officer is required, before grauting such certificate, to be satisfied the matters and things therein stated are true; and for his services in that behalf he shall be entitled to demand and receive such fees as shall by law- ful regalation be allowed, to be accounted for as is required in other cases. That upon the request of the National Board of Health the President is authorized to detail a medical officer to serve in the office of the consul at any foreign port for the purpose of making the inspection and giving the certificates hereinbefore mentioned : Provided, That the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed at any one time six : Provided further, That any vessel sailing from any such port without such certificate of said medi- cal ofl&cer, entering any port of the United States, shall forfeit to the United States the sum of five hundred dollars, which shall be a lien on the same, to be recovered by proceedings in the proper district court of the United States. And in all such proceedings the United States district attorney for such district shall appear on behalf of the United States, and all such proceedings shaU be conducted in accordance with the rules and laws gov- erning cases of seizure of vessels for violation of the revenue laws of the United States. Sec. 3. That the National Board of Health shall co-oper- ate with and, so far as it lawfully may, aid State and municipal boards of health in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations of such boards to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, and into one State from another; and at such ports and places within the United States as have no quarantine regulations under State authority where such regiflations are, in the opinion of the ISTational Board of Health, necessary to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, or into one State from another; and at such ports and 12 DA 46 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. places within the United States where quarantine regulations exist under the authority of the State, which, in the opinion of the Kational, Board ot Health; are not sufacient to prevent the introduction of such diseases into the United States, or into one State from another, the l^ational Board ot Health shall report the facts to the President of the United States, who shall, if, in his judgment, it is necessary and proper, order said Board of Health to make such additional rules and regulations as are necessary to prevent the introduction of such diseases into the United States from foreign countries, or into one State from another, which, when so made and approved by the President, shall be promulgated by the National Board of Health and enforced by the sanitary authorities of the States, where the State authorities will undertake to execute and enforce them; but if the State authorities shall fail or refuse to enforce said rules and regulations the President may detail an offlcer or appoint a proper person for that purpose. The Board of Health shall make such rules and regulations as are author- ized by the laws of the United States and necessary to be observed by vessels at the port of departure and on the voyage where such vessels sail from any foreign port or place at which contagious or infectious disease exists, to any port or place in the United States, to secure the best sanitary condition of such vessel, her cargo, passengers, and crew, and when said rules and regulations have been approved by the President they shall be published and communicated to, and enforced by, the consular offlcers of the United States: Provided, That none of the penalties herein imposed shall attach to any vessel or any owner or officer thereof, till the act, and the rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof, shall have been officially promulgated for at least ten days in the port from which said vessel sailed. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the National Board of Health to obtain information of the sanitary condition of foreign ports and places from which contagious and infectious diseases are or may be imported into the United States, and to this end the consular officers of the United States at such ports and places as shall be designated by the National Board of Health shall make to said Board of Health weekly reports of the sanitary condition of the ports and places at which they are respectively stationed, according to such forms as said Board of Health may prescribe; and the Board of Health shall also obtain, through all sources accessible, including State and municipal sanitary authorities throughout the United States, weekly reports of the sanitary condition of ports and places within the United States; and shall prepare, publish, and transmit to the medical officers of the Marine- Hospital Service, to collectors of customs, and to State and municipal health officers and authorities, weekly abstracts of the consular sanitary reports and other pertinent information received by said board; and shall also, as far as it may be able, by means of the voluntary co-operation of State and municipal authorities, of public associations and private persons, procure information relating to the climate and other conditions affecting the public health; and shall make to the Secretary of the Treasury an annual report of its operations, for transmission to Congress, with such recommendations as it may deem important to the public interests ; and said report, if ordered to be printed by Congress, shall be done under the direction of the board. Sec. 5. That the National Board of Health shall from time to time issue to the consular officers of the United States and to the medical offlcers serving at any foreign port, and otherwise make publicly known, the rules and regulations made by it and approved by the President, to be used and complied with by vessels in foreign ports for securing the best sanitary condition of such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, and crews, before their departure for any port in the United States, and in the course of the voyage- and all such other rules and regulations as shall be observed in the inspec- tion of the same on the arrival thereof at any quarantine station at the port of destination, and for the disinfection and isolation of the same, and the treatment of cargo and persons on board, so as to prevent the introduction of cholera, fellow- fever, or other contagious or infectious diseases; and it shall not be lawful for any vessel to enter said port to discharge its cargo or land its passengers except upon a certiticate of the health officer at such quarantine station, certifying that said rules and regulations have in all TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT TEEASUEY MISCELLANEOUS. 47 respects been observed and complied with, as well on Ws part as on the part of the said vessel and its master, in respect to the same and to its cargo, passengers, and crew; and the master of every such vessel shall produce and deliver to the collector of customs at said port of entry, together with the other papers of the vessel, the said certificates re- quired to be obtained at the port of departure, and the certificate herein required to be obtained from the health officer at the port of entry. Sec. 6. That to pay the necessary expenses of placing vessels in proper sanitary condition, to be incurred under the provisions of this act, the Sec- retary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to make the necessary rules and regulations fixing the amount of fees to be paid by vessels for such service, and the manner of collecting the same. Sec. 7. That the President is authorized, when requested by the National Board of Health, and when the same can be done without prejudice to the public service, to detail officers frpm the several departments of the Government for temporary duty, to act under the direction of said board, to carry out the provisions of this act; and such officers shall receive no additional compensation except for actual and necessary ex- penses incurred in the performance of such duties. Sec. 8. That to meet the expenses to be incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, on estimates to be made by the National Board of Health, and to be approved by him. Said National Board of Health shall as often as quarterly make a full statement of its operations and expenditures under this act to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall report the same to Congress. Sec. 9. That so much of the act entitled "An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight," as re- quires consular officers or other representatives of the United States at foreign ports to report the sanitary condition of and the departure of vessels from such ports to the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service; and so much of said act as requires the Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service to frame rules and regulations, and to execute said act, and to give notice to Federal and State officers of the approach of infected vessels, and furnish said officers with weekly abstracts of consular sanitary reports, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 10. This act shall not continue in force for a longer period than four years from the date of its approval.— Act June 2, 1879 ... $550, 000 00 JOINT EESOLUTION relating to the organizatioa of the National Board of Health. Whereas the National Board of Health met in Washington, on Tues- day, the first of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and proceeded immediately to organize and act under the law establishing such board and so continued from day to day until Saturday, the fifth of said mouth; and whereas the members in attendance who had been appointed upon such board by the President, through inadvertence failed to take the oath of office prescribed by law, whereby the validity of the previous action of such board has been brought in question: Therefore^ Besolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such organization and action be, and the same is hereby, ratified, and that the members of such board shall be entitled to compensation j ust as if they had been duly qualified previously to entering upon their duties. Approved, April 18, 1879. AN ACT to provide office-rooms for the National Board of Health, and for the publication of its reports and papers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to procure suitable and sufficient offices in the city of Washington for the transaction of its business, at a rental not 48 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. to exceed the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum. And said board is also authorized to pay the sum of two hundred and twenty- five dollars for the rent of building number fourteen hundred and five Cx street, northwest, in the city of Washington, used by the National Board ot Health for offices, from the third day of April, eighteen hundred and sev- enty-nine, to the third day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Seo. 2. That the necessary printing of the National Board of Health be done at the Government Printing Office, upon the requisition of the secretary of the board, in the same manner and subject to the same provis- ions as other public printing for the several departments of the Govern- ment: Provided, That the cost of said printing shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars per annum. Sec. 3. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to have printed and bound ten thousand copies of the report of the Board of Medical Experts created by former act of Congress, which report shall include the report of Doctors Bemiss and Cochran and Engi- neer Hardee, upon the yellow-fever epidemic of eighteen hundred and sev- enty-eight ; six thousand copies of the same to be furnished the House of Eepresentatives, two thousand copies to the Senate, and the residue to the National Board of Health : Provided, That the cost of publication and bind- ing said report shall not exced the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the said board is hereby authorized to pay Doctors Bemiss and Cochran and Engineer Hardee ten dollars per day, for the preparation of their said report, for the period of two months: Provided, That the same shall be completed and submitted to the board within that time. Sec. 4. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Frank J. Taylor, for services as stenographer to the Board of Medical Experts in reporting evidence of medical men and others touching the causes, introduction, and spread of epidemic diseases within the United States, and for preparing the same for publication, the sum of five hundred and forty dollars, said sum being the amount allowed him by the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. Sec. 5. That the chief clerk of the National Board of Health shall act as disbursing agent for the board, and shall give bond, conformably to sec- tion one hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes, for the faithful performance of that duty, and for such service he shall receive three hun- dred dollars per annum, in addition to his salary as chief clerk; and the Board of Health may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, pay to its secretary such sum, in addition to his pay as a member of the board, as it may deem projjer, not exceeding one hundred dollars per month. Sec. 6. That section three of the act approved June second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases within the United States," be amended as follows: At the end thereof insert "And the Board of Health shall have power, when they may deem it necessary, with the consent and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, as a means of preventing the importation of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States, or into one State from another, to erect temporary quarantine buildings, and to acquire on behalf of the United States titles to real estate for that purpose, or to rent houses, if there be any suitable, at such points and places as are named in such section." Sec. 7. That all the money hereinbefore authorized to be expended, and aU contracts made and liabilities incurred by the National Board of Health, shall be paid out of the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars made in the act of Congress entitled "An act to prevent the intro- duction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States," ap- proved June second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Approved, July 1, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place vessels and hulks at the disposal of commissioners of quarantine or other proper persons at the ports of the United States. Be it resolved iy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT — TEEASUEY MISCELLANEOUS. 49 and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, at the request of the National Board of Health, to place gratuitously, at the disposal of the commissioners of quarantine, or the proper authorities at any of the ports of the United States, to be used by them temporarily for quarantine purposes, such ves- sels or hulks belonging to the United States as are not required for other uses of the National Government, subject to such restrictions and regula- tions as the said Secretary may be deem necessary to impose for the preser- vation thereof. Approved, June 14, 1879. To Promote the Education of the Blind. — Whereas, the trustees, superintendents, and teachers of the various State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, representing the interests of over thirty thousand blind persons in the United States, have united in a petition to Congress to take into considera- tion the needs of the blind in the United States ; and whereas the Associa- tion of the American Instructors of the Blind, at their session in Philadel- phia, in August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, representing twenty-six State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, have set forth in a series of resolutions that the especial needs of the blind are embossed books and tangible apparatus, and have recommended that if any aid should be given by Congress it would most efBciently come through increasing the means of the American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky; and whereas it appears that the Kentucky Legislature, in eigh- teen hundred and fifty-eight, by an act of special legislation, declared James Guthrie, W. F. 'Bullock, Theodore S. Bell, Bryce M. Patten, John Milton, H. T. Curd, and A. O. Brannin, and their successors, a body cor- porate under the name and style of the Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, with the avowed purpose of printing books and making apparatus for the instruction of the blind of the United States, for general distribution, and for the sake of philanthropy, and with no desire for pecuniary gain; and whereas the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten- nessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware have made appropriations for the aid of said American Printing House for the Blind, of which, on account of the outbreak of the civil war, only a small part of the money appropriated by the first three named States was ever available; and whereas by the money from the States of Kentucky, New Jersey, and Del- aware, a printing-house for the blind was established, and is now supplied with presses, type, stereotype-foundry, steam-engine, a well-equipped bind- ery, and all the appbances necessary for the manufacture of embossed books, and has for the last ten years been manufacturing embossed books superior in every way to any manufactured elsewhere, which have been dis- tributed gratuitously to the blind in the States of Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware, by which the blind in those States have been very much benefited; and whereas it is desirable that the blind of the whole country should be equally benefited, and the intentions of the trustees to establish an educational institution of the most practical beneficence and wisest philanthropy upon a national basis, should be accomplished, inasmuch as the education of the blind is a subject of national importance: There- fore, Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, out of money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and hereby is, set apart as a perpetual fund for the purpose of aiding the education of the bhnd in the United States of America through the American Printing House for the Bhnd. Sec 2 That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is here- bv directed to hold said sum in trust for the purpose aforesaid; and it shaU be his duty, upon the passage of this act, to invest said sum in United States interest-bearing bonds, bearing interest at four per centum, of the issue of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, and upon their matur- itv to reinvest their proceeds in other United States interest-bearing bonds, aAd so on forever. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby authorized to pay over, semi-annually, to the trustees ot the American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky, 13 d A 50 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. and chartered in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight by the Legislature of Kentucky, upon the requisition of their president, countersigned by their treasurer, the semi-annual interest upon the said bonds, upon the followmg conditions: First. The income upon the bonds thus held in trust for the education of the blind shall be expended by the trustees of the American Printing House each year in manufacturing and furnishing embossed books for the blind and tangible apparatus for their instruction; and the total amount of such books and apparatus so manufactured and furnished, by this income shall each year be distributed among all the public institutions for the education of the blind in the States and Territories of the United States and the District of Columbia, upon the requisition of the superin- tendent of each, duly certified by its board of trustees. The basis of such distribution shall be the total number of pupils in all the public institutions for the education of the blind, to be authenticated in such manner and as often as the trustees of the said American Printing House shall require; and each institution shall receive, in books and apparatus, that portion of the total income of said bonds held by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in trust for the education of the bUnd, as is shown by the ratio between the number of pupils in that institution for the education of the blind and the total number of pupils in all the public institutions for the education of the blind, which ratio shall be computed upon the first Monday in January of each year. Second. No part of the income from said bonds shall be expended in the erection or leasing of buildings. Third. No profit shall be put on any books or tangible apparatus for the instruction of the blind manufactured or furnished by the trustees of said American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky; and the price put upon each article so manufactured or furnished shall only be its actual cost. Fourth. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall have the authority to withhold the income arising from said bonds thus set apart for the education of the blind of the United States whenever he shall receive satisfactory proof that the trustees of said American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky, are not using the income from these bonds for the benefit of the blind in the public institutions for the education of the blind in the United States. Fifth. Before any money be paid to the treasurer of the American Printing House for the Blind by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, the treasurer of the American Printing House for the Blind, shall execute a bond, with two approved sureties, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned that the interest so received shall be expended according to this law and all amend- ments thereto, which shall be held by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and shall be renewed every two years. Sixth. The superin- tendents of the various public institutions for the education of the blind in the United States shall each, ex officio, be a member of the board of trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, located in the city of Louis- ville, Kentucky. Sec. 4. That the trustees of said American Printing House for the Blind shall annually make to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States a report of the items of their expenditure of the income of said bonds during the year preceding their report, and shall annually fur- nish him with a voucher from each public institution for the education of the blind, showing that the amount of books and tangible apparatus due has been received. Sec. 5. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. — Act March 3, 1879 ^250 000 00 Eefrigemting-SMp for Disinfecting Purposes.— That the Secretary of the Treasury be,' and ' hereby is, authorized to contract for the purchase or construction of such steam-vessel and refrigerating machinery, or to arrange with the Navy De- partment for the use of such vessel as may be recommended by the National Board of Health, to disinfect vessels "and cargoes from ports suspected of infection with yellow-fever or other contagious disease; the construction of the same, if such construction shall be recommended by said Board of Health, to be under the inspection of an officer of the Bureau of Steam-En- gmeering of the Navy, who may, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, be detailed by the Secretary of the Navy for that purpose; and for the purpose of such purchase or construction, the sum of two hundred TREASURY DEPARTMENT TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. 51 thousand dollars, or so mucli thereof as may be necessary, to be immedi- ately available, is hereby appropriated out of auy moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Act April 18, 1879 $200, 000 00 Purchase of Stereotype-Plates of the Final Reports of the Centennial Exhibition o/1876. — That to purchase the stereotype-plates of the final reports of the Centennial Com- mission upon Centennial Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, as transmitted by the United States Centennial Commission, said plates being now in the hands of the Centennial Board of Finance, the sum of eight thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated ; and the said plates, with the copyright duly assigned, shall be delivered to the Public Printer. — Resolu- tion June 27, 1879 8, 600 00 Xorth American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1880. — For completing and preparing for publication the contributions to North American Ethnology, under the Smithsonian Institution, twenty thousand dollars : Provided, That all the archives, records, and materials relating to the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Eocky-Moun- tain Region, shall be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, that the work may be completed and prepared for publication under its direction : Provided, That it shall meet the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 20, 000 00 Extra Pay to Officers and Men who served in the Mexican War — Revenue Marine. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the of&cers and sol- diers " engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico, and who served out the time of their engagement or were honor- ably discharged," the three months' extra pay provided for by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the limitations con- tained in said act, in all cases, upon the presentation of satisfactory evi- dence that said extra compensation has not been previously received: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall include also the officers, petty officers, seamen, and marines of the United States Navy, the Revenue- Marine Service, and the ofiicers and soldiers of the United States Army employed in the prosecution of said war. — Act February 19, 1879. Payment to F. W. Viehe, Attorney -at- Laio, Vincennes, Indiana. — For professional services rendered and expenses incurred by P. W. Viehe, attorney-at-law, Vincennes, Indiana, in the case of the United States versus Hall Neilson and others, involving the title claimed by the United States to a valuable tract of land situated in the city of Vincennes, Indiana, three thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and six cents.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 185 06 Relief of Henry 0. Be Ahjia, late Collector of Customs at Sitka, Alaska.— Tha,t in the settle- ment of the accounts of Henry C. De Aiina, late collector of customs at Sitka, Alaska, in addition to the salary and fees to which the said De Ahna is entitled under existing law, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay to the said De Ahna the further sum of one thousand five hundred dollars in full compensation for all expenses incurred and losses sustained by the said De Ahna in travelhng to and from Alaska and in obtaining and furnishing the Treasury Department with reports concerning the condition of public affairs in said Territory. And said sum of one thousand five hundred dollars is for that purpose hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.— Act March 3, 1879. That in the final settlement of the accounts of Henry C. De Ahna, late collector of customs at Sitka, Alaska, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay to the said De Ahna the further sum of two thou- sand dollars, in full compensation and final discharge for all expenses in- curred and losses sustained by said De Ahna in travelling to and from Alaska, and in obtaining and furnishing the Treasury Department with reports concerning the condition of public affairs in said Territory. And said sum of two thousand dollars is for that purpose hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.— Resolution June 20, 1879 - 3, 500 00 52 DIGEST OP APPROPRIATIONS. Belief of Burr S. Graft.— That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, author- ized and directed to pay to Burr S. Craft, the sum of five thousand dollars in gold coin of the United States, in lieu of certificate of deposit numbered t-^venty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-eight, issued under act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at ISTew York, on the fourteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the sum of five thou- sand dollars, payable in the gold coin of the United States, to the order of E. H. Birdsall, and by the said E. H. Birdsall endorsed, payable to the order of Burr S. Craft, which said certificate, it is claimed, was lost or stolen on or about the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy- three: Provided, That before the payment hereinbefore authorized, the said Burr S. Craft shall first file in the Treasury a bond in a penal sum double the amount of the said missing certificate, with suflflcient sureties, with con- dition to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any claim because of the said lost or missing certificate^ which bond shall be exe- cuted in the same manner and form as required under section thirty-seven hundred and five of the Eevised Statutes for the issue of duplicate regis- tered interest-bearing bonds of the United States.— Act February 13, 1879. $5, 000 00 Belief of John Henderson. — That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to refund and pay to John Henderson, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, in full satisfaction of the amount paid by said Henderson upon a bond for the release of one hundred barrels of spir- its given by him as claimant, under the order of the United States district court for the eastern district of Missouri, and upon which spirits the said Henderson, in good faith, had paid the taxes assessed by the United States ofiftcers. — Act February 17, 1879 5 OOO 00 Belief of the Ustate of Amos Ireland, deceased.— That the proper accounting oflacers of the ' Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the account of Amos Ireland, as captain of the light-^'essel at Brandt Island Shoals, North Carolina, and allow to the administrator of the estate of Amos Ireland, deceased, the sum of two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents, for his services from January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, until May thirty -first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, upon pro- ducing proper evidence of qualification as administrator of his estate: and a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated by law.— Act February 19, 1879. 208 33 Belief of the Commercial Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee.— That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and seventy-three dollars to James Comfort, assignee of the late Commercial Bank of Knoxville Ten- nessee, in payment of seven-thirty United States bond number one hundred thousand four hundred and thirty-six, third series, with coupons attached, and which was burned in mail-car at Benning's Station, near Washington District of Columbia, while in transportation through the mail —Act Feb- ruary 28, 1879 ... . ^ Ki-i m Belief of Alfred Muller, late Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Armij.-That the suin of six hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of anv "f^^^^i '^^ n ^ treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the reimbursement of Altred Muller, late acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army at Fort Eidgely, Minnesota, for the loss of property destroyed by the burning of Government buildings at the post on the nineteenth day of Januarf 7? 7- ^ ^ An .^}f^w "^ li"°dred and sixty-flve.-Act March 1, 1879 ^' 600 00 Belief of Albert U. Wyman, late Treasurer of the United States.-That the Secretary of 'th^ ^easury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Albert U Wyman, late Treasurer of the United Staets, out of any money in the lf^''Il^ fl^.* «*^«Tif appropriated, the sum of two thousand three hun died and fifty-one dollars and seventy cents, to reimburse said Wyman for two bonds of the United States, known as "'sixes of eighteen huXd and eighty-one," of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, and coupons thereon, purchased by him to replace two bonds of like issue and amount ?he property of the First National Bank of Newport, Ehode Island bst or ab TREASURY DEPARTMENT TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. 53 Relief of John W. Douglass, late Collector Internal Revenue, Nineteenth District of Pennsyl- vania. — That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to John W. Douglass, late collector of internal revenue of the nineteenth district of Pennsylvania, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents, and also to credit the said late collector on his revenue account the sum of nine hundred and sixteen dol- lars and ninety-eight cents; the above sums amounting to six thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents, being the bal- ance of which said late Collector Douglass was robbed by a deputy collector, after deducting the amount realized from the sale of the said deputy's prop- erty.— Act March 1, 1879 $5, 948 68 Relief of Isaiah Fickard. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, author- ized and directed to pay to Isaiah Pickard, of Stewartstown, in the State of New Hampshire, the sum of one hundred dollars, in full satisfaction of his claim bj^ reason of the wrongful seizure and sale of one gray colt by the collector of customs for the district of Portsmouth. — Act March 3, 1879. . . . 100 00 Relief of J. Fraser, of Philadelph ia. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to J. Fraser, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sum of six hundred dollars, for expenses of trip from Philadelphia to Washington, and services in examining foundation of new jail. — Act March 3, 1879 600 00 Relief of Samuel Kimbro and E. V. Kimbro. — That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to A. F. Whitman, administrator de bonis non of Samuel Kimbro, deceased, and administrator of E. Y. Kimbro, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars, in full payment ■ of a draft drawn by the Treasurer of the United States, in favor of the intestate of the said A. F. Whitman, on the First National Bank of Washington, District of Columbia, for three thou- sand four hundred and fourteen dollars, dated March ninth, eighteen hun- dred and sixty-seven, and which has not been paid. — Act March 3, 1879. . . 3, 411 00 AN ACT for the relief of Columbus F. Perry and Elizabetli H. Gilmer, of Chambers County, Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to examine the claim presented April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy -four, by Colum- bus F. Perry and Elizabeth H. Gilmer, for the refunding of taxes to the amount of four thousand four hundred and forty dollars, by them paid on successions to the collector of the second district of Alabama, on the twenty- fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy, and to hear and deter- mine said claim in the same manner as though it had been presented to the Commissioner on or before June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and had never been acted upon. Approved, January 13, 1879. AN ACT to amend section twenty-three of the act approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to amend customs-revenue laws and to repeal moieties." Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the twenty-third section of an act entitled "An act to amend customs-revenue laws and to repeal moieties," approved the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- four be and the same is hereby, amended, to take effect from that date, as follows- After the words "to the naval officers of the districts of Boston and Charlestown, Massachusetts; and San Francisco, California; and PhUa- delnhia Pennsylvania," insert the words "and Baltimore, Maryland; and New Orleans, Louisiana;" and after the words " to the surveyors of the norts of Boston, Massachusetts; and San Francisco, California; and Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, each five thousand dollars," insert the words "Pro- vided, the surveyors at Portland, Maine, and Baltimore, Maryland, shall 11 D A 54 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. each receive the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, and the sur- veyor at New Orleans, Louisiana, shall receive the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars." Approved, February 26, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain officers of the internal-revenue service the amounts due them for their services as such officers pre- vious to the time of executing their bonds and taking the oath of office as prescribed by law. Be it resolved by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the cases of John C. Oart- wright, of the collection district of Oregon ; Clark Waggoner, of the tenth collection district of Ohio ; Ellery M. Brayton, of the collection district of South Carolina; W. H. Wheeler, of the fifth collection district of North Carolina; William M. Woodcock, of the fifth collection district of Tennessee; Otis H. Eussell, of the third collection district of Virginia; and Burt Van Horn, of the twenty-eighth collection district of New York, who were re- spectively appointed collectors of internal revenue for the districts men- tioned during the recess of the Senate, which existed until the fifteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and duly entered upon the discharge of the duties of such appointment, and were during the session of the Senate which begun on the last-mentioned date, nominated, and, upon confirmation by the Senate, appointed and commissioned as col lectors for their respective districts, and continued in the discharge of their official duties, without having delivered the official bonds or taken the oaths prescribed by law, under the last-mentioned appointment, until subsequent to the adjournment of said session of the Senate, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay such collectors the compensation and expenses belonging to their respective offices, and which would, according to law, have accrued to them, had they, before entering upon the discharge of their duties under their last appointment, or before the expiration of the said session of the Senate, given the bonds and taken the oaths prescribed by law: Provided, Such bonds shall have been given, and such oaths taken, prior to the passage of this resolution. And all acts of such persons as collectors of internal revenue during such times as they severally performed the duties of said office, after the close of said session of the Senate and before they were duly qualified under their regular appointment, shall be held to be as valid as if they had duly qualified as collectors before entering upon the performance of such duties. Approved, February 27, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the completion of the foundation of the "Washington Monument. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint commission for the con- struction of the Washington Monument, created by the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, be, and is hereby, authorized to expend, for the completion of the foundation of the monument now in progress, so much of the appropriation made by the said act as may be necessary for that purpose, not exceeding sixty-four thousand dollars above the sum now authorized. Approved, June 27, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the remission of duty on two articles of bronze pre- sented to Hon. R. 0. McCormick by American exhibitors at the Paris Exposition Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of tlie United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Treasurv lae, and he is hereby, authorized to remit or refund as the case mav be the duties paid or accruing upon two articles of bronze, presented to Oom'mis- sioner-General E. C. McCormick by the American exhibitors at the Paris Exposition of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Approved, March 1, 1879. TEEASUEY DEPARTMENT TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. 55 JOINT RESOLUTION to pay Professor Peter Collier for services as cliemist in tlie prose- cution of the evasions of the duties on sugar. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofAitierioa in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to settle and pay the account of Professor Peter Collier, out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, to an amount not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for services as a chemist in the prosecution by the Govern- ment of parties charged with evasions of the duties on sugar. Approved, July 1, 1879. AN ACT to facilitate the refunding the national debt. Be it enacted by the Seiiate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in the process of refunding the national debt under existing laws, to exchange directly at par the bonds of the United States bearing interest at four per centum per annum authorized by law for the bonds of the United States commonly known as five-twenties outstanding and uncalled, and, whenever all such five-twenty bonds shall have been redeemed, the provisions of this section and all existing provisions of law authorizing the refunding of the national debt shall apply to any bonds of the United States bearing interest at five per centum per annum or a higher rate, which may be redeemable. In any exchange made under the provis- ions of this section interest may be allowed, on the bonds redeemed, for a period of three months. Approved, January 25, 1879. AN ACT to authorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of the refunding of the public debt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue, in exchange for lawful money of the United States that may be presented for such exchange, certificates of deposit of the denomination often dollars, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, and convertible at any time, with accrued interest, into the four per centum bonds, described in the refunding act; and the money so received shall be applied only to the payment of the bonds bear- ing interest at a rate of not less than five per centum in the mode prescribed by said act, and he is authorizied to prescribe suitable rules and regulations in conformity with this act. Approved, February 26, 1879. That section one hundred and seventy of the Eevised Statutes of the United States be so modified that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized, during the present fiscal year, to pay out of the ap- propriation for refunding the national debt a reasonable additional compen- sation to the clerks of his Department who are actually employed upon the refunding of the national debt in addition to the usual business hours, and not exceeding five hundred dollars shall be allowed to any one individual, nor shall the aggregate of such allowances exceed ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ eight additional special agents in the customs service, at a compensation of not exceeding six dollars per day, in the discretion of the Secretary, and actual travelling expenses when actually employed in the duties of such agency. — Act June 21, 1879. To meet the expenses of collecting the data upon which to prepare bulletins of health, to be issued from the ofSce of the Surgeon-General of the United States Marine Hospital, five thousand dollars, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; to be paid out of the permanent appropri- ation for the above service.— Act March 3, 1879. 56 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. ENGEAVING AND FEINTING. Salaries, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1880.— For chief of bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dol- lars; accountant, two thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; three copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; and four laborers; in all, twenty-fivethousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. — Act June21, 1879. $25, 930 00 Labor and Expenses of Engraving and Printing, 1880. — For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely: For labor (by the day, piece, or contract,) including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and print- ing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work; and for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States; for paper for notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, including mill expenses, boxing, and transportation; for materials other than paper required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers' tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating-machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, three hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 350, 000 00 Removal of Bureau of Engraving and Printing. — Expenses of removal of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For expenses of removal of the machinery, fur- niture, and effects of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from the Treasury-Department building to the new building in course of erection for said bureau, when completed; and for the purchase and erection of such new machinery and fixtures as may be needed to complete the establishment of that bureau in the new building, including new boilers and a new engine, fifty thousand dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Engraving and Printing Portraits of the late Representatives Leonard, Quinn, Welch, Wil- liams, Bouglas, Hartridge, and Schleicher. — That the Secretary of the Treas- ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be engraved and printed portraits of the late Eepresentatives Leonard, Quinn, Welch, Williams, Douglas, Hartridge, and Schleicher, to accompany memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of Eepresentatives in honor of the said deceased Eepresentatives, and to defray the expenses thereof the necessary sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum to be immediately available.— Act March 3, 1879. Portrait of the late Professor Joseph Henry.— Th&t the Secretary of the Treasury have printed the portrait of Professor Joseph Henry, to accompany the memorial volume already ordered by Congress; and the sum of five hundred dollars IS hereby appropriated, to defray the cost thereof, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.— Eesolution April 18, 1879 500 00 INTEENAL EEVENUE. AN ACT to amend the laws relating to internal revenue. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * • * Sec. 6. That whenever under the provisions of section thirty-three hundred and nine of the Eevised Statutes, an assessment shall have been made against a distiller for a defi- ciency m not producing eighty per centum of the producing capacity of his distillery as established by law, or for the tax upon the spirits that should have been produced from the grain, or fruit, or molasses found to have been used in excess of the capacity of his distillery for any month, as estimated according to law, such excessive use of grain, or fruit, or molasses having arisen from a failure on the part of the distiller to maintain the capacitv required by law to enable him to use such grain, or fruit, or molasses with- TREASURY DEPARTMENT INTERNAL REVENUE. 57 out incurring liability in such assessment, and it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Internal Eevenne that said defi- ciency, or that said failure, whereby such excessive use of grain, molasses or Iruit arose, was not occasioned by any want of diligence or by any fraud- ulent purpose, on the part of the distiller, but from misunderstanding as to the reqmrements of the law and regulations in that respect or by reason of unavoidable accidents, then, and in such case, the Commissioner of Internal Kevenue, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treas- ury, is authorized, on appeal made to him, to remit or refund such tax or such part thereof as shall appear to him to be equitable and just in the premises: Provided, That no tax shall be remitted or refunded under the provisions of this section upon any assessment made prior to January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: Provided further, That no assessments shaU be charged against any distiller of fruit for any failure to maintain the required capacity, unless the Commissioner shall, within six months after his receipt of each monthly report, notify such distiller of such failure so to maintain the required capacity. That section thirty-two hundred and twenty-one be amended by adding the following: "And when any distilled spirits are hereafter destroyed by accidental fire or other casualty, without any fraud, collusion, or negligence of the owner thereof, after the time when the same should have been drawn off by the ganger and placed in the distillery warehouse provided by law, no tax shall be collected on such spirits so destroyed, or, if collected, it shall be refunded upon the production of satisfactory proof that the spirits were destroyed as herein specified." * * • • » • » That section thirty-two hundred and forty-four of Eevised Statutes, and second division, be amended by adding thereto the following words : " Upon all stills manufactured for export, and actually exported, there shall be allowed a drawback, where the tax thereon has been paid, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Eevenne, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe." * • • * » » „ That section eighteen of "An act to amend existing customs and in- ternal-revenue laws, and for other purposes," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended to read as follows: "Sec. 18. That retail dealers in liquors shall pay twenty-five dollars. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, foreign or domestic distilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors, otherwise than as hereinafter provided, in less quan- tities than five wine-gallons at the same time, shall be regarded as a retail dealer in liquors. Wholesale liquor-dealers shall each pay one hundred doUars. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, foreign or domestic dis- tilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors, otherwise than as hereinafter provided, in quantities of not less than five wine-gallons at the same time, shaU be regarded as a wholesale liquor-dealer. But no distiller who has given the required bond and who sells only distilled spirits of his own production at the place of manufacture in the original packages to which the tax-stamps are affixed, shall be required to pay the special tax of a wholesale liquor-dealer on account of such sales. Eetail dealers in malt liquors shall pay twenty dollars. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, malt liquors in less quantities than five gallons at one time, but who does not deal in spirituous liquors, shall be regarded as a retail dealer in malt liquors. Wholesale dealers in malt liquors shall pay fifty dollars. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, malt liquors in quantities of not less than five gallons at one time, but who does not deal in spirituous liquors at wholesale, shall be regarded as a wholesale dealer in malt liquors: Provided, That no brewer shall be required to pay a special tax as a dealer by reason of selling in the original stamped packages whether at the place of manufacture or else- where, malt liquors manufactured by him, or purchased and procured by him in his own casks or vessels, under the provisions of section thirty-three hundred and forty-nine of the Eevised Statutes; but the quantity of malt liquors so purchased shall be included in calculating the liability to brewers' special tax of both the brewer who manufactures and seUs the same and the 15 D A 58 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. brewer who purchases the same: And it is hereby provided, That no further collection of special tax as retail dealers in malt liquors shall be made from brewers for selling malt liquors of their own manufacture in the original stamped eighth-barrel package : Provided further, That any assessments of additional special tax against wholesale liquor-dealers or retail liquor-deal- ers, or against brewers for selling malt liquors of their own production at the place of manufacture in the original casks or packages, made by reason of an amendment to section fifty-nine of the internal-revenue act approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as amended by section thirteen of the act approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, further amending said section fifty-nine by striking out the words * malt liquor,' 'malt liquors,' 'brewer,' and 'malt liquors,' in the three several par- agraphs in which they occur, shall be on proper proofs remitted; and if such assessments have been paid, the amounts so paid shall be, on proper proofs, refunded by the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue." • • • # * • * Sec. 16. That section thirty-three hundred and eighty-six be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all after the said number and sub- stituting therefor the following : " There shall be an allowance of drawback on tobacco, snuff, and cigars on which the tax has been paid by suitable stamps affixed thereto before removal from the place of manufacture, when the same are exported, equal in amount to the value of the stamps found to have been so affixed; the e^'idence that the stamps were so aflQxed, and the amount of tax so paid, and of the subsequent exportation of the said tobacco, snuff, and cigars, to be ascertained under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Com- missioner of Internal Eevenue, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Any sums found to be due under the provisions of this section shall be paid by the warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Treas- urer of the United States, out of any money arising from internal duties not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That no claim for an allowance of draw- back shall be entertained or allowed until a certificate from the collector of customs at the port from which the goods have been exported, or other evidence satisfactory to the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue, has been furnished, that the stamps affixed to the tobacco, snuff', or cigars entered and cleared for export to a foreign country were totally destroyed before such clearance; nor until the claimant has filed a bond, with good and suffi- cient sureties, to be approved by the collector of the district from which the goods are shipped, in a penal sum double the amount of the tax for which said claim is made, that he will procure, within a reasonable time, evidence satisfactory to the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue that said tobacco snuft, or cigars have been landed at any port without the jurisdiction of the United States, or that after shipment the same were lost at sea, and have not been relanded within the limits of the United States." That section thirty four hundred and forty-one be amended by striking out all after the said number and substituting therefor the following • " There shall be an allowance of drawback on fermented liquors and on all articles mentioned in Schedule A, on which any internal tax shall have been paid, except lucifer or friction matches, cigar-Ughts, and wax-tapers, equal m amount to the tax paid thereon, and no more, when exported to be paid by the warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Treasul^er of the United States, out of any money arising from internal duties not other- wise appropnated: Provided, That no aUowance of drawback shall be made for any such articles exported prior to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred «Lif f H"^'^ *i: ^^^M^^^^^""^. ^^^* ^°y "'^^^ *^^ bas been paid as aforesaid shall be furnished to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Internal Eeve- nue by the person claiming the allowance of drawback, and the amount shall be ascertained under such regulations as shaU be prescribed from time Tvl?® ^ the Commissioner, under the direction of the Secretary of the ?tf "7- ^°^ *^? «^i,fi?l°'^°T 'T'^^f'^^y collected; and such allowance or re- demption shaU be made either by giving other stamps in Ueu of the stamps Z^^^7£Jj^''V^'}^^'^S^'''l by refunding the amount or value to the owner thereof deducting therefrom, in case of repayment, the percentage, If any, aUowedtothe purchaser thereof; but no allowance or redemption Shall be made m any case until the stamps so spoiled or rendered useless shaU have been returned to the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue, or until satistactory proof has been made showing the reason why the same cannot be so returned: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held as authorizing redemption of, or aUowance for, any of the stamps, aUowance for which is prohibited by the provisions of 'An act relative to the redemption of un- used stamps,' approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. That claims for allowance on account of stamps, arising under section thirty-four hundred and twenty-six of the Eevised Statutes, as restricted by 'An act relative to the redemption of unused stamps,' approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, may be allowed, if presented within three years after the purchase of said stamps from the Government, or a Government agent for the sale of stamps, and not otherwise: Provided, That no existing claim for the redemption of, or allowance for, any internal- revenue stamps, other than the two-cent documentary stamps, shall be allowed, unless presented within one year from the date of the passage of this act: Provided further. That from and after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, no allowance shall be made, in anyvnanner, for documentary stamps other than those of the denomination of two cents." ♦ * • * » # . » Sec. 22. That whenever and after any bank has ceased to do business by reason of insolvency or bankruptcy, no tax shall be assessed or collected, or paid into the Treasury of the United States, on account of such bank, which shall diminish the assets thereof necessary for the full payment of aU its depositors; and such tax shall be abated from such national banks as are found by the Comptroller of the Currency to be insolvent; and the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue, when the facts shall so appear to him, is authorized to remit so much of said tax against insolvent State and sav- ings-banks as shall be found to affect the claims of their depositors. That in making further collections of internal-revenue taxes on bank deposits, no savings-bank, recognized as such by the laws of its State, and having no capital stock, shall, on account of mercantile or business deposits heretofore received, upon which no interest has been allowed to the parties making such deposits, be denied the exemptions allowed to savings-banks having no capital stock, and doing no other business than receiving deposits to be loaned or invested for the sole benefit of the parties making such deposits, without profit or compensation to the banks, if such bank has paid the lawful tax upon the entire average amount of such busi- ness or mercantile deposits; but nothing in this section shall be construed to extend said exemptions to deposits hereafter made, or in any way to affect the liability of such deposits to taxation. * » * — Act March 1, 1879. Salaries and Expenses of Collectors of Internal Revenue, 1880. — For salaries and expenses of collectors, one million eight hundred thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879. $1, 800, 000 00 Salaries and Expenses of Collectors of Internal Revenue, 1879. — Salaries and expenses of col- lectors of internal revenue, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Salaries and Expenses of Agents and Subordinate Officers of Internal Revenue, 1880.— For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, for fees and expenses of 60 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. gaugers, for salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneons expenses, one million five hundred thousand dollars ; and hereafter the compensation of gaugers shall not exceed five dollars per day while actually employed. And section thirty-one hundred and fifty-two of the Eevised Statutes is hereby so amended as to permit of the employment of thirty-five agents in Ueu of the number therein named.— Act June 21, 1879 $1, 500, 000 00 Salaries and Expenses of Agents and Subordinate Officers of Internal Beveniie, 1879. — To meet a deficiency in the appropriation for salaries and expenses of agents, and surveyors' fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and mis- cellaneous expenses, being for the present fiscal year, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars : Provided, That hereafter storekeepers at distilleries that mash less than sixty bushels of grain per day shall be allowed not exceeding fifty dollars per month ; but when one person acts as storekeeper and ganger, his salary shall not exceed four dollars per day for the time actually employed.— Act June 21, 1879 150, 000 00 Salaries and Uoepenses of Supervisors and Subordinate Officers of Internal Revenue, 1877. — For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers of internal revenue, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two hun- dred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. — Act March 3, 1879 . 277 78 Salaries and Uxpenses of Supervisors and Subordinate Officers of Internal Revenue, 1876 and prior years. — For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers of internal revenue, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-six cents. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 125 36 Expenses of Assessing and Collecting Internal Revenue, 1875 and prior years. — For expenses of assessing and collecting internal revenue, fifteen thousand and three dollars and sixty-one cents. — Act March 3, 1879 15, 003 61 Punishment for Violation of Internal-Revenue Laws, 1880. — For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or accessory to the same, including payments for information and detection, seventy-five thousand dollars ; and the Commissioner of Internal Eevenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum. — Act June 21, 1879 75 OOO 00 Punishment for Violations of Internal-Revenue Laws, 1879 For detecting and bringing to ' trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws. or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 . 25 000 00 Stamps, Paper, and Dies, 1880.— For dies, paper, and stamps, three hundred and seventy- ' five thousand dollars ; said engraving and printing to be done in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury 5 provided the cost does not exceed the price paid under existing contracts.— Act June 21, 1879 375 000 00 A Iteration of Dies and Stamps.— And the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof ' as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the alteration of dies and stamps, and such other expenses as are incident in preparing for the collection of the taxes on tobacco and snuff at the reduced rates provided m this act. — Act March 1, 1879 COAST AND GEODETIC SUEVET. Coast and Geodetic Survey, (Eastern Division,) 1880.— Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the con- tinuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States the Mississippi and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or shin! navigation; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and current- observations along the above-named coasts, and in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, includmg its entrance into the Gulf, its course through the Canbbean and into and around the Sargasso Sea; the triangulation toward the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys,- the triangula- tion of the Mississippi river from the northern boundary of the State of Mississippi to the Gulf; the usual coast-survey work of that part of Louis lana lying between the mouth of the Eed river and the Gulf as a portion of 15, 000 00 TREASURY DEPARTMENT — REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. 61 tlie coast included in the operations of the Coast and Geodetic Survey ; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $300, 000 00 Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, 1879. — For the continuation, during the present fiscal year, of the survey of the Atlantic and G-ulf coasts of the United States, the triangulation toward the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys, fifteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ... 15, 000 00 Coast and Geodetic Survey, {Western Division,) 1880. — Survey of the Western (Pacific) coasts: For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the con- tinuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, including the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or ship- navigation, deep-sea soundings, temperatures, currents, and dredgings along and also iu the branch of the Japan Stream flowing off these coasts; the triangulation toward the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, one'hundred and eighty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 180, 000 00 Survey of the Western {Pacific) Coasts, 1879. — For the continuation, during the present fiscal year, of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, the triangula- tion toward the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys, twenty five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Repairs of Vessels, Coast Survey, 1880.- For the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars.— Act March 3 1879 '^^' ^^^ ^^ Publishing Observations, Coast Survey, 1880.— For continuing the publication of observa- tions, and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast Survey, in- cluding compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, six thousand dollars.— Act March3,1879 - , 6,00000 General Expenses, Coast Survey, 1880.— For rent of buildings for offices, work-rooms, and workshops in Washington, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. For rent of fire-proof building, number two hundred and five, New Jersey avenue, south, (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures,) for the safe- keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydro- graphic, and other records ; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts ; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey, five thousand dollars. For rent of sub-office at ban Francisco, two thousand dollars. For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts ; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts ; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand four hundred dollars.— ^^ Act March 3, 1879 ■^' That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to the House of Repre- sentatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts published by the Coast Survey for each regular session of Congress.— Act March 3, 1679. REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. same sSp-chandlery and engineers' stores for same; travelling expenses onfflcers travelling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instSn of cadets; commutation of quarters; and contingent expenses, nptnd??rwharfaffe towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor. LntmSiranSt^^rsel, W ""'i^^'^^^fHir'"' '"'' eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars.-Act ^larch 3, 1879 860,000 00 16 DA 62 DIGEST OP APPEOPEIATIONS. LIFE-SAVING SEEVIOE. Life-Saving Service, 1880. — For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as follows: On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one, of Massachu- setts, one, at one thousand dollars each; on the coasts of Ehode Island and Long Island, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Ehode Island and Long Island, five hun- dred dollars ; for salary of one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars; for salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand dollars ; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand dollars; for salary of one superintendent for the house of refuge on the coast of Florida, one thousand dollars; and of one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand dol- lars, and of one on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand dollars ; for salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and life-boat sta- tions, as follows : One on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, and of one on the coast of Lake Michigan, at one thousand dollars each ; for salary of one hundred and %iinety-six keepers of life-saving and life-boat stations and of houses of refuge, at four hundred dollars each, seventy-eight thou- sand four hundred dollars; for pay of crews of experienced surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat stations, at a rate not to exceed forty dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, three hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; for com- pensation of volunteer crews of life-boat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon each occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; and for pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 .c,^72 860 00 Life-Saving Service, Contingent Expenses, 1880.— For fuel for one hundred and ninety-six ' stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for the same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations ; travelling expenses of offlcers under orders from the Treasury Department; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous ex- penses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, fifty thousand doUars Act March 3, Life-Saving Service, Contingent Expenses, 1879.— For fuel for'iife-saving and iife-boat sta- ' tions and houses of refuge, repairs and outfits for the same ; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations ; travelling expenses of offtcers under orders from the Treasurv Department ; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous ex- penses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, ten thousand doUars.— Act March 3 Xo7y ....~. --.-........... ' Ustablishing Ufe-Saming Stations.— For establishing new life-saving' stations' and 'life honf "'^' ^^^ ^^ stations on the sea and lake-coasts of the United States, seventy-eight thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' "'^ ^ 78, 000 00 LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. Salaries of Keepers of Light-houses, im. -For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of nine hundred and seventh five light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby\uthorizedTn hfi discretion, upon the recommendation of the Light-House Board to use anv salaries <>/ ^'-^.t ^^^^^^^^ MghV-house" keepers', " eighty-'six Salaries of Keepers of Light-houses, 1871 and prior years.— To pay the hei'rs of ' a' -r' ^' '„' " " ^*^ ^* formerly light-keeper at Barnega!, New Jers^ey^t^'JlTcetftom'^Janrry' 585, 000 00 TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. 63 first to March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents. — Act March 3, 1879 $38 31 Supplies 0/ Light-lwuses, 1880. — For supplying the light-houses, beacon-lights, and fog- signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books for light-stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 ■ 375,000 00 Stipplies of Light-houses, 1875. — For supplies of light-houses, five dollars and thirty-three cents.— Act March 3, 1879 5 33 Repairs, &g., of Light-houses, 1880. — ^For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses; for rebuilding and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 275, 000 00 That the amount expended for repairing and refitting the discontinued light-station at Reedy Island, Delaware bay, to fit it for a fog-signal station, is hereby authorized to be charged to the appropriations for repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses relating to the fiscal years during which such repairs were actually made. — Act March 3, 1879. Expmses of Light-vessels, 1880.— Seamen's wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-one light-ships, and the expense of maintaining the vessels of the light-house estabhshment, may be paid from any surplus of the appropriation for the works, general or special, on which the respec- tive vessels are, for the time being, employed; and the cost of repairs to such vessels may be paid from the appropriation under which they respec- tively were employed when they were injured or became deteriorated to such an extent as to render the repairs necessary; or, if such appropriation be exhausted, then from the appropriation under which they are respec- tively to be next employed, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 230, 000 00 Expenses of Buoyage, 1880.— For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remov- ing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five thou- sand dollars.-Act March 3, 1879 - - • - - - ■ - ■ ■ ■ - - • ■ -^ - - 325, 000 00 Expenses of Buoyage, 1875.— For expenses of buoyage, eight dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 8 00 Eikmses of Fog-signals, 1880.— For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, establish- ine and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, htty thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 - - - ;-■-■••• -. V " V ''^^ ^^^ "° Inspecting Lights, 1880.— For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars.-Act March 3, 1879 - - - - ■ 4, 000 00 yjommissions to Superintendents of Lights, I880.-For commissions to collectors of customs acting as superintendents of lights, being for disbursements to be made by them for the light-house establishment during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, seven thousand five hundred dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 ■ :• ■■■■■ 7,500 00 Bau beacons Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. -Fov day-beacons on the coasts of Bay beacons, ^y^<^^^ Hamphshire, and Massachusetts, and for repairing the same, ten thousand dollars.-Act March 3, 1879 . . . - - -...-- , - -, - - • ■■■■■ 10, 000 00 Isle La MotteLight-station, Vermont.-Foi establishing a better light and budding a keep- isle J.a Mouei^igj^ dweluAg at Isle La Motte, Lake Champlain, Vermont, five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 ;■■•■; "^■■WV"" 5,000 00 setts five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. .......... - - i>,vw w dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. chasing site for beacon at Ipswich light-station, Massachusetts, ten tnousana j„ii„„„ A/>+ M.jrr..li 3. 1879 11 .-•■ -"^"l 000 00 ^ r. 7-- 7f»t^.-n«" V//«Q/7^ft««'eto— For light-house at Stage Harbor, Massachu- Stage Harbor ^^M^^^n^^ZtouZ.-Aot M^arch 3, 1879 10, 000 00 18 52 15, 000 00 250 00 5,000 00 300 00 10, 000 00 20, 000 00 5, 000 00 60, 000 00 3, 500 00 64 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. Gonimicut Light- station, Rhode Island. — For reimbursing H. W. Arnold, keeper of Conimi- cut light-station, for losses sustained at the time of the destruction of the keeper's dwelling by ice, three hundred and nineteen dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $319 00 Thirty-mile Point Light-station, New York. — For Thirty-mile Point light-station, ^ew York, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen dollars and fifty-two cents.— Act March 3, 1879 Execution, UocTcs Fog-signal, New York. — For establishing a first-class fog-signal at Execu- tion Eocks, Long Island Sound, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . Cumberland Head Light-station, New York. — For purchase of additional land at Cumberland Head light-station, ISew York, two hundred and fifty dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 Falkner's Island Fog-signal, New York.— For steam fog-signal at Falkner's Island light- station, New York, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 Steam-mill Point Light-station, New York For purchasing site at Steam-mill Point, White- hall Narrows, New York, three hundred doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 Staten Island Depot, New York. — For general repairs and improvements at the general light-house and buoy-depot at Staten Island, New York, ten thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 Abseoom Light-station, New Jersey.— Fox protecting the site of the Absecom light-house at Atlantic City, New Jersey, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 . . Fast Beacon, Sandy Hook Light-station, New Jersey. — For protecting the site of the east beacon, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, from the encroachments of the sea, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 Lights on the Delaware River. — To establish lights on the Delaware river from Deepwater Point to League Island, sixty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 Reedy Island Light-station, Delaware.— To re-establish Eeedy Island light, Delaware river three thousand five hundred doUars Act March 3, 1879 .' Janets Island Light-station, Maryland.— For the rebuilding of the light-house on Jane's Island, in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25 000 00 Fig Island LighPstation, Georgia.— Fov changing position of light on Fig island. Savannah ' river, Georgia, and establishing a range-light on the tower of the Exchange budding. Savannah, and the Light-House Board is authorized to establish said range-hght without cession of jurisdiction, provided the Government shall be at no expense for rent, three thousand dollars.— Act March 3 ^^^^ .' 3, 000 00 That the balance of the appropriation made by the act of July thirtv- flrst, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the establishment of ran^e- lights at Hilton Head and Bay Point, entrance to Port Eoyal Harbor South Carolina, is hereby made available for the construction of a ranse- hght on Pans Island in the same harbor.— Act March 3, 1879. American Shoal Light-station, Florida.— Fov continuing the construction of a light-house at Act^M^r^T 1879 ^^''^^' '^^''"'^^ "^^^^'' '^^°"'^^' ^^*^ t^^ousand dollars— Reimbursement of Keepers of Dog Island and Saint 'Mark's 'Light-stations, Florida —To' rei m" ^^' ^^^ ^^ burse keepers of Dog Island and Saint Mark's light-stations, Florida for private property destroyed by a hurricane, nine hundred and seventy dol lars and sixty-five cents Act March 3, 1879 '^vcuu^ uoi Northwest Passage Light-station, Florida.— For repairing the light-house"at Northwest irMar'cr3 1879 *'. ^^.^!'* Harbor, Florida,%ix thousand dollars- Calcasieu Range-light, Louisiana.--FoT establishing a beacon-light to form a ranVe 'wifhi, large light to gmde into the mouth of the Calcasieu river LouSron^ thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3 1879 ' ^^'"^'''°^' ^^^^ Trtmty Shoal Light-ship Louisiana.-To establish a light-ship and' fog-signarat Trinitv 3 1879 "^^ ™ Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars—Act Sch South Pass Light-station Louisiana -For TehuMing'tawev' Sit South Pass, entrance to" MiV sissippi Eiver, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars.-Act March 3f?879 970 65 6, 000 00 1, 500 00 50, 000 00 50, 000 00 TKEASUEY DEPARTMENT — PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 65 Frying-pan Island UgM-stationMcMgan.-Fov beacon-light on Frying-pan Island, at the mouth of Saint Mary's river, Lake Huron, two thousand dollars.-Act iviarcn o, is < y ^,-, Stannard^s Rock Light-station, MicUgan.-Fov continuing the' erection of ' a 'light-house 'on ' Stannard's rock. Lake Superior, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars—Act marcn o, lo/y _. . Pier-head Beacon-lights on the Lakes.-Eov erection, removal; and 'repair'of pier-head lights ?^ Z °5 000 00 Custom-house and Post Office, Albany, New Yorh—FoT continuation of building ' ninetv " ' thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 "^ 90 000 00 TREASURY DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT TREASURY. 67 Gustom-hoiise and Post Offlee, Cincinnati, Ohio. — For continuation of building, three hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 $350, 000 00 Custom-house and Post Office, Fall Biver, Massachusetts. — For continuation of building and for purchase of adjoining land, on Second street, thirty-nine feet in width, eighty-five thousand dollars; of which sum not more than twenty -five thou- sand dollars shall be used for the purchase of the land. — Act March 3, 1879 . 85, 000 00 Custom-house and Post Office, Hartford, Connecticut. — For continuation of building, seventy- five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 75, 000 00 Custom-house, Post Office, &c., Kansas City, Missouri. — For continuation of building, twenty- five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 - • 25, 000 00 Customrliouse and Post Office, New Orleans, Louisiana. — For continuation of building, forty thousand doUars.- Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Custom-house and Post Office, Saint Louis, Missouri. — For continuation of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 350, 000 00 INDEPENDENT TRBASUEY. Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at New YorTt, 1880.— For assistant treasurer, eight thousand dollars; for deputy assistant treasurer, three thousand six hun- dred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, four thousand dollars; chief of coin division, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief of note-paying division, three thousand dollars; chief of note-receiving division, two thousand eight hundred dollars; chief of check division, two thousand eight hundred dol- lars; chief of registered-interest division, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief of coupon-interest division, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief of bond division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of can- celled-check and record division, two thousand dollars ; two clerks, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; six clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thou- sand seven hundred doUars each; five clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand five hundred doUars each; ten clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; five messengers, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; one messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; keeper of building, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief detective, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant detectives, at one thou- sand four hundred doUars each; three haUmen, at one thousand dollars each; six watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty doUars each; one engi- neer, one thousand dollars; one porter, nine hundred dollars; in al > one hundred and forty-nine thousand and seventy dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. 149, 070 Olt Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at New YorTc,^879.-.¥orthvee additional clerks m the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, two at the rate of one thousand five hundred doUars per annum, and one at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, for the service ot the unexpired portion of the current fiscal year a sufacient sum is hereby ap- propriated.— Act March 3, 1879 -.■•■-; 1 ^'-'Iv." h'i"^ ^^ Salaries OMce of Assistant Treasurer at Boston, I880.-For assistant treasurer, foiir thou- Salaries, Office o/^««^^ i,^,,aved doUars; for chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dol- lars- paying teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant paymg teUer, two thousand doUars ; chief interest clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars- receiving teUer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; first book- SeSr,oSouslnd seven hundred dollars; second book-keeper, de^ accounts, one thousand five hundred doUars; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; specie clerk, one thousand five hundred doUars ; assistant snecie clerk one thousand foii hundred dollars ; two coupon clerks at one thousand folir hundred doUars each; two clerks, one thousand two hundred doUars each assistant book-keeper, eight hundred dollars; money clerk one Sousand dollars; assistant currency-redemption clerk, one thousand one hu"d doUars;' assistant currency-redemption clerk one thousand doUars messenger aid chief watchman, one thousand and sixty dollars; ?:« waichmen, ?t eight hundred and 6% dollars each ; m all, thn:ty.five thousand five hundred and sixty doUars.-Act June 21, 1879 ^o, oou 68 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco, 1880.— For assistant treasurer, five thousand five hundred dollars ; for cashier, three thousand dollars ; for book- keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars ; for assistant cashier, two thou- sand dollars ; for assistant book-keeper, two thousand dollars ; one stamj) clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars ; for one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; in all, twenty-two thousand and eighty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 . . $22, 080 CO Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at FMladelphia, 1880.— For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars ; for cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars ; book-keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars ; chief interest clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars ; assistant book-keeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; coin teller, one thousand seven hun- dred dollars; chief registered-interest clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; assistant coupon clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars ; fractional- currency clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars ; one assistant registered- interest clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant coin teller, one thousand four hundred dollars ; receiving teller, one thousand three hundred dollars ; assistant receiving teller, one thousand two hundred dol- lars ; superintendent of building, one thousand one hundred dollars ; four female counters, at nine hundred dollars each ; five watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is thirty-three thou- sand seven hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 33, 700 00 Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at Baltimore, 1880. — For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars ; for cashier, two thousand five hundred dol- lars, for three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each ; for two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each ; for two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars ; three vault- watchmen, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars ; in all, twenty thousand six hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . . 20, 600 00 Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis, 1880. — For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars ; chief clerk and teller, two thousand five hundred dollars ; assistant teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; book- keeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant book-keeper, one thousand two hundred dollars ; messenger, one thousand dollars ; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, fifteen thou- sand three hundred and eighty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . . 15, 380 00 Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at Chicago, 1880. — For assistant treasurer, four thou- sand five hundred dollars; for cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; for paying teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for book-keeper and receiving teller, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; for two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; for one messenger, eight hun- dred and forty dollars; and one watchman, seven hundred and twenty dol- lars; in all, fifteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 15, 760 00 Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati, 1880. — For assistant treasurer four thousand five hundred dollars; for cashier, two thousand dollars; for book- keeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars^ for assistant cashier, one thou sand five hundred dollars; check clerk and interest clerk, each one thousand two hundred dollars; fractional-currency clerk, one thousand dollars- mes- senger, six hundred dollars; night-watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each- in all fourteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 ' 14 760 OO Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at New Orleans, 1880. — For assistant treasurer four ' thousand dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty doilars- receiving teller, two thousand dollars; book-keeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; porter, nine hundred dol- lars; one watchman, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one night- watchman, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand and ninety dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 23 090 OO Salaries, Office of Depositary at Tucson, 1880.— For depositary, in addition to his pay as post- ' master, eight hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 800 OO Salaries of Special Agents, Independent Treasury, 1880.— For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several sub- TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT — MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. 69 treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the act of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, four thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 " ,$4 000 00 Checks and Certificates of Deposit, Independent Treasury, 1880. — For checks and check-books for disbursing offtcers and others, and certificates of deposit for offices of the Treasurer and assistant treasurers and designated depositaries, ten thousand dollars — Act June 21, 1879 10, 000 00 Gheclcs and Certificates of Deposit, Independent Treasury, 1879.— For a new supply of checks, to be used in the place of coin-checks now on hand and rendered useless under the operations of the resumption act, and for the increased number of checks now used in the redemption of United States bonds, and in the payment of interest under the different loans, two thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 ChecJcs and Certificates of Deposit, Independent Treasury, Transfer Account, 1878. — To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for engraving, printing, and similar necessary expenses, disbursing-of&cers' transfer and interest checks, involving no expenditure of money from the treasury, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand three hun- dred and ninety-two dollars and eighty cents. — Act March 3, 1879. Contingent Eoopenses, Independent Treasury, 1880. — For contingent expenses under the act of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, forty thou- sand dollars. And no part of said sum shall be expended for clerical ser- vices or payment of employes of any nature or grade. — Act June 21, 1879 . 40, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury, 1877. — To reimburse expenses incurred and paid by C. H. Lord, United States depositary at Tucson, Arizona, under Treasury -Department instructions, three hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 334 87 MINTS AISTD ASSAY OFFICES. Salaries, Office of Director of the Mint, 1880. — For Director, four thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, two thousand three hiindred dollars; one computer of bullion, two thousand two hundred dollars ; one assay clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one translator, one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; one laborer; making, in all, the suta of seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 . . 17, 280 00 Contingent Expenses, United States Mints and Assay Offices, 1880.— For contingent expenses of the United States mints and assay offices, namely: For specimens of coins, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, two hundred dollars ; for books, balances and weights, and other incidental expenses, eight hundred dollars; for the office of the Director of the Mint, for purchasing books, periodicals, and pamphlets containing information relative. to monetary questions, two hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. . 1, 200 00 Becoinage of Gold and Silver Coins, 1880.— For recoinage of gold and silver coins in the treasury, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Salaries, Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, 1880.— For salaries of the superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars ; for the assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and engraver, four in all, at three thousand dollars each; the assist- ant" assayer, assistant coiner, and assistant melter and refiner, at two thou- sand dollars each; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; book-keeper and deposit clerk, at two thousand dollars each; weigh clerk, two thousand dollars; and one clerk at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 . 34, 850 00 Warn of Worlcmen, Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, I880.-For wages of workmen wages oj ^^^ adjusters, two hundred and eighty-five thousand doUars.-Act June ^^^ ^^^ ^^ Freight on Bullion^MM 'of the UnMed' Stoics 'at Philadelphia, ISS^^^^^ freight on bullion ' and coin, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 ............ 5, 000 00 Continaent Expenses, Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, I880.--For incidental and Contingent ^^I>^^^^ expenses, seventy-two thousand five hundred doUars.-Act June 21, 1879 iJ,i)W w 18 D A 70 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Contingent Expenses, Mint of the United States at PMladelpMa, 1879.— For contingent ex- penses, ten thousand doUars.— Act May 10, 1879 - ■ - - , ^W, 000 00 Salaries, Mint of the United States at San Francisco, 1880.— For salaries of superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dol- lars ; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars ; four clerks, at one thou- sand six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 - - 24, 900 00 Wages of Worlcmen, Mint of the United States at San Francisco, 1880.— For wages of work- men and adiusters, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879....' ^ 275,000 00 Contingent Expenses, Mint of the United States at San Francisco, 1880.— For materials and repairs, fuel, lights, chemicals, and other necessaries, eighty-seven thou- sand five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 87, 500 00 Salaries, Mint of the United States at Carson, 1880.— For salary of superintendent, three thousand dollars; for assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thou- sand five hundred doUars each; chief clerk, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; cashier and book-keeper, at two thousand dollars each; weigh clerk, two thousand dollars; voucher clerk and computing clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each ; assayer's clerk, at one thousand two hundred doUars ; in aU, twenty- three thousand five hundred and fifty doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 23, 550 00 Wages of Worlcmen, Mint of the United States at Carson, 1880. — For wages of workmen and adjusters, eighty thousand dollars Act June 21, 1879 80, 000 00 M^ages of Workmen, Mint of the United States at Carson, Transfer Account, 1875. — To adjust the settled account of James Crawford, superintendent of the mint at Car- son, N"evada, on account of wages of workmen, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, one thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-two cents, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five. — Act March 3, 1879. Contingent Expenses, Mint of the United States at Carson, 1880. — For materials and repairs, fuel, light, charcoal, chemicals, and other necessaries, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 42, 500 00 Salaries, Mint of the United States at Denver, 1880. — For salaries of assayer in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; for assistant assayer, one thousand four hundred dollars; melter, two thousand two hundred and fifty doUars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in aU, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty doUars. — Act June 21, 1879 10, 750 00 Wages of Worlcmen, Mint of the United States at Denver, 1880. — For wages of workmen, ten thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 10 000 00 Wages of Worlcmen, Mint of the United States at Denver, 1879. — For wages of workmen, eight hundred doUars. — Act May 10,. 1879 .• 800 00 Contingent Expenses, Mint of the United States at Denver, 1880. — For fuel, lights, acids, chemicals, crucibles, repairs, and other necessaries, six thousand doUars. Act June 21, 1879 6, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Mint of the United States at Denver, 1879. — For contingent expenses seven hundred doUars. — Act May 10, 1879 ' 700 00 Salaries, Mint of the United States at New Orleans, 1880. — For salary of the superintendent three thousand five hundred dollars ; for the assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, three in aU, at two thousand five hundred doUars each; cashier', two thousand doUars; chief clerk, two thousand doUars; weigh clerk, deposit clerk, and book-keeper, at one thousand six hundred doUars each; assayer's clerk, one thousand six hundred doUars; in all, twenty-one thousand four hundred doUars. — Act June 21, 1879 21 400 00 Wages of Workmen, Mint of the United States at New Orleans, 1880.— For wages of workmen ' and adjusters, seventy-five thousand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 75 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Mint of the United States at New Orleans, 1880. For fuel fluxes light ' lead, copper, acids, chemicals, crucibles, and for incidental and contingent expenses, thirty thousand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 30 000 00 Repairs and 2Iachinery, Mint of the United States at New Orleans, 1880 For repairs and machinery, five thousand doUars: Provided, That before the expenditure of any money for the mint at '^ew Orleans, the city of New Orleans shall re TREASURY DEPARTMENT MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. 71 lease and quit-claim to the United States all title and all claim of every character and all conditions of forfeiture to the lands and premises upon which said mint is located. — Act June 21, 1879 $5, 000 00 Salaries, United States Assay Office at New Yorlc, 1880. — For salary of superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; for assayer, three thousand dollars; for melter and reliner, three thousand dollars ; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; weighing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; pay- ing clerk, two thousand dollars; bar clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; warrant clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two calculatiag clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars ; for assayer's first assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for assayer's second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars ; for assayer's third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 Wages of Worlcmen, United States Assay Office at New York, 1880. — For wages of workmen, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Contingent Uoopenses, United States Assay Office at New Torlc, 1880. — For acids, copper, coal, lead, and light, and for miscellaueous items and repairs, nine thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 Salaries, United States Assay Offlce at Helena, 1880. — For salaries of assayer in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; and of melter, two thousand dollars; and one clerk of class one; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. — Act ■June 21, 1879 Wages of Worlcmen, United States Assay Office at Selena, 1880. — For wages of workmen, twelve thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Wages of Worlcmen, United States Assay Office at Selena, 1879. — For wages of workmen, two thousand dollars. — ^Act May 10, 1879 Contingent Expenses, United States Assay Office at Selena, 1880. — For fuel, crucibles, chemi- cals, light, and other incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Contingent Expenses, United States Assay Office at Selena, 1879. — For contingent expenses, three thousand dollars. — Act May 10, 1 879 Salaries, United States Assay Office at Boise City, 1880. — For salary of assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Wages and Contingent Eoopenses, United States Assay Office at Boise City, 1880. — For wages of workmen, fuel, crucibles, chemicals, and repairs and other incidental ex- penses, six thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 Wages and Contingent Expenses, United States Assay Office at Boise City, 1879. — For wages and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. — Act May 10, 1879 Salaries, United States Assay Office at Charlotte, 1880.— For salary of assayer in charge, one thousand five hundred dollars ; and the assayer is hereby authorized in case of necessity to employ a clerk at not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum. — Act June 21, 1879 Wages and Contingent Expenses, United States Assay Office at Charlotte, 1880. — For labor and other expenses, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879. Wages and Contingent Eoopenses, United States Assay Office at Charlotte, 1879.— For wages and contingent expenses, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. — Act May 10, 1879. Parting and Refining Bullion. — And refining and parting of bullion shall be carried on at the mints of the United States and at the assay ofiice at New York. And it shall be lawful to apply the moneys arising from charges collected from depositors for these operations pursuant to law so far as may be necessary to the defraying in full of the expenses thereof, including labor, materials, and wastage; but no part of the moneys otherwise appropriated for the support of the mints and the assay office at New York shall be used to defray the expenses of refining and parting bullion ; but when the bullion received shall not, in the aggregate, be in such proportion of gold and sUver as to admit of economical parting, or the necessary supplies of acids cannot be procured at reasonable rates, unparted bullion may be exchanged for fine bars, as provided in section thirty-five hundred and forty-six of the Eevised Statutes of the United States. And for the purpose of enabling 33, 150 00 22 500 00 9,000 00 5, 700 00 12, 000 00 2, 000 00 15, , 000 00 3, 000 00 3, 000 00 6) ,000 00 2, , 000 00 2. ,500 00 500 00 375 00 72 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. the several mints and assay ofSces of the United States to make returns to depositors with as little delay as possible, the provisions of section thirty- five hundred and forty-five of the Eevised Statutes of the United States shall hereafter apply to the several mints and assay ofi&ces of the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use, as far as he may deem it proper and expedient, for payment to depositors of bullion at the several mints and assay offices, coin certificates, representing coin in the treasury, and issued under the provisions of section two hun- dred and fifty-four of the Eevised Statutes of the United States ; all of said acts and duties to be performed under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. And it shall be lawful to apply the moneys arising from charges collected from depositors at the several mints and assay offices pursuant to law, to defraying the expenses thereof, including labor, material, wastage, and use of machinery; and only so much of the appropriations herein made for the mints and assay offices, respectively, shall be used for said mints and assay offices as shall be neces- sary for the operations of the same, after the moneys arising from the charges aforesaid shall have been exhausted as herein provided. But in no event shall the expenditures of said mints and assay offices exceed the amount of the specific appropriations herein made for same. — Act June 21, 1879. GOVERNMENT IN THE TEERITOEIES. That from and after the adjournment of the next session of the several Territorial legislatures the Council of each of the Territories of the United States shall not exceed twelve members, and the House of Representatives of each shall not exceed twenty-four members, and the members of each branch of the said several legislatures shall receive a compensation of four dollars per day each during the sessions provided by law, and shaU receive such mileage as the law provides; and the President of the Council and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each receive six dollars per day for the same time. And the several legislatures at their next ses- sions are directed to divide their respective Territories into as many council and representative districts as they desire, which districts shall be as nearly equal as practicable, taking into consideration population, except "Indians not taxed:" Provided, The number of council districts shall not exceed twelve, and the representative districts shall not exceed twenty-four in any one of said Territories; and all parts of sections eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty- three, and nineteen hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States in conflict with the provisions herein are repealed. That the subordinate officers of each branch of said Territorial legislatures shall con- sist of one chief clerk, who shall receive a compensation of six dollars per day; one enrolUng and engrossing clerk, at five dollars per day; sergeant- at-arms and doorkeeper, at five dollars per day; one messenger and watch- man, at four dollars per day each; and one chaplain, at one dollar and fifty cents per day. Said sums shall be paid only during the sessions of said legislatures, and no greater number of officers or charges per diem shall be paid or aUowed by the United States to any Territory. And section eigh- teen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed and this substituted in lieu thereof: Provided, That for the performance of all official duties imposed by the Territorial legislatures, and not provided for m the organic act, the secretaries of the Territories respectively shall be allowed such fees as may be fixed by the Territorial legislatures. And in no case shall the expenditure for public printing in any of the Territories exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred doUars for anv one vear — Act June 19, 1878, continued by act of June 21, 1879. ' AN ACT concerning the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of the United States. Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That the provisions of an act enti- TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT GOVEENMENT IN THE TEEEITORIES. 73 tied "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thir- tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, pertaining to gov- ernment in the several Territories of the United States, shall not be so con- strued as to impair or shorten the tenure of ofiice of any member of such legislative assemblies until the redistricting and reapportionment of such Territories as is therein provided, nor until at the next regular election thereafter the twelve members of the Council and twenty-four members of the House of Eepresentatives of such Territories shall have been elected and their term of ofiice begun. Approved, June 27, 1879. AN ACT providing for an additional associate justice of tlie supreme court of the Territory of Dakota. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota shall consist of a chief justice and three associate justices, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the President to appoint an additional associate justice of said supreme court, in manner now provided by law, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Sec. 3. The said Territory shall be divided into four judicial districts, and a district court shall be held in each district by one of the justices of the supreme court, at such time and place as may be prescribed by law ; each judge, after assignment, shall reside in the district to which he is assigned. Sec. 4. Until changed by the legislative assembly of said Territory, the fourth district of said Territory shall consist of the following counties, to wit: Clay, Union, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Brookings, Duel, Grant, Codington, Lake, Wood, Hamlin, Clark, Greeley, Stone, Turner, and McCook, and the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation. And the second district shall consist of the remainder of the Territory which now constitutes said second district, as defined by the statutes of said Territory. Sec. 5. Temporarily, and until otherwise provided by law, the addi- tional associate justice to be appointed under this act is hereby assigned to said fourth district, and the times and places as now fixed by the statutes of said Territory for holding court therein shall remain until changed by law. Sec. 6. The district court of said fourth judicial district shall have no jurisdiction to try, hear, or determine any matter or cause wherein the United States is a party, and no United States grand or petit jury shall be summoned in said court; but said fourth district is hereby attached to and made a part of the second judicial district for the purpose of hearing and determining all matters and causes arising within said fourth district in which the United States is a party. Approved, March 3, 1879. Salaries, Governor, dc, Territory of Arizona, 1880. — For salary of governor, chief justice, and two associate judges, two thousand six hundred dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 $12, 700 00 Leqislative Expenses, Territory of Arizona, 1880.— For the expenses of the secretary's office, two thousand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 2, 000 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Arizona, 1879.— For legislative expenses, namely: For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, and clerks, and contingent expenses thereof, and for rent, Hght, fuel, printing, stationery, and incidentals, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, for the following Territories, namely: * * * For Arizona, four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 - . 1, 220 00 19 DA 74 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Contingent Expenses, Territory of Arizona, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. — Act June -21, 1879. $500 00 /Salaries, Governor, tfcc, Territory of Dakota, 1880. — For salaries of governor, chief justice, and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; for salary of an associate judge in the Territory of Dakota, two thousand six hundred dollars; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 14, 800 00 Salaries, Governor, &c., Territory of Dakota, 1879. — For salary of an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota, appointed under act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from the date of his appointment to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the sum of six hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — Resolution June 20, 1879 680 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Dakota, 1880. — For the expenses of the secretary's office, two thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 2,000 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Dakota, 1879. — For legislative expenses, namely : For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, offi- cers, and clerks, and contingent expenses thereof, and for rent, light, fuel, printing, stationery, and incidentals, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy -nine, for the following Territories, namely: * * * For Dakota, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 680 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Dakota, 1877. —For legislative expenses, * • • as fol- lows : For the Teritory of Dakota, one thousand three hundred and ninety- nine dollars and ninety cents, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. — Act March 3, 1879 1 399 90 Contingent Expenses, Territory of Dakota, 1880.— For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 500 00 Salaries, Governor, (fee. Territory of Idaho, 1880.— For salaries of governor, chief justice, and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; and secre- tary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 12 200 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Idaho, 1880.— For the expenses of the secretary's office, ' two thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 2 000 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Idaho, 1879.— For legislative expenses, * * * as fol- ' lows: For the Territory of Idaho, for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, and clerks, and contingent expenses thereof, and for rent, light, fuel, printing, stationery, and incidentals, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, for the following Territories, namely: » • * Por Idaho, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10 538 00 LegislativeExpenses, Territory of Idaho, 1S77.— For legisl&tixe expenses, * * * as fol- ' lows: For the Territory of Idaho, for eighteen hundred and seventy-seven one thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fourteen cents — Act March 3, 1879 ' 1 '■'>7 14 Contingent Expenses, Territory of Idaho, 1880.— For contingent expenses,' to be expended by ' '" the governor, five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. " 500 nfi Contingent Expenses, Territory of Idaho, 1878.— For contingent expenses, • # * " as fol lows: For the Territory of Idaho, for eighteen hundred and seventv-eiffht two hundred and fifty dollars.— Act March 3, 1879,. ' 9^n fifi Salaries, Governor, do., Territory of Montana, 1880.— For salaries of governor chief iustice and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each- and secretary at one thousand eight hundred dollars; twelve thousand two hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 1 9 onn on Legislative Expenses, Territory of Montana, I880.-For the expenses of the secretary's" office' two thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879.. ■ 9 nnn on Legislative Expenses, Territory of Montana, 1879.— For legislative expenses ""*"*'"•" a s ^^ """ *>" follows: For the Territory of Montana, two thousand four hundred and fifty eight dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For compensation anrl mileage of the members of the legislative 'assembly, officers, and cSrks and contingent expenses thereof, and for rent, light, fuel, prin'trng, stationery and incidentals, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred S ■'; TEEASURY DEPAETMENT GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES. 75 seventy-nine, for the following Territories, namely: * » * For Montana, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 $8, 138 00 Contingent Expenses, Territory of Montana, 1880.— For contingent expenses of ^he Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. .500 00 Salaries, Governor, &c., Territory of Neio Mexico, 1880.— For salaries of governor, chief jus- tice, and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; and interpreter and trans- lator in the executive office, at five hundred dollars, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 12, 700 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of New Mexico, 1880.— For legislative expenses, namely : Eent, fuel, light, stationery, postage, pay of messenger, and incidentals, one thousand three hundred dollars; "for legislative expenses," for the biennial year, for the Territory of New Mexico, eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety cents.— Act June 21, 1879 19, 983 90 Legislative Expenses, Territory of New Mexico, 1878. — For legislative expenses, * * * as follows: For the Territory of New Mexico, eight hundred dollars, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. — Act March 3, 1879 . 800 00 Contingent Expenses, Territory of New Mexico, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the Terri- tory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 600 00 Salaries, Gover-nor, &c., Territory of Utah, 1880. — For salaries of governor, chief justice, and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; and secre- tary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 12, 200 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Utah, 1880. — For legislative expenses, namely : For current and contingent expenses of the secretary's office, two thousand dollars ; "for legislative expenses," for the biennial year, for the Territory of Utah, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 17, 600 00 Contingent Expenses, Territory of Utah, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 500 00 Salaries, Governor, &c.. Territory of Washifigton, 1880. — For salaries of governor, chief jus- tice, and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 12, 200 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Washington, 1880. — For legislative expenses, namely: For rent of secretary's office, hire of messenger, light, fuel, stationery, postage, office-furniture, repairs, and other incidentals, one thousand dollars; "for legislative expenses," for the biennial year, for the Territory of Washington, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 16, 800 00 Contingent Expenses, Territory of Washington, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the Terri- tory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 , 500 00 Salaries, Governor &c., Territory of Wyoming, 1880. — For salaries of governor, chief justice, and two associate judges, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; and secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars, twelve thousand two hun- dred doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 12, 200 00 Legislative Expenses, Territory of Wyoming, 1880. — For legislative expenses, namely : For rent, messenger, printing, fuel, light, stationery, postage, and incidentals, two thousand dollars; "for legislative expenses," for the biennial year, for the Territory of Wyoming, fifteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 , Legislative Eacpenses, Territory of Wyoming, 1?,1?>. — For legislative expenses, * * * as fol- lows : For the Territory of Wyoming, for eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, three thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents.— Act March 3, 1879 Legislative Earpenses, Territory of Wyoming, 1%11. — For legislative expenses, * * * as fol- lows: For the Territory of Wyoming, for eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, four hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty- three cents. — Act March 3, 1879. Contingent Expenses, Territory of Wyoming, 1880.— For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . 17 , 460 00 3 , 359 54 446 33 500 00 76 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. DISTEICT OP COLUMBIA. AN ACT relating to tax-sales and taxes in tlie District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the col- lector of taxes for the District of Columbia to prepare and keep in his office, for public inspection, a list of lots and squares, arranged in numerical order, of all real estate in the city of Washington heretofore sold, or which may hereafter be sold, for the non-payment of any general or special tax or assessment levied or assessed upon the same, said list to show the date of sale and for what taxes sold; in whose name assessed at the time of sale, the amount for which the same was sold, when and to whom conveyed if deeded, or, if redeemed from said sale, the date of redemption. And it shall be the duty of said collector, whenever called upon, to furnish, in addition to the regular tax-bills, a certified statement, over his hand and of&cial seal, of all taxes and assessments, general and special, that may be due and unpaid at the time of making said certificate, and which may in any manner be a Hen upon any real estate located in said District; and for each and every certificate so furnished by said collector, the party re- questing the same shall pay into the treasury of said District a fee of fifty cents; and said certificate, when furnished as aforesaid, shall be a bar to the collection and recovery, from any subsequent purchaser, of any tax or assessment omitted from and which may be a lien upon the real estate mentioned in said certificate, and said lien shall be discharged as to such subsequent purchaser, but shall not affect the liability of the person who owned the property at the time such tax was assessed to pay the same. And it is hereby declared that all public records which have any reference, or in any way relate, to real or personal property in said District, shall be open to the public for inspection free of charge. Approved, February 6, 1879. JOINT RESOLUTION making an appropriation for the benefit of the Penny-Lunch House of Washington, District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one thousand and five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the benefit of the Penny-Lunch House, in the city of Washington, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay the said sum of money to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to be by them paid over to Mrs. JuUa A. Eoberts, of said city of Washington, in sums of not exceeding' one hundred dollars in any one month, to be expended by her for the main- tenance of said lunch-house: Provided, That this appropriation shall not become available until the appropriation made by joint resolution approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall be exhausted- And provided. That the same shaU be credited to the United States as a. part of its share of the expenses of the District of Columbia. Approved, February 26, 1879. AN ACT to provide for the settlement of tax-lien certificates erroneously issued bv the late authorities of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativss of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That in order to settle and pav to the holders of certam tax-lien certificates purporting to have been issued pursuant to an act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, which the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine to have been erroneously issued by the late authorities of the said District against wod- erty exempt from taxation at the time the taxes were imposed, or proDertv upon which the taxes purporting to be represented by said certificates had been paid, the Commissioners of the District be, and they are hereby a^v thorized to receive the same in satisfaction of any arrearages of taxes prior TREASURY DEPARTMENT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 77 to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, except special-improve- ment taxes; and immediately upon the redemption of such erroneously- issued certificates, the same shall be cancelled, and a proper record of such payment and cancellation be made. Approved, February 27, 1879. AN ACT to protect Holmead Cemetery, in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right and title of the United States to and in square number one hundred and nine, in the city of Washington, commonly known as Holmead's Cemetery, be, and the same is hereby, granted to and vested in the District of Columbia, and shall be used by said District for public-school purposes, and for none other. The Commissioners of the District, or their successors in ofiflce, may at any time sell any part or the whole of said square, but the proceeds of such sale or sales shall be exclusively invested in sites for public schools, or in the erec- tion or purchase of school-buildings, and shall be used for no other purpose whatever. But before making any disposition of the said square, the Dis- trict of Columbia shall remove all the bodies remaining interred therein to some suitable burial-ground, together with all tombstones or other monu- ments remaining at the graves from which the bodies are so removed. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT to confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia certain powers, duties, and limitations contained in chapter eight (Water Service) of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and limitations provided in chapter eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, excepting such powers and duties as belong to the Chief of Engineers : Provided, That water-main taxes and water-rents shall be uniform in said District : And provided further, That the rate of interest specified in section two hundred and two of said Eevised Statutes shall be increased to ten per centum per annum from and after the passage of this act. • ****** Approved, June 10, 1879. AN ACT fixing the rate of interest upon arrearages of general taxes and assessments for special improvements now due to the District of Columbia, and for a revision of assess- ments for special improvements, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the rate of interest to be collected of any person owing arrearages of general taxes or assessments for special improvements now due to and the liens for which are held by the District of Columbia shall be six per centum per annum in lieu of the rate and penalties now fixed by law: Provided, This provision shall apply only to taxes and assessments paid on or before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. ,j.--u Sec. 2. Where property has beea sold under tax-sales and bougtit m by any other party than the District of Columbia, or where any third person has acquired tax-lien certificates or special-assessment certificates, the parties owning the property thus sold or on which such certificates may have been acquired may tender to the purchaser or holder of said certificates, on or before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the amount due and six per centum interest, which, when received, shaU be m fall of principal, interest, and penalties attached thereto by law. Sec 3 That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed, upon written complaint being made to them within sixtv days from the passage of this act, by any person or persons w;ho had, prior to June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, paid their 20 D A 7 b DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. special-improvement taxes prepared under an act of the legislative assembly of said District, of August tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, that their said assessment or assessments were erroneous or excessive, to revise and correct such assessments so complained of; and in case the amount of any such assessment is foiind to be erroneous or excessive, the Commission- ers shall issue to the person entitled to the same a drawback certificate for the amount of such excessive or erroneous charge, which certificate shall be received in payment of all special assessments, and for all general taxes due before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven: Pro- vided, That complaints filed under the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, (paid or unpaid,) by a property -holder, his agent, or attorney need not be refiled under this act. Sec. 4. That hereafter the date of publication of notice of sale for de- linquent taxes provided for in section five of "An act for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes," ap- proved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, shall be as follows : For the tax-year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, said notice of sale shall be published on the first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and seventy -nine, and for each subsequent year on the first Tuesday in September of each such year. Approved, June 27, 1879. Sec. 3. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be author- ized to expend a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the reassessment of real property and taking the census in said District, as directed in the act of Congress approved April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Approved, December 23, 1878. Sec. 3. That the sum of one million six hundred and thirty-two thou- sand ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents [one-half of the correct amount appropriated, by items, is one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars] be, and is hereby, appro- priated, for the purpose of paying one-half of the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia [the other half to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, to be covered into the treasury of the United States, under the provisions of the act of June 11, 1878] for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty. — Act March o, 1879. Improvements and Repairs, District of Columbia, 1880. — Work on Boundary -street auxiliary sewer, one hundred thousand dollars ; lateral sewers, fifteen thousand dollars • work upon sundry avenues and streets, one hundred thousand dollars; re- placement of pavements, at not to exceed two dollars and twenty-five cents per square yard, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; repairs to concrete pavements, one hundred thousand dollars; material issued for permit- work fifteen thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars' [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the Dis- trict of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 Ci^qq qqq qq Constructing, Repairing, and Maintaining Bridges, District of Columbia, 1880.— Ordinary care ~ ' of Benning's, Anacostia, and Chain bridges, including fuel, oil lamps matches, and so forth, one thousand two hundred dollars; replanking and painting Cham bridge, two thousand five hundred dollars; repairing Ben mug's bridge and its carriage-ways, two thousand five hundred dollars- raising embankments of Anacostia bridge and repairing piers and abut' meuts, three thousand dollars; repairs of Eock Creek bridges, one thousand dollars ; m aU, ten thousand two hundred dollars. And one of the two rail road tracks now on said Anacostia bridge shall be at once removed fOne half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 . "^ in onn no Washington Asylum, District of Columbia, 1880.— One commissioner, two hundred" dollars- one lutendant, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one matron, six hundred TREASURY DEPARTMENT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 79 dollars; one visiljing physician, one thousand two hundred dollars; one res- ident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; one resident physician, three hundred and sixty dollars ; one clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars ; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; six overseers, at six hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one watchman, three hundred dollars ; three watchmen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each, Ave hundred and forty dollars ; one driver, one hundred and twenty dol- lars ; one hostler, sixty dollars ; one cook, one hundred and twenty dollars; two cooks, at sixty dollars each, one hundred and twenty dollars; five nurses, at sixty dollars each, three hundred dollars ; contingent expenses, including provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, hardware, shoes, dry-goods, med- icines, and miscellaneous items, thirty -five thousand three hundred dollars; total Washington Asylum, forty-five thousand one hundred and sixty dol- lars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 S45, 160 00 Georgetown Almshouse, District of Columbia, 1880. — Support of inmates, one thousand eight hundred dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of OolumbiaJ— Act March 3, 1879 1, 800 00 Hospital for the Insane, District of Columbia, 1880. — Board and clothing of inmates, seven- teen thousand dollars, [one half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 17, 000 00 Transportation of Paupers and Prisoners, District of Columbia, 1880. — Transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to workhouse, two thousand five hundred dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 2, 500 00 Reform School, District of Columbia, 1880.— Salaries, fuel and incidentals, repairs and im- provements, [and support of boys sent to said school — Act June 28, 1879,] twenty thousand doUars; and section thirteen of the act entitled "An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Eeform School of the District of Columbia, approved May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six," is hereby continued in full force. [One-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Co- lumbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, District of Columbia, 1880.— For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying- in Asylum, twelve thousand dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1 S7Q . ? V\J\) UO Children's Hospital, District 'of Columbia,' 1880.— For the support and maintenance of the Children's Hospital, five thousand dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March o -| 070 ^? \)y)\} UU Saint Ann's Infa!nt AsyhimyDistrict' of Columbia, 1880.-¥ov Saint Ann's Infant Asylum, five thousand dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, ^ and one-half bv the District of Columbia.]-Act March 3, 1879 . . . . . - . o, 000 00 Industrial Home School, District of Columbia I880.-For the Industrial Home School, five thousand doUars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]-Act March 3, 1879 . . - - _^ - - - - • 5, 000 00 National Association for Colored Women and Children, District of Columbia, 1880.— J^ or the ^''^"'"'''^Sonal Association for Colored Women and Children, six thousand five hundred dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the Umted States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]-Act March 3, 1879 •-■-•.■■■-- 6, 500 00 Women's ChristZ Association, District of Columbia, 1880._For the Women's Christian one half bv the District of Columbia. —Act March 3, 1879^. . . .... • . • - ... i^, """ "" trict of Columbia.— Act March 3, 1879 ■. - - ■ -. • 15, uuu uu trier oi v^oiuimj , ,. lygO.-Bngineering, maintenance, and general T^..^i.,*o.Ag«.J«jJ,^I>«^^^ [one^alf of' which is payable by the 80 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 $20,000 00 Salaries and Contingent Expenses, Offices of the District of Columbia, 1880.— Executive office proper : Two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; one secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hun- dred and forty doUars; two temporary clerks, arranging, classifying, and preserving records of former governments, at three dollars per day each, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars, [one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars ;] one temporary clerk, arranging, classify- ing, and preserving records of former governments, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, [four hun- dred and seventy-one dollars;] one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, two thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ; in all, twenty-one thousand dollars, [twenty-one thousand and seven doUars and fifty cents.] Auditor and comptroller's office: Auditor and comptroller, three thousand dollars; one book-keeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars ; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars, four thousand two hundred dollars ; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars ; contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hun- dred and sixty dollars ; one clerk, in charge of special-assessment branch, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred doUars ; one clerk, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and forty dollars, [nine hundred and forty-two dollars;] two clerks, at one dollar and fifty cents per day each, nine hundred and forty dollars, [nine hundred and forty-two dollars ;] in all, nineteen thousand dollars, [nineteen thousand and four dollars.] Sinking- fund office : Two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars; contingent expenses, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Coroner's office: One coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including books, sta- tionery, and jury and witness-fees, seven hundred dollars; in all, two thou- sand five hundred dollars. Collector's office : Collector, three thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thou- sand two hundred dollars ; one clerk, one thousand dollars ; one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars ; one clerk, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and forty dollars, [nine hundred and forty-two dollars;] one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; contingent expenses, including books, sta- tionery, printing, and miscellaneous items, four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars; [thir- teen thousand eight hundred and two dollars.] Attorney's office: One attorney, four thousand dollars ; one assistant attorney, one thousand nine hundred dollars; one special assistant attorney, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars ; in all, nine thousand dollars. And for the expenses of a revision of the laws of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. Treasurer's office : Treasurer and assessor, three thousand dollars ; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars ; contingent expenses, includ- ing books, stationery, car-fare, and so forth, two hundred dollars ; in all five thousand three hundred dollars. Inspector's of buildings office: One inspector, two thousand four hundred dollars ; one assistant inspector and draughtsman, one thousand seven hundred dollars ; one assistant inspector one thousand dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars- contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items' three hundred dollars; mall, five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars' Superintendent's of assessments and taxes office: One superintendent two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars: one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; contingent expenses, books, stationery, and miscella- TREASURY DEPARTMENT — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 81 neors items, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. That from and after the passage of this act, a certain piece of property situated about two and one-half miles north of the Capitol, being the property known as "Edgewood," of the estate of the late Chief Justice of the United States, Salmon P. Chase, and all the buildings, grounds, and property appurtenant thereto, and used in connec- tion therewith, in the District of Columbia, shall be exempt from any and all taxes or assessment, national, municipal, or county: Provided, That such exemption shall continue only until the thirtieth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty; and all taxes, together with the interest and penalties now due and unpaid, upon said property, shall be, and they hereby are, remitted. Inspector's of gas and meters ofSce: One inspector, two thousand dollars; one assistant inspector, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. Assessor's office: Two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, [four hundred and seventy-one dollars;] contingent ex- penses, including books, stationery, printing, temporary clerks, and so forth, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and fifty cents; in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, [seven thousand two hun- dred and fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.] Harbor-master of Georgetown, eighty dollars; sealer of weights and measures, eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty dollars. Engineer's office: One chief clerk, one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars ; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; one clerk, at three dollars and twenty cents per day, one thousand and one dollars and sixty cents, [one thousand and four dollars and eighty cents ;] one clerk, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars, [nine hun- dred and forty-two dollars;] one computing engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand dollars; one leveller, one thousand six hundred dollars; two levellers, at four dollars per day each, two thousand five hundred and four dollars, [two thousand five hundred and twelve dollars;] two rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; one axeman, at two dollars per day, six hundred and twenty-six dollars, [six hundred and twenty-eight dollars;] one axeman, six hundred dollars; one inspector of asphalt pave- ments, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one inspector, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents, [seven hundred and eighty -five dollars;] eleven inspectors, at four dollars per day each, (employed for six months,) six thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dol- lars, [six thousand nine hundred and eight dollars;] two overseers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one overseer, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one overseer, at four dollars per day, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars, [one thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars;] one superintendent of property, one thou- sand eight hundred dollars; one watchman at property-yard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two watchmen at property-yard, at one dollar and fifty cents per day each, one thousand and ninety-five dollars, [one thousand and ninety-eight dollars;] one inspector of fuel, at two dollars per day, six hun- dred and twenty-six dollars, [six hundred and twenty-eight dollars;] one ianitor of public buildings, seven hundred and twenty doUars; two watch- men at public buildings, at six hundred doUars each, one thousand two hundred dollars ; one laborer, six hundred dollars ; one laborer, four hundred and eiffhtv dollars; one laborer, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per day, three hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-five cents, [three tuncked and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents;] one laborer, at one dollar and fifty cents per dav, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, [four hundred and seventy-one dollars;] one superintendent of permits, one thou- sand four hundred dollars; one sewer-tapper, one thousand dollars; two messengers, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred doUars; 21 D A 82 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; one driver, six hundred dollars; contingent expenses, books, stationery, and so forth, four thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifteen cents ; in all, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. [The correct amount appropri- ated, by items, is fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-five cents.] Fuel, ice, repairs, general miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, for District offices, three thousand dollars. [Total under head of salaries and contingent expenses of District of&ces, one hundred and sixty- three thousand three hundred and fifty seven dollars and forty-five cents, one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 $163,357 45 Public Schools, District of Columbia, 1880. — One superintendent, two thousand seven hun- dred dollars; one superintendent, two thousand two hundred and fifty dol- lars; one secretary, one hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk to committee of accounts, board of trustees, one hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; five teachers, at one thousand six hundred and fifty doUars each, eight thousand two hun- dred and fifty dollars; one teacher, one thousand six hundred dollars; two teachers, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each, two thou- sand seven hundred dollars; one teacher, one thousand three hundred dol- lars; one teacher, one thousand two hundred dollars; one teacher, one thousand one hundred dollars; fifteen teachers, at one thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars; one teacher, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two teachers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred dollars ; twelve teachers, at nine hundred dollars each, ten thou- sand eight hundred dollars; ten teachers, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each, eight thousand five hundred dollars; twenty teachers, at eight hun- dred dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars; thirty-one teachers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fifty-one teachers, at seven hundred dollars each, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; fifty-seven teachers, at six hundred and fifty dollars each, thirty-seven thousand and fifty dollars; eighty-three teachers, at six hundred dollars each, forty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty -five teachers, at five hundred and fifty dollars each, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; ten teachers, at five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars; five teachers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; twelve teachers, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each, five thousand one hundred dollars; fifty teachers, at four hundred dollars each, twenty thousand dol- lars; one temporary teacher, three hundred and fifty dollars; six teachers, at two hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars- one janitor, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars ; one janitor, one thousand one hundred and two dollars; one janitor, one thousand and eighty-seven dollars; one janitor, nine hundred and twenty-two dollars^ one janitor, nine hundred and fourteen doUars; one janitor, nine hundred dol- lars; one janitor, eight hundred and eighty dollars; one janitor, eight hun- dred and fifty dollars; one janitor, six hundred and eighty-two dollars; one janitor, six hundred and twenty-two dollars; one janitor, six hundred' and two doUars; one janitor, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars; one janitor five hundred and eighty-four dollars; one janitor, five hundred and eightv- two dollars; one janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; one janitor four hundred and thirty dollars; two janitors, at three hundred and eighty-four dollars each, seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars; two janitors, at two hundred and eighty-eight dollars each, five hundred and seventv-six dol- lars; onejamtor, two hundred and fifty dollars; one janitor, two' hundred and thirty dollars; one janitor, two hundred and twenty-five dollars- one janitor, two hundred and sixteen dollars; one janitor, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; three janitors, at one hundred and seventy-two dollars each, five hundred and sixteen dollars; one janitor, one hundred and eio-htv dollars; one janitor, one hundred and fifty dollars; two janitors, at one hundred and sixty dollars each, three hundred and twenty dollars- one ian itor, one hundred and forty dollars; one janitor, ninety-two dollars and twenty-three cents; six janitors, at eighty-six dollars and fortv cents each TREASURY DEPARTMENT — DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. 83 five liiindred and eighteen dollars and forty cents ; twel-ve janitors, at eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; three janitors, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, three hundred and sixty dollars; four janitors, at sixty dollars each, two hundred and forty dollars; eleven janitors, at fifty- four dollars each, five hundred and ninety -four dollars; nine janitors, at fifty dollars each, four hundred and fifty dollars ; additional teachers and increase of pay hj continuous service, twenty-two thousand dollars ; rent of school-buildings, thirty thousand dollars; fuel, twelve thousand dollars; repairs to school-buildings, twenty -five thousand dollars; contingent ex- penses, including books, stationery, printing, insurance, and miscellaneous items, twenty-one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents; for the constructfon of two new school-buQdings, pur- chase of lots, and furniture, complete and ready for occupancy, at thirty- seven thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy -five thousand dollars: Provided, That two lots on square one hundred and fifty-eight, south side of Massachusetts avenue and west of Seventeenth street, belonging to the United States, may be used by the Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia for school purposes, and they may erect one of said school-houses thereon: And provided, That the inspector of buildings of the District shall have authority and control over and supervision of the construction and repairs of all school-buildings if the Commissioners deem best to delegate the same to him; in all, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 • $475, 000 00 Metropolitan Police, District of Columbia, 1880. — For the Metropolitan police, as follows : One major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars; one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one property- clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three surgeons, at four hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; six detectives, at one thou- sand three hundred and twenty dollars each, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; ten lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twelve thousand dollars; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hun- dred and forty dollars each, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars; seven acting sergeants, at one thousand and eighty dollars each, seven thousand five hundred and sixty dollars ; seventy -three privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each, sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; one hundred and twenty privates, class two, at ten hundred and eighty dollars each, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; sixteen station-keepers, at five hundred and sixteen dollars each, eight thou- sand two hundred and fifty-six dollars; eight laborers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; two telegraph-operators, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each, one thou- sand five hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; one major and superin- tendent, mounted service, three hundred and sixty dollars; one captain, mounted service, two hundred and forty dollars; fifty lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each, twelve thou- sand dollars; rent of police station-houses and police headquarters, six thousand two hundred dollars; fuel, one thousand five hundred and forty- three dollars; repairs to station-houses, one thousand two hundred dollars; miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, gas, telegraphing, ice, wash- ing printing, meals to prisoners, repairs to van, and so forth, twelve thou- sand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; in aU, three hundred and five thousand two hundred and forty dollars; [the correct amount appropriated, by items, is three hundred and two thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars- one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia :] Provided, That all new appointments shall be made to class one: And provided. That the number in any claf st^all not at any time exceed the number herein designated.— Act March 3, 1879 302, 859 00 ,Fire Departmmt, District of GolumUa, I880.-For the fire department and fire-alarm, as fol- -^ lows • Two commissioners, (one of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to represent the interests of the General Government on said 84 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. board of commissioners,) at two hundred dollars each, four hundred dollars; one commissioner and secretary, four hundred dollars; one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one superintendent of fire-alarm telegraph, one thou- sand five hundred dollars; two telegraph-operators, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; eight foremen, at one thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars ; six engineers, at one thousand dollars each, six thou- sand dollars; six firemen, at eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; two tillermen, at eight hundred dollars ea«h, one thousand six hundred dollars; eight hostlers, at eight hundred dollars each, six thou- sand four hundred dollars ; forty-eight privates, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, thirty-four thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; six pri- vates, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, temporarily employed, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; repairs to engine-houses, one thousand dollars; fuel, five hundred dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus, five thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including hose, forage, stationery, horseshoeing, washing, and miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand four hundred and twenty dollars ; in all, one hundred and five thousand seven hundred dollars. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is one hundred and seven thousand one hundred dollars; one half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 $107, 100 00 Courts, District of Columbia, 1880. — Police court, one judge, three thousand dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiffs, at three dollars per day each, one thousand eight hundred and sev- enty-eight [eighty-four] dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; one justice of the peace, acting as judge in judge's absence, six hundred and twenty dollars; United States marshal's fees, two thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars; rent of building for police court, one thousand seven hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, witness-fees, and mis- cellaneous items, two thousand and forty-six dollars; judicial expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand five hundred dol- lars. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is eighteen thousand five hundred and six dollars, one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 18, 506 OO Streets, District of Columbia, 1880. — Eemoval of garbage, ten thousand three hundred and fifty -five dollars; street-lamps, lighting, extinguishing, and gas, one hun- dred and twenty-five thousand dollars; repairs to street-lamps, one thou- sand dollars; erection of street-lamps, one thousand five hundred dollars; matches for use of lamplighters, thirty dollars; one superintendent, eight hundred dollars; four lamplighters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; one lamplighter, one hun- dred and twenty dollars. Parking commission: One superintendent, twelve hundred dollars; one assistant superintendent, seven hundred dollars; con- tingent expenses, including laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree-straps, tree-stakes, planting and care of trees, whitewashing, care of parks, and mis- cellaneous items, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. Current work of repairs of streets, alleys, county roads, and so forth : One overseer of repairs, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; four supervisors of roads, at nine hundred dollars each, three thousand six hun- dred dollars; labor, cart-hire, materials, and miscellaneous items, seventy- five thousand five hundred dollars; sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets and avenues, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars; cleaning alleys, seven thousand five hundred dollars; repairs to pumps, two thou- sand five hundred dollars; cleaning Tiber sewer, ten thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and twenty-six thousand four hundred and fifty-five dol- lars. [The correct amount appropriated, by items, is two hundred and ninety-four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia 1— Act March 3, 1879 '■' * 294 125 OO Health Department, District of Columbia, 1880.— One health officer, three thousanddoilars- ' six sanitary inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, seven thou- TREASURY DEPARTMENT — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 85 sand two hundred dollars; two food inspectors, at twelve hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars ; clerks, seven thousand dollars ; one poundmaster, one thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, rent, disinfectants, and miscellaneous items, three thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.]— Act March 3, 1879 $24, 400 00 Interest and Sinhing-Fund, District of Columbia, 1880. — For the interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, one million one hundred and fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-five cents, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.] And there is hereby appropriated, out of the proportional sum which the United States may contribute toward the expenses of the District of Colum- bia in pursuance of the act of Congress, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-nine, and annually thereafter, such sums as will, with the interest thereon at the rate of three and sixty-five hundredths per centum per annum, be sufBcient to pay the principal of the three-sixty-flve bonds of the District of Columbia, issued under the act of Congress ap- proved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, at maturity; which said sums the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually invest in said bonds at not exceeding the par value thereof; and all bonds so redeemed shall cease to bear interest, and shall be cancelled and destroyed in the same manner that United States bonds are cancelled and destroyed. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 155, 583 55 MiscellaneoTis and Contingent Expenses, District of Columbia, 1880. — For miscellaneous ex- penses, as foUows: Markets, one market-master, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one market-master, one thousand five hundred dollars; two market-masters, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; contingent ex- penses, including gas, repairs, and miscellaneous items, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; rent of market-site and property-yards, one thousand one hundred and seventy -five dollars ; hay-scales, two hundred dollars; rent of District offices, six thousand dollars; general advertising, seven thousand doUars; miscellaneous items, books to register of wills, printing checks, damages, and so forth, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.] For general contingent expenses of the government of the Dis- trict of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars, [one-half of which is payable by the United States, and one-half by the District of Columbia.] — ^Act March 3,1879 50,375 00 All moneys appropriated under this act, together with all revenues of the District of Columbia from taxes or otherwise, ishall be deposited, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, in the treasury, as required by the provisions of section four of an act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, and shall be drawn therefrom upon requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such requisitions specify- ing the appropriation upon which the same is drawn ; and in no case shall such appropriations be exceeded, either in requisition or expenditure ; and the accounts for aU. disbursements shaU be made monthly to the accounting officers of the Treasury by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, upon vouchers certified by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as now required by law. And section two of an act approved March third, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, repealed.— Act March 3, 1879. General Expenses, District of Columbia, 1879.— That the sum of four hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and thirty-three doUars and twenty-three cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to supply a deficiency in the appro- priations for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 22 D A 86 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the same to be credited to the United States on its proportion of the expenses of the gov- ernment of the District of Columbia, as established by the act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the said amount, taken in connection with the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, for the general expenses of the District of Columbia, being fifty per centum of the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine ; and all said appropriations shall be expended in accordance with the esti- mates of the Commissioners of said District, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That so much of the act "makiiig appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which makes an appropriation for the expenses of the Eeform School of the District of Columbia, shall not be considered as modifying or repealing the thirteenth section of the act entitled "An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Eeform School of the District of Columbia," approved May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. — ^Act March 3, 1879 . S466, 533 23 Redemption of Bonds, District of Columbia, {Reimbursable.) — That the provision of the act making appropriation for sundry civil expenses, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue bonds to redeem certain bonds of said District falling due January first and March first, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the last clause of the paragraph containing said provision shall read as follows: "Said bonds shaU be registered or coupon bonds, and shall be of the denomination of one hundred dollars or five hundred dollars, or both, and shall be payable twenty years after date, and bearing a rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum, and not to be sold for less than their par value, and to be awarded to the most favorable bidder or bidders, after having been adver- tised by the Treasurer of the United States, as sinking-fund commissioner of said District, for ten successive insertions in two daily papers in Wash- ington and two in New York— the bids to be opened in the presence of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the award to be subject to his approval." Sbo. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, au- thorized to advance to the sinking-fund commissioner, upon requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, a sum not exceeding two hundred and eighty-one thousand and five hundred dollars, to pay the bonds of said District falling due as aforesaid, and the amount so advanced shall be reimbursed to the United States from the sale of the bonds to be issued in accordance with the provisions of this act.— Act December 23, 1878 281 500 00 Redemption of certain Funded Indebtedness of the District of Columbia.— Th&t the Commis- ' sioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to prepare, execute, and deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States bonds of the District of Columbia, bearing interest not ex- ceedmg five per centum per annum, and payable twenty years after date to the amount of not more than one million two hundred thousand dollars the proceeds to be used only for the redemption of funded indebtedness of said District, or of the late municipal corporations of Washington and George- town, which became due January first and March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, or those now existing and payable at pleasure, for the redemption of which the sinking-fund of said District may not provide Said flve-per-centum bonds shall be in such form and denominations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall approve, and shall be numbered consecu- tively and registered m the office of the auditor of said District, and also mthe oface of the Eegister of the Treasury of the United States, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and shall bear the seal of the District of Columbia: Provide, That this act shall not be construed to make the Government of the United States liable for either the principal or mterest of said bouds, or any part thereof. Said bonds shall be sold bv the Secretary of the Treasury to the highest bidder upon public tender but WAR DEPAETMENT. 87 for not less than their par value, after being advertised for one week in two daily newspapers in the city of Washington, and two in the city of New York. The bids shall be opened by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the awards approved by him. The money realized from the sale of said bonds shall be paid out by the Secretary of the Treasury only for the purposes named in this act. Sec. 2. That the provisions of all acts conflicting here- with, and the acts or parts of acts authorizing said Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue bonds to redeem certain bonds of said District falling due January first and March first, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, no bonds having been issued thereunder, are hereby repealed. — Act June 10, 1879. Water Supply, Capitol Rill, District of Columbia, (Beimbursable.) — Sec. 2. That the Secre- tary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to advance to said Com- missioners the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by payment into the Treasury of the United States, until said sum is paid in fuU, of all collections of water-main taxes now due said District; and the money so advanced shall be expended to improve the water-supply on Cap- itol Hm.— Act June 10, 1879 825, 000 00 JEmployment of the Poor, District of Columbia, Filling-up Grounds. — That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of employing the poor of the District in the work of filUng-up, draining, and placing in good sanitary condition the grounds south of the Capitol along the line of the old canal. The Commissioners of the District shall determine the plan of said work, shall see that it is properly conducted, and shall disburse the money. Sec. 2. That the Commissioners of the District be, and they hereby are, authorized to expend fifteen thousand dollars for the relief of the poor, seven thousand five hundred dollars to be derived from the Centre-market rents and seven thousand five hundred dollars from the general fund of said District.— Resolution February 10, 1879 15, 000 00 Support and Medical Treatment of the Infirm Poor, District of Columbia. — That a further appropriation be, and is hereby, made of the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pur- pose of providing medical attendance, medicine, and food for the sick and infirm poor of the District, and the same shall be disbursed under the direc- tion of the Commissioners of the District. — Resolution February 10, 1879 . . 5, 000 00 WAR DEPARTMENT. Salaries, Office of Secretary of War, 1880. — ^For compensation of the Secretary of War, eight thousand dollars; one chief clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars ; one disbursing clerk, at two thousand dollars; one stenographer, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two chief clerks of division, at one thou- sand eight hundred doUars each; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; eight assistant messengers; seven laborers; and six watchmen for the northwest Executive building; in all, sixty-nine thou- sand dollars; for the purpose of examining the rebel archives, and having copies furnished for the Government, six thousand six hundred dollars ; but no part of this sum shall be used to increase the salary or compensation of any ofScer or employ^ of the Government. — Act June 21, 1879 75, 600 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Secretary of War, 1880. — For contingent expenses of his office, eight thousand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 8, 000 00 Salaries, Office of AdjutanPGeneral, 1880. — One chief clerk, at two thousand doUars; eleven clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; thirty-five clerks of class two; one hundred and fifty-one clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight assistant messengers; in all, two hundred and ninety thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 290, 960 00 Salaries, Office of Adjutant-General, Old Wavy-Department Building, 1880.— For four watch- men, two firemen, and one laborer in the part of the Adjutant-General's 88 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. office to be located on the first and second floors of the old Kavy-Depart- ment building; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.— Act June 21,1879'. ! -• S4,980 00 Contingent Uxpmses, Office of Adjutant- General, 1880.— For contingent expenses, eight thou- sand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 8, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Adjutant- General, Old N^avy-Department Building, 1880.— For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's office, in the old Kavy-De- partment building, including fuel, light, heating-apparatus, matting, clean- ing, labor, and incidental items, of care of two floors of Navy-Department building, to be occupied by Adjutant-General's Oflace, two thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 2, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Inspector-General, 1880.— One clerk of class four; one assistant messen- ger; in all, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879. 2,520 00 Salaries, Office of Military Justice, 1880.— One chief clerk, at one thousand eight hundred doUars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; one assistant mes- senger; in aU, five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. — ^Act June 21,1879 5,320 00 Contingent Eoopenses, Office of Military Justice, 1880. — For contingent expenses^ two hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 250 OO Salaries, Offi/ie of Quartermaster- General, 1880. — One chief clerk, at two thousand doUars ; seven clerks of class four ; one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hun- dred dollars ; nine clerks of class three ; twenty-four clerks of class two ; forty-eight clerks of class one ; twenty copyists, at nine hundred doUars each; one female messenger, at thirty dollars per month; one messenger ; two assistant messengers; six laborers; one engineer, at one thousand two hundred doUars; one fireman; and five watchmen; in all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . . . 152, 120 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Quartermaster-General, 1880. — For contingent expenses, eight thousand dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 8, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Commissary -General, 1880. — One chief clerk, at two thousand doUars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and two watchmen; in all, thirty-one thousand six hundred and eighty doUars. — Act June 21, 1879 31, 680 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Commissary-General, 1880. — For contingent expenses, namely: Eent of buUding, repairs, and misceUaneous items, five thousand five hun- dred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 5 500 00 Salaries, Offi^ie of Surgeon-General, 1880. — One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; one hundred and six clerks of class one; fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one anatomist at the Army Medical Museum, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one engineer in division of records and museum, at one thousand four hundred doUars; one assistant messenger; and twenty- two watchmen and laborers; in all, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War, if the pub- Uc necessity so require, may detail not exceeding twenty enUsted men for clerical service in this bureau. — Act June 21, 1879 198 q^q qq Contingent Expenses, Offiice of Surgeon-General, 1880. — For contingent expenses, namely: ' Blank books, stationery, rent, fael, gas, furniture, repairs, and incidentals^ six thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 6 500 00 Salaries, Office of Chief of Ordnance, 1880.— One chief clerk, at two thousand doUars; one ' clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand doUars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in aU, twenty thousand three hundred and eighty doUars: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to employ in this bureau not exceeding ten enlisted men.— Act June 21, 1879 . . 20 380 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Chief of Ordnance, 1880 — For contingent expenses, namely ' Stationery, envelopes, wrapping-paper for sending blanks to the arsenals forts, permanent batteries, and troops in the field; telegrams, express- charges, and incidentals of a simUar nature; furniture, matting, carpets oU-cloth, professional books for ordnance-department library, pampHets' and newspapers, one thousand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 ... ' 1 000 OO WAK DEPARTMENT, 89 Salaries, Office of Paymaster- General, 1880.— One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; six clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; two watchmen; and three laborers; in all, fifty-seven thousand one hundred and forty dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 $57, 140 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Paymaster- General, 1880.— For contingent expenses, two thou- sand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 2, 500 00 Salaries, Office of Chief of Engineers, 1880.— One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 23, 240 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Chief of Engineers, 1880. — For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery, oflace-furniture, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, in- cluding purchase of professional books and maps, two thousand five hun- dred doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 2, 500 00 Salaries, Signal Office, 1880. — Two clerks of class four; one assistant messenger; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 4, 320 00 That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail not exceeding thirty enlisted men for clerical services in his Department in addition to the force above provided. — ^Act June 21, 1879. Salaries, Superintendent, &c., War-Department Building, 1880. — For compensation of the superintendent, [of the War-Department building,] two hundred and fifty dollars ; for compensation of one engineer in the War-Department building, one thousand two hundred dollars; and for four watchmen and two labor- ers; for eight charwomen, to be employed in the offlce of the Secretary of War, in the new State, War, and Navy-Department building, at one hun- dred and eighty dollars per annum each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 7, 090 00 Furniture, New Building, War Department, 1879 and 1880. — For furniture for the portion of the new building about to be occupied by the War Department, fifty thou- sand dollars; to be available immediately. — Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, War-Department Building, 1880. — For labor, fuel, light, and miscella- neous items for the said building, six thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . . 6, 000 00 Salary of Superintendent, Building Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street, 1880. — For compensation of the superintendent of the building, [at the cor- ner of Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, occupied as the Quarter- master General's office,] two hundred and fifty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . . 250 00 Bent of Building, Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street, 1880. — For rent of the building occupied as the Quartermaster-General's office, ten thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 10, 000 00 Salaries, Superintendent, &c.. Building on F Street, 1880. — For compensation of the superin- tendent of the building, [occupied by the Paymaster-General,] two hundred and fifty dollars; for five watchmen and two laborers in the building occu- pied by the Paymaster-General, four thousand nine hundred and twenty doUars.-Act June 21, 1879 5,170 00 Rent of Building on F Street, 1880. — For rent of the building, four thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 4, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Building on F Street, 1880. — For fuel and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 3, 500 00 Salaries, Superintendent, &g.. Building corner Seventeenth and F Streets, 1880. — For compen- sation of the superintendent of the building, [at the corner of Seventeenth and P streets,] two hundred and fifty dollars; for four watchmen and two laborers in the building at the corner of Seventeenth and F streets, four thousand two hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 4, 450 00 Contingent Expenses, Building corner of Seventeenth and F Streets, 1880. — And for fuel for warming the entire building, including the Ordnance Office, and for operating the ventilating-fan in summer, repairs of steam-warming and ventilating apparatus, pay of steam-engineer and fireman, purchase of oil-cloth and matting for halls, and for general repairs and miscellaneous items, six thou- sand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 6, 000 00 23 D A 90 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Salary of Superintendent, Building on Tenth Street, 1880.— For compensation of the superin- tendent of the building, [on Tenth street, occupied as the Surgeon-General s o£ace,J two hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 SSoO 00 Salary of Superintendent, Building occupied by the Commissary- General, 1880. — For compen- sation of the superintendent of the building, [occupied by subsistence de- partment, at No. 17 Madison Place, Washington,] two hundred and fifty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 250 00 Salaries of Employes, Public Buildings and Grounds under Chief Engineer, 1880. — For clerk in the office of Public Buildings and Grounds, one thousand four hundred dollars; and for messenger in the same office, eight hundred and forty dol- lars; for the public gardener, one thousand six hundred dollars; for a fore- man and laborers employed in the public grounds, twenty-four thousand dollars; for two draw-keepers for Kavyyard and Upper bridges, one thou- sand four hundred and forty dollars; for watchman in Franklin square, six hundred and sixty dollars; for watchman in Lafayette square, six hundred and sixty dollars ; for three watchmen in Smithsonian grounds, at six hun- dred and sixty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars ; for one watchman for Judiciary square, and one for Lincoln square and adjacent reservations, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; for one bridge-keeper at Chain bridge, six hundred and sixty doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 34, 560 00 Contingent Expenses, Public Buildings and Grounds under Chief Engineer 1880. — For con- tingent and incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . 500 00 PUBLIC BUILDDsrCS AND GEOUXDS UNDEE CHIEF ENGINEEE. Improvement and Care of Public Grounds, 1880. — For filling in and improving grounds south of Executive Mansion, five thousand dollars ; for ordinary care of green- houses and the nursery, one thousand five hundred dollars; for ordinary care of Lafayette square, one thousand dollars ; for care and improvement of reservation number three (Monument grounds,) one thousand dollars; for construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars; for manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars; for painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, one thousand five hundred dollars ; for purchase and repair of seats, five hundred dollars; for purchase and repair of tools, five hundred dollars; for trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars; for removing snow and ice, one thousand doUars ; for flower-pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dol- lars; for care, and construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; for abating nuisances, five hundred dollars; for improving various reservations, ten thousand dollars; for filling, levelling, and improving the park in front of the Treasury and State Departments and the Executive Mansion, comprehended between. Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 42, 500 00 Repairs, Fuel, &c.. Executive Mansion, 1879 and 1880. — For care of and repairs, refurnishing, and fuel for the Executive Mansion, and care of and necessary repair to the greenhouses, and fuel for the same, and recovering the roof of the mansion with tin, twenty-five thousand dollars; and so much as may be necessary to recover the roof, not exceeding two thousand dollars, is hereby made avail- able immediately. — Act March 3, 1879 25 000 00 Lighting, &c., Executive 2Iansion, &c., 1880. — Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lamp-posts, matches, and repairs of all kinds ; lamps for Anacostia bridge; fuel for office, for the watchmen's lodges, and for the greenhouses in the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty-five dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas under any expenditure provided for in this bill; and in case a contract cannot be made at that rate, the engineer in charge is hereby authorized to substitute other illumi- nating material, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.— Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Repairs of Water-pipes and Fire-plugs, 1880.— For repairing and extending water-pipes purchase of apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the springs and -'> MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT. 91 repairing and renewing the pipes of the same, that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for State, War, and Navy Depart- ments, two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $2, 500 00 Telegraph to Connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office, 1880. — For repair and care of the same, one thousand dollars ; and the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds is hereby authorized to sell any condemned material or lines not needed by the Departments, and cover the proceeds in the treasury. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Building for State, War, and Navy Departments. — To complete the east wing and its approaches, and for continuation of construction of the north wing of the building, iive hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be imme- diately available.— Act March 3, 1879 515,000 00 WAE CIVIL, MISCELLANEOUS. Support and Medical Treatment of Transient Paupers, 1880. — For care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institu- tion as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Postage, War Department, 1880. — Sec. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively, of the Depart- ments of State, of the Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Postmaster- General for the necessary amount of postage-stamps for the use of their Departments, not exceeding the amount stated in the estimates submitted to Congress; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post-Oflce Department for the same fiscal year. — Act June 21,1879 165,000 00 ITIIIilTART ESTABLISHMENT. AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June tliirtietli, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemMed, * * * Sec. 2. That the Secre- tary of War is authorized and directed to cause all the regulations of the Army and general orders now in force to be codified and published to the Army, and to defray the expenses thereof out of the contingent fund of the Army. Sec. 3. And the examiner of State claims in the office of the Secretary of War shall have, while on such duty, the pay, emoluments, and allow- ances of mounted officers, one grade higher than that held by him in his regiment or corps. Sec. 4. That when a vacancy occurs in the office of professor of the French language or in the office of professor of the Spanish language in the Military Academy, both these offices shall cease, and the remaining one of the two professors shall be professor of modern languages ; and thereafter there shall be in the Military Academy one, and only one, professor of modern languages; and that section thirteen hundred and thirty-six of the Eevised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended by inserting, after the word " service" in the first line, the words "as professor." Sec. 5. That each member of the graduating classes of the Military Academy, of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and eighteen hundred and eighty, after graduation, may elect, with the assent of the Secretary of War, to receive the gross sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars and mileage to his place of residence ; and the acceptance of this gross sum shall render him ineligible to appointment in the Army, except in the event of war, until two years after his graduation ; and the amount required to defray the ex- penditure herein provided for shall be paid out of any money in the treas- ury not otherwise appropriated. 92 DIGEST OP APPEOPEIATIONS. Sec. 6. That no money appropriated in tMs act is appropriated or shall be paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or compensation of any portion of the Army of the United States to be used as a police force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State. Sec. 7. That the Secretary of War shall be authorized to detail an ofBcer of the Army, not above the rank of captain, for special duty with reference to Indian education. Sec. 8. That section six of the act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, making appropriations for the support of the Army, be, and is hereby, repealed : Provided, That when the economy of the service requires, the Secretary of War shall direct the establishment of mUitary headquarters at points where suitable buildings are owned by the Government. — ^Act June 23, 1879. Expenses of Commanding- General's Office, 1880.— For expenses of the Commanding-General's office, two thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 23, 1879 - . $2, 500 00 Expenses of Becruiting, 1880. — For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, seventy-five thousand dollars. And no money appropriated by this act shall be paid for recruiting the Army beyond the number of twenty-five thousand enlisted men, includiag Indian scouts and hospital-stewards; and thereafter there shall be no more than twenty-five thousand enlisted men in the Army at any one time, unless otherwise au- thorized by law. Nothing, however, in this act shall be construed to prevent enlistments for the Signal Service, which shall hereafter be maintained, as now organized and as provided by law, with a force of enlisted men not exceeding four hundred and fifty, after present terms of enlistment have expired.— Act June 23, 1879 75, 000 00 Expenses oj Recruiting, 1876. — For expenses of recruiting, thirty-four dollars and thirty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 34 30 Contingencies of the Adjutant-GeneraVs J)epartm,ent, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's department, at headquarters of military divisions and departments, three thousand dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 3, 000 00 Contingencies of the Army, 1880. — For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 40, 000 00 Contingencies of the Army, 1871 and prior years. — For contingencies of the Army, three hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty cents. — Act March 3, 1879 341 50 OFFICE OF QUAETEEMASTEE-GENEEAL. Regular Supplies, Quartermaster's Department, 1880. — For the regular supplies of the Quar- termaster's department, consisting of stoves for heating and cooking; of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's de- partment 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' mounted men of the Signal Service, 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, cer- tificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermas- ter's departments, and for printing of division and department orders and re- ports, three million six hundred thousand dollars Act June 23, 1879 3 600 000 00 Incidental Expenses, Quartermaster's Department, 1880. — For incidental expenses to wit- ' ' For postage and telegrams or despatches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters and signal-service sergeants; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished • expenses MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — OFFICE OF QUAKTEEMASTEE-GENERAL. 93 of tlie interment of officers killed in action, or wlio die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when travelling on orders, and of non- commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized offlce-furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's department, including the hire of inter- preters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's department; compensation of forage and wagon- masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty- eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures, re- quired 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, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 '. $1, 000, 000 00 Incidental Hxpenses, Quartermast&)-^s Department, 1878. — For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's department for the fiscal year eighteen hundi'ed and seventy- eight, three thousand one hundred and two dollars and five cents. — Act MarchS, 1879 3, 102 05 Incidental Eoopenses, Quartermaster's Department, 1877. — For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 ! 3, 078 07 Transportation of the Army and its Supplies, 1880. — For transportation of the Army, in- cluding baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville 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, under contract, 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; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes ; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situ- ation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, four miUion two hundred thousand dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 . - - 4, 200, 000 00 Fifty per Centum of Arrears of Army Transportation due certain Land,- Or ant Railroads. — For the payment of arrears of Army transportation due such land-grant raOroads as have not received aid in Grovernment bonds as compensation was withheld from, under the acts of June sixteenth and twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to be adjusted by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court in cases decided under the said acts, to be paid the same as other Army transportation, but in no event shall more than fifty per cent, of the full amount allowed by the Quartermaster- General be paid until the decision of the Court of Claims be had in each case three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary!— Act March 3, 1879 300, 000 00 Miscellaneous Claims Audited by Third Auditor under Section 4, Act of June 14, 1878.— For Army transportation, supplies, and incidental expenses of the Army, the details of which are embraced in House Executive Document number thirty, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, pages twenty-six [twenty-four] to forty- three, both inclusive, [and including the first three claims on page fifty of same document,] except and excluding the claims numbered thirty-eight 24 DA 94 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. thousand six hundred and eighty-three, forty-four thousand nine hundred sixty-two, and forty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and the claims of the Union Pacific, the Central Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Western Pacific, and the Sioux City and Pacific Eailroad Companies, ninety- seven thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty cents — Act March 3, 1879 $97, 497 40 That for the proper adjustment of the accounts of the Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Western Pacific, and Sioux City and Pacific Eailroad Companies, respectively, for services which have been, or may be hereafter, performed for the Government for transportation of the Army and transportation of the mails, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make such entries upon the books of the Department as will carry to the credit of said companies the amounts so earned, or to be earned, by them during each fiscal year and withheld under the provisions of section fifty -two hundred and sixty of the Eevised Statutes, and of the act of Con- gress approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight: Provided, That this shall not authorize the expenditure of any money from the treas- ury nor change the method now provided by law for the auditing of such claims against the Government: Provided further, That this paragraph shall not be so construed as to be a disposition of any moneys due or to become due to or from said companies, respectively, or to, in any way, affect their rights or duties or the rights of the United States, under existing laws, it being only intended hereby to enable the proper accounting oflcers to state on the books of the Treasury the accounts between the Government and said companies, respectively. — Act March 3, 1879. Barracks and Quarters, 1880. — For hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe- keeping of military stores, of offices, and of grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations, for the construction of temporary huts and stables, and for repairing public buildings at estab- lished posts, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars : Provided, That of said sum thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in the construction of a necessary storehouse and depot-building at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska: And provided further, That no part of said sum shall be used in the purchase of the ground required for such purchase, [purpose. — Act June 30, 1879.] The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receive, by donation of citizens or others, the title for any lots or tracts of land necessary to the proper location of the building or buildings hereinbefore provided for. — Act June 23, 1879 880 000 00 Barracks and Quarters, 1879. — To enable the Secretary of War to pay for rent of building ' at San Antonio, Texas, used as headquarters of the Department of Texas, from November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, until June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two thousand three hundred and ninety- one dollars and sixty-seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 2 391 67 Clothing, Gamp and Garrison Equipage, 1880.— For purchase and manufacture of clothing ' and camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving and repacking the stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeffersonville, and other depots of the Quartermaster's department, nine hundred thousand dollars Act June 23, 1879 900 000 00 Borses for Cavalry and Artillery, 1880.— For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and ' artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted two hundred thousand dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 ' 200 000 00 National Cemeteries, 1880. — For maintaining and improving national cemeteries one hun- ' dred thousand doUars. And the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may charge [change, act June 30, 18791 the regulation-stone to be used in the Central Branch at a cost not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents additional for each one.— Act June 23, 1879 lOO 000 00 Pay of Superintendents of National Cemeteries, 1880.— For pay of seventy -one superintendents ' of the same, fifty-nine thousand dollars.— Act June 23, 1879 ' 59 000 00 Headstones for Graves of Soldiers in Private Cemeteries. —That the Secretary of War is ' hereby authorized to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT OFFICE OF PAYMASTER-GENERAL. 95 in the E«gular or Volunteer Army of the United States during the war for the Union, and who have been buried in private, village, or city cemeteries, in the same manner as provided by the law of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for those interred in national military ceme- teries; and for this purpose, and for the expenses incident to such work, so much of the appropriation of one million dollars, made in the act above mentioned, as has not been expended, and as may be necessary, is hereby made available. The Secretary of War shall cause to be preserved in the records of his Department the names and places of burial of all soldiers for whom such headstones shaU have been erected by authority of this or any former acts.— Act February 3, 1879. And the unexpended balance of the sum of one million doUars appropriated by act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the Eegular or Volunteer Army during the war for the Union, is hereby continued and made available. — Act March 3, 1879 $192, 027 49 Construction and Repair of Hospitals, 1880. — For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the Surgeon-General of the Army, seventy-five thousand dol- lars.— Act June 23, 1879 75, 000 00 OFFICE OF PATMASTEE-GENEEAL. Pay and Travelling and General Expenses of the Army, 1880. — Pay Department. — For pay of the commissioned and non-commissioned ofl&cers, privates, (including those employed as Indian scouts,) storekeepers, musicians, and veterinary surgeons, artificers, farriers, and saddlers, except as hereinafter enumerated, nine million eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Miscellane- ous. — For the pay of contract surgeons, one hundred and sixty-five thou- sand dollars ; for the pay of fifty -four paymasters' clerks, sixty-four thousand eight hundred dollars ; for the pay of one hundred and eighty-six hospital- stewards, sixty-six thousand dollars ; for the pay of two hundred hos- pital-matrons, twenty-four thousand dollars ; for one hundred and forty- seven commissary sergeants, fifty-nine thousand dollars; for messengers to paymasters, fifteen thousand dollars ; for extra-duty pay to enlisted men, thirty thousand dollars ; for travel-pay and commutation of subsistence to discharged soldiers, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars ; for re- tained pay to discharged men, three hundred and forty thousand dollars ; for commutation of offtcers' quarters at places where there are no public quarters, pne hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That no allowance shall be made for claims for quarters for servants heretofore or hereafter ; and that the rate of commutation shall hereafter be twelve dol- lars per room per month for offlcers' quarters, in lieu of ten dollars, as now provided by law; for pay to soldiers for clothing not drawn, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; for additional pay to enlisted men, four hundred and forty thousand dollars ; for mileage of officers of the Army when trav- elling under orders, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; for the cost of telegrams ; and telegrams are authorized to be transmitted by railroad companies which may have telegraph lines, and which shall file their written acceptance of the restrictions and obligations imposed on telegraph compa- nies by title sixty-five of the Eevised Statutes, for the Government and for the general public, at rates to be fixed by the Government, according to the provisions of title sixty-five of the Eevised Statutes ; and also for compen- sation of citizen witnesses attending upon courts-martial, military commis- sions, courts of inquiry ; travelling expenses of paymasters' clerks, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriations under the head of "Pay Department," in this act, amounting to twelve million two hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, shall be accounted for by disbursing officers under the title of " Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eighty."— Act June 23, 1879 12, 299, 800 00 Pay and Travelling and General Usepenses of the Army, 1879.— For pay and traveUing and general expenses of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sev- enty-nine, seven hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 700, 000 00 Pay, &c., of the Army, 1871 and prior years, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, and 1876.— For pay of the Army, fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty 96 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. cents, [as follows: For the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, three thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-four cents; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-eight cents; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one thousand seven hun- dred and one dollars and eighty-four cents; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and eleven cents; and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, five thou- sand four hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-four cents, to cover esti- mates submitted in House Executive Document l^o. 30, Forty-fifth Con- gress, third session.]— Act March 3, 1879 _ _- $15, 123 40 Collection and Payment of Bounty, Prize-money, and other Claims of Colored Soldiers and Sail- ors, 1879— $4,000, and 1880, $10,000. Pay of Two and Three-Year Volunteers, Colored Claims— 1879 and 1880, $50,000. Sec. 2. That all sums due upon certificates issued, or which may be issued, by the accounting oflcers of the Treasury in settlement of claims for pay, bounty, prize-money, or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors, or marines, or their legal representatives, shall be paid by the officers of the Pay Department of the Army, under the direction of the Paymaster- Gen- eral, who is already charged with the payment of like dues to white soldiers : Provided, first. That no such certificate shall be issued until it shall have been ascertained that the application is made by the original claimant, or, if he be dead, by his true living legal representative, nor until the identity of such claimant or representative, as the case may be, shall have been duly established: Provided, That if an agent or attorney be employed, the allow- ance for his services shall not in any case exceed that contemplated in the scale of fees and allowances fixed by the second section of a joint resolution approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "Joint resolution amendatory of a joint resolution respecting bounties to colored soldiers, and the pensions, bounties, and allowances to their heirs," approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and such allow- ance shall be stated in a separate certificate in favor of the agent or attorney simultaneously with the issue of a certificate for the amount due the claim- ant: Provided further. That the amount due the claimant, or his living representative, or the balance due after deducting the attorney's fee, if any, shall be paid only to the party named in the certificate, and in current funds or by post-ofiice money-order, and not by checks or drafts; and no power of attorney, transfer, or assignment of the amount of such claims, or any part thereof, shaU in any case be recognized; and the sum of four thou- sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and ten thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to meet the expenses incurred on account of payment of these claims, for salaries of agents and clerks, rent of ofQces, fuel and lights stationery and printing, ofSce-fumiture, mileage and transportation of officers and agents, telegraphing, postage, and post-oface money-orders ; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, under the title "Pay of two and three-years volunteers, reappropriated," for payment of such of the claims in question as may be covered by treasury certificates issued after the passage of this act and previous to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty: And provided further. That the sum or sums now held by the Treasurer of the United States, turned over to him under the Attorney- General's decision of December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventv- eight, by the chief disbursing ofQcer of the Freedmen's branch of the Ad- jutant-General's ofQce, as the balance in said officer's hands of moneys due and unpaid on account of adjusted claims of the class contemplated in the first clause of this section, shall be turned over to the paymaster who maybe charged by the Paymaster-General with the payment of such claims, to be by him paid to the proper claimants, under the restrictions imposed in said section.— Act March 3, 1879 64 000 n(V Pay of Two and Three-Year Volunteers, 1871 and prior years.— Fov pay of two and three- year volunteers, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and eightv-eieht dol- lars.-Act March 3, 1879 .•^. . .^ 37,988 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — OFFICE OF COMMISSARY-GENEEAL, ETC. 97 Bounty to Volunteers, their Widows and Legal Heirs, 1871 and prior years. — For bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, one hundred and fifty thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents. — Act March 3, 1879 8150, 185 99 OFEICE OF COMMISSAEY-GBNEEAL. Suisistence of the Army, 1880. — ^For subsistence of twenty-five thousand enlisted men, one hundred and twenty additional half-rations for sergeants and corporals of ordnance, women to companies, (laundresses,) one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five civilian employes, one hundred and twenty-five contract surgeons, two hundred hospital-matrons, one hundred and ten military con- victs, and five hundred prisoners of war, (Indians ;) in all, ten million nine hundred and one thousand four hundred and fifty-five rations, at twenty cents each ; for difference between cost of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, and for enlisted men and recruits at recruiting stations, and for cost of hot coffee and cooked rations for troops travelling on cars ; for subsistence stores for Indians visitiag military posts, and Indians em- ployed without pay as scouts and guides, two million three hundred thou- sand dollars; of which amount three hundred thousand dollars shall be available from and after the passage of this act, for the purchase of stores necessary to be transported to distant posts in advance of the thirtieth of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: Provided, That to the cost of an stores and other articles sold to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section one thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges. — Act June 23, 1879 2, 300, 000 00 Subsistence of the Army, 1871 and prior years. — To pay David L. Smith, late captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States Army, eight hundred and sixty- nine dollars and forty-seven cents, on account of subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, as per Comptroller's report number one thousand five hundred and ninety-seven, January six- teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. — Act March 3, 1879 869 17 OFFICE OF SUEGBOK-GENEEAL. JLedical and Hospital Department, 1880. — For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, medical care and treatment of otflcers and soldiers on detached duty, ex- penses of purveying-depots, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the medical department, two hundred thousand doUars. — Act June 23, 1879 - 200, 000 00 Medical and Hospital Department, 1871 and prior years, 1875, and 1877. — For medical and hospital department, two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-six cents, [as follows : For the year eighteen hundred and sev- enty-one, "and prior years, one thousand three hundred and forty-seven dol- lars ; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, thirty-six dollars ; and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand two hun- dred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-six cents, to cover estimates submit- ted in House Executive Document No. 30, Forty-fifth Congress, third session.]— Act March 3, 1879 2,678 96 Medical Museum amd Library, 1880. — For the Army Medical Museum, and for medical and other works for the library of the Surgeon-General's office, ten thousand dollars.— Act June 23, 1879 10, 000 00 Artificial Limbs, 1880. — For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, one hundred thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879.... 100,000 00 Appliances for Disabled Soldiers, 1880.— FoT providing surgical appliances for persons dis- abled in the mUitary or naval service of the United States, not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 AS ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for f umisMng trusses to disabled soldiers." approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of the act entitled 25 D A 98 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. "An act to provide for furnisMng trusses to disabled soldiers," approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that said section shall read as follows : That every soldier of the Union Army, or petty officer, seaman, or marine in the naval service, who was ruptured while in the line of duty during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, or who shall be so ruptured thereafter in any war, shall be entitled to receive a single or double truss of such style as may be designated by the Surgeon-General of the United States Axmy as best suited for such disability; and whenever the said truss or trusses so furnished shall become useless from wear, destruc- tion, or loss, such soldier, petty officer, seaman, or marine shall be supplied with another truss on making a like application as provided for in section two of the original act of which this is an amendment: Provided, That such application shall not be made more than once in two years and six months: And provided further, That sections two and three of the said act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall be construed so as to apply to petty ofl&cers, seamen, and marines of the naval service, as well as to soldiers of the Army. Approved, March 3, 1879. OFFICE OF CHEEF OF OEDNAKCE. Ordnance Service, 1880. — For the ordnance service, required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals ; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, toUs, fuel, and lights; of sta- tionery and office-furniture; of tools and instruments for use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles ; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, including compensation of workmen in the armory and museum building connected with the Ordnance Office and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred and ten thousand doUars : Provided, That none of the money hereby appro- priated shall be expended, directly or indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary for, and directly connected with, the military service of the Gov- ernment; and this restriction shall apply to the use of public animals, for- age, and vehicles. — Act June 23, 1879 $110 000 00 Ordnance Service, 1878. — ^For ordnance service, two hundred and thirty dollars. ^Act ' March 3, 1879 230 00 Ordnance, Ordnance Stores and Supplies, 1880.— For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms, seventy-five thousand dollars; for overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, twenty-five thousand dollars; for dismounting guns and removing the armament from forts being modified or repaired, including heavy carriages returned to arsenals for alteration and repairs, and other necessary expenses of the same character, and for repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, and for extra duty for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, thirty thousand dollars; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisitions of troops one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; for infantry, cavalry, and artil- lery equipments, consisting of clothing-bags, haversacks, canteens, and great-coat straps, and repairing horse-equipments for cavalry troops, sev- enty-five thousand dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 320 OOO 00 Ordnance, Ordnance Stores and Supplies, 1871 and prior years For ordnance' ordnance ' stores and supplies, three hundred and eleven dollars and thirtv cents — Act March 3, 1879 '' ^ ' 31130 Powder-D^ot, 1880.— For purchase of site for powder-depot, and commencing' the erection of smtable buUdings, fifty thousand doUars.— Act June 23, 1879 nn ooo 00 Manufacture of Arms at N'ational Armories, 1880.— For manufacture of arms at national armones, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.— Act June 23, 1879 250 000 00 OFFICE OF CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. Signal Service, 1880.— For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, purchase eau:ir) ment, and repair of electric field-telegraphs and signal equipments, ten thousandflvehundreddoUars.— Act June 23, 1879.. . 10 500 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — OFFICE OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS MILITARY ACADEMY. 99 Ohservation and Beport of Storms, 1880. — For the expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life-saving stations and light-houses ; for instrument-shelters ; for hire, fur- niture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river reports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers-of-commerce and boards-of-trade rooms, and for distribution; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery; and for incidental ex- penses not otherwise provided for, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 $375, 000 00 OFFIOE OP CHIEF OF ENGIKEBES. Ungineer Depot at WilletPs Point, New TorTc, 1880. — For engineer depot at WUlett's Point, New York, namely : For purchase of engineering materials to continue the present course of instruction of the engineer battalion in field engineering one thousand dollars; for incidental expenses of the depot, remodelling ponton trains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, extra-duty pay to soldiers engaged in special skilled labor, and ordinary repairs, four thousand dollars. — Act June 23, 1879 5, 000 00 MILITARY ACADEMY. Pay of Military Academy, 1880. — For pay of two professors, at three thousand five hun- dred dollars per annum each, seven thousand dollars; for pay of seven professors, at three thousand dollars per annum each, twenty-one thousand dollars ; for additional pay of professors for length of service, seven thou- sand two hundred and thirteen doUars and thirty-three cents; for pay of one instructor of practical military engineering, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars ; for pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars; for pay of eight assistant professors, in addition to pay as first lieutenants, four thousand dollars ; for pay of three instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, in addition to pay as first lieutenants, one thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of four assistant instructors of tac- tics, commanding companies, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars; for pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, three hundred dollaxs: Provided, That the sum paid to said offtcer shall not exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum ; for pay of one master of the sword, one thousand five hundred doUars ; for pay of cadets, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and no cadet shall re- ceiTC more than at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars a year ; for pay of the teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars; for pay of the Military- Academy band, eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dol- lars, which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, any law to the contrary not- withstanding.— Act January 20, 1879 206, 792 33 Pay of Military Academy, 1879. — For deficiency in the appropriation for pay of cadets at the Military Academy, for the current fiscal year, seven thousand five hun- hundred dollars.— Eesolution June 20, 1879 ■ - - 7, 500 00 Current and Ordinary Uxpenses, Military Academy, 1880. — For repairs and improvements, tim- ber, plank, boards, j oists, wall-strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin , sheet-lead, zinc, naUs, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, bricks, varnish, stone, Ume, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain-pipe, blasting-powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and for pay of citzen me- chanics and labor employed upon repairs that cannot be done by enlisted men, eleven thousand dollars ; for fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, fire-bricks, and repairs of steam-heating apparatus, twelve thousand dollars; for gas-pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, gas-lamps, gas- ometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, six hundred dollars; for 100 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. fuel for cadets' mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars ; for post- age and telegrams, three hundred dollars ; for stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, files, and ink, six hundred dollars; for transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for printing-type, materials for office, diplomas for gradu- ates, registers, and blanks, five hundred dollars; for clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars ; for clerk to adjutant, in charge of cadet records, one thousand two hundred dollars; for clerk to treasurer, nine hundred dollars; for safe for disbursing officer's office, five hundred dollars. For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairs of models and instruments, twenty-five dollars; text- books, books of reference, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ; in all, two hundred dollars. For department of artil- lery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tan-bark for riding-hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars; repairing camp-stools and camp-furni- ture, fifty dollars; furnitxixe for offices and reception-room for visitors, one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred dollars; books and maps, fifty dollars; repairing gymnasium, one hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For depart- ment of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase and repairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; for continuing preparation of text-books for special instruction of cadets, five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand dollars. For department of chemistry, min- eralogy, and geology : For chemicals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain- ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, ores, photographic materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blowpipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in miueralogy and geology, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, galvanic, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and ap- paratus illustrating optical properties of substances, six hundred doUars ; apparatus for illustrating the science of electricity as applied to the useful arts, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section- rooms and in lecture-room, one thousand dollars; models and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, sixty-five dollars; in all, one thousand and sixty-five dollars. For depart- ment of practical military engineering: For mining materials and for pro- filing; telegraphing and signalling materials; stationery and text-books and repairs of instruments, two hundred doUars. For department of French: For text-books and stationery for the use of instructors, books of reference, and for printing examination-papers, one hundred doUars. For department of drawing : For various articles most necessary for the course of topograph- ical drawing, two hundred and fifty dollars. For department of law: For text-books and stationery and books of reference for the use of instructors one hundred dollars. For department of ordnance and gunnery: For books of reference and text-books for instructors, forty dollars. For completing frames for targets for cadet rifle practice, one hundred dollars; for keeping in repair instrument and firing-houses, and pump and water-pipe for the same, sixty dollars. For department of natural and experimental philoso- phy: For additions to the apparatus to illustrate the laws ia mechanics optics, and acoustics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text-books' repairs, and materials, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic, one thou- sand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars Act January 20, 1879 4^g 915 00 Miscellaneous Items and Incidental Expenses, Military Academy, 1880 For miscellaneous ' and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches and wickmg for Ughting the academy, cadet-barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital offices, stable, and sidewalks, three thousand five hundred dollars- water- pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning- pubUc buildings, (not quarters,) five hundred dollars; brooms, brushes pails MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT ARSENALS. 101 tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayon, sponge, slate, and rubbers for recitation-rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of chapel-organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hun- dred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating ap- paratus for the academic building, the cadet-barracks, chapel, and philo- sophical building, including the library, one thousand two hundred dollars; pay of assistant of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand two hundred dollars ; increase and expense of the library, books, magazines, and binding, one thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars; for furniture for cadet-hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars; for purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candidates previous to their admission into the academy, five hundred doUars.— Act January 20, 1879 812, 840 00 Buildings and Grounds, Military Academy, 1880. — For repairing roads and paths, five hun- dred dollars; for continuing and furnishing for use main building and ope wing for the new hospital for cadets, twelve thousand dollars; for repairing door-casings and doors of the cadet-barracks with new butts and latches, five hundred dollars; and for painting the interior of the same throughout, one thousand dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred doUars. — Act Jan- uary 20, 1879 14, 000 00 Water Supply, Military Academy. — For furnishing an increased and permanent supply of water, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than five thousand dollars shall be expended for the purchase of the necessary land and water- rights and the right of way: And provided further, That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended until the Secretary of War shall decide that the sum hereby appropriated is sufficient to secure an adequate supply of pure water. — Act January 20, 1879 40, 000 00 AESENALS. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massacliusetts, 1880.— For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery, not used for manufacturing purposes, of the arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 BocTc Island Arsenal, Bock Island, Illinois, 1880.— For shop G, an iron-working and finish- ing-shop for the arsenal, one hundred thousand dollars; for shop H, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, fifty thousand dollars; for shop I, a wood- working and leather-working shop for the arsenal, fifty thousand dol- lars; for general care, preservation, and improvement; building new roads; care and preservation of the water-power; painting and care and preserva- tion of permanent buildings and bridges and shores of the island; building fences and grading grounds; and repairs of and extension of railroad, twelve thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 212, 000 00 B&nicia Arsenal, Bmicia, California, 1880.— To rebuild the present wharf, five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Pikesville arsenal: That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to dispose of the grounds, buildings, and appurtenances known as the Pikesville arsenal, in the State of Maryland, by pubUc sale to the high- est bidder, turning into the treasury the net proceeds, after paying cost of advertisement, sale, and so forth: Provided, That if the State of Maryland shall, prior to the first of March, eighteen hundred and eighty, accept the same, it is hereby granted and donated to said State, to be used for such militia or other purposes as the necessities of the State may require; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to transfer said property to the State of Maryland, to be held by it in trust for the use, ben- efit, and execution of the purposes of this grant.— Act March 3, 1879. Fevairs of Arsenals, 1S80.—'FOT repairs of smaUer arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen ■^ ^ expenditures at arsenals as accident or other contingencies during the ^ear may render necessary, thirty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 Arsenals 1871 and prior years.— For arsenals, one hundred and ninety-five doUars and twenty-nine cents.— Act March 3, 1879 lao ^J 26 D A 102 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. FOETIFICATIONS. Preservation and Repair of Fortifications, 1880.— That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications and other works of defence, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.— Act March 3, 1879 8100, 000 00 Armament of Fortifications, 1880.— For the armament of sea-coast fortifications, including heavy guns and howitzers for flank defence, carriages, projectiles, fases, powder, and implements, their trial and proof, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for machine guns, one hundred and twenty-five thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. For conversion of smooth-bore guns, fifty thousand dollars; for levelling, clearing, and grading range-ground at Sandy Hook common, building plank roads, targets, cranes, and similar nepessaries, and for telegraph-poles and wires for ballistic instruments, five thousand dollars; for quarters for superintendent of the proAdng-ground at Sandy Hook, two thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 23, 1879 182, 500 00 Torpedoes for Harbor Defences, 1880.— For torpedoes for harbor defences, and the preserva- tion of the same, and for torpedo experiments in their application to harbor and land defence, and for instruction of engineer battalion in their prepa- ration and application, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the money herein appropriated for torpedoes shall only be used in the establishment and maintenance of torpedoes to be operated from short stations for the destruction of an enemy's vessel approaching the shore or entering the channels and fairways of harbors.— Act March 3, 1879 .' 50, 000 00 EIVEES AND HAEBOES. Improving Harbor at Belfast, Maine. — For improving harbor at Belfast, Maine, five thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Richmond Island Harbor, Maine. — For improving Eichmond Island harbor, Maine, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Portsmouth, N'ew Hampshire. — For improving Portsmouth harbor, i^Tew Hampshire, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Bwrlington, Vermont. — For improving harbor at BurMngton, Vermont, fifteen thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Swanton, Vermont. — For improving harbor at Swanton, Vermont, six thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Boston, Massachusetts. — For improving Boston harbor, to be expended in the improvement of Anchorage Shoals, the channel at the lower middle, and dredging the upper harbor, near the mouth of Mystic river, fifty thou- sand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 50 000 00 Improving Harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts. — For improving the harbor of Hyannis, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars; of which sum five hun- dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in the removal of the wreck at that point. — Act March 3, 1879 2 500 00 Improving Harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts. — For the maintenance and annual repairs ' of the harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts, one thousand dollars. Act March 3, 1879 1 000 00 Improving Harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts. — For repair of harbor at Plymouth Massa- ' chusetts, three thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879'. 3 500 00 Improving Harbor at WooWs Holl, Massachusetts. — For improving entrance to Wood's HoU ' harbor, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars, to secure a channel two hundred feet wide and ten feet deep. — Act March 3, 1879 15 OOO 00 Improving Little Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Connecticut. — For improving Little ' Narragansett bay, Ehode Island and Connecticut, five thousand dollars Act March 3, 1879 .^ " 5 000 00 Improving Harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut. — For improving harbor at Bridgeport Con- ' necticut, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 ' iq 000 00 Improving Harbor at New Haven, Connecticut. — For improving harbor at Kew Haven Con- ' necticut, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 ' 15 000 00 Improving Harbor at Norwalli, Connecticut— Fot improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut ' ten thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hun' "^ MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT RIVERS AND HARBORS. 103 dred dollars shall be expended on the bar below the bridge. — Act March 3, 1879 .910,000 00 Improving Sarhor at Stonington, Connecticut. — For improving harbor at Stonington, Con- necticut, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 37, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Buffalo, ITew YorTc. — For improving harbor at Bulialo, New York, one hundred "thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 Improving Harior at Charlotte, New YorTc — For improving harbor at Charlotte, New York, repair of piers, one thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Improving Echo Sarbor, Wew Rochelle, New Yorlc. — For improving Echo harbor, New Eochelle, New York, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Flushing Bay, New YorTc. — For improving Flushing bay, New York, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 '. 20, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New YorTc. — For improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York, two thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New YorTc. — For improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor at OaTc Orchard, New YorTc For improving harbor at Oak Orchard, New York, one thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Oswego, New YorTc. — For improving harbor at Oswego, New York, ninety thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 90, 000 00 Improving Harbor at PlattsburgTi, New YorTc. — For improving harbor at Plattsburgh, New York, dredging, two thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Port Jefferson, New Yorlc. — For improving harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island Sound, New York, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Pultneyville, New YorTc. — For improving harbor at Pultneyville, New York, four thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania. — For improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Constructing Piers in Delaware Bay, near Lewes, Delaware. — For construcing pier in Dela- ware bay, near Lewes, Delaware, ten thousand five hundred doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 10,500 00 Improving Ice-harbor at Neic Castle, Delaware. — For piers at ice-harbor at New Castle, Del- aware, five thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Wilmington, Delaware. — For improving harbor at Wilmington, Dela- ware, three thousand five hundred dollars — Act March 3, 1879 3, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Baltimore, Maryland. — For improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 160, 000 00 Improving Harbor of Breton Bay, Leonardtown, Maryland. — For improving Breton bay, Leonardtown, Maryland, four thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Cambridge and PocomoTce River, Maryland. — For improving Cambridge harbor and Pocomoke river, Maryland, two thousand five hundred dollars each.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Queenstown, Maryland. — For improving harbor at Queenstown, Mary- land, three thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Harbors at Washington and Georgetown, District of Columbia. — For improving the harbors and channels at Washington and Georgetown, District of Co- lumbia, fifty thousand dollars; of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be expended in dredging the channel of the Potomac river, between the Long Bridge and the United States Arsenal, and thirty thousand dollars shall be expended in Georgetown harbor and channel; and the whole of said sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby directed to be so expended as to produce the greatest immediate benefit to navigation and commerce. — Act March 3, 1879 50,000 00 Improving Harbor at NorfolTc, Virginia.— Fot improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, and its approaches, seventy-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 75, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Onancoclc, Virginia.— For Onancock harbor, Yirginia, three thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3,000 00 Imvrovinq Harbor at Edenton, North Carolina.— Fov improving harbor at Edenton, North Carolina, one thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Imvrovina Harbor at CharUston, South Carolina.— 'For improving harbor at Charleston, South Caroliaa, two hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 200, 000 00 Imvrovina Harbor at SavannaTi, Georgia.— Fot improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia, one hundred thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 104 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Improving Rarbor at Brunswick, Georgia. — For improving Brunswick harbor, Georgia, twenty thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 - - - 820, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida. — For improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida, including removal of wrecks, fifteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. 15, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Pensacola, Florida. — For improving Pensacola harbor, Florida, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Mobile, Alabama. — For improving Mobile harbor, to secure a seventeen- foot channel, one hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 - - - - 100, 000 00 Improving Harbor and Mississippi Biver near Viclcsburg, Mississippi. — For improving Missis- sippi river at and near Vicksburg, and protection of harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Improving Harbor at New Orleans, Louisiana. — For improving harbor at New Orleans, Louisiana, sixty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 60, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Galveston, Texas. — For improving entrance to Galveston harbor, Texas, one hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 .--•.■ ^^^' ^^^ ^^ Improving Harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio. — For improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, nine thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 9,000 00 Harbors of Refuge, near Cincinnati, Ohio. — For ice-harbor at or near Cincinnati, Ohio, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by act of June eighteenth, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby declared available for the ensuing year. — Act March 3, 1879. Improving Harbor at Cleveland, Ohio. — For improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio, one hun- dred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 Ice-harbor, Mouth of MusMngum Biver, Ohio. — For an ice-harbor at the mouth of the Mus- kingum river, Ohio, thirty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Port Clinton, Ohio. — For improving harbor at Port CUnton, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 Oa Improving Harbor at SandusTcy City, Ohio. — For improving and surveying harbor at San- dusky City, Ohio, one thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Toledo, Ohio. — For improving the harbor at Toledo, Ohio, twenty thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Michigan City, Indiana. — For improving harbor at Michigan City, In- diana, forty thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Calumet, Illinois. — For improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois, twelve thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 12, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Chicago, Illinois. — For improving harbor at Chicago, Illinois, seventy- five thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 75, 000 00 Improving Galena Harbor and Biver, Illinois. — For improving Galena river and harbor, Illi- nois, twelve thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 12, 000 00 Improving Harbor and Mississippi Biver at Memphis, Tennessee. — For improving harbor and the Mississippi river at Memphis, Tennessee, thirty-seven thousand dol- lars. — Act March 3, 1879 , 37 OOO 00 Improving Harbor at Au Sable, Michigan. — For improviDg harbor and river at Au Sable, Michigan, seven thousand doUars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 7 000 OO Improving Harbor at Black Lake, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Black Lake, Michi- gan, six thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 6 000 00 Improving Harbor at Charlevoix, Michigan. — For improviag harbor at Charlevoix, Michigan ' niae thousand doUars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 ' 9 qoO 00 Improving Harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Cheboygan, Michigan ' three thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 ' 3 ooO 00 Improving Fagle Harbor, Michigan.— Fot improving Eagle Harbor, Michigan, two thousand ' doUars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 2 000 00 Improving Harbor at Frankfort, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Frankfort, Michigan ' four thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 .' 4 qqO 00 Improving Harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Grand Haven ' Michigan, nine thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 ' 9 ooO 00 Improving Harbor of Befuge, Lake Huron, Michigan.— Fox harbor of refuge at Lake Huron ' Michigan, seventy-five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' 75 000 00 Improving Harbor at Ludington, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan ' five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' 5 000 00 Improving Harbor at Manistee, Michigan.— ¥ov improving harbor at Manistee, Michigan ' ten thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' 10 000 00 Improving Harbor at Marquette, Michigan.— Fox improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan ' for repairs, one thousand five hundred doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 l 500 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — EIVEES AND HAEBORS. 105 Improving Harbor at Monroe, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Monroe, Michigan, two thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $2, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Muskegon, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Muskegon, Michigan, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5^ 000 00 Improving Harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan, — For improving harbor at Ontonagon, Michigan, seventeen thousand dollars ; of which sum, iifteen thousand dollars shall be expended in the construction of piers, and two thousand dollars in dredg- ing.— Act March 3, 1879 17, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Pentwater, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Pentwater, Michigan, six thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Harbor of Refuge at Portage Lalce, Michigan. — For harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Lake Michigan, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan. — For improving river and harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan, six thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Saugatuch, Michigan. — For improving harbor at Saugatuck, Michigan, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor at South Haven, Michigan. — For improving harbor at South Haven, Michigan, seven thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 7, 500 00 Improving Harbor at White River, Michigan. — For improving harbor at White Eiver, Michigan, seven thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 7, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Ahnapee, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Ahnapee, Wisconsin, seven thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 7, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Oreen Bay, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Green Bay, Wiscon- sin, four thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Manitowo'S, Wiscon- sin, six thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 6, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Menomonee, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Menomonee, Wis- consin, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, seven thousand five hundred doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 7, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Port Wash- ington, seven thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 7, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Racine, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Eacine, Wisconsin, six thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wiscon- sin, repairs and dredging, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Dredging Superior Bay, Wisconsin. — For improving Superior bay, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor of Refuge at Entrance of Sturgeon-Bay Ganal. — For harbor of refuge at entrance of Sturgeon-Bay Canal, Wisconsin, thirty thousand dollars. — Act March 3,1879 - 30,000 00 Improving Harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin. — For improving harbor at Two Elvers, Wis- consin, twenty thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Burlington, Iowa. — For improving Eush Chute and the harbor of Burlington, Iowa, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Fort Madison, Iowa. — For improving harbor at Fort Madison, Iowa, three thousand six hundred dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 3, 600 00 Improving Harbor at Muscatine, Iowa. — For improving harbor at Muscatine, Iowa, seven thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 7, 500 00 Improving Harbor at Duluth, Minnesota. — For improving Duluth harbor, Minnesota, twenty- five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 .--■ 25,000 00 Improving Harbor at Grand Marias, Minnesota. — For improving harbor at Grand Marias, Minnesota, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Oakland, California.— For improving Oakland harbor, California, sixty thousand dollars; but this sum shall not be available until the right of the United States to the bed of the estuary and training- walls of this ■work is secured, &ee of expense, to the Government, in a manner satisfac- tory to the Secretary of War; and if said right shall not have been so secured by September first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, said sum shall be returned into the treasury.— Act March 3, 1879 60, 000 00 27 D A 106 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Improving Harbor at 8am, Biego, California. — For improving and repairing San Diego har- bor, California, one thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 • $1, 000 00 Improving Harbor at Wilmington, California. — For improving harbor at Wilmington, Cali- fornia, twelve thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 12, 000 00 Improving Entra/nce to Coos Bay and Harbor, Oregon. — For improving the entrance to Coos bay and harbor of Oregon, forty thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Improving Kennebunk River, Maine. — For improving Kennebunk river, Maine, two thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Improving Lubee Channel, Maine. — For improving Lubec channel, Maine, ten thousand dol- lars; and for the purpose of this improvement the unexpended balance of the appropriations made for the improvement of the Saint Croix river by the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and June twenty-third, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-four, are hereby made available. — ^Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Penobscot River, Maine. — For improving Penobscot river, Maine, six thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Otter Creek, Vermont. — For improving Otter creek, Vermont, five thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts. — ^For improving Merrimac river, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Taunton River, Massachusetts. — For improving Taunton river, Massachusetts, one thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. — ^For improving Provi- dence river and Narragansett bay, Ehode Island, sixty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 60,000 00 Improving Connecticut River, Connecticut. — For improving Connecticut river below Hart- ford, Connecticut, including dredging between Hartford and Middletown, ten thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut. — For construction of breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut, thirty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 Improving Thames River, Connecticut. — For improving Thames river, Connecticut, to secure a fourteen-foot channel, twelve thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 12, 000 00 Removing Obstructions in East River and Hell Oate, New York. — ^For removing obstructions in East river and Hell Gate, New York, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 250 000 00 Improving East Chester Creek, New York.— Fox improving Bast Chester creek, New York, ' three thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3 500 00 Improving Hudson River, New Yorfc.- For improving Hudson river. New York, thirty ' thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 30 OOO 00 Improving HarUm River, New York — For improviag Harlem river, New York, one hiin- ' dred thousand dollars; but this appropriation is made subject to the pro- visions and limitations contained in the act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, relating to said Harlem-river improvement and the right of way therefor.— Act March 3, 1879 100 000 00 Improving Cohansey Creek, New Jersey.— For improving Cohansey creek, New Jersey four ' thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ! . . 4 500 00 Improving Elizabeth River, New Jersey. — For improving Elizabeth river. New Jersey to ' secure a seven-foot channel, seven thousand five hundred dollars— Act March3,1879 " 7 500 00 Improving Manasqmn River, New Jersey.— For improving Manasquan river, New Jersev ' twelve thousand dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 12 000 00 Improving Passaic River, New Jersey.— For improving Passaic river, New Jersev " two ' thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 . o qqq qq Improving Rahway River, New Jersey — For improving Eahway river. New" jersey deepen- ' ing channel, and removing obstructions, ten thousand dollars.— Act March c), lo/y ^„ (\(\(\ 00 Improving Raritan River, New Jersey.— For improving Earitan river, New Jersev' sixtv thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 ^a ««« r,A Improving Shrewsbury River, New Jersey.— Foi improving siu-ewsbury'river New Jersev ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' io onn no Improving Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey.— Fox improving Woodbridge creek New JerVpv four thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 "^ ' 4 000 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT RIVEES AND HAEBOES. 107 Improving AllegJieny Biver, Pennsylvania. — ^For the improvement of the navigation of Alle- gheny river from the mouth of French creek to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ► $10, 000 00 Improving Schuylkill Biver, Pennsylvania. — For improving Schuylkill river, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Improving Delaware Biver below Bridesburg, Pennsylvania. — For improving Delaware river below Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, forty-five thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 45, 000 00 Improving Delaware Biver between Trenton and White Sill, New Jersey. — For improving Del- aware river between Trenton and White Hill, New Jersey, six thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Delaware Biver at Schooner Ledge. — For improving Delaware river at Schooner Ledge, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Improving Delaware Biver near Cherry Island Flats. — ^For improving Delaware river at or near Cherry Island Flats, one hundred thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . 100, 000 00 Improving Mispillion Greek, Delaware. — For improving MispiUion creek, Delaware, three thousand dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Wicomico Biver, Maryland. — For improving Wicomico river, Maryland, three thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Potomac Biver at Mount Vernon. — For dredging a channel in the Potomac river through the flats in front of the landing at Mount Vernon, four thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Improving Appomattox Biver, Virginia. — For improving Appomattox river, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Blackwater Biver, Virginia. — ^For improving Blackwater river, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 2, 500 00 Improving Chickahominy Biver, Virginia. — For improving Chickahominy river, Virginia, one thousand dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Improving Hampton Biver, Virginia. — For improving Hampton river, Virginia, two thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Improving James Biver, Virginia. — For improving James river, Virginia, seventy-five thou- sand dollars ^Act March 3, 1879 75, 000 00 Improving New Biver, Virginia. — For improving New river from Lead Mines, in Wythe County, Virginia, to mouth of Greenbrier, twelve thousand dollars. — ^Act March3,1879 12,000 00 Improving Nomoni Greek, Virginia. — ^For improving mouth of Nomoni creek, Vfrginia, two thousand five hundred doUars— Act March 3, 1879 2, 500 00 Improving North Landing Biver, Virginia and North Garolina. — For improving North Land- ing river, Virginia and North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Improving Bappahannock Biver, Virginia. — For improving Eappahannock river, Virginia, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Staunton Biver, Virginia. — For improving Staunton river, Virginia, five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Urbana Greek, Virginia. — For improving Urbana creek, Virginia, five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Elk Biver, West Virginia. — For improving Elk river. West Virginia, the sum of five thousand doUars, appropriated by the act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, is directed to be expended in the removal of obstructions to open navigation from Braxton Court-house to the mouth of Big Sandy: Provided, however. That not exceeding five hundred doUars thereof may be expended for the improvement of steamboat navigation at Jarrett's Ford, but in no way to obstruct navigation by boats and rafts. — Act March 3, 1879. Improving Great Kanawha Biver, West Virginia. — For improving Great Kanawha river, West Virginia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. That such parts of the moneys heretofore appropriated by the act of which this is amendatory, for the improvement of the Great Kanawha river, in West Virginia, and the Kentucky river, in the State of Kentucky, as may be necessary in the prosecution of said improvements as undertaken, may be expended in the purchase, voluntary or by condemnation, as the case may be, of such sites as are necessary in the prosecution of said improve- ments : Provided, That such expenditure shaU be under the direction of the 108 DIGEST OP APPEOPKIATIONS. Secretary of War: And provided further, That if the owners of such lands or sites shall refuse to seU the same at reasonable prices, then the prices to be paid shall be determined and the title and jurisdiction procured in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State in which such lands or sites are situated.— Act June 10, 1879 - .- - $150, 000 00 Improving Guycmdotte River, West Virginia. — For improYing Guyandotte river, "West Vir- ginia, one thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Improving Little Kanawha Biver, West Virginia. — For improving Little Kanawha river. West Yirginia, dredging, removing obstructions, and for wing-dams, if re- quired, eighteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 18, 000 00 Improving Monongahela Biver, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. — For improving Mononga- hela river. West Virginia and Pennsylvania, to be expended in completing lock and dam at Hoard's Eock, twenty-four thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 - 24,000 00 Improving Gape Fear Biver, Worth Carolina. — For' improving Cape Fear river. North Caro- lina, one hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 Improving Currituck Sound and North Biver Bar, North Carolina. — For continuing the im- provement of Currituck Sound and North Eiver Bar, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 OO Improving French Broad Biver, North Carolina. — For improving French Broad river. North Carolina, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Neuse Biver, North Carolina. — For improving Neuse river, North Carolina, forty- five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 45, 000 00 Improving Pamlico Biver, North Carolina. — For improving Pamlico river. North Carolina, three thousand dollars.— Act March 3^ 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Scuppernong Biver, North Carolina. — For improving Scuppernong river. North Carolina, two thousand dollars ^Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Improving Tar Biver, North Carolina. — For improving Tar river, North Carolina, three thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Trent Biver, North Carolina ^For improving Trent river. North Carolina, seven thousand dollars Act March 3, 1879 7, 000 00 Improving YadMn Biver, North Carolina. — For improving Yadkin river, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Chattahoochie Biver, Georgia. — ^For improving Chattahoochie river, Georgia, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Improving Coosa Biver, Georgia and Alabama. — For improving Coosa river, Georgia and Alabama, forty-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 45, 000 00 Improving Flint Biver, Georgia. — For improving Flint river, Georgia, seven thousand dol- lars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 7^ 000 00 Improving Ocmulgee Biver, Georgia. — For improving Ocmulgee river, Georgia, seven thou- sand dollars Act March 3, 1879 7 OOO 00 Improving Oconee Biver, Georgia. — For improving Oconee river, Georgia, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 l^ 500 00 Improving Oostenaula and Coosawattee Bivers, Georgia. — For improving Oostenaula and Coosawattee rivers, Georgia, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. . 3, 000 00 Improving St. Augustine's CreeTc, Georgia.— Fox improving Saint Augustine's creek, Georgia, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5 oOO 00 Improving Apalachicola Biver, Florida. — For improving the Apalachicola river, Florida, in- ' eluding the slough connecting the Apalachicola with the Chippola river, five thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 5 oOO 00 Improving Choctawhatchee Biver, Florida and Alabama. — For improving Choctawhatchee ' river, Florida and Alabama, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5 000 00 Improving Inside Passage between Fernandina and Saint John's, Florida. — For improving ' inside passage between Fernandina and Saint John's, Florida, seven thou- sand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 7 ooo 00 Improving Alabama Biver, Alabama.— For improving Alabama river, Alabama, thirty ' thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 30 oOO 00 Improving Warrior and Tombigbee Bivers, Alabama and Mississippi For improving' War- ' rior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi, thirty thousand dol- lars ; of which sum, ten thousand dollars shall be expended on the Tombig- bee above Columbus, and twenty thousand dollars on the Warrior and Tombigbee below Columbus.— Act March 3, 1879 30 000 00 Improving Big Sunflower Biver, Mississippi.— ¥ov improving Big Sunflower river Missis- ' sippi, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' 20 000 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT RIVERS AND HARBORS. 109 Improving Goldwater Biver, Mississippi. — For improving Coldwatpr river, Mississippi, seven thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 87, 000 00 Improving Pascagoula Biver, Mississippi. — For improving Pascagoula river, Mississippi, fourteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 14, 000 00 Improving Pearl Biver, Mississippi. — For improving Pearl river, Mississippi, from Jackson to Carthage, six thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Tallahatchie Biver, Mississippi. — For improving Tallahatchie river, Mississippi, sis thousand dollars.— Act IMarch 3, 1879 (i, 000 00 Improving Yazoo Biver, Mississippi. — For improving Yazoo river, Mississippi, fifteen thou- sand dollars —Act :\larch 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Improving Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana. — For improving Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, including removal of obstructions and deepening of channel, ten thousand dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Mouth of Bed Biver, Louisiana. — For improving mouth of Red river, Louisiana, forty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Bemoving Snags in Bed Biver, Louisiana. — For removing obstructions from Red river, Louisiana, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . 33, 500 00 Bemoving Baft in Bed Biver, Louisiana. — For removing raft in Eed river and closing Tones bayou, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 Improving Aransas Pa,ss and Bay, Texas. — For improving Aransas pass and bay up to Kockport and Corpus Christi, Texas, thirty-five thousand dollars; which sum shall be expended in deepening the channel across the outer bar of Aransas pass and the protection of the head of Mustang Island: Provided, That if the expenditure of said sum in the manner indicated herein involve the improvement of any channel or way owned or controlled by any corpora- tion or person with the right to levy tolls or otherwise to affect the naviga- tion and commerce thereof, no part of said sum shall be expended until such right, ownership, and control shall have been surrendered and relin- quished to the United States, free of cost, in manner and form to be approved by the Secretary of War.— Act March 3, 1879 35, 000 00 Improving Cypress Bayou, Texas and Louisiana. — For improving Cypress bayou, Texas and Louisiana, six thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Neches Biver, Texas. — For improving mouth of E"eches river, Texas, five thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Passo Cavallo, Texas. — For improving Passo Cavallo inlet into Matagorda bay, Texas, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 35, 000 00 Protection of Biver-BanTc at Fort Brown, Texas. — For protection of river-bank at Fort Brown , Texas, seven thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 7, 000 00 Improving Ship-Channel in Galveston Bay, Texas. — In consideration of the proposition of the Buffalo Bayou Ship-Channel Company to turn over their work at Morgan's Point, and to surrender their charter granted by the Legislature of Texas, and the rights accruing thereunder, to the United States, which proposition is now on file in the War Department, and is hereby accepted, the Govern- ment hereby adopts the line surveyed from the cut in Eed Fish bar to the cut in Morgan's Point, and the sum of eighty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the improvement of that line: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until said Buffalo Bayou Ship-Channel Com- pany shall file with the Secretary of War, in manner and form to be by him approved, their acceptance of this provision of this act. — Act March 3, 1879 . 80, 000 00 Improving Sabine Biver, Texas. — For improving Narrows of Sabine river above Orange, Texas, and to deepen the channel at the mouth of the Sabine river, six thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Sabine Pass, Texas. — For deepening channel of Sabine Pass and at Blue Buck bar, Texas, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Improving Trinity Biver, Texas. — For improving mouth of Trinity river, Texas, two thou- sand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 500 00 Improving ArTcansas Biver, ArTcansas and Kansas. — For improvement of Arkansas river, between Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Wichita, Kansas, twenty thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Fourche Le Fevre Biver, Arlcansas.— For improving Foiu-che Le Fevre river, Ar- kansas, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Imvroving L>Angtiille Biver, ArTcansas.— For improving UAnguille river, Arkansas, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 28 DA 110 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Improving Ouachita Biver, ArTcansas and Louisiana. — For improving Ouachita river, Arkan- sas and Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $10, 000 00 Improving White River, ArTcansas. — For improving White river, Arkansas, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving White and Saint Francis Bivers, Arkansas. — For improving White and Saint Francis rivers, Arkansas, twelve thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 12, 000 00 Improving Cumberland Biver above Nashville, Tennessee. — For improving Cumberland river above NashvUle, Tennessee, thirty-nine thousand dollars; of which sum eighteen thousand dollars shall be expended from Nashville to the Kentucky line, six thousand dollars from the Kentucky line to Smith's Shoals, and fifteen thousand doUars at Smith's Shoals. — Act March 3, 1879 39, 000 00 .Improving Cumberland Biver below Nashville, Tennessee. — For improving Cumberland river below Nashville, Tennessee, forty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. . . 40, 000 00 Improving Miawassee Biver, Tennessee. — For improving Hiawassee river, Tennessee, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3^ 000 00 Improving Tennessee Biver above Chattanooga. — For improving Tennessee river above Chat- tanooga, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 11 500 00 Improving Tennessee Biver below Chattanooga. — For improving Tennessee river below Chat- tanooga, including Muscle Shoals, and Duck Eiver Shoal, and the shoal at Eeynoldsburg, two hundred and ten thousand dollars: Provided, That whenever, in the prosecution or maintenance of the work of improving Ten- nessee river, between Decatur and Florence, in the State of Alabama, it may be necessary, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, to take posses- sion of any lands for canals or cut-offs, and a reasonable price for the same can be agreed upon between the owner of said lands and the oflScer in charge of said work on the part of the United States, the Secretary of War may authorize the purchase of said lands: Provided, That in case the owners of said lands shall refuse to sell the same at a reasonable price, then the price to be paid shall be determined, and the title and jurisdiction procured, in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Alabama: And provided That in either case the entire cost of such lands to the United States shaU not exceed ten thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 210 000 00 Improving Big Sandy Biver, Kentucky.— Eov improving Big Sandy river, from Catlettsbiirg ' Kentucky, to head of navigation, twelve thousand dollars. — Act March 3' 1879 ' Improving Kentucky Biver. — For improving the Kentucky river from the mouth to Three Forks, according to estimate and report of Major William E. Merrill Janu- ary fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. That such parts of the moneys heretofore appropriated by the act— of which this is amendatory — for the improvement of the Great Kanawha river, in West Virginia, and the Kentucky river in the State of Kentucky, as may be necessary in the prosecution of said improve- ments as undertaken may be expended in the purchase, voluntary or bv condemnation, as the case may be, of such sites as are necessary in the prosecution of said improvements: Provided, That such expenditure shall be under the direction of the Secretary of War: And provided further That if the owners of such lands or sites shaU refuse to sell the same at reason able prices, then the prices to be paid shall be determined, and the title and jurisdiction procured, in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State m which such lands or sites are situated — Act June 10, 1879 mn ftf»n nn Improving Ohio Biver.— For improving the Ohio river, two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars; of which sum, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mav be necessary, shaU be expended in the removal of obstructions at Grand Chain and not exceeding one hundred thousand doUars on the Davis Island dam.-- Improring Wabash Biver, Indiana.— 'Fot: improving Wabash river, Indiana, twentv thnii sand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 i-uuii- Improving White Biver, Indiana.— Fov improving White river, indiana, from the Waba^'li ™^H^''^*®''^^'^*' ^^^ *" *^® ^^"^ ^''^ West Fork, according to report of Chief of Engmeers, without constructing locks and dams, twenty-five thou sand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 tuuu- Improving Illinois Biver.— Fot impro^^ng lUiuois river,"fortv' thousand 'dollars ll'Ai.^ 25,000 00 March 3, 1879 ' ^^ 40, 000 00 12, 000 00 250, 000 00 20, 000 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT EIVEES AND HAEBOES. Ill Improving Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers. — For iinproving Mississippi, Mis- souri, and Arkansas rivers : Eemoving snags, sand-bars, wrecks, and other obstructions, and correcting and deepening the channel, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars ; of which sum, one hundred thousand dollars shall be expended on the Mississippi river, sixty thousand dollars shall be ex- pended on the Missouri river, and thirty "thousand dollars shall be ex- pended on the Arkansas river.— Act March 3, 1879 S190, 000 00 Improving Mississippi River between Mouths of Ohio and Illinois Rivers. — For improving the Mississippi river between the mouths of the Illinois and Ohio rivers, two hundred thousand dollars; of which sum, fifteen thousand dollars shall be expended between the mouths of the Illinois and Missouri rivers ; thirty thousand dollars between the foot of Dickey's Island and the mouth of the Ohio river ; and eight thousand dollars between Islands Numbers Fourteen and Fifteen, near the town of Kaskaskia, Illinois.— Act March 3, 1879 200, 000 00 Improving Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Des Moines Rapids. — For improving Missis- sippi river from Saint Paul to Des Moines rapids, one hundred thousand dollars : Provided, That not exceeding twenty thousand dollars thereof may be used by the Secretary of War, in his discretion, in making a practical test of the flume invented by M. J. Adams, the said test to be made under the supervision and direction of said Adams, but without compensation to said Adams for his services: And provided further, That such test shall not be made until the right shall be secured to the United States to use said flume, in the event of the favorable result of said test, upon terms satisfac- tory to the Secretary of War.— Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 Improving Mississippi River from Des Moines Rapids to Mouth of Illinois River. — For improv- ing Mississippi river from Des Moines rapids to mouth of the Illinois river, forty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Improving Mississippi River at Quincy, Illinois. — For improving navigation of Mississippi river at Quincy, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Removing Bar in Mississippi River, opposite Dubuque, Iowa. — For removing the bar in the Mississippi river, opposite Dubuque, Iowa, four thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Improving Roclc Isla/nd Rapids, Mississippi River. — For improving Eock Island rapids, Mis- sissippi river, six thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Improving Des Moines Rapids, Mississippi River. — For improving Des Moines rapids, twenty- five thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Operating the Des Moines Rapids Canal. — For operating the canal at Des Moines rapids, forty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Gauging tlie Waters of Lower Mississippi and its Tributaries. — For annual expense of gaug- ing the waters of the Mississippi river and its tributaries : Continuing ob- servation of the rise and faU of the river and its chief tributaries, as required by joint resolution of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy- one, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Upper Mississippi River. — For improving Upper Mississippi river, operating snag-boat, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Osage River, Missouri and Kansas. — For improving the Osage river, Kansas and Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas. — For improving Missouri river at Atchison, Kansas, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Missouri River at Cedar City. — For improving Missouri river at Cedar City, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, NebrasTta. — For improving the Missouri river at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and at Omaha, Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Improving Missouri River at Uastport, Iowa, and Nebraslta City, NebrasTca. — For improving Missouri river, at Eastport, Iowa, and at Nebraska City, Nebraska, thirty thousand dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 Survey of the Missouri River from its Mouth to Fort Benton, Montana.— For survey of Mis- souri river from its mouth to Fort Benton, Montana, thirty thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 Improving Missouri River near Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. — For improving Missouri river at or near Fort Leavenworth, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 ... 10, 000 00 Improving Missouri River, near Glasgow, Missouri. — For improving Missouri river at and near Glasgow, fifteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 15, 000 00 112 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Improving Missouri River near Kansas City, Missouri. — For improving Missouri river at or near Kansas City, thirty tliousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. $30, 000 00 Improving Missouri River near Saint Joseph, Missouri. — For improving Missouri river oppo- site Saint Joseph, nine thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 9, 000 00 Improving Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa. — For improving Missouri river at Sioux City, Iowa, ten thousand dollars; which sum shaU be available on the passage of this act.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Missouri River at Vermillion, Dakota. — For improvement of Missouri river at Vermillion, Dakota, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Missouri River above Mouth of Yellowstone River. — For improving Missouri river above mouth of the Yellowstone river, forty-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 45, 000 00 Improving Detroit River, Michigan. — ^For improving Detroit river, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 50, 000 00 Improving Saginaw River, Michigan, — For improving SaginaW river, Michigan, eight thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 8, 000 00 Improving Saint Glair Flats, Michigan. — For improving Saint Clair flats, Michigan, repairs of canal, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Improving Saint Mary's River and Saint Mary's Falls Canal, Michigan. — For improving Saint Mary's river and Saint Mary's Falls Canal, three hundred thousand dollars; of which sum, two hundred thousand dollars shall be expended on the canal, and one hundred thousand dollars shall be expended on the survey and im- provement of the river towards obtaining a depth in present channel of six- teen feet. — Act March 3, 1879 300, 000 00 Improving Chippewa River, Wisconsin — For the protection of the high sand-banks on the Chippewa river, Wisconsin, to prevent their erosion and deposition in the Mississippi river, eight thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing shall be done, nor shall any improvement be made, on the said Chippewa river, under or in pursuance of this act, or the appropriation hereby made, which shall, directly or indirectly, prevent, interfere with, or obstruct the free navigation of the said river, as heretofore, by steamboats, or other water- craft, or the free use thereof, as heretofore, for the running, floating, guid- ing, or sheering of loose logs or rafts of lumber, or logs upon or down the same, or which shaU, directly or indirectly, prevent, obstruct, or interfere with the use of any slough, arm, or branch of the said river, as heretofore, for the holding, assorting, or rafting of logs therein.— Act March 3, 1879. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to apply and use for the completion and protection of the wing-dams, jetties, and other improvements of the Chippewa river in the State of Wisconsin located at and near the mouth of said river, so much of the moneys appro- priated by an act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act making appropriations for the construction repair, preservation, and completion of certain works on rivers and harbors' and for other purposes," as were appropriated "for the protection of the high sand-banks on the Chippewa river." and so forth, as may be required for such purpose herein provided: Provided, That such use or application of the moneys herem authorized shall be made under the same limitations and conditions as provided in the act hereinbefore named, and subject to the terms and conditions of the proviso attached to said appropriation for said Chippewa nver in said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.— Act June 19, 1879 o j^„,, „„ Improving Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Wisconsin.— Fov improving Fox and Wisconsin rivers Wisconsin, one hundred and fifty thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 . ' 150 000 00 Surveys for Reseryoxr at Sources of the Mississippi, Saint Croix, Chippewa, and Wisconsin Rivers.— Fov examinations and surveys for reservoir at sources of the Mis sissippi, Samt Croix, Chippewa, and Wisconsin rivers: Completine survev twenty-fivethousanddoUars— Act March 3, 1879. ' 9« nnn nn Improving Red River of the North, Minnesota, and Dakota.— Fov improving Red River of the North, Minnesota, and Dakota, exclusively for dredging, twenty-five thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ^ ve tiiou „^ „„„ „„ Improving Saint Anthony's Falls, Minnesota.— Fov sluiceway through public works at Saint ' Anthony's Falls, Minnesota, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no nart of said sum shall be expended for right of way, and that said improvement MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT RIVERS AND HARBORS. 113 can be made without expense to the United States further than the actual construction of said sluiceway. — Act ilarch 3, 1879 $10, 000 00 Improving Ujap&r Bed River. — For improving Upper Eed river from Fulton to the head of the Eaft, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Improving Saint Croix River beloio Taylor's Falls. — For improving Saint Croix river below Taylor's Falls, eight thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 8, 000 00 Improving Yellowstone River. — For improving Yellowstone river, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000 00 Improving Lower Clearwater River, Idaho. — For improving Low,er Clearwater river, Idaho, , five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Improving Mouth of Columbia River, Oregon. — For continuing the survey and observation of currents at the bar of the mouth of the Columbia river, five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Constructing Canal around the Cascades of Columbia River, Oregon. — For constructing canal around the Cascades of Colvimbia river, one hundred thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 Improving Upper Columbia River, Oregon. — For improving Upper Columbia river, including Snake river, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Improving Upper Willamette River, Oregon. — For improving Upper Willamette river, twelve thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 12, 000 00 Improving Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers, Oregon. — For improving Lower Willa- mette and Columbia rivers, from Portland, Oregon, to the sea, forty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 '. 45, 000 00 Improving Sacramento River, California. — For improving Sacramento river, California, twenty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Breahwater and Harbor of Refuge, between Straits of Fuoa and San Francisco, California. — That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of War in the commence- ment of the construction of a breakwater and harbor of refuge at such point on the Pacific Ocean between the Straits of Fuca and San Francisco, Cali- fornia, as may, in the opinion of a majority of the board of United States engineers for the Pacific coast, be most suitable, the interests of commerce, local and general, being considered. — Act March 3, 1879 150, 000 00 Examinations and Surveys at South Pass, Mississippi River. — For examiuations and surveys of South Pass of the Mississippi river : To ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time by James B. Eads at the South Pass of the Mississippi river, and to enable the Secretary of War to report during the construction of the work the payments made from time to time, and the probable times of other payments, and to report during the construction of the work all important facts relating to the prog- ress of the same, materials used, and the character and permanency with which the said jetties and auxiliary works are being constructed, as required by act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and act approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which im- pose on the engineer oflcer the duty of certifying to the correctness of expenditures for labor, material, and so forth, amounting to five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid Mr. Bads in monthly instalments, twenty-four thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 24, 000 00 It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money herein appropriated for improvements, other than surveys and estimates, in carry- ing on the various works by contract or by hired labor, at his discretion, and as in his judgment may be most advantageous to the Government; and, where said works are done by contract, such contracts shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders therefor, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require.— Act March 3, 1879. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby directed, at his discretion, to cause examinations or surveys, or both, and estimates of cost of improve- ments proper, to be made at the following points, namely: The outlet of 29 D A 114 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire; Nantucket harbor, Massachusetts; Broad bay, Virginia; Link Horn bay, Virginia; Lin Haven bay, Virginia; Chincoteaque inlet, Virginia ; Shenandoah river, Virginia and West Vir- ginia; Cathanse, Maine; the Delaware, at Chester and Marcus Hook, Penn- sylvania, to ascertain its adaptability for an ice-harbor; New Town creek, at mouth of East river, New York; Nanticoke river, Delaware and Maryland; channel leading into Cabin creek, Maryland; Northeast river, Maryland; Lockwood's Folly river, North Carolina; Tread Haven creek, Maryland, for a distance of three miles below Eastern; Slaughter creek, Maryland; Choptank river, Maryland, between Denton and Greensboro'; Secretary creek, Mary- land; canal connecting Galveston and Brazos river, Texas; Bayou Ver- million, Louisiana; Bayou Teche, Louisiana; Bayou Courtableau, Louisiana; Coosa river, from the bridge of Selma river, Eane and Dalton railroad, to city of Wetumpka, Alabama; Duck river, from its mouth to Centreville, Tennessee; Yallabusha river, Mississippi; Noxubee river, Mississippi; Cuivre river, Missouri; the Gasconade river, from its mouth to Vienna, in Maries county, Missouri; Arkansas river at Pine bluff; Ohio river and mouth of Little Kanawha river. West Virginia, to ascertain the adaptabUity of that locality for an ice-harbor, including a report on the coast and merit of that point compared with the mouth of the Muskingum at Marietta, Ohio, surveyed under the provisions of the act of June eighteen, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-eight; Waukegan harbor, Illinois and Illinois river; Al- ton harbor, Illinois, and the Mississippi river, opposite to the mouth of the Missouri; breakwater at Mackinac, Michigan; harbor of refuge at entrance to Portage Lake and Lake Superior ship-canal; Petaluma creek, California; resurvey of Sabine river, Texas, from its mouth to East Hamilton; resurvey of Neches river, Texas, from the mouth of the Neches to Bevelport; resurvey of Trinity river, Texas, from its mouth to the bridge of the Great Northern railroad; Charlotte harbor and Peace creek, Florida; entrance to Cumber- land sound, Florida and Georgia; Withla«ooche river, Florida; Black river, Arkansas; Caney Fork, Cumberland river, Tennessee; Saint Joseph river, from its mouth in Michigan, to Elkhart, Indiana, including channel leading up to Benton harbor; Trinidad harbor, California; Sacramento river, Cali- fornia; Tchula lake, Mississippi; Archer's Hope river, Virginia; Susque- hannah river, Pennsylvania ; resurvey of Sebewaing harbor, Michigan ; resurvey of Clinton river, Michigan; resurvey of bar at mouth of Bell river, Michigan; Aroostook river, Maine, from boundary line to Masardis; Green river and its tributaries. Muddy and Barren rivers, Kentucky ; Bayou Deglaize, Louisiana ; Moosebec bar, Jonesport, Maine ; South river. New Jersey, between Earitan river and Old Bridge ; Bayou Terrebonne, Louis- iana; Tchefuncta, Tichfaw, and Amite rivers, Louisiana; Cheeseqnakes creek, New Jersey ; Allegheny river, from French creek to Olean, New York; Dan river, Virginia, from Clarksville, Virginia, to Danbury, North Carolina, (continued;) the Mississippi, from Saint Paul to the Falls of St. Anthony; Oconto river, Wisconsin; Wolf river, Wisconsin, (continued • j Superior bay, to determine the best and most economical plan for harbo'r improvement for the head of Lake Superior ; resurvey of Ogdensburg har- bor. New York ; Warrior, from Tuscaloosa to Forks of Sipsey and Mulberry Alabama; Sipsey river, Alabama; the Columbia river at the Dalles in Ore- gon, including plan and specifications for locks and canal around said point- for an accurate examination and survey of Alsea harbor, Oregon, and bar in front of it; TJmpqua river, Oregon, between Scottsburg and its mouth- the Cowlitz river, Washington Territory, for purpose of ascertaining the cost of removing snags and other obstructions ; ship-canal across Bergen Neck, in Hudson county, New Jersey; Tuckahoe creek, Maryland; Chatta- hoochie [Choctawhatchee, act June 14, 1879] river, Alabama, from Geneva to Newton; Pea river, Alabama, from Geneva to Elba; Cheyenne river Dakota; continuing survey of the Yellowstone river; Port Eoyal river' near Beaufort, South Carolina; survey and estimate for York river Vir' ginia; Pamunkey river, in Virginia; Bayfield harbor, Wisconsin; Ashland harbor, Wisconsm; Morristique river, Michigan; approaches from Lake Superior to Samt Mary's Falls ship-canal, for a sixteen-foot channel • Kan kakee river, Indiana and Illinois ; for survey of Broad creek, a prong' of the MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT^RIVEES AND HARBORS. 115 Nanticoke river, from its mouth, to Laurel, Delaware; for the resurvey of the outlet to Wolf lake, in Lake county, Indiana ; for survey of Waccamaw river, North Carolina ; for survey of Catawba river, North Carolina ; the Pe Dee rivers, South Carolina; the Santee river. South Carolina; the Wateree river, South Carolina; the Broad river, South Carolina; the Ca- tawba river. South Carolina; for a survey and estimate for a breakwater, to be constructed from a point at or near the new canal outlet near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Ponchartrain Eailroad wharf— said breakwater to be so constructed as to serve as a harbor of refuge for all vessels. — Act March 3, 1879. Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for the Arkansas Eiver Transfer Eailway Company, a corporation having authority under the laws of the State of Arkansas to build a railway from some suitable point in the city of Little Eock across the Arkansas river to some suitable point in the town of Ar- genta, all being in the county of Pulaski, in said State, to buUd a railway transit and wagon-bridge across said river, and that when constructed all trains of all railways, terminating at the Arkansas river, at or near the location of said bridge, and all foot-passengers, animals, and vehicles, shall be allowed to cross said bridge for a reasonable compensation, to be paid to the owners thereof; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruc- tion or alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said river, the cause may be tried before the district court of the United States in and for the eastern district of the State of Arkansas. Sec. 5. That any bridge buUt under the provisions of this act may, at the option of the company building the same, be built as a drawbridge, with a pivot, or with unbroken or continuous spans : Provided, That if said bridge shall be made with unbroken or continuous spans, it shall not be in any case of a less elevation than fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the bottom chord of the bridge; nor shall the span over the main channel of the river be less than two hundred and fifty feet; nor shall there be a greater number of spans than four cross- ing the remaining width of said river, and the piers of said bridge shall all be parallel with the current of said river: And provided also, That if any bridge shall be constructed under this act as a draw-bridge, the same shall be a pivot-draw over the main channel, with spans of not less than one hun- dred and sixty feet in the clear on each side of the centre or pivot-pier of said bridge, and that there shall not be a greater number of fixed spans than four crossing the remaining width of said river, and said bridge shall not be less than ten feet above high- water mark, as understood at the loca- tion of said bridge, measuring to the bottom chord of said bridge; and all the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river: And provided also, That said draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats whose construction shall not be such as to admit of their passage under said bridge, except when a railroad train is passing over the same ; but in no case shall any unnecessary delay occur in opening the draw after the passage of said train. Sec. 6. That any bridge constructed under this act, and according to its provisions, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and munitions of war of the United States, than the rate paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal-telegraph purposes across said bridge. Sec. 7. That said bridge shall not be built or commenced until the railway company aforesaid shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his approval, a plan, with the necessary drawings of their bridge, conforming to the above requirements, nor until he shall approve the plan and location of said bridge, and notify the company of the same in writing. And should any change be made in the plan of the bridge during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall be subject likewise to the approval of the Secretary of War ; and the said structure shall be at all times so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under said structure; and said structure shall be changed, at 116 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. the cost and expense of the owners thereof, from time to time, as Congress may direct, so as to preserve the free and convenient navigation of said river; and the authority to erect and continue said bridge shall be subject to revocation or modification by law, whenever the public good shall, in the judgment of Congress, so require, without any expense or charge to the United States. Sec. 8. That the right to alter or amend this act, so as to prevent or remove all material obstructions to the navigation of said river by the con- struction of said bridge, without expense to the United States, and also to repeal this act, is hereby expressly reserved. — Act March 3, 1879. Examinations, Surveys, and Contingencies of Rivers and Hdbors. — Sec. 3. That for the ex- aminations and surveys herein provided for, and for incidental repairs of har- bors, for which there is no special appropriation, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Act March 3, 1879. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to order a survey and recommendations thereon of the Mississippi river near Lake Concordia, Louisiana, and of Cowpen Bend, Mississippi, looking to the pro- tection of the harbors of Natchez and Yidalia by restraining the river from cutting into Lake Concordia, and of the Charenton canal in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, out of moneys already appropriated for surveys and ex- aminations by act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine.— Eesolution June 28, 1879. $150, 000 00 Constructing Jetties and other Works at South Pass, Mississippi River. — Sec. 9. That the fourth and succeeding sections of an act entitled "An act making appro- priations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-five, authorizing James B. Eads and his associates to create and permanently maintain a wide and deep channel between the South pass of the Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico be, and they are hereby, amended so as to provide in Ueu of the payments therein provided, that payment of said Eads or his legal repre- sentatives shall be made as follows, namely: The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in favor of said James B. Eads or his legal representatives for the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which said sum is hereby appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to said Eads or his legal repre- sentatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum for which said warrant is drawn. When a channel shall have been obtained by the action of the jetties and auxiliary works authorized by said act twenty-five feet in depth, and not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, through the said jetties, there shall be paid five hundred thousand dollars. When a channel shall have been obtained through the jetties twenty-six feet in depth, and not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, there shall be paid five hundred thousand doUars. When a channel thirty feet in depth, without regard to width, shall have been ob- tained through the jetties, there shall be paid five hundred thousand dollars ; and the one million dollars provided by the hereinbefore-recited act to be paid by the United States in ten and twenty years shall be earned by said Eads and his associates, and the same, with interest, shall be paid to said Bads or his legal representatives, at the times and in the manner provided by said act. The one hundred thousand dollars per annum provided by said recited act to be paid to said Eads and his associates during a period of twenty years shall be paid at the times and in the manner therein provided, upon the maintenance by said Eads and his associates of a channel through the jetties twenty-six feet in depth, not less than two hundred feet in width at the bot- tom, and having through it a central depth of thirty feet without regard to width. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in any- wise affect the provisions of the amendatory act approved June nineteenth anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, by which said Eads is en- titled to receive certain moneys to pay for materials furnished, labor done MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT ^EIVEES AND HAEBOES. 117 and expenditures incurred in the construction of the work at the mouth of the Mississippi river; and the whole of the hereinbefore-recited act, approved March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-flve, except as the same is hereby expressly modified or amended, or has by act heretofore passed been modified or amended, shall be and remain in fuU force, and have the same effect as if this act had not been passed. — Act March 3, 1879. That the requisite amount is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of War to cause to be paid aU money that may become due and owing to James B. Eads and his associates, or that may become payable to said Eads, his as- signs or legal representatives, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the acts amendatory thereof, and to continue the monthly payments in the manner and to the full extent of the amount specified in the act approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter three hundred and thirteen, Statutes-at-Large: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be held or construed as waiving or impairing any right which the United States may have imder the original act hereinbefore referred to or the sev- eral acts amendatory thereof: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be construed as making an appropriation for the payment of the one million of dollars which, by the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, are to remain as security in the possession of the United States and only to become payable, one-half at the end of ten years and the residue at the end of twenty years after the completion of the work provided for in said acts, as ascertained and determined by the Secretary of War. [Amount paid under this act up to July 23, 1879, is one million seven hundred and thirty thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-one cents.]— Act May 13, 1879 $2, 480, 894 61 Mississippi River Gommission. — ^That a commission is hereby created, to be called "The Mississippi Eiver Commission," to consist of seven members. Sec. 2. The President of the United States shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint seven commissioners, three of whom shall be selected from the Engineer Corps of the Army, one from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and three from civil life, two of whom shall be civil engineers. And any vacancy which may occur in the commission shall in like manner be filled by the President of the United States ; and he shall designate one of the commissioners appointed from the Engineer Corps of the Army to be president of the commission. The commissioners appointed from the En- gineer Corps of the Army and the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall receive no other pay or compensation than is now allowed them by law, and the other three commissioners shall receive as pay and compensation for their services each the sum of three thousand dollars per annum ; and the com- missioners appointed under this act shall remain in office subject to removal by the President of the United States. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said commission to direct and complete such surveys of said river, between the Head of the Passes, near its mouth, to its headwaters, as may now be in progress, and to make such additional surveys, examinations, and investi- gations, . topographical, hydrographical, and hydrometrical, of said river and its tributaries, as may be deemed necessary by said commission to carry out the objects of this act. And to enable said commission to com- plete such surveys, examinations, and investigations, the Secretary of War shall, when requested by said commission, detail from the Engineer Corps of the Army such officers and men as may be necessary, and shall place in the charge and for the use of said commission such vessel or vessels and such machinery and instruments as may be under his control, and may be deemed necessary. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall, when re- quested by said commission, in like manner detail from the Coast and Geo- detic Survey such oflBcers and men as may be necessary, and shall place in the charge and for the use of said commission such vessel or vessels and such machinery and instruments as may be under his control and may be deemed necessary. And the said commission may, with the approval of the Secre- tary of War, employ such additional force and assistants, and provide, by purchase or otherwise, such vessels or boats and such instruments and 30 D A 118 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. means as may be deemed necessary. Sec. 4. It shall be tlie duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct^ permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi river; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof ; prevent destructive floods ; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and postal service ; and when so prepared and matured, to submit to the Secretary of War a full and detailed report of their proceedings and actions, and of such plans, with estimates of the cost thereof, for the purposes aforesaid, to be by him transmitted to Congress: Provided, That the commission shall report in full upon the practicability, feasibility, and probable cost of the various plans known as the jetty sys- tem, the levee system, and the outlet system, as well as upon such others as they deem necessary. Sec. 6. The said commission may, prior to the comple- tion of all the surveys and examinations contemplated by this act, prepare and submit to the Secretary of War, plans, specifications, and estimates of costs for such immediate works as, in the judgment of said commission, may constitute a part of the general system of works herein contemplated, to be by him transmitted to Congress. Sec. 6. The Secretary of War may detail from the Engineer Corps of the Army of the United States an officer to act as secretary of said commission. Sec. 7. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thou- sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of the salaries herein provided for, and of the necessary expenses incurred in the completion of such surveys as may now be in progress, and of such ad- ditional surveys, examinations, and investigations as may be deemed neces- sary, reporting the plans and estimates, and the plans, specifications, and estimates contemplated by this act, as herein provided for; and said sum is hereby appropriated for said purposes, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.— Act June 28, 1879 $175, 000 00 WAE MISCELLANEOUS. Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes, 1880. — For the completion of the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, and to finish the field-work and publica- tion of maps, and all work pertaining to said survey except the preparation of the final report, eighty-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 85, 000 00 Geographical Survey of the Territory of the United States West of the One-hundredth Meridian, 1879 and 1880.— For the preparation of reports, maps, and such other illus- trations as may be necessary for completing the office-work of the geo- graphical surveys west of the one-hundredth meridian, under the direction of the Secretary of War, twenty thousand dollars; to be immediately avail- able.— Act March 3, 1879 20 000 00 Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, 1880. — For continuing the prepa- ' ration of the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate Armies, and for the compensation of temporary clerks and other employes engaged thereon, the collection of such Confederate records as may be placed at the disposal of the Govern- ment by gift or loan, the rent of building, and the preservation of the Brady war views, forty thousand four hundred and ninety dollars: Provided, That not more than two clerks of class four, one clerk of class three, one clerk of class two, one clerk of class one, two clerks at one thousand dollars each twelve copyists at nine hundred dollars each, one foreman of printing, one pressman, six compositors, two assistant messengers, one watchman, and one agent for the collection of Confederate records, shall be emploved.— Act March3, 1879 .' ^ ."^ 40 490 00 Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, 1879. — For the purpose of pay- ' ment of balance due for records, already purchased, of the late Confederate States of America, of Colonel Thomas L. Snead, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.— Act March 3, 1879 6 000 00 Refunding to States Uxpenses incurred in Raising Volunteers.— Tha,t the Secretary of the ' Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay the State of Kentucky on special settlement of the third and fourth instalments of her war cla,ims under act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the sum MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT WAE MISCELLANEOUS. 119 of six thousand and ninety-one dollars and eighty-five cents, which has been confirmed by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the State of Penn- sylvania eight thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty-six cents, being the amount due said State on special settlement of her war claims, under the act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, entitled "An act to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in defence of the United States."— Act March 3, 1879 $ 14, 328 41 Refunding to State of Georgia Expenses of Indian Wars of 1835 to 1838. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay the State of Georgia seventy-two thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-four cents, in full settlement of advances made to the United States for the sup- pression of the Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee Indians in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; and that said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Act March 3, 1879 72,296 94 Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1880, — Current expenses, including repairs: For the Central Branch, for the Eastern Branch, for the Iforth- western Branch, for the Southern Branch, and for barracks and other nec- essary construction purposes, for clothing of extra sizes and underclothing, for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, eight hundred and eighty thou- sand dollars: Provided, That all purchases of supplies exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars at any one time shall be made upon public tender after due advertisement, and that the expenditure for new buildings shall be expressly authorized in writing: Provided, That the estimates hereafter submitted for the support of the National Home shall be made in detail, specifying the several items of expenditure, and separating the cost of food and other supplies in the form usually adopted for the Army, and that this specification be made for each soldiers' home separately. — Act March 3, 1879 880, 000 00 Support of Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1880. — Support and improvement of the Leavenworth military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For pur- chase of subsistence stores, oil, wicking, and fuel for heating and cooking purposes and running machinery, forty-four thousand dollars; for hay for prisoners' beds; for blank books and stationery; for stoves and stove-pipe for use in buildings not heated by steam; for miscellaneous stores, drainage of grounds, disinfectants, and other general purposes, one thousand and forty dollars; for material for clothing for each prisoner on discharge; for payment of five dollars to each prisoner on discharge; for expenses of pur- suing, and payment of rewards for apprehension and delivery of escaped prisoners, three thousand five hundred doUars ; for hose for use in case of fire and for filling cisterns, and for tools and materials in shops, one thou- sand dollars; for tobacco for issue to prisoners on special and excessive hard labor, four hundred dollars; for foreman and engineers, and mechanics and watchmen, and extra-duty pay, seven thousand five hundred dollars ; for extra-duty pay to non-commissioned ofBcers of prison-guard; for extension to prison-shops and repairs to prison-buildings; for new buildings; for con- struction of ice-house, ten thousand dollars; in all, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and forty doUars: Provided, That the Secretary of War shaU cause to be fabricated at the said prison such supplies for the Army as can be economically and properly manufactured at the said prison. — Act March 3, 1879 - - - 67, 440 00 Expenses of Military Convicts, 1880. — For payment of costs and charges of State peniten- tiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, sixteen thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 16, 000 00 Bock Island Bridge, Bock Island, Illinois, 1880.— For recovering Fort Armstrong avenue and the causeway to the Eock Island wagon-bridge with macadam, and for putting a new floor on the Eock Island wagon-bridge, six thousand dollars; for care and preservation of the Eock Island bridge, and expense of main- taining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. 15, 000 00 Construction, Maintenance, and Bepair of Military- Telegraph Lines, 1880.— For the construc- tion and continuing the construction, maintenance, and use of military- J20 DIGEST OP APPKOPEIATIONS. telegrapli lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers and i^*^« ,^«^J;!,^^*' for the connection of military posts and stations, and for the better protec- tion of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, espe- cially in the State of Texas and the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, and the Indian Jewitory fltty thonsand dollars, under the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.— Act March 3, 1879 •-■•-•--■■■-■," ' Uxtmsion of MUitary-Telegraph Lines by way of ^e^/o«*> "^3«^/^^«r' ltf;'^J^^^ sion of the miUtary-telegraph lines from Fort Buford by way of the new post, on the Mnk river, Port Benton, and Fort Shaw to Helena, Dakota Territory, twenty thousand dollars—Act March 3, 1879. That the paragraph in said act [Sundry Civil, March 3, 18791 relating to the extension of the military-telegraph lines from Fort Buford! to Helena, Dakota Territory, be amended so as to read as foUows, namely: "For the extension of the niUi- tary-telegraph hues to Helena, Montana Territory, and the new post on tne Milk river, and such other points as may be necessary, twenty thousand doUars."— Eesolution June 20, 1879 4. • " V " " " "I ' " •-" " ■ :<. 20, 000 00 Extension of Military- Telegraph Unesfrom Port Mlwtt, Texas, 1880.— For the extension^ the mDitary-telegraph lines from Fort EUiott, Texas, westward, twenty- thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. That the paragraph in said act [Sundry Civil, March 3, 1879] relating to the extension of the miLtary-tele- graph Unes from Fort ElUott, Texas, westward, be amended so as to read as foUows, namely: "For the extension of the military-telegraph lines to Fort EUiott, Texas, and westward, as may be necessary, twenty thousand dollars."— Eesolution June 20, 1879 ^■ ' V ■ " ^ 20, 000 00 ifUitary Post at El Paso, Teicas.— That the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereot as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purchase of the neces- sary grounds, and the erection thereon of a military post, at El Paso, Texas, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provided, That before the expenditure of any of the appropriation hereby made, good and suflacient title shall be made to the United States for the land contemplated by this act.— Act February 4, 1879 40, 000 00 Military Post near Pagosa Springs, Colorado.— To enable the Secretary of War to establish a military post in the vicinity of Pagosa Springs, on the left bank of the San Juan river, in the State of Colorado, for the protection of the San Juan country, forty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 40, 000 00 Military Post near Niobrara Biver, Northern Nebraska or Dakota.— Fat the construction of a military post near the Mobrara river in Northern Nebraska or Dakota, at a point to be selected by the General of the Army, with the approval of the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.— Act June 23, 1879 50, 000 00 Military Road from Alamosa, Colorado, to Pagosa Springs.— Fot completion of the military road from Alamosa, Colorado, to Pagosa Springs, ten thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Military Road from Scottsburgh to Gamp Stewart, Oregon. — That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement and repair of the military wagon-road running from Scottsburgh to Camp Stewart, in the State of Oregon ; said money to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Military Road from Ojo Galiente, New Mexico, to Pagosa Springs. — ^For repairing the military road from Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, to Pagosa Springs, five thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Repair of Road between Fortress Monroe and Mill Greek, Virginia. — For the purpose of keep- ing in repair and protection of the road between Fortress Monroe and Mill Creek, Virginia, six thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 6, 500 00 Buildings for Military Headquarters at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. — ^For the purpose of con- structing the necessary buildings, under direction of the Secretary of War, for headquarters of the Department of Dakota, at the military post of Fort Snelling, in the State of Minnesota, in accordance with the estimates of General Charles H. Tompkins, deputy quartermaster-general of the United States Army, chief quartermaster of the Department of Dakota, one hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAiJ MISCELLANEOUS. 121 Rebuilding Officers' Quarters at Madison Barracks, Saclcetfs Sarhor, Ifew York. — For rebuild- ing of eight sets of officers' quarters at Madison Barracks, Sackett's Harbor, jSTew York, destroyed by fire on ISTovember sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, according to plans and specifications in the office of the Quar- termaster-General of the United States, twenty-live thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $25, 000 GO Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, 1880. — United States ArtiUery School at Portress Monroe, Virginia: To provide for text-books, drawing material, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and of artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for the use of the school, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 4, 750 00 Erection of Barracks at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, 1880. — For completion of the United States barrack-buildings at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, thirty-four thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 34, 000 00 Purchase of Cemetery Grounds near Columbus, Ohio. — That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase from the present owners a certain lot of ground, containing two and one-half acres, more or less, situ- ated near the city of Columbus, Ohio, on the site of what was formerly known as Camp Chase, and used by the United States as a burial-place for the rebel prisoners who died while confined in the said Camp Chase (Ohio) military prison; and the sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appro- priated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for this purpose. — Act February 25, 1879 500 00 Horses and other Property lost in the Military Service prior to July 1, 1876. — For horses and other property lost in the military service, fifty-eight thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-one cents, as fully set forth in the above Executive Document, [House, No. 30, Forty-fifth Congress, third session;] to pay William Allen, late sergeant Company E, First Oregon Mounted Volunteers, in Indian war of eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for one horse lost in the military service of the United States, one hundred and fifteen dollars ; to pay William W. Ivory for one horse lost in the military service of the United States, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 58, 462 21 Collecting, Drilling, and Oganizing Volunteers, 1871 and prior years. — For collecting, drill- ing, and organizing volunteers, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety cents.— Act March 3, 1879 - 263 90 Draft and Substitute Fund, 1871 and prior years. — For draft and substitute fund, twenty- four dollars and seventy-two cents. — Act March 3, 1879 24 72 Transportation of Officers and their Baggage, 1871 and prior years. — For transportation of officers and their baggage, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-cents.— Act March 3, 1879 177 90 Travelling Fapenses of California and Nevada Volunteers. — For travelling expenses of Cali- fornia and Nevada volunteers, nine hundred and ninety dollars and sixty- nine cents.— Act March 3, 1879 - - • 990 69 Allowance for Reduction of Wages under the Fight-hour Law. — For allowance for reduction of wages under the eight-hour law, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-one cents.— Act March 3, 1879 224 21 Fxtra Pay to Officers and Men. who served in the Mexican War, Army. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the officers and soldiers " engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico, and who served out the time of their engagement or were honor- ably discharged," the three-months' extra pay provided for by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the limitations con- tained in said act, in all cases, upon the presentation of satisfactory evi- dence that said extra compensation has not been previously received: Pro- vided, That the provisions of this act shall include also the officers, petty officers, seamen, and marines of the United States Navy, the Eevenue- Marine Service, and the officers and soldiers of the United States Army employed in the prosecution of said war. — Act February 19, 1879. Payment to Tennessee for Keeping United States Military Prisoners. — That the proper account- ing officer of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to audit, and, when audited, to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri- 31 D A 122 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. ated, the amount due the State of Tennessee, if any amount is found due for keeping and maintaining United States military prisoners. — ^Act Janu- ary 13, 1879 ; 822,949 49 Beimbursement to Baltimore for Aid in Constructing Defensive WorTcs in 1863. — To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to the city of Baltimore, State of Mary- land, amounts advanced at the request of Major-General E. C. Schenck, dated June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to aid the United States in the construction of works of defence, the accounts to be passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, not to exceed the amounts ex- amined, allowed, and approved by the Secretary of War, a sum not exceed- ing ninety-six thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars is hereby appro- priated out of any monev in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Act March 3, 1879 ": 96, 152 00 B&noving Remains of Wm. JE. English, late Lieutenant Seventh United States Infantry. — The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to remove the remains of the late William E. English, first lieutenant Seventh (7th) United States Infantry, who died at Deer Lodge, Montana, from wounds received at the battle of Big Hole Pass, Bitter Eoot Mountain, August seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to his former home in Jacksonville, Illinois, for final burial, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — Act March 3,1879 300 00 Beimbursement to William Beantor, of Oregon. — To reimburse William Beantor, of Oregon, for moneys taken from him under the rules of the military prison at Fort Alcatraz, OaMfomia, in eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, by First Lieu- tenant William W. Fleming, Twelfth Infantry, and then treasurer of said prison, and which amount was subsequently embezzled by said Fleming, the sum of nine hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 992 67 Belief of John J. Manuel and Daughters, of Idaho. — Whereas John J. Manuel, of White Bird, Idaho county, Idaho Territory, was twice wounded and permanently disabled by the Nez Perce Indians on the fourteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and his wife and infant child killed about the same time, and an infant daughter of seven years twice wounded, and his property almost wholly burned and destroyed, leaving him and his infant daughters, Maggie and Julia, aged respectively seven and ten years, without means of sup- port; and whereas the mother of said John J. Manuel resides at Flint HiU, Saint Charles county, Missouri, and the said Manuel is desirous of being removed to said Flint Hill, that himself and daughters may have the care and attention of his mother: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and Souse of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby empowered and directed to furnish military transportation to said John J. Manuel and his two daughters from Camp Howard, Idaho Territory, to Saint Charles, in the State of Missouri; and the sum of two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required for that purpose, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of the Secre- tary of War, for that purpose.— Eesolution January 31, 1879 200 00 Belief of James Clift, late Captain Fifth Tennessee Cavalry. — That the Paymaster-General of the United States Army be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to James Clift, late a captain in the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the full amount of pay and emolu- ments as a first lieutenant of cavalry commanding company, from the nine- teenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the date of his commission as captain of a company of Mounted Guards from Andrew John- son, mihtary governor of Tennessee, to the twenty-sixth day of March eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date of his muster into the Fifth Ten- nessee Cavalry, the same being for actual services rendered in the field — Act February 15, 1879 * ,-r.o po Belief of the Bichmond Female Institute of Bichmond, Yirginia.—Th&t the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and are hereby, directed to pav to the treasurer of the Eichmond Female Institute of the city of Eichmcmd in the State of Virginia, the sum of four thousand nine hundred and thir'tv three dollars and thirty-three cents, in fuU payment and satisfaction for the MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT — WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 123 rent, use, and occupation of its buildings by tlie Army of tlie United States from October first, eighteen hundred and sixty-iive, to October tenth, eigh- teen hundred and sixty-six, all claims for injuries or damages being satis- fled by the acceptance of said sum; and to enable sach payment to be made, the said sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose. — Act February 26, 1879 - $4, 933 33 Belief of John A. Shaw. — That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to place the name of John A. Shaw on the roUs as first lieutenant of Company G, One hundred and twenty-second Eegiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as of the date of Ifovember eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty -four, and with the same force and effect as if said John A. Shaw had been duly mus- tered into service as such first lieutenant on said eighteenth day of lifovember, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Sec. 2. That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department is authorized and directed to pay to said John A. Shaw the pay and allowances of first lieutenant of infantry from said eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the twenty- second day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty -five, less any pay and allow- ances, or either, already received by him for such period. — ^Act February 27, 1879 309 12 Belief of the Legal Bepresentatives of John W. Oall, deceased. — That the Secretary of War and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized and directed to recognize the military service of John W. G-aU, deceased, late of the One hundred and thirtieth Eegiment Illinois Volunteers, as an officer of said regiment; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the legal representatives of the said John W. Gall, deceased, the pay and allowances of a second Meutenant of infantry from March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the pay and allowances of a first lieutenant of infantry from February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty -four, to January twenty- fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, deducting therefrom the amount of pay received by the said John W. Gall, deceased, as a private soldier or non-commissioned officer of said regiment for the period above named. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 077 97 Belief of S. M. Billingsley. — That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and are hereby authorised and directed to pay to H. M. Billingsley the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant of cavalry from November twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the pay and allowances of a first lieutenant from the twen- tieth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the sixteenth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the pay and allowances of a captain from May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the date of his muster out of service, deducting therefrom any pay that he may have received as a non-commissioned officer or private in said company. — Act March3,1879 865 74 Belief of Personal Bepresentative ofM. 0. Sarman, of Virginia. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the personal representative of the late M. G. Harman, of Virginia, the sum of three hundred and fifty -four dollars for the rent, by contract, of stables at Fredericksburg, Virginia, for the use of the Union Army.— Act March 3, 1879 354 00 Belief of Martin GlarTc. — That Martin Clark, late first lieutenant in the Twelfth New York Volunteer Cavalry, be, and he is hereby, relieved from all the penalties and effects of the general orders which dismissed him from the service of the United States; the first dismissing him from service whUe second lieutenant in the Twenty-first New Tork Volunteers ; the second revoking his musters-in as second and first lieutenant of the Twelfth New York Volunteer Cavalry; and he is hereby restored to all the rights and privileges he would be entitled to had not such orders been issued and enforced, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to honorably discharge the said Martin Clark the service as of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay to the said Martin Clark, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the fuU amount of 124 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. pay and emoluments due the said Clark, and still remaining unpaid, for the time he actually served as second or first lieutenant in the Army. ISTothing herein shall be construed to allow pay for any period when the said Martin Clark was not in actual service. — ^Act March 3, 1879 $454 33 Relief of Charles H. Mosely. — That the accounting ofScers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to allow and cause to be paid to Charles H. Mosely, a second lieutenant of Company K, Forty-seventh Kentucky Yol- unteer Infantry, (mounted,) the pay of a second lieutenant for the time served as such second lieutenant by the said Mosely between the date of his com- mission and the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or the date from which he received pay as such second lieutenant, without regard to the date of his muster into service as second lieutenant of the company and regiment aforesaid, deducting any sum that he may have received as the pay of a non-commissioned ofiQcer or private for the same period.— Act March 3, 1879. Belief of James M. Beeber. — That James M. Beeber, of Eochester, in the State of Indiana, be, and he is hereby, declared entitled to the full pay of captain of infantry volunteers, and such allowances as attach and belong to said rank, from the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five ; and the proper accounting officer is hereby directed to pay the same, out of any money in treasury not otherwise appropriated, after deducting from said amount whatever pay he may have received as first sergeant of Company D, Seventy-third Eegiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for services between said dates. — Act March 3,1879 915 6S Belief of Thomas B. Alexander, of Illinois. — That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Thomas E. Alexander, late lieutenant Company F, Eightieth Eegiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the pay and allowance of first lieutenant of infantry commanding company, from the first day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, until the nineteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, after first deducting all pay and allowances received by the said Thomas E. Alexander.— Act March 3, 1879 g^y gj Belief of D. W. McClvng, of Woodsdale, Ohio — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the treasury not oth- erwise appropriated, to pay to D. W. McClung, of Woodsdale, Butler county, Ohio, late a captain and assistant quartermaster of United States volun- teers, the amount of pay and allowances of a regimental quartermaster from the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to the twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two Act March 3, -Lo *y . , 1 QOJ. 7 ^v Belief of William Johnson and John B. Francis, of Edgar County, 'illiMois'.—'ihB.t the Secre- ' tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay ! -rfr"n? ^^ ^'^^ thousaud four hundred and forty dollars and ninety cents to William Johnson and John E. Francis, of Edgar county, Illinois, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise oppropriated— the same to be in full compensation for all property taken from or furnished by them, or either ot them, to or by the United States miUtary authorites during the war.— Act Relief of Thomas J sigar.-Th&t the" Secretary of War' be, and'he is hereby," authorized ^' ^^ ^^ and directed to place the name of Thomas W. Segar on the roUs of Com pany D, Eightieth Eegiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a second lieu- tenant, and his muster into service as such, heretofore made, to date from the eighth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and that the proper officers of the War and Treasury Departments are hereby authorized to pay to the said Thomas W. Segar the difference between the pay of a sergeant of infantry and a second lieutenant from October eighth, eighteen Belief of Henry EWilki^ason.-Th^t the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is herebv authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasur? not other- wise appropnated,.to Henry E.Wilkinson, late first lieutenant of Com- MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 125 pany I, Ninety-ninth Eegiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, the sum of four hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty cents, being the amount justly due him as first lieutenant from September first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for which time he has never received any pay or other allowance. — Act March 1, 1879 ; $414 20 Relief of Ann Annis, Widow of Harvey Annis.—Th&t the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Ann Annis, widow of Harvey Annis, late second lieutenant Company G-, Fifty-first Eegiment of United States Col- ored Infantry, the sum of two hundred and thirty -five dollars for arrears of pay due said Harvey Annis, as said second lieutenant, from February twenty- third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.— Act March 1, 1879 235 00 Relief of John T. NeaU.—Thskt the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, author- ized and directed to pay unto John T. Neale, late an employ^ of Brigadier General Andrew Porter, provost-marshal of the District of Columbia, (by whom said John T. Neale was assigned to duty as a special-detective police- oflQcer, and sustained an injury, while engaged in said service, which resulted in making him a cripple for life,) out of any moneys in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal in amount to that which he would have been entitled to had said John T. Neale been an enlisted man in the Army, for a permanent specific disability, to wit, the loss of one leg below the knee- joint; and that said amount be computed in accordance with the present allowance for such disability, to date from the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. — Act March 1, 1879 3, 922 80 [This item belongs under "Treasury Miscellaneous."] Relief of James D. Salman, of Oregon. — That, out of any moneys in the treasury not other- wise appropriated, there be paid, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to James D. Holman, of Oregon, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, in full for the value of his improvements taken by the United States and included within the military reservation at Cape Disappointment, in Washington Territory ; this to be in full of all claims for compensation and damages arising out of the appropriation of petitioner's property by the United States. — Act March 1, 1879 25, 000 00 Relief of Leonard L. Lancaster, late Sergeant Second Wisconsin Cavalry Volunteers. — That Leonard L. Lancaster, late sergeant Company L, SecondEegiment Cavalry, Wisconsin Volunteers, be paid, out of any moneys in the treasury not other- wise appropriated, full pay and allowances that would have been due him, provided the charge of mutiny had not been preferred, he having been hon- orably discharged on the twenty-third day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, at Detroit, Michigan. — Act March 1, 1879 507 42 AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to examine the evidence of payments made by the State of Missouri since April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the officers and privates of the militia forces of said State, for military services actu- ally performed in the suppression of the rebellion, in full concert and co-operation with the authorities of the United States, and subject to their orders, and to make report thereof to Congress. Whereas it is claimed by the State of Missouri that, at the time of the reimbursement of said State under and by virtue of the act of Congress entitled "An act to reimburse the State of Missouri for moneys expended for the United States in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning militia forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion," approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, there still remained a large amount due to the offi- cers and privates of said militia forces, which had not then been paid by said State, and was not therefore included in said reimbursements, and that said State has since paid said amount to said officers and privates of said militia forces, and has never been reimbursed: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to investigate, consider, and examine the evidence, vouchers, and records relating to the payments claimed to have 32 D A 126 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. been made by the State of Missouri since the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the officers and privates of the militia forces of said State, for military services actually performed in the suppres- sion of the rebellion, in full concert and co-operation with the authorities of the United States, and subject to their orders, which are now on file m his Department, and which may be filed by said State, or its agent or agents, and to report to Congress at the earliest practicable time the results of such investigation and examination, and the amount or amounts, if any, which shall appear to be justly due to said State for such payments made since April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, January 27, 1879. That upon the request of the head of any Department, the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue arms and ammu- nition whenever they may be required for the protection of the public money and property, and they may be delivered to any oflftcer of the Depart- ment designated by the head of such Department, to be accounted for to the Secretary of War, and to be returned when the necessity for their use has expired. Arms and ammunition heretofore furnished to any Depart- ment by the War Department, for which the War Department has not been reimbursed, may be receipted for under the provisions of this act. — Act March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of George Williams, deceased. Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to adjust and settle, upon just and equitable terms, the claim of George Williams for balance due for building locks two, three, and four of Muscle Shoals Canal on Tennessee river, and on a contract for section- work, done under power of attorney from Matthew G. Kennedy: Provided, That in making said settlement the said Secretary of War shall not allow the legal representatives of said George Williams, deceased, more than his actual expenditures, with reasonable compensation for the use of tools, and for money advanced in the prosecution of said work: And pro- vided further. That no allowance or payment shall be made under this act except in pursuance of a recommendation of a board of not less than three engineers to be appointed by the Secretary of War to inquire into and re- port upon the character and value of the work done and the merits of the claim. Approved, January 13, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of William M. KendaU. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be paid to William M. Kendall, of Plymouth, in the State of Indiana, who was commissioned by the governor of said State on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty- four, major in the Seventy-third Eegiment Indiana Volunteers, vice Alfred ■ B. Wade, promoted, the pay and allowances of a major from said date until the sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, when he was mustered in as such major, he having been a prisoner of war in the inter- val, deducting therefrom whatever pay and allowances he received as a captain for the same period; and said payment shall be made from any money appropriated for the pay of the Army. Approved, January 27, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of Second Lieutenant Thomas T. Knox, regimental quartermaster First Cavalry. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re/presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the proper accounting officers in the Quartermaster's department of the United States Army be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow Second Lieutenant Thomas T MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAE MISCELLANEOUS. 127 Knox, regimental quartermaster First Cavalry United States Army, a credit upon settlement of Ms accounts for the sum of one hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents, the amount claimed to have been stolen from his safe, and being moneys received by him for sale of subsistence stores. Approved, March 1, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of Antirew Ivory. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Paymaster-General of the United States Army is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Andrew Ivory, late of Company — , Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves Volunteer Corps, the fall pay and emoluments of a second lieutenant from the date he was commissioned as such by the Governor of Pennsylvania to the date of his discharge, deducting therefrom all pay received by him from the Gov- ernment as sergeant for that period. Approved, March 1, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of William H. Carmen. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid, out of any money heretofore appropriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, for the sup- port of the Army, to William H. Carmen, late a private in Company E, Thirty-second Eegiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the pay and proper allowances of a private soldier, from the tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, deducting therefrom any pay that he may have received during that time. Approved, March 1, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of A. P. Rockwell, aide-de-camp on the staff of General Buell. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to recognize A. P. Rockwell as first lieutenant and aide-de-camp from the twenty-sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three — this to complete his record for service rendered, and authorize the accounting offtcers of the Treasury to admit the accounts on which he has been paid for the period embraced between said dates. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of the sureties, and so forth, of Samuel M. Reynolds, late additional paymaster of United States Volunteers. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of James M. Rey- nolds and A. Wilhelm, surviving administrator de bonis non of Robert W. Coleman, deceased, sureties upon the ofilcial bond of Major Samuel M. Reynolds, late additional paymaster of United States Volunteers, for the re- funding by the Government of the amount of the judgment recovered against them in the United States district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, on or about June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and paid by them, and the claim of said Major Samuel M. Reynolds for release from liability on his oflcial bond as paymaster of United States Vol- unteers, to the amount of said judgment, on account of the loss by an alleged larceny from him of Government funds, on or about December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be, and the same are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction to hear and determine said claims, if presented within six months from the passage of this act, and the same shall be adjudged upon their merits; and said claimants and the United States shall have the right to use, as competent evidence before the said court, any records and oflcial reports on fileia the War or Treasury Department in relation to said loss, and claims for allowance arising there- 128 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. from, and any additional testimony relevant to the same; and if said court shall be satisfied from the evidence that it is just and equitable, it shall render judgment in favor of said claimants upon the said respective claims: Provided, That no such judgment in favor of said sureties and their repre- sentative shall include costs or exceed the amount of money lost by said Samuel M. Eeynolds, with the interest paid thereon by said sureties. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of War to place upon the rolls of Company H, Ninth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, the name of William S. Massie. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause the name of William S. Massie to be placed on the rolls of Company H, Ninth Eegiment of West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, as of the date of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and that he be entitled to receive aU pay, bounties, commu- tations of rations and clothing, and other emoluments of said service, as were paid to, or received by, other privates of said company, from said eighteenth day of August to the twenty-fifth day of October, eighteen hun- dred and sixty -two, deducting therefrom any and all sums of money, rations^ or clothing he may have heretofore received on account of said service. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of Elias B. Bell, late priyate of Company E, Third Regiment West Virginia Cavalry. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to correct the record of Elias B. Bell, late private of Company E, Third Eegiment West Virginia Cavalry, so as to remove the charge of desertion now standing against his name, and issue to him an honorable discharge, dated of the muster-out of his regiment, June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and that he be allowed and paid any arrears of pay and bounty found due him upon the settlement of his accounts by the accounting officers of the Government. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Richard Stevenson, late assistant quartermaster of volunteers, and his bondsmen. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the heirs and legal representa- tives of Eichard Stevenson, late an assistant quartermaster of volunteers and his official sureties or bondsmen, are hereby released from any liability to the United States on account of any moneys or property received or dis- bursed by said Eichard Stevenson as such quartermaster; and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby directed to close all accounts of said Eichard Stevenson as such quartermaster, in accord- ance with the intent of this act. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of William H. H. Baldwin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the charge of desertion resting upon the military record of WUliam H. H. Baldwin, late private in Coni- pany K, Sixteenth Eegiment of Kansas Volunteers, be, and the same is hereby, removed, and the said William H. H. Baldwin shaH be entitled to receive aU back pay and such bounties as though he had never 4eft his. command. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of James A. Hile, of Lewis county, Missouri. Be it enacted by the SenaU and House of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That the Secretary of War be and MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 129 is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to said James A. Hile, of Lewis county, Missouri, late a soldier of Company F, Twenty-flrst Eegiment of Missouri Infantry Vohinteers, an honorable discharge from the service, and to so amend the records and muster-rolls of the War Department as to show that he is no deserter; the said James A. Hile to be entitled to all pay and bounty as other soldiers of his rank and arm of service, deducting the time of his absence. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT to amend section one, page two hundred and thirty-four, volume twenty, of the United States Statutes-at-Large, Forty-fifth Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section one, page two hundred and thirty-four of the twentieth volume of the United States Statutes-at-Large, passed at the Forty-fifth Congress and approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as relates to the steamer "B. P. Cheney," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, June 30, 1879. Claims for Quartermaster's Stores and Commissary Supplies, {Act July i, 1864.) — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise apppropriated, to the several persons in this act named, the several sums mentioned herein, the same being in full for, and the receipt of the same to be taken and accepted in each case as a full and final discharge of, the several claims examined and allowed by the proper accounting officers, under the pro- visions of the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, since January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, namely : OF THE STATE OP CAIIFOENIA. To John Glenn, one hundred and fifty dollars ; to Mrs. W. D. Senter, widow, three hundred and fifty dollars. OP THE STATE OF INDIANA. To Catharine Cameron, widow of Eobert Cameron, deceased, one hun- dred and thirty dollars ; to Hiram Laboyteaux, two hundred and twenty-two dollars ; to Sylvanus Lewis, thirty-five dollars. OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. To Thomas Merrell, one hundred and thirty dollars. OP THE STATE OF IOWA. To John Courtney, twenty dollars. OF THE STATE OF KBNTtJOKT. -To John L. Atkins, one hundred and fifty dollars] to Silas Anderson, seventy-five dollars; to Meredith Arthur, one hundred and thirty dollars ; to W. J. AUen, one hundred and thirty dollars ; to Milton Beard, seventy-seven dollars ■ to P. C. Berry, forty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents ; to Felix Bruce, one hundred and fifteen dollars ; to Henry C. Brooks, administrator of Tol- bert Bowman, deceased, two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents ; to A. P. and Kesiah Bonyssion, twenty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents ; to James C. Brooks, four hundred and forty -eight dollars ; to Telford I«r. Bruner, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to James K. Blackburn, one hundred and forty-five dollars ; to Mathew A. Branstetter, one hundred and forty dollars ; to William B. Baker, fifty-one dollars; to Enoch Bird, fifteen dollars; to John P. Bishop, administrator of B. C. and B. Smith, deceased, four hun- dred and fifty dollars; to James Batts, one hundred and fifty dollars; to 33 d A 130 DIGEST OF APPKOPEIATIONS. James M. Beall, forty-three dollars; to George M. Beardon, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to Thomas A. Brantley, one hundred and forty dollars; to Joel Blackwell, one hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Joseph Brown, ninety- five dollars; to W. S. Buckner, three hundred and fifty dollars; to Charles J. Galloway, one hundred dollars; to William Campbell, six hundred and thirty dollars; to James T. Carman, one hundred and fifty dollars; to R. M. Cheek, administrator of Elizabeth Cheek, twenty -five dollars; to Silas H. Clark, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; to William F. Coflfey, seventy- five dollars; to J. W. Cirils, administrator of Henry Beatty, deceased, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Jonathan Clark, nine hundred and forty dol- lars; to Samuel Combs, ten dollars; to John W. Card well, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars; to W. H. Crump, (estates one hundred dollars; to George W. Dickey, three hundred dollars; to B. F. Davis, eighty dollars; to Thomas Dawson, seven hundred and forty-seven dollars; to T. E. Estes, one hundred and fifty dollars; to W. W. Evans, one thousand one hundred and five dollars; to E. T. Ellison, administrator of Polly Ellison, deceased, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Francis T. Eve, thirty dollars; to W. T. Evans, administrator of L. A. Williams, deceased, seven hundred and ninety-five dollars; to W. H. Everett, one hundred and thirty dollars; to L. M. Flournoy, one hundred and forty doUars; to Cathe- rine Feland, widow of Major Feland, deceased, one hundred and twenty- five doUars; to John S. Foster, one hundred and thirty dollars; to ITancy Foster, fifty -five dollars; to Jesse Fuqua, two hundred and sixty -two dollars and fifty cents; to James W. Francis, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Amos M. Goodman, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety cents; to William M. Green, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Ira Green, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Sarah A. Gray, executrix of WUliam J. Gray, deceased, twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; to William M. Green, administrator of Joel Green, deceased, one hundred and thirty dol- lars; to W. E. Guess, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Tyre Gibson, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; to Willie B. Galloway, administrator of Henry Bowhannon, sixty-five dollars; to Eichard Gregory, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Mmrod H. Grigsby, one hundred and thirty five dollars; to Thomas Hinkson, three hundred and forty dollars; to Benjamin Haman, one hundred and two dollars and thirty-seven cents; to George W. Huff- man, eighty dollars; to John Hugley, one hundred and forty dollars; to James Haggard, administrator of William l^Torris, deceased, ninety dollars; to James Haggard, administrator of William Huff, deceased, one hundi-ed dollars; to James Haggard, administrator of John H. Walthall, deceased, one hundred dollars; to James Haggard, administrator of Alexander James, deceased, one hundred and seventy dollars; to Samuel A. C. Houchens, eighty-five doUars; to John W. Hutcheson, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Thomas G. Hays, one hundred and fifty doUars; to James Hag- gard, administrator of Zebulon Forris, deceased, three hundred doUars; to W. E. Helsley, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to WUliam P. Hughes, one hundred and fifty doUars; to Eobert H. Haskins, administrator of Webster Wheeler, deceased, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-nine cents; to H. Hopson, one hundred and forty dollars; to W. F. Handy, sixty-five doUars; to P. B. Hawkins, two hundred and five dollars; to Patrick Harlein, twenty-five dollars; to John F.Hopkins one hundred and forty doUars; to E. P. Jacobs, administrator of Taylor Sevier deceased, five hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty cents; to Adaline Jackson, thirty dollars; to Nathan Jacobs, two hundred dollars; to Edward B. Jones, one hundred and forty doUars; to H. F. Jennings, one hundred and twenty -five doUars; to Thomas S. Jones, one hundred and twenty-five doUars; to Hiram J. Jones, thirty-one dollars and eighty cents; to C. S Jones, administrator of James M. Waggoner, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to K. Jameson, two thousand seven hundred and sev- enty-six doUars and three cents; to George E. Jones, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Henry Krupp, four hundred and fifty doUars; to Ambrose Kirt- ley, one thousand two hundred and forty-five doUars; to Isaiah Knight one hundred and thirty dollars; to Charles K. Kirkland, three hundred and five dollars and fifty cents; to Gideon King, three hundred and thirty-two dol- MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 131 lars and oighty cents; to Iredell H. King, forty-five dollars; to Henderson King, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to James S. Lampton, sixty -four dollars and twenty -two cents; to Boaz Logsdon, four hundred and seven dollars and sixty cents; to NatLafou, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents; to Lindsey Layne, five hundred dollars; to William H. Lamkin, administrator of W. W. Wilson, deceased, one hundred dollars ; to P. M. Langston, two hundred and fifty dollars ; to John E. Mercer, one hundred and thirty -five dollars; to W. C. L. Moore, administrator of Alfred Moore, deceased, seven hundred and sixty -five dollars; to Peter Meredith, one hundred and thirty dollars; to James P. McCallum, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Isaac Mclsaac, sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Frederick Meredith and Bradley Meredith, deceased es- tate, two hundred and five dollars; to George H. Milliken, administrator of Gustavus Hendricks, deceased, one hundred dollars; to John H. Mallory and E. W. Carson, administrators of E. T. Mallory, junior, deceased, three hundred and sixty-two dollars; to James and J. T. Miller, one hundred and forty dollars; to William M. Northrip, administrator of W. G. Galbart, deceased, two hundred dollars; to Lance Kewcum, ninety dollars; to King D. Mcholl, one thousand and eighteen dollars; to E. M. Nelson, one hun- dred and forty dollars; to James H. Neely, forty dollars; to Thomas L. S. Proctor, three hundred dollars and seventy-six cents ; to Joseph A. Petty, one hundred and fifty dollars; to J. B. Poison, nine dollars and sixty cents; to J. B. Poison, thirteen dollars and eighty cents; to Joseph Parker, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John Purcell, two hundred and twenty dollars; to John Pursell, one hundred and forty -nine dollars; to John Pond, eighty dollars; to Nathaniel Polsgrove, administrator of Jacob Polsgrove, deceased, one hundred and forty dollars; to Joseph Eains, ninety dollars; to William Eoberts, (estate of,) one hundred and seventy-one dollars; to Azariah Eice, one hundred and twenty -five dollars; to James T. Eobinson, one hundred and fifty doUars; to W. T. Smedley, one hundred and twenty dollars; to William M. Smith, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Francis A. Smith, one thousand and seventy-eight dollars and seventy -five cents; to William L. Shanks, four hundred dollars; to William Shadowen, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents ; to Charles I. Sechrest, one hundred and fifty dollars; to J. H. Sagerser, administrator of Jefferson Sagerser, deceased, two hundred and sixty -two dollars and fifty cents; to A. E. Scott, six hundred and ten dollars; to Cynthia Simrall, executrix, and James Y. Harbison, executor of James Simrall, deceased, two hundred and twenty dollars; to W. N. Smith, eighty-five dollars; to Mary J. Sewell, nine hundred dollars; to Wilham E. Smith, one hundred dollars; to A. J. Singleton, two hundred dollars and fifty cents; to James Stone, one hun- dred and three dollars; to Isabell Shouse, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to T. T. Settle, administrator of Miller Woodson, deceased, four hundred dollars; to F. M. Thomas, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John E. Tabb, administrator of Joel B. Tabb, deceased, three hundred and sixty dollars; to James M. Titherington, administrator of E. W. Titherington, deceased, four hundred dollars; to A. D. Turner, thirty dollars and sixty- six cents; to J. H. Wood, two hundred and forty-five dollars; to Washing- ton G. Wright, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents ; to E. L. Wintersmith, one hundred and fifty dollars; to James Walsh, seven hundred and eighty dollars; to Miuerva WUkerson, administratrix of S. S. Wilkerson, deceased, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; to John Q. Ward, executor of Marcus L. Broadwell, deceased, one hundred and fifty dollars; to W. B. Wyatt, two hundred dollars; to John B. Want- land, one hundred and fifty dollars; to George Wright, one hundred and eight dollars; to George W. Williams, two hundred and sixty-two dollars. OP THE STATE OF MAEYLAJSfD. To Martin Adams, administrator of Urias Pasnacht, deceased, one hun- dred and thirty-five dollars; to Joshua Ahalt, six dollars; to A. E. Ander- son, sixty dollars; to J. C. Ankeney, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents; to John Alexander, one hundred and eighty-three dol- 132 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. lars and twenty cents ; to Ellen Anderson, one hundred and seventeen dol- lars and sixty cents ; to Joseph Bomberger, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to John H. Baker, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Henry A. Butler, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty cents; to William Booth, admin- istrator of Margaret Booth, deceased, eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents; to William Booth, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to John Brown, eighty -nine dollars and thirty-seven cents; to George H. C. Bentz, three hundred and seventy-two dollars; to M. C. Beall, thirty-four dollars and ninety-two cents; to James N. Benton, three hundred and forty- one dollars; to Harriet Baker, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Jonas Beachley, twelve dollars; to Samuel Bossard, eight dollars and forty cents; to Peter H. Bussard, thirty- two dollars; to James Brown, two hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty cents; to Benjamin F. Ball, seventy-eight dollars; to Basil L. Bean, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars; to John H. Beakley, sixty-six dollars; to G. W. Burkhart, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents ; to Eli Burross, nineteen dollars and fifty-six cents ; to Eebecca Bridges, thirty-fourdollars and fifty cents; to David Ooffman, seventy dollars; to Henry Coblentz, of J., ninety dollars and fifty cents ; to Ann Connell, five hundred and four dollars and forty cents; to John E. W. and William I. Cox, one hundred and twelve dollars; to Susan Creager, two dollars; to James Oondy, fifty-two dollars and twenty-two cents; to Moses Cox, four hundred and fifteen dollars; to Nathan Cooke, three hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-six cents; to Simon Coffman, seventy dollars; to Joseph L. Olopper, two hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-six cents; to David Dinsmore, one hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents; to Daniel Dunn, four hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Peter Dudderer, sev- enty-four dollars ; Elijah Enser, one hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty cents; and Jesse Clary, two hundred dollars; to Jacob Dorcas, two hundred and ninety-five dollars and eighty-two cents; to Michael Donohoo, one hun- dred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents ; to George A. Davis, administrator of Abraham Briscoe, deceased, one hundred and forty dollars ; to William Dellinger, two hundred and sixty -nine dollars and ten cents; to Daniel E. Doud, administrator of Jonathan Doud, deceased, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents; to Elizabeth Duffy, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents; to William Davis, seventy dollars; to Henry S. Eavey, ninety dollars; to Daniel Emmert, seventy-five dollars ; to George Bakle, four hundred and eighty-five dollars; to John W. and Jacob Bcker, executors of John Ecker, deceased, two hundred and six dol- lars and fifty cents ; to Upton Emmerson, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and sixty-two cents; to Lewis P. and John S. Fiery, executors of Henry Fiery, deceased, one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ; to H. E. Friend and Jane E. James, three hundred and fifty dollars ; to Wil- liam Geeting, three hundred and four dollars and fifty cents; to John T. Gray, one hundred and eighty -nine dollars ; to Ann Guisburt, fifteen dollars ; to Daniel Gladhill, eighty dollars; to John H. Gatrell, three hundred dol- lars; to Eli H. Hyatt, fifty-two dollars; to Charles Hooper, eighty-five dollars and fifty cents; to Jacob Hauck, one hundred and five dollars; to Walter Hilton, sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ; to Alexander L. Horner five hundred and twenty-four dollars; to William T. Hardesty, twenty dollars; to Daniel Hendrickson, fifty-five dollars and twenty cents; to David Huffer, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Hilleary T. Hig- gins, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents ; to William Itneyer, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents: to Joshua Jones, three doUars and sixty cents; to Mary J. Johnson, one hun- dred and thirty-three dollars; to Nancy Johnson, three hundred and forty- three dollars and twenty-five cents; to William Jones, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-six cents; to the estate of William T. Johnson four hundred and thirty-four dollars; to EUas TJ. Knode, fifty dollars- to George W., 0. M., and Thomas J. Keedy, executors of John J. Keedy deceased, sixty-nine dollars; to John G. Kinsey, ninety-nine dollars- to George Kemp, one hundred and thirty-five doUars; to John Kunkle'one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty cents ; to John W. Koogle' and George L. Eoulzahn, administrators of Daniel Sheffer, deceased, fifty-nine MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 133 dollars; to Charles H. Keller, forty- three dollars and forty cents; to John H. Lakin, one hundred and thirty-two dollars; to James Larmon, forty dol- lars; to John Loats, eight hundred and seventy dollars and ninety-five cents ; to Heury Landis, one hundred and seventy- two dollars and six cents ; to Thomas J. Lamar, executor of William B. Lamar, deceased, fifty-three dollars ; to John Lapole, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; to Joseph Light, ten dollars and fifty cents ; to George T. McKee, four hundred and seventy- five dollars and thirty -five cents; to Peter Middlekauff, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to William Matthews, one hundred and five dollars; to Wil- liam Mullican, four hundred and fifty-six dollars ; to James E., Mary E., and Laura V. Marriott, five hundred and three dollars and sixty-three cents; to Walter W. Millstead, one hundred dollars ; to Susan and Martin L. Middle- kauff, executrix and executor of Peter Middlekauff, deceased, thirteen dol- lars ; to Michael Miller, three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and sixty-cents ; to Jacob A. Myers, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Michael Newcumer, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty cents; to Jacob Mcodemus, thirty-eight dollars and eighty cents; to John Nikirk, seven hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety cents; to Conrad Mcodemus, forty-five dollars; to John Mcodemus, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars ; to Sophia l>rorris, fifteen dollars and five cents ; to Joshua Newcomer, junior, forty- five dollars; to John Nicodemus, one hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy cents ; to Joseph O'Neal, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy cents; to Elbert Perry, thirty-six dollars; to Thomas H. Price, administrator of Mary E. Price, deceased, fifty dollars ; to Henry A. Pumphrey, six hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents ; to Thomas Picking, one hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents; to John Eeifsnider, surviving partner of firm of Anders & Eeifsnider, one hundred and forty-nine dollars ; to William H. Eice, two hundred and fifty- two dollars; to Joseph Eoderick, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-two cents ; to Elizabeth Eickett, one hundred and sixty dollars ; to George W. Eoderick, one hundred and fifty-six dollars ; to Daniel G. and David W. Eowland, executors of Jonas Eowland, deceased, one hundred and twenty dollars; to John W. Eyan, eight dollars; to Joseph Eenehan, four hundred and nineteen dollars ; to Noah Eohrback, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents ; to Otho Eiley, thirty-seven dollars ; to Elias Snively, executor of John Eussell, deceased, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and eighty-seven cents; to Mrs. M. E. Schley, eighty- two dollars; to John Shifler, three dollars and sixty cents; to Otho and Alfred Showman, executors of Kesia Showman, deceased, two hundred and five dollars and seventy- three cents; to Otho and Alfred Showman (in their own right) and administrators of Ealeigh Showman, deceased, one thousand four hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-four cents ; to William P. Smith, six hundred and eight dollars; to Henry Stokes, seventy- five dollars; to Jonathan Slifer, four hundred and sixteen dollars; to Dan- iel Smith, of J., one hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty cents ; to Hiram B. Snively, executor of George Snively, deceased, one hundred and fifty dollars ; to Ezra J. Snyder, ninety -four dollars and twenty cents ; to Martin Speck, seventeen dollars ; to Sarah Smeltzer, three hundred and eighty-four dollars and thirty-seven cents ; to Noble Stonestreet, twenty dol- lars; to Daniel Smith, of J., one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to William Sultzer, forty-five dollars; to Jonas Speilman, three hundred and thirty dollars ; to Joseph Thomas, and Joseph Thomas, executor of Michael Thomas, deceased, three hundred and forty-one dollars and forty cents ; to Josiah Toms, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Lewis E. Thomas, twenty- four dollars ; to Lewis E. Thomas, sixty-one dollars and twenty-five cents ; to John Troxel, twenty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents; to Edward Trail, four hundred and eleven dollars ; to Michael Tenant, formerly the husband of Catherine Tenant, deceased, one hundred and seven dollars and ten cents; to William F. linger, twenty-nine dollars and forty cents; to Frederick Unger, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to John White, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars; to Anthony Wivel, three hundred dol- lars; to William W. Wenner, administrator of Joseph Waltman, deceased, two thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-five cents; to Ed- 34 D A 134 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. win Wairfleld, three hundred and four dollars and six cents; to Ezra Wil- lard, trustee of William T. and Mary G. Willard, eight hundred and eighty- eight dollars and forty cents ; to Eobert Wilson, ninety dollars; to Jacob Wirtz. twenty-one dollars; to Joshua Wyand, one hundred and forty -three dollars ; to Joseph White, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents ; to Eichard Williams, three hundred and eighty-three dollars; to David Young, sixty-seven dollars and twenty cents; to E. D. and Horace Zimmer- man, executors of J. Zimmerman, of J., deceased, two hundred and ninety- two dollars and fifty cents; to David A. Zeigler, nine hundred and five dollars and fifty-seven cents; to Joseph Zettle, twelve dollars and fifty cents; to Jacob Zimmerman, ninety -nine dollars. OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. To A. B. Blankenship, administrator of John Sigler, deceased, fifteen dollars; to Joel Broyles, thirty dollars; to William H. Bradshaw, guardian of the minor heirs of Mary Ann Bradshaw, deceased, forty dollars; to Louis Benecke, one hundred and fifty dollars; to John D. Burkhart, two hundred and sixty dollars; to George W. Burgess, one thousand dollars; to Prior Bradley, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Peter Brooks, one hundred and fifty doUars; to Isaiah Clifton, administrator of Liberty Clifton, deceased, seventy-one dollars and eighty-two cents; to Simpson B. Cary, forty- two dollars; to Elizabeth Clinton, one hundred and ten dollars; to John P. Cobey, four hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Moses S. Courtright, thirty dollars; to George Creson, four hundred and sixty-five dollars; to John J. •Campbell, one hundred dollars; to Thomas W. Clagett and Mont- gomery Clagett, administrators of Oratio Clagett, deceased, one thousand one hundred and eighteen doUars and eighty-one cents; to Julia A. Crum- bliss, one hundred and sixty dollars ; to William M. Cary, ninety-six dollars ; to Charles Denney, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents; to John M. Dunivin, one hundred dollars; to Thomas Evans, two hundred and thirty dollars; to Oswell T. EUis, seven hundred and forty dollars ; to James T. Puller, eighty dollars ; to Narcissus Porrester, execu- trix of the estate of William Porrester, deceased, two hundred and thirty dollars ; to John C. G. Goodwin, one thousand six hundred and fifteen dol- lars; to Ambers Graham, four hundred and forty-eight dollars; to Daniel Graham, forty dollars; to M. W. Greene, two hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty -five cents; to Sylvester Hillbriant, two hundred and thirty dollars; to Lucy S. Hall, three hundred dollars; to Beverly Hockaday, one hundred and fifty dollars; to John M. Hiller, sixty-eight dollars; to Edward W. Hammer, one hundred and twenty dollars; to William W. Jeffries, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-five cents; to Thomas P. Jessup, five hundred and twenty dollars; to J. M. King, forty- five dollars; to Zadock S. Kennedy, five hundred and forty-five dollars; to Sanders Love, in his own right, and as administrator of the estate of William M. Love, deceased, eight hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents: to Joseph Laplant, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to Robert P. Lakenan, five hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents; to William Leach, three hundred dollars ; to Benjamin S. Long, five hundred and eighty dollars ; to Allen Mitchell, two hundred and sixty-five dollars; to David McCoy, one hundred and eighty dollars ; to Elizabeth Matkin, three hundred and fifty dollars ; to Eli McMenus, thirty doUars ; to Huston Marbut, forty-five dol- lars ; to John Pogue, one hundred dollars ; to James H. Parham, one hun- dred and twenty-five doUars ; to Mary Eouth, administratrix of John Eouth deceased, twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Jesse Ray, one hun- dred and ninety-five dollars ; to L. R. Rupard, one hundred and twenty dollars and mnety-two cents ; to Z. M. Rountree, five hundred and sixty doUars;. to Thomas B. Eodgers, one hundred and forty -five dollars- to WiUiam B. Ryan, administrator of Alfred McCallister, one hundred and sixty doUars; to John A. Eainey, two hundred and fifty-three doUars- to AAiUiam Riley, thirty-eight dollars; to Daniel Sherer, forty dollars-' to Lawrence Stenger, one hundred and seventy-two dollars; to Margaret San- ders, one hundred dollars; to Adam Smith, six hundred doUars- to D M MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 135 Smith, one hundred dollars; to John Seism, seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Mary Stephens, fifty dollars; to Leonard Sutton, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Joseph Shumate, one hundred dollars; to David Sitzes, one hundred and ninety dollars; to James H. Tuggle, ninety-six dollars and fifty cents; to Archibald Taber, sixty dollars; to Hugh L. Wilson, one hun- dred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents ; to William H. Wymore, three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; to George Williamson, thirty- seven dollars and fifty cents; to Henry Woodcock-," eighty -one dollars and sixty-seven cents. OP THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. To Edward B. Murphy, one hundred and twenty dollars. OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. To Jesus Maria Trujillo, fifty dollars. OF THE STATE OF OHIO. To Eobert B. Anderson, ninety dollars ; to John 0. Anthony, one hun- dred dollars ; to John G . Armstrong, one hundred and thirty dollars ; to Abijah Armacost, sixty-five dollars; to George W. Abbott, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John C. Adams, eighty dollars; to Mathias C. Anderson, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Sarah Arnold, widow of John Arnold, deceased, sixty-five dollars; to Peter Anthes, one hundred and ten dollars; to the estate of Jonathan Addison, two hundred and twenty dollars; to Sortor Ayres, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John Bennett, thirty dollars; to Allen Blackwood, one hundred dollars; to John Booth, one hundred dollars; to Henry Bowman, seventy dollars; to Maria Burns, one hundred dollars ; to James S. Burn^, one hundred dollars ; to William E. Burr, fifty dollars; to George T. Butts, fifty-four dollars; to David Bay, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to George Baker, two hundred and sixty dollars; to James W. Baldridge, junior, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to Euphemia Buckingham and others, executors of Horatio Buck- ingham, deceased, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Charles J. Bucking- ham, one hundred and thirty-five dollars ; to Sallie A. Burnap, one hundred dollars; to Samuel C. Butler, ninety dollars; to Kendel T. Bowin, one hun- dred and thirty dollars; to H. P. Brown, sixty -five dollars; to AVilliam F. Bryan, one hundred dollars; to Henry Beagle, one hundred and twenty- five dollars; to Joseph Basim, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to William S. Bethel, executor of Brandus Bethel, deceased, two hundred and seventy dollars; to Abel Bown, two hundred dollars; to Samuel Bass, one hundred dollars; to James Brown, eighty dollars; to Beal H. Bryan, sev- enty-five dollars; to John C. Breckenridge, administrator of John Shreve, deceased, seventy-five dollars; to Catharine B. Blair, widow of William L. Blair, deceased, seventy-five dollars; to Abram Bernhart, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to William Brown, six dollars and sixteen cents; to Alice G. Carter, administratrix of John Carter, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Sarah Clark, one hundred dollars; to Reuben W. Connor, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Joseph Church, fifty dollars; to Hugh Craig, seventy-seven cents; to John Cramblet, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John Cramer, seventy dollars; to William E. Chatterton, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Picket Clark, ex- ecutor of Francis M. Clark, deceased, seventy -five dollars; to Chris- tian Craver, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Hiram Cope, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Solomon Churchill, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to John R. Cornell, thirteen dollars; to Andrew Car- man, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Bersheba Compton, fifty dol- lars; to Oliver Compton, one hundred dollars; to Wilson Crumley, ninety dollars; to Elias Collins, eighty dollars; to Isaac P. Clark, two dollars and fifty cents; to Ira I. Davis, two hundred and ten dollars; to Eichard Davis, seventy-five dollars; to Benjamin Davis, seventy dollars; to Robert David- son, administrator of William South, deceased, one hundred and twenty dollars; to James Dearmond, one hundred dollars; to Daniel Denny, ninety 136 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. dollars: to Willis E, Dinning, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Abraham Depew, one hundred dollars; to E. D. Duckwall, two hundred and eighty dollars;, to Michael Duffey, ninety-five dollars; to Jeremiah Durham, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John Donnally, seventy-five dollars; to Jonathan Darst, ninety-five dollars; to Eobert F. Davis, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to S. 0. Druce, administrator of William Druce, de- ceased, one hundred and thirty dollars; to John Eaglehoof, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Moses Elstun, administrator of Joel Yail, de- ceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Jacob J. Edwards, one hun- dred dollars; to Thomas Evitt, executor of Daniel Cameron, deceased, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to John Evans, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Samuel Eynon, one hundred and ten dollars; to Samuel Eldridge, ninety dollars; to Tryphena Eggleston, one hundred dollars; to William J. Evans, administrator of Mary Evans, deceased, one hundred and thirty dollars ; to George W. Felter, seventy-five dollars; to Grafton French, one hundred dollars; to Eichard Fristoe, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Levi Faris, seventy-five dollars; to Isaac Ferree, one hundred dollars; to W. W. Foster, guardian of the heirs of John B. O'Connor, deceased, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, to Lester Frost, eighty-five dollars ; to Eobert Francis, one hundred and thirty-five dollars, to Samuel Ferguson, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to James Frazier, sixty dollars; to Thomas Ford, one hundred and ten dollars; to David S. Foster, executor of John Foster, deceased, ninety dollars; to Valentine Franklin, one hundred dol- lars; to Josiah E. Fox, one hundred dollars; to Albert Gardner, one hundred and ten dollars ; to William G. Gilbert, seventy-five dollars ; to John Gauche, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Joseph Gest, twenty-five dollars; to James Gilson, two hundred and seventy dollars; to James Given, one hundred dollars; to Caroline Greathouse, widow of John Greathouse, deceased, one hundred and ten dollars; to Alexander Grant, executor of Benj, Wheeler, deceased, two hundred and ten dollars ; to James M. Gregg, ninety dollars; to T. E. Grif&ths, forty-eight dollars and fifty cents; to Gilbert T. Green, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Balder- man Goings, two hundred and forty dollars; to James M. Hamilton, one hundred dollars; to Amos C. Hatfield, one hundred dollars ; to William H. Hodgson, one hundred and thirty-five dollars ; to Shephard Howland, ninety dollars; to John Huber, junior, administrator of John Huber, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars ; to George W. Hutton, one hundred dol- lars ; to Jacob House, one hundred and ten dollars ; to James Hardenbrook, junior, four hundred and five dollars ; to James Harding, one hundred dol- lars ; to John Hagan, one hundred and thirty dollars ; to John Hawker, seventy-five dollars; to James Hazlett, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Nathan Huffman, two hundred and ninety dollars; to Charles Herrman, one hundred dollars; to William L. Houser, one hundred dollars; to Jona- than Hendershot, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Johnson Hammond, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to George Head, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Ann T.Hughes, formerly Lewis, forty dollars; to Comfort HiU, administratrix of Moses HUl, deceased, one hundred and ten dollars; to John Hickle, sixty dollars; to Harriet Inman, one hundred dollars; to WiUiam Jeflfers, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to D. Lnmley Jenkins eighty dollars; to Thomas Jones, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to W. W. Jackson, deceased, estate, payable to his widow, Amanda Jackson, eighty-five doUars; to Adam D. Kirkpatrick, one hundred dollars; to James Kendall, one hundred dollars; to Edward Kochat, one hundred and twenty- five dollars; to Mary Kier, eighty dollars; to Mary Kline, executrix of Adam Kline, deceased, forty dollars; to Christian Krause, one hun- dred and twenty-five dollars; to Allen H. Keller, one hundred and ten dollars; to Joseph Kirk, seventy-five dollars; to Peter Knapp and George W. Eoush, one hundred and twenty-six dollars; to Noah Lohr, one hun- dred dollars; to James A. Lovett, executor of Thomas A. Lovett, deceased three hundred and forty dollars; to Aaron Leatherwood, one hundred doUars; to John F. Lane, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Eowan Lytle, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Eli Long, sixty-five dollars- to F. E. Linn, ninety dollars; to Isaac W. Landess, eighty-five dollars- MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 131 to Isaac Lane, one hundred and thirty -five dollars; to Matthew T. Larmore, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to James Larmore, one hundred and ten dollars; to Edward J. Morgan, one hundred dollars; to Jonathan ]McOreight, ninety dollars; to William E. Morrison, eighty dollars; to Jo- seph Marriott, two hundred and thirty -five dollars; to Newton S. Moore, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Joseph Murfin, one hundred and twenty- five dollars; to Lewis J. Martin, one hundred and twenty five dollars; to John Meguier, administrator of Charles 0. Meguier, deceased, two hundred dollars; to Nancy P. Morrison, (formerly Smith,) one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Jane McNeill, administratrix of Thomas McNeill, deceased, one hundred and ten dollars ; to Joseph Marshall, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Hannah IMartin, administratrix of Joseph Martin, deceased, two hundred and twenty dollars; to Allen Mercer, one hundred dollars; to Thomas E. Merryman and James E. Merryman, executors of James Merry- man, deceased, seventy dollars; to Elijah Millhone, one hundred dollars; to George W. McFaddin, one hundred dollars; to R. McClelland, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Aaron McLaughlin, executor of John Grabelle, deceased, eighty dollars; to Robert Mclntire, one hundred and twenty dol- lars; to Nathaniel Marshall, one hundred and ten dollars; to Cornelius Mershon, seventy-five dollars; to David Morgan, forty-seven dollars; to Newton R. Morgan, one hundred and seventy dollars; to Charles Merry- man, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Ebenezer McCoy, one hundred and sixty dollars; to John McConnell, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to Walker Maxwell, fifty dollars ; to John IMilhorn, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Furney I\lilhorn, one hundred dollars; to John P. Miller, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to John Martin, one hundred and twenty- five dollars; to Alexander McCollum, eighty-five dollars; to Robert Mcin- tosh, eighty dollars; to Robert B. Nay lor, one hundred and twenty-five dol- lars; to Thomas A. Neal, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Alfred S. Newell and Samuel McLean, administrators of John Newell, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to James Osterhouse, seventy-five dol- lars; to James Oiler, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Samuel Overly, administrator of William Jackson, deceased, one hundred and fifty dollars; to James Oliver, eighty dollars; to Andrew J. Orr, seventy-five dollars; to Thomas O'Donnell, one hundred and ten dollars; to John Punlenney, administrator of D. Waite, deceased, one hundred dollars; to William Par- ish, eighty dollars; to Samuel Pearson, one hundred dollars; to M. G. Pease and Charles H. Thomas, executors of L. T. Pease, deceased, one hun- dred and twenty-five dollars ; to John J. Peterson, one hundred and thirty- five dollars ; to Isaac Potter, administrator of William Y. Potter, deceased, one hundred dollars; to George W. Pool, one hundred and thirty-three dollars; to James Perkins, ninety dollars; to Elizabeth Packard, two hun- dred and fifty dollars ; to William Philhower, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to James Patton, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Margaret A. Peniston, widow of McCormick Peniston, deceased, two hundred and ten dollars; to Joseph Robbins, ninety dollars; to Thomas Radford, one hun- dred and twenty dollars; to Joseph M. Rainie, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Wilkes B. Richardson, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Nelson Richmond, two hundred and thirty dollars; to Francis J. Ronde- bush, administrator of Charles Madaris, deceased, one hundred dollars; to Enoch Russell, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to Margaret M. Rus- sell, widow of John Russell, deceased, one hundred and fifty -five dollars; to Hiram Russell, one hundred dollars; to Joshua M. Rust, executor of Henry Rust, deceased, one hundred and forty dollars; to William Ramsey, eighty dollars; to Jacob Riddle, one hundred dollars; to John C. Rose, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Fred Reno, eighty dollars; to William Ritchey, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to John L. Riddle, administrator of James Hardenbrook, deceased, two hundred and seventy dollars; to John Roach, nine dollars; to W. Resor, junior, administrator, with will annexed, of Jacob Resor, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to James Rowland, two hundred and five dollars; to Louis R. Strong, three hundred and forty dollars ; to Emeline Schwab, executrix of Justus Schwab, deceased, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Thomas Smith, one hundred and 35 D A 138 DIGEST OP APPEOPEIATIONS. thirty-five dollars; to David Secrest, one hundred and twenty dollars; to James H. Shane, fifty dollars; to Edwin H. Shumard, one hundred and thirty -five dollars; to' John Stewart, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Christian Schweighart, one hundred and three dollars; to Asa Smith, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to Samuel Salman, one hundred dol- lars; to Joshua M. Sheridan, one hundred and ten dollars; to Charles Simonson, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Milton Stout, one hun- dred dollars; to Henry D. Satterfield, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Silas H. Sharp, one hundred dollars; to William H. Shelby, sixty dol- lars; to Martin Spahr, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to S. Sparks, one hundred dollars; to Anthony Shaw, fifty dollars; to William Scott, seventy-five dollars; to Benjamin R. Stevens, forty dollars; to Mathias Swickard, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; to Nicholas Stanart, eighty dollars; to Noadiah Sibert, eighty-five dollars; to C. A. Skinner, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Moses F. Thompson, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Thomas Thompson, two hundred and sixty dollars; to Lydia Teal, administratrix of Jacob L. Teal, deceased, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; to James Tate, two hundred and sixty-five dollars; to Elizabeth M. Thompson, executrix of John Thompson, deceased, one hun- dred dollars; to G. W. Thoroman, trustee of the heirs of R. S. Thoroman, deceased, one hundred and ten dollars; to Laura TrusseU, one hundred and three dollars; to Kezia Turner, (formerly South,) forty-five dollars; to Edward Tiffany, forty-eight dollars; to Titus & Goldmeyer, five hundred and seventy dollars, [settled in sum of five hundred and ten dollars;] to Jonathan E. Yernon, one hundred dollars; to Gabriel Vastine, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Stephen Yan Camp, eighty-five dollars; to Mary A. Washburn, one hundred dollars; to Rebecca J. Wardlow, fifty dollars; to Andrew Wallace, one hundred and forty-seven dollars; to Charles H. Weaver, two hundred and ninety-five dollars; to David Wilson, ninety dollars; to Hugh Wright, one hundred and five dollars; to estate of James Wright, fifty dollars; to James White, eighty dollars; to Joseph Water- man, forty dollars; to Hiram Wilcox, senior, thirty-five dollars; to John H. White, one hundred dollars. OF THE STATE OP PENNSYLTANIA. To Andrew H. Beitler, three hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty- seven cents ; to Abraham Brien, fifteen dollars ; to Lewis A. Bushman, sis hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-three cents ; to John Black one hundred and thirty-eight dollars; to Henry Culp, four hundred and seventy- five dollars; to Edward Collins, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars- to Henry B. Comer, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Henry Culp 'ad- ministrator of Peter Raffensperger, deceased, seventy-seven dollars 'and seventeen cents; to Henry Culp, executor of Leonard Bricker, deceased two hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty cents ; to Peter Conover' one hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents ; to William Cown- over, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninetv-eight cents; to Eliza Fetterhaff, fifty-three dollars and eighty -nine cents; to John Group nineteen dollars and twenty-five cents; to Catharine Gwynn, ninetv-six dollars; to David W. Horner, thirty-five dollars; to Newton M Horner thirty-eight dollars and twenty cents; to Andrew Howard, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars; to John P. Haner, fifty dollars; to Nathaniel Lightner thirty-three dollars; to Lydia Loyster, twenty-four dollars and fifty cents; to Abner Mills, sixty dollars; to Samuel B. Miller, four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents; to Samuel R. McAllister ad ministrator of James INIcAllister, deceased, three hundred and five dollars and mnety-five cents; to Samuel S. McNair, (estate of,) one thousand and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents; to John Martin, eighty-four dollars; to Sarah Neely one hundred and twenty-five doUars; to Peter Orendorff, twenty-three dollars and twenty-five cents; to John P Rose fifty dollars; to John Rudisill, thirty-five dollars and fifty ceAts- to Nicholas Smith, fifty-nine dollars and thirty two cents; to lS 'and John B. Shaffer, administrators of Daniel Shaffer, deceased, three hun MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 139 dred aud ninety -one dollars and fifty-seven cents; to Charles Shaner, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-five cents; to Aaron Sheely, four hundred and eighty-six dollars aud seventy- two cents; to Jacob Swisher, one hundred and fifty dollars; to James Thompson, two hundred and eighty dollars and fifty cents ; to J. M. Walter, thirty dollars ; to G-eorge Weigert, one hundred and sixty-six dollars ; to Jessie Werley, eighty-one dollars ; to Emanuel Weikert, twenty-five dollars and sixty cents; to Melchior Wolf, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents. OP THE STATE OP TENNESSEE. To James Alexander, two hundred and thirty dollars; to Tobitha E. AUen, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Mary E. Abernathy, administra- trix of James Kimbrough, deceased, four thousand one hundred and ninety- five dollars and twenty-five cents; to Samuel H. Anderson, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to Isaac Alexander, one hundred dollars; to E. J. Alexander, wife of J. C. Alexander, eight hundred and eighty dollars; to George A. Alexander, one hundred and ninety-five dollars ; to Thomas Berry, one hundred and ten dollars; to M. S. Brown, widow of George B. Brown, deceased, one hundred and fifty-five dollars; to James W. Bowman, executor of S. Bowman, deceased, two hundred and twenty- five dollars; to George Bolton, two hundred and five dollars; to J. A. Blaukenship, administrator of T. D. Leeman, deceased, two hundred and seventy dollars; to Elijah W. Breazeale, fifty dollars; to William H. Brown, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; to William M. Boyd, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to Stephen Bland, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Hugh Blair, nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents; to J. F. M. Bowers, one hundred and forty dollars; to James S. Boyd, two thousand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars ; to A. J. BaUnger, senior, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ; to Lorenzo D. Bryant, seventy- seven dollars and fifty cents; to Martha J. Bagby, one hundred dollars; to Mary Bowman, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and twelve cents ; to Mitchel Brown, one thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars; to Tapley Booth, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Eobert W. Burnett, forty dollars; to John Blevius, four hundred and thirty -two dollars and seventy- five cents; to George Bowman, one hundred dollars; to W. L. J. Blair, sixty-eight dollars; to Elizabeth Bradley, one hundred and twenty -five dol- lars; to Richard 0. Brizindine, (estate of,) one hundred and twenty-five dol- lars; to B. Brock, (estate of,) forty -two dollars and twenty-five cents; to Ansolum Brown, forty-five dollars and fifty cents ; to G. W. Brown, seventy- one dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Susannah Ooppinger, administratrix of Alexander Ooppinger, deceased, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Benjamin F. Crawford, four hundred and fifty-five dol- lars; to Elizabeth W. Carper, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; to Arthur H. Cranford, five hundred dollars; to Samuel H. Charles, one hundred dollars; to W. F. Cleary, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Lewis Cardin, two hundred and eighty dollars; to W. F. Carter, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; to James M. Carter, four hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents; to John A. Curtis, seventy dollars ; to Davis 'S. Coffey, one hundred and forty dollars ; to James A. Carriger, administrator of Daniel B. Carter, deceased, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty cents ; to William A. Charles, two hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Enoch Collins, one hundred and forty dollars; to T. E. Crookshanks and Lavinia, (his wife,) one hundred and eight dollars and seventy-five cents; to Martha Cunningham, seventeen dollars; to Jordan Cardin, administrator of Larkin Cardin, deceased, three hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Charles Case, thirty- two dollars ; to Abigail Champion, two hundred and fifty-two dollars; to William H. Christo- pher, three hundred and thirty-six dollars; to Albert Cook, one hundred and thirty dollars; to John Caruthers,two hundred and twenty -five dollars ; to Andy Cannon, fifty dollars ; to Lawson L. Davis, one thousand five hundred aud sixty- one dollars and forty-three cents ; to Azariah R. David, seven hundred and sixty-two dollars ; to William J. Donaldson and E. E. Kingsley, executors 140 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. of Josepli Worley, deceased, one hundred and seven dollars and six cents ; to Charles T. Day, one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; to Jennie O. Dowdy, twenty-eight dollars ; to Hugh Bowling, two hundred and sev- enteen dollars and fifty cents; to Henry E. Donnavant, two hundred and sixty dollars; to Cynthia Derryberry, executrix of Andrew Derryberry, de- ceased, three hundred and seventy -five dollars; to Samuel B. Day, six hun- dred and ninety dollars and twenty-five cents; to J. W. Dooley, four hun- dred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; to Harriet Dozier, administra- trix of Dennis Dozier, deceased, five hundred dollars and fifty cents; to Elijah Dunn, four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ten cents ; to Eliza- beth Davidson, executrix of Abel Willis, deceased, eighty dollars ; to P. W. Davis, three hundred and sixteen dollars; to James D. Dowell, adminis- trator of Tandy Dowell, deceased, forty-six dollars and fifty cents; to B. H. ElUs, eighty-four dollars; to T. P. Elliott, one hundred and thirty dollars; to A. A. East, executor of E. H. East, senior, deceased, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to John N. Emert, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Jesse Eldridge, sixty dollars ; to John E. Estes, six dollars ; to John Edmonson and H. J. Walker, executors of Nathan Owen, deceased, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars ; to E. H. Edmon- son, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Alfred Pleming, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Mrs. Inya Pryar, three hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; to Solomon Foxall, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars ; to William H. Prench, thirty-six dollars and eighty-two cents; to Jacob Plora, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents; to S. B. Fly, executor of Susan Allen, deceased, one hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty- eight cents; to James A. P. Guthrie, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents; to Judson Gant, one hundred and fifty dollars; to M. Gas- ton, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents ; to Lusetta Gillenwater, three hundred and fifty dollars; to Michael Griffen, one hundred and forty dollars; to Charles C. Giers, forty dollars ; to James M. Green, one thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents; to A. P. Grinstead, six hun- dred and twenty-five dollars; to W. A. Galloway, two hundred and fifty dollars; to James T. Gleaves, two hundred and fifteen dollars; to John Hughes, two hundred and five dollars; to D. P. Hodges, one hun- dred and thirty-eight dollars; to William Hughes, two hundred and fifty dollars; to L. C. Hessey, guardian of W. O. Scott, one hundred and five dollars; to James M. Hixon, one hundred and eighty dollars; to T. B. High- tower, (colored,) seven hundred dollars; to Sandy Hines, three hundred dollars; to Anderson Hoag, (or Hoge,) one hundred and twenty-five dollars- to Thomas Holt, two thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents; to T. A. Harris, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars; to A. D. C. Hines, one hundred and ninety-five dollars; to D. W. Holman, (assignee ) three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; to Worick Hodge, thirty- four dollars and fifty cents; to James Hawkins, eight huiftred and thirty- eight dollars and seventy-five cents; to Henry Hixon, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty cents; to Alien Hatter, three hundred dollars- to Catharine Harrison, administratrix of Jacob Harrison, deceased two thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Joseph S. Hooker one hundred and thirty-five doUars; to W. W. Hopkins, three hundred and sixty- five dollars; to W. M. Hornbeak, administrator of Timothy Terrell de- ceased, five hundred and seventy dollars; to John Ingle, four hundred' and seventy dollars; to James P. Johnson, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Thomas G. James, forty-one dollars; to P. E. H Jovce one hundred and thirty dollars; to Jefferson Jones, three hundred dollars' to John M. Jones, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Wiley B. Jones four hundred and twenty-seven dollars; to John W. Jones, nine hundred and eighty dollars and sixty cents; to James B. Jones, one hundred and thirtv dollars; to Joseph B. KeUy, six hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-two cents; to Adam BL Keener, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and eleven cents; to James P. Kelly, eighty doUars and sixty cents; to the heirs of Ehsha Kirklm, deceased, two thousand and fifty-six doUars and twelve cents; to A. A. Kyle, one hundred and two dollars and sixty cents- to the estate of Susan Merritt, thirty-five dollars; to ]\raccager Kidd, three hun MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 141 dred and twenty dollars ; to Eli Lunn, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to Hyman Legate, one hundred and twenty -five dollars; to J. 0. Levister, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Abner W. Lanier, six hun- dred dollars; to Jackson P. Lewis, two hundred and eighty-three dol- lars and fifty cents ; to Samuel E. McAlexander, three hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents; to Harry iloore, one hundred and fifty dollars; to John McCallie, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to J. M. Macpherson, five hundred and forty dollars; to John Maley, executor of Samuel Green, deceased, seventy dollars; to James Moore, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Henry Miller, eighty-four dollars; to Moses Mil- ler, one hundred dollars ; to Lewis McDaniel, seven hundred and seventy- five dollars ; to Abner Moore, one hundred and seventy- three dollars ; to F. C. McNeilly, administrator of Duncan L. Matlock, deceased, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Samuel T. Motley, one thousand two hundred and ninety dollars ; to Benjamin F.Martin, one thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars; to M. L. Montgomery, executor of Martin B. Shelton, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to F. K". Maclin, administra- tor of E. T. Taylor, deceased, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Robert Mclntyre, in right of his wife, Elizabeth Mclntyre, one hundred and four dollars; to J. B. McCrory, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to S. A. McCol- lum, eight hundred dollars ; to William Murphy, two hundred and twenty- five dollars; to James Mc Williams, six hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents; to A. J. Mason, five hundred and thirty-nine dollars; to Wil- liam E. Miller, three hundred and fifty dollars; to John B.McEwen, execu- tor of Lemuel Farmer, deceased, nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-five cents; to Archibald G. Moore, three hundred dollars; to Stephen H. Morris, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to W. H. McGinnis, five hundred and fifty dollars; to the estate of L. L. Matthews, eight hundred and two dollars and thirty cents; to G. W. Mabry, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Edwin H. McGowan, one hundred and fifty dollars; to M. B. llNfarramore, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Wade H. New- man, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents; to Francis H. Norman, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars; to Matthew Nevill, nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to George W. Newborn, one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents; to William Mchol, five thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty -two cents ; to Ozment Thomas, eighty -three dollars and eighty cents; to E. E. Ozburn, one hun- dred and twenty dollars ; to William H. Powell, one hundred and seventy- three dollars and seventy-five cents; to John Parker, administrator of Alfred Parker, deceased, fifty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; to Thomas F. Perkins, one thousand and fifty dollars; to Allen Parker, administrator of Elisha Parker, deceased, five hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty- seven cents ; to J. 0. Pickett, one hundred and fifteen dollars ; to John B. Proffit, one hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Nathan H. Prewitt, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty cents; to the estate •of Baillie Peyton, deceased, one thousand three hundred and eighty-six dol- lars and thirty cents; to Abel A. Pearson, one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety cents; to William H. Poe, thirty-five dollars; to John Perkins, fifty-two dollars; to N. G. Perkins, administrator of Joseph J. Todd, deceased, one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty cents ; to James Price, one hundred and fifty dollars ; to Hancel Eucker, one hundred dollars; to James W. Eentfro, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifteen cents; to James H. Eamsey, four hundred and five dol- lars; to Edward Eobinson, three hundred and seventy-three dollars; to John S. Eogers, one hundred and eighteen dollars ; to J. W. Eichardson, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Thomas H. Eoberts, administrator of John D. Eoberts, deceased, five hundred dollars; to Jacob Eange, two hun- dred and seventy dollars; to Mary P. Eoberts, administratrix of Nathan Eoberts, deceased, one thousand two hundred and seventy-three dollars ; to Samuel W. Eoberson, six thousand three hundred and one dollars and forty- two cents ; to E. M. Eoberts, four hundi'ed and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; to A. F. Eogers, administrator of John Eogers, deceased, thirty dollars and seventy-five cents; to Amos W. Eoberts, seventy-five dollars; 36 D A 142 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. to William F. Eoss, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Eandall Sanders, one hundred and twenty-flve dollars; to Alfred Sanders, executor of Hen- son Sanders, deceased, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents; to John W. Sergeant, six hundred and twenty-flve dollars; to William Stewart, five hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-five cents; to John Shannon, fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents; to Samuel Smithwick, two hundred and fifty dollars; to John Scurlock, three hundred and ninety dollars; to John Shane, three hundred and thirty dollars; to the estate of Charlotte Syles, deceased, one hundred dollars; to William Smith, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Jesse E. Smith, two hundred and fifty dollars; to George W. Stallcup, seventy-five dollars; to Margaret E. Scarborough, sixty-six dollars; to John H. Stratton, six hundred and thirty-six dollars; to George W. Thomas, two hundred and forty dollars; to John A. Toney, eight hundred and forty dollars; to Matt Thurmond, three hundred and two dollars; to David Taylor, seventy- three dollars and thirty-three cents; to James M. Toombs, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to W. H. Trafford, administrator of Simeon Fudge, deceased, one hundred dollars; to Benjamin F. Turner, two hundred dollars; to Andrew Thomas, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents; to Erasco Taylor, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents; to Jacob Tarwater, eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents; to Elizabeth Tynes, administratrix of Charles M. Tynes, deceased, seventeen dollars; to S. A. Taylor, six hundred and five dollars; to Eufus 0. Turner, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Nancy Tatum, two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents; to Uriah S. Tomlinson, one hundred and twenty-five dol- lars; to John Thompson, four hundred and thirty -two dollars; to Yan Buren Thurmond, one hundred dollars; to T. L. Trewhitt, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Kinchen Taut, three hundred and ten dollars; to N. G. Yinyard, one hundred and twenty dollars; to James F. Yarnell, administrator of David if. Yarnell, deceased, ninety dollars and sixteen cents; to J. W. Yaughn, surviving executor of Johnson Yaughn, deceased, one thousand and twenty-six dollars and ten cents; to John M. Woodson, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; to James J. Ward, six thou- sand six hundred and thirty dollars ; to Howel Webb, three hundred dol- lars; to Frank Wilson, one thousand four hundred and ninety -nine dollars; to Joseph Wyatt, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to. John M. Wither- spoon, nine hundred and forty dollars; to Simpson West, two hundred and seventy dollars; to William A. Whittemore, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to John A. Walker, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to Mason Walker, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; to Merry Webb, one hun- dred and ninety dollars ; to Andrew J. Wiglesworth, five hundred and eighty dollars; to Sarah Waters, administratrix of Eobert Waters, deceased, two hundred and ten dollars; to Sarah W. Walker, five hundred and fifteen dol- lars and twenty -five cents; to Nancy Winkler, widow of Abraham Winkler, deceased, eighteen dollars; to William Walker, one hundred and fifty dol- lars; to David Youngman, one thousand and thirty dollars and fifty-six cents. OF THE STATE OP TEXAS. To Ezekiel P. Cawood, four hundred and thirty dollars. OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. To Alexander C. H. Dame, six hundred and seventy-six doUars. OP THE STATE OF WEST VIEGINIA. To Peter L. Anderson, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars- to William G. Butler, one hundred dollars; to F. C. Boggs, three hundred and thirteen doUars and sixty cents; to Sarah A. Broadus, ninety dol- lars; to John W. Blue, three hundred and five dollars and fifty cents- to James M. Blake, one hundred and ninety-five dollars; to Samuel Bean' fifty-three dollars and twenty-flve cents; to William Boone, one hundred and forty-flve dollars; to D. H. Backus, three hundred and ninety dollars- MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT WAE MISCELLANEOUS. 143 to Ebenezer Braley, seventy -five dollars ; to John Bizer, sixty-seven dollars and ninety cents; to Henry Buzzard, three hundred and flfty-five dollars and ten cents; to George W. Chase, administrator of John W. Packett, deceased, three hundred and thirty-five dollars; to James Criswell, one hundred and sixty dollars; to George 0. CoUett, ninety-six dollars; to William H. H. Crane, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to John Cain, three hundred and ninety -three dollars and twenty-five cents; to Samuel Dobbins, six hundred dollars; to W. H. Douglas and J. F. Adams, admin- istrators of Melchor Merritt, deceased, one hundred and seventy-seven dol- lars and fifty cents; to William Fisher, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Eobert A. Frazier, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents; to William D. Farnsworth, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Joseph Funk, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Jesse and William Fisher, executors of George Fisher, deceased, one thousand and forty dollars; to George W. Guinn, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Jacob Graber, senior, one hundred and eight dollars; to Frances Guthrie, one hundred dollars; to Jerome B. Gusman, four hundred and twenty dollars : to Stephen Going, seventeen dollars; to Samuel B. Harrison, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; to Adam J. Hanshew, one hundred and eleven dol- lars and twenty-five cents; to Bushrod W. Herbert, two thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars; to John High, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents; to Jacob Hammer, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; to Martha Jordin, one hundred and five dollars; to Elizabeth Kesler, three hundred and sixty -five dollars; to George Keiter, two hundred and seventy-five dol- lars ; to F. S. Littlepage, one hundred and forty-five dollars ; to Barney Lloyd, nineteen dollars and ninety-eight cents; to Rebecca Lewis, four hundred and ninety dollars; to Adam Myers, three hundred and seventy dollars; to George W. McVey, seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents; to William H. Meadows, one hundred dollars; to Henry Moler, eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-five cents; to Clementina Miles, one hun- dred dollars; to James Prince, one hundred dollars; to Eobert N. Pendleton, administrator of Hugh F. Pendleton, deceased, two thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars; to Edwin Prince, one hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Jacob Eififie, two hundred dollars ; to C. A. Eupert, seven hundred dollars ; to John M. Eice, ninety-seven dollars and forty-five cents; to Conrad Ehinaman, fifty-six dollars; to Henry C. Small, three hun- dred dollars; to John M. Shomo, eighty-six dollars and fifty-five cents; to John Snyder, four hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-seven cents; to Zebulon Stahiaker, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars; to David Sig- ley, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Willis P. Shaver, twenty-one dollars and twenty -five cents; to Eebecca J. Syle, nine hundred and thirty dollars and four cents; to Thomas B. Washington, four hundred and sixty-five dollars and two cents; to Annie M. T. Washington, four hundred and sixty-five dollars and two cents; to James Waugh, ninety dollars; to John C. Weller, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty cents; to William White, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; [in all, two hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety- six dollars and thirty-seven cents.] Sec. 2. That the agents appointed under the provisions of sections two and three of the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to re- strict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the pay- ment of certain demands for quartermaster stores and subsistence supplies furnished to the Army of the United States," and acts amendatory thereof, to investigate and report upon all claims filed under said act, are hereby authorized to administer oaths and aflrmations and to take depositions of witnesses. Sec. 3. That all claims not presented and filed under said act, and the acts amendatory thereof, prior to the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty, shall be forever barred. — Act March 3, 1879 $267, 496 37 Claims of Loyal Citizens for Supplies furnished during the Eebellion. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the several per- 144 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. sons in this act named, the several sums mentioned therein, the same being in Ml for, and the receipt of the same to be taken and accepted in each case as a full and final discharge of, the several claims presented by such persons to the Commissioners of Claims under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and reported to the House of Representatives under the said act ; that is to say : OF THE STATE OP ALABAMA. To Mila Adams, the sum of one hundred dollars; to William Barclay, two hundred and eleven dollars; to David R. Bellemy, administrator of John C. Tinney, deceased, for the use and benefit of Lucy Ann Bellemy, Ambrose, Andrew, Franklin, Lewis, and Martha Jane Tinney, two hundred and forty dollars; to Martha A. Bennett, widow of Moses H. Bennett, sev- enty-four dollars; to P. T. F. Black, one hundred dollars; to John B. Boggs, three thousand six hundred and ninety dollars ; to John B. Boggs and Mary A. Houston, four thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars; to Reuben Bouldin, eighty-three dollars; to RobertBrandon, four hundred and twenty doUars; to George Brooks, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars; to Corne- lius Burkhead, three hundred and ten dollars ; to Sandy Bynum, one hun- dred and ten doUars; to Ephraim Cagle, one hundred and ten dollars; to Thomas Carroll, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to David H. Carter, four thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars; to David Cocks, eight hun- dred and seventy-five dollars; to Warren Crabtree, one hundred and sixteen dollars; to Elizabeth Davidson, two hundred and forty-five dollars; to Jo- seph H. Davis, junior, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Rebecca E. Dorsey, seven hundred and one dollars ; to John N. Dupree, three hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents; to Nancy K. Elkins, two hundred and eighty dol- lars; to William G-. Elkins, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Richard Ellis, one hundred and sixty-four doUars; to Templeton E. Ellis, one hun- dred and sixty doUars; to Thomas Espey, one hundred and ten dollars; to Julia A. Fuller, administratrix of C. C. Brooks, deceased, for the use and benefit of Augusta D. Hoy, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; to WiUiam Gautney, one hundred and eighty-one dollars; to Thomas F. Gordon, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars; to John Guttery, four hundred doUars; to Nancy J. Hewitt, ninety-five dollars; to Lewis Hobart, eight hundred and eighty-two dollars; to Mary E. Holder, ad- ministratrix of John Holder, deceased, five hundred and sixty doUars; to EUzabeth Jane HoUis, one hundred and seventy-six doUars and fifty cents ; to Hartwell Huskey, two hundred and ninety-five dollars; to John Hutton, eighty-five doUars and forty cents; to WiUiam Jackson, two hundred and eighty-five dollars; to Benjamin E. Johnson and Virginia R. WiUiams, heirs of WUliam Johnson, deceased, seven hundred and sixty-nine doUars and sixty cents; to John B. Johnson, one hundred and fifty dollars; to ISTancy Jones, one hundred and two doUars; to George Jordan, eight hundred and seventy dollars; to Drury Fair and SaUy Ann Jones, one thousand two hun- dred and twenty-five doUars; to Stephen D. Kennamer, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Barbara Kjrastel, one hundred and seventy-five dollars- to John Langford, four hundred and ninety-five doUars; to Burwell Lewis' seventy-five doUars; to James Long, administrator of Alfred Long de- ceased, eight hundred and fifteen doUars; to Margaret Lyons, one hundred and fifty doUars; to Joseph L. McAUister, one hundred and twenty-five doUars; to Andrew McCuUars, forty-four dollars; to Margaret Mapp sev- enty doUars and sixty-two cents; to WUey J. MUler, one hundred' and fifty doUars; to David W. Nelson, one hundred and sixty-five doUars- to EUsha Nelson, four hundred and fifty dollars; to Mary Nicholson three hundred doUars. To Robert Otis, administrator de bonis non of 'Roger A. Hiern, deceased, for the use and benefit of Emma EUza Hiern and Charles Hiern, six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars _Ao<- March 3, 1879. Sec. 6. That so much of the act "making appropri ations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the Commis sioners of Claims, under the act of Congress of March third eio'htee'n hundred and seventy-one, and acts amendatory thereof," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, as appropriates asfoUows- To MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 145 Eobert Otis, administrator de bonis non of Roger A. Hiern, deceased, for the use and beneiit of Emma Eliza Hiern and Charles Hiern, six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars — be, and the same is hereby, suspended until the further action of Congress. — Eesolution July 1, 1879. To William Perkins, one hundred and twenty dollars; to George W. Phillips, one hun- dred and thirty-five dollars; to Louisa Pinson, fifty dollars; to Lucynthia Eeid, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ; to William Eives, one hundred and fifty dollars; to John M. Eoden, five hundred and twenty dollars; to William B. Eoden, two hundred and ten dollars ; to Thomas G. Eucker, administrator of William A. Austin, deceased, three hundred and twenty- five doUars; to Eedden A. Sharp, five hundred and seventy -five dollars; to James Smith, two hundred and ten dollars; to John T. Smith, one hundred and ten dollars; to Margaret E. Smith, three hundred and ten dollars; to Archer A. Sneed, administrator de bonis non of John Brown, deceased, six hundred and thirty dollars; to John Snodgrass," senior, one thousand seven hundred and twenty -nine dollars and eighty cents; to Elizabeth Spangler, daughter of Gideon Spangler, deceased, seventy-five dollars; to Thomas Spencer, two hundred and fifty -two dollars and fifty cents ; to Lemuel D. Stallings, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Nicholas Ste- vens, five hundred and thirty dollars; to Mary Strong, widow of, and to Charles, Edward, GUbert, and Washington Strong, children of Samuel S. Strong, deceased, three hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Abisha Styron, two hundred and fifteen dollars; to William TaUent, nine hundred and seventy- three dollars; to Joseph Terry, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Benjamin Thompson, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Sarah J. Tompkins, widow of Marion Tompkins, two hundred and thirty dollars; to Hartwell Vaughn, senior, one hundred and fifty-four dollars; to James M. Wallace, two hundred and twenty dollars; to Edgar A. C. Watkins, two hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to Alexander P. Webb, one hundred and seventy-two dollars ; to Jacob Whitehead, two hundred and eighty-five dol- lars; to Howel Williams, one hundred and forty dollars; to Littleton P. Williams, three hundred dollars ; to Sally Williams, sixty dollars ; to Eras- mus W. Windham, one hundred and forty dollars; to Jerry Winn, admin- istrator of Jack Winn, deceased, two hundred dollars; William H. Wroten, one hundred and eighty dollars; to James K. P. Wright, administrator of Lovina AA^right, deceased, for the use and benefit of Parrola Lature, Eliza E. Dishroom, Sarah E. Berry, Margaret Ann Shelton, James K. P. Wright, and Martha T. and Sarah E. Dishroom, daughters of Mary J. Dishroom, deceased, four hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-nine cents ; to Sarah Yocum, one hundred and fifty dollars. OF THE STATE OF ABKAI^SAS. To Thomas J. Atwood, six hundred and seventy- two dollars ; to Andrew W. Austin, four hundred and forty dollars; to Quinton B. Beaseley, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars; to Nancy Blackman, one hundred and forty dollars; to Lindsey O. Breeden, two hundred and thirty dollars; to J. D. CarlUe, one hundred dollars; to Marina Carver, eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty cents; to Daniel Chitwood, one hundred and forty dollars ; to Ned C och ran , one hundred and t wen ty-five dollars ; to Mitchell CoUins, one hundred and eight dollars ; to John J. Crawford, administrator of Cunningham A. Crawford, deceased, three thousand dollars; to Eeuben T. Dye, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; to Jesse L. Fletcher, five hundred and fourteen dollars; to Margaret C. Gess, (now Fish,) two hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Thomas W. Gill, five hundred and ten dollars; to John H. Herman, four thousand five hundred and fifty- five dollars; to John Hunt, four hundred and eighty dollars; to Thomas Jefferson, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to Edward Johnson, guardian of Francis and Catharine Eogers, heirs of Mary Eogers, deceased, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; to Hugh Johnson, one hun- dred and twenty- five dollars; to Nancy J. Langley, four hundred and thirty dollars; to Noah Ledford, three hundred and seventy- three dollars ; to Jane Lewis, eight hundred and sixty-two dollars; to Sue J. McGavock, daughter of John H. McGavock, one thousand two hundred and eleven 37 D A 146 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. dollars and twelve cents; to Andrew J. McLarin, five hundred and thirty- three dollars; to John McYey, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; to William L. Manes, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; to Matthew L. Marrs, seventy-four dollars and fifteen cents; to Elizabeth A. Martin, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars; to Benjamin F. Mills, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty cents; to Solomon Miller, administrator of Felix Mitchell, deceased, for the use and benefit of Ashley and John A. Mitchell, heirs of FeHx Mitchell, deceased, seven hundred and forty-five dollars; to Lewis B. Moore, three hundred and thirty dollars; to J. W, M. Murphy, two hundred dollars; to George W. Mcholds, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty cents; to Laura E. O'Connor, nine hundred and ninety-two dollars; to Lavina Pounds, six hundred ^nd seventy-three dollars; to William S. Privett, seventy-five dollars; to Armistead Scott, one hundred dollars; to Barnhard Scheppe, three hundred and fifty dollars; to Charles Gr. Scott, administrator of John Drennen, deceased, for the use and benefit of Charles H. and William K. Drennen, two hundred dollars; to John Storms, two hundred and seventy dollars; to James H. Tayler, three hundred and ninety-five dollars; to Ale Todd, five hundred and fifty dol- lars; to Thomas J. Tucker, two hundred and five dollars; to William E. Vines, two hundred dollars; to Caselton Ward, five hundred and sixty-four dollars; to Francis M Ward, six hundred and sixty dollars; to Joseph Ward, seven hundred and twenty dollars; to John Wear, one hundred and twenty-four dollars; to Andrew J. Webb, three hundred dollars; to Allen C. WiUiams, four hundred and thirty-five dollars. OF THE STATE OP FLOBIDA. To James E. Lee, four hundred and ninety-six dollars; to Jane Pepino, widow of George Pepiuo, one hundred and twenty -five dollars; to Christian Petry, two hundred dollars; to the legal representatives of Emily South- wick, deceased, late of Saint John's county, Florida, one thousand dollars; to Susan Waters, six hundred and fifty dollars; to Travis Waters, one hun- dred and fifty dollars. OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. To John Addington, eighty-nine dollars; to Samuel Aikin, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to l^edorn L. Angler, two thousand dollars; to Nicholas H. Bacon, six hundred and one dollars; to John Baggs, one hun- dred and twenty-five dollars; to Alexander Baker, three hundred and ninety-five dollars; to Nathaniel Baxter, six hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Eichard Beal, two hundred and forty-one dollars; to Mary Bean, one hundred dollars; to Fannie Bence, eighty-eight dollars; to Freeman Ben- nett, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Henry K. Bennett, four hundred and twenty dollars; to Albert Berrien, six hundred and twenty dollars; to John Berryhill, five hundred and thirty-nine dollars; to Abram D. Bin- ion, three hundred and twenty dollars; to Thomas Bird, senior, three thou- sand four hundred dollars; to Alexander Bishop, five hundred and eighty- two dollars; to Isaiah 0. Brand, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Frances Brown, seventy-seven dollars; to Cornelius Burns, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars; to Joseph Byers, two hundred dol- lars; to K J. Booz, administrator of Joseph Campbell, deceased, for the use and benefit of heirs of John Campbell, the heirs of Peggy Ann Orr and the heirs of Josiah Campbell, six hundred and thirty dollars; to George W. Cash, six hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents ; to Ben- jamin Conley, administrator of Morris J. Conley, deceased, for himself and Mary Conley, five thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; to George H. Cook, five hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-five cents • to Eichard Daniel, four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty cents; to JohnL. Davis, nine-nine dollars and ten cents; to Eeuben Davis one hundred dollars; to Sydney Defoor, guardian for heir of John Thomp- son, deceased, one hundred dollars ; to Laurent De Give, administrator of Peter Huge, deceased, for the use and benefit of Mary Huge, widow of Peter Huge, deceased, two hundred and ten dollars; to James C. Dixon MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 147 two hundred and twenty-seven dollars; to Jolin J. Dodd, four hundred and seventy dollars; to Benjamin Dowdy, one hundred and ten dollars; to Jacob Dryer, one hundred and fifty-two dollars; to Joseph A. Dunbar, one hundred and forty-four dollars; to James Eason, nine hundred and fifty-six dollars; to Lazarus Plemming, sixty-seven dollars ; to Martha Ann Formby, executrix of Obadiah Pormby, deceased, for herself, three hun- dred and seventy -one dollars and fifty cents ; to Indiana P. Fowler, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Joel A. Fowler, eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars ; to Joel Frix, four hundred and fifty dollars ; to Har- vey A. Gentrey, one hundred and fifty dollars ; to William C. Gilbreath, two hundred dollars ; to Mack Golding, two hundred and twenty dollars ; to Benjamin Guyton, one hundred dollars ; to l^Tathaniel F. Guyton, four hundred and seventy dollars; to Thomas M. Harris, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; to Bennett Hawkins, one hundred and eighty dollars; to John Hefner, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Eobert A. Hemp- hill, administrator of David Hemphill, deceased, for the use and benefit of Margaret B. Wright and Cynthia Hemphill, sole heirs of David Hemp- hill, deceased, one hundred and six-five dollars; to William Hemphill, one hundred and sixty-three dollars; to James M. Henry, one hun- dred and eight dollars; to Martin J. Hinton, eight hundred and sixty dollars; to Amy Hitchins, (now HoUey,) administratrix of WUUam J. Dyer, deceased, for herself and three children, Alexander S., John Thomas, and William P. Dyer, two hundred and ten dollars; to Charles M. Holder, eapealed by section 2 of this act,] five hundred and forty doUars; to Elisha orn, seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars; to Harris Hutchins, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars; to Samuel Jarvis, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Sambo Jefferson, seventy dollars; to Penney Jet, widow of William Jet, one hundred and eight dollars and eighty cents ; to Ann John- son, widow of Isaac Johnson, three hundred and eighty-eight dollars ; to Catharine Johnson, one hundred and sixty -three dollars; to James S. Jones, three hundred and seventy-five dollars ; to Linda and Caesar Jones, one hun- dred and seven dollars; to Thomas W. Jordan, three hundred dollars; to Cato Keating, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars ; to Philip Keith, one hundred and fifty dollars; to John Keykendall, eight hundred and forty- one doUars; to Cynthia C. King, fifty dollars; to Scipio King, seventy dol- lars; to James M. Lamar, one hundred and eighty dollars; to EUzabeth Landers, widow of Matthew Landers, fifty dollars; to Paul Le Conte, forty- seven dollars; to Eichard Le Conte, eighty-two dollars; to William Le Conte, one hundred doUars; to Edmund Lumpkin, one hundred and seventy- seven dollars and seventy -five cents; to Thornton M. McClung, two hundred and forty dollars; to William S. McComb, two hundred and fifty dollars; to George McConnell, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Mary McDonald, one hundred and fourteen dollars ; to James McGee, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; to Samuel Maxwell, forty doUars; to Major Middleton, three hundred and four dollars; to Eobert S. Montgomery, two hundred and ninety-three dollars; to David Moses, three hundred and five dollars; to George W. Phillips, eighty-one doUars; to Margaret Ponder, widow of John Ponder, sixty-one dollars; to Joseph M. Presley, one hun- dred and twenty-five dollars ; to John M. Eainwater, four hundred and forty -two dollars; to Lacy D. Eainwater, two hundred and forty-six doUars and twenty-five cents; to William M. Elvers, six hundred and nineteen dollars; to James Eobbs, five hundred and forty-three dollars; to Eliza Eobertson, one hundred and thirty-six dollars ; to Mary Jane Eowan, widow of George W. Eowan, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Hugh J. Euther- ford, four hundred and sixteen doUars and eighty cents; to George Sherley, two hundred and fifteen dollars; to Wesley Shropshire, four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars ; to Alfred Shugart, five hundred and sixty- five doUars; to Fannie A. Stewart, widow of Henry Stewart, and Elizabeth J. Hays, George W., James C, and William H. Stewart, seven hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-six cents; to Henry Stevens, three hundred and sixty doUars; to Samuel K Stewart, two hundred and eighty-seven doUars; to Moses Taylor, one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars ; to Andrew B. Thacker, one hundred and fifty doUars; to WiUiam Thames, two hundred 148 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. and ninety-nine dollars; to Freeland W. Thornton, five hundred and eighty- eight dollars; to Isabel Towns, widow of Edmund J. Towns, two hundred and thirty-two dollars; to Eliza Tucker, administratrix of JS'elson Tucker, deceased, for herself two hundred and fourteen dollars, and to Alfred, Elizabeth, Lydia, Nelson, Patrick, and Thomas Tucker, each, fifty-three dol- lars and fifty cents ; to Hiram Tweedell, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and ten cents; to William Wallraven, one hundred and twenty -five dollars; to Martha C. Walraven, two hundred and eight dollars ; to Thomas Whit- field, four hundred and eighty-one dollars; to Lewis Wiggins, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Augustus Williams, sixty-five dollars; to Eliza Wil- liams, three hundred and sixty dollars; to Thomas A. Williams, six hundred and sixty-eight dollars ; to William E. Williamson, one hundred and seventy- five dollars; to John Wilson, one hundred and eighteen dollars; to William Wilson, thirty-eight dollars; to William W. Wright, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Henry Taeger, six hundred and eighty-four dollars. OF THE STATE OP LOUISIANA. To Monroe Baker, one thousand three hundred and twenty -five dollars; to Charles Condley, five hundred and ten dollars; to Pleasant H. Davidson, tutor of Louisa A. Davidson's heirs. Pleasant W. and William H. Davidson, for said heirs, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars; to FieldiQg Edwards, one hundred and thirty dollars; to William W. Jones, administrator of A. W. and E. G. Jones, deceased, for himself, Amelia A. Wyatt, and Eliza Jones, seven hundred dollars ; to Jules Lapene, three thousand and eighty dollars; to George Watt, four thousand and fifty-five dollars. OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. To Martin Ayres, three hundred and twenty-nine dollars; to Martha A. Booth, eight hundred and twenty dollars ; to Maximillian Bourgeois, one thousand four hundred and ten dollars; to James J. Box, administrator of James Box, deceased, for himself and Julia Causey and Yirgina M. Box, two thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents ; toDrusilla Cameron, nine hundred and fifty dollars; to Bridget Colbert, executrix of Antonio Colbert, deceased, for herself and five children, Mary, Ellen, Ann, Toney, and Kate Colbert, two thousand dollars; to James Col- quit, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Moses Davenport, one hundred dol- lars; to William Davidson, one hundred dollars; to Benjamin F. Donham one hundred and twenty dollars ; to E. T. Eggleston, executor of Sophia a! Fox, deceased, six thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars; to Mack Ferrell, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents • to Jacob Graham, five hundred and ten dollars; to Nannie Hall, eight hun- dred and eighty dollars; to Nancy Hubbard, three hundred and fifty dol- lars; to Sarah Lancaster, four hundred and fifty dollars; to James A. Max- well, seven hundred and eighty dollars; to Jane E. Morrison, executrix of George Morrison, deceased, for herself and children, one thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars; to Susan Neely, three hundred and four dollars; to John C. Skillman, seven hundred dollars; to Gray W Smith seven thousand dollars; to Alfred Swan, one hundred and forty dollars- to William L. Tabb, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Olivia A Whit tmgton, (formerly Fowler,) four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. To Wilson G. Ambrose, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Caswell Andrews, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars; to John G. Andrews one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents; to John E. Ballew' one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Samuel Baum, three hundred 'and twenty dollars; to William Blackburn, one hundred and twelve dollars- to Harrison Boiles, one hundred dollars; to Samuel D. Bragg, two thousand and twenty-five dollars; to James Brown, one hundred dollars; to John C Carrell, five hundred dollars; to John M. Carson, one hundred and fifty" MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 149 eight dollars; to Andrew C. Caldwell, one hundred dollars; to John Cordel, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Triplet Day, seventy-five dollars; to Abner A. Dixon, four hundred and thirty -five dollars and fifty cents; to Thomas Drake, executor of Elsie Drake, deceased, for his own use, one hundred and thirty-one dollars; to Keziah Drake, administratrix of James Drake, deceased, one hundred and sixty dollars; to Winston Eades, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Abigail Eldridge, two hundred and ninety- eight dollars; to Philip 0. Fletcher, two hundred doUars; to Joshua T. Foreman, three hundred and eighteen dollars; to John Prankhn, one hun- dred and forty dollars; to Isaac Garrison, sixty-eight dollars; to Mary E. Herring, widow of James Herring, for herself and children, six hundred and ninety dollars; to Exum Holland, two hundred and twenty-one doUars; to James Jimison, two hundred and forty-one dollars; to Levi Johnson, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Letty Joyce, one hundred dollars; to Eliza A. Land, one hundred and twenty dollars; to John K. Langdale, five hundred dollars; to John E. Little, five hundred and forty dollars; to Mary McBee, sixty dollars; to Jerusa A. and Julia D. McGraedy, two hun- dred dollars; to Daniel Manuel, three hundred dollars; to WiUie Millen- der, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents; to Mary Mitchum, ■widow of Aaron Mitchum, one hundred and ten dollars; to l^fehemiah Nor- ton, one hundred dollars; to William Perry, one hundred and seventy dol- lars; to Alexander Eh odes, one hundred dollars; to Job Eice, one hundred and ten dollars; to John Kose, five hundred and thirty dollars; to Henry Sampson, one hundred dollars; to John Shelton, one hundred dollars; to Jacob Shope, one hundred and twenty- five dollars; to William M. Sircy, one hundred dollars; to John Smith, of Sampson county, two hundred and and ninety-nine dollars; to John Smith, two hundred and fifty dollars ; to Mary Stanley, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Lazarus Stewart, one hundred and ninety dollars; to Samuel Stolts, sixty-eight dollars; to Benjamin B. Tatum, guardian of Mary C. and Elizabeth A. Tatum, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Aaron Thomas, four hundred and ninety-two dollars,- to John Tilley, one hundred and twelve dollars; to Eeuben G. Tilley, eighty-five dollars; to Daniel Tolson, administrator of Abner B. Howard, deceased, for himself as guardian of Milan E. Howard, one thousand four hundred dollars; to Peter D. Watkins, one hundred dol- lars; to Benjamin F. West, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Mar- garet Williams, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to David Wittenberg, one hundred dollars; to Samuel D. Tokely, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. OP THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. To Jacob Allmon, two hundred and ninety-five dollars; to Alfred An- drews, five hundred and nineteen dollars ; to Hugh L. Belk, eight hundred and sixty dollars ; to Margaret Bennett, one hundred and seventy-five dol- lars; to Charles Brant, four hundred and seventy dollars; to Eli W. Bowers, two hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents ; to John Cochran, one hundred and thirty- three dollars; to Thomas Cochran, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars ; to Emeline Condon, daughter of Argan Condon, five hundred dollars; to William Cook, ninety-three dollars and eighty cents; to Andrew Guarvin, one hundred and twenty dollars; to John P. Herndon, two hundred and thirty dollars; to Eliza L., Sarah C, and Josepha N. P. Mixon, two hundred and ninety-five dollars; to Mary Orr, one hundred and sixty-five dollars ; to Harry Quick, one hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty cents; to Philip Eeid, one hundred and ten dollars; to David Russell, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; to William Russell, four hun- dred and ninety-one dollars ; to Georgia A. C. Simmons, six hundred and fifty dollars, to Charlotte A. Smith, (now Grant,) two hundred and ninety dollars; to Mary P. Trowell, (now McAvoy,) one hundred and sixty-six dollars ; to Charles I. Williamson, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars. 38 D A 150 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. To John M. Andrews, tour hundred and twenty-three dollars; to Jesse Bailey, two hundred and sixty dollars; to James Baker, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; to ISToah Bales, one hundred and sixty dollars; to Flora A. C. Bearden, one thousand eight hundred dollars; to William S. Bivens, one hundred and thirteen dollars; to Susan Boren, one hundred and sixty dollars; to WiUiam Brassell, fifty dollars; to Anna B. Bright, and Fannie P. and Mary L. Bramlett, two thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninety-four cents; to Elizabeth Brown, two hundred dollars; to W. M. Burnett, administrator of Hopkins L. Houk, deceased, four hundred and sixty dollars; to William B. Butler, three hundred and eighty-three dollars; to Martin Butt, four hundred and eighty dollars; to James Byerley, six hundred and forty-eight dollars; to Eobert CannoUjSix hundred and seventy- five dollars; to Sophia Garden, administratrix of D. L. Ladd, deceased, one hundred and four dollars; to Alfred Carney, four hundred and twenty dol- lars ; to James M. Carpenter, seven hundred and fifty-one dollars ; to Henry N. Carter, one hundred and fifty dollars; to J. E. Castle, administrator of William W. Heninger, deceased, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John W. Cauthon, administrator of John B. Cauthon, deceased, four hun- dred dollars; to Eodham Chesnutt, six hundred and seven dollars; to Jacob L. Claman, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Merril OouncU, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Mary E. Cowgill, (now Donnelly,) one thou- sand and ninety-eight dollars; to David Cozart, seventy dollars; to Martha Cuthbertson, widow of David Cuthbertson, four hundred and forty- five dollars; to Elizabeth J. Dabbs, seven hundred and twenty- five dollars; to John Davis, senior, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Isaac A. Duncan, executor of John H. Duncan, deceased, six hundred and ninety dollars and fifty cents; to Susan Eastridge, administratrix of Bphraim Eastridge, deceased, one hundred and thirty-three dollars; to John N. Ellis, two hundred and fifty dollars; to William E. Ellis, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to James Everheart and Hugh K. Chesnutt, administrators of David Kirkpatrick, deceased, for the use and benefit of children of said deceased, one thousand and thirty dollars; to Moses M. Faught, one thousand two hundred dollars; to John G. Fields, four hundred and eighty dollars; to William F. Fowler, sixty dollars; to Josiah Gamble, four hundred and eighty-five dollars; to Isaac Gammon, one hundred and fifty-four dollars; to Charles N. Gibbs, executor of George W, Gibbs, deceased, for the grandchildren of said deceased, except George A. and Washington D. Gibbs, two hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty cents; to James Gill, two hundred and thirty-five dollars; to Wilson Goin, one hundred and forty-five dollars; to Edward Goins, one hundred dollars; to John W. Goucher, four hi^udred and ninety-seven dollars; to George L. Gray, one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars; to Newton Gray, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John F. Greer, two hundred and twenty dollars; to Westley Hamilton, thirty dollars; to John Harmon, five hun- dred and twenty -two dollars; to John Hatcher, one hundred and ninety-six dollars; to John D. Headrick, seven hundred dollars; to William and Salina Headrick, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Bazzel Hedgeoth, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to Thomas Henderson, one hundred and twenty dollars- to John C. Hinch, one hundred and sixty-five dollars; to Harris B. Hoover one hundred dollars; to James Howell, two hundred and seventy-eight dol- lars; to George Huffaker, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Pleasant A Huft'ar, four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; to Amos James one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to William M. Jeter, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Demcy Johnson, three hundred and fifty-seven dol- lars; to John A. Johnson, six hundred and fifty-two dollars; to Thomas Johnson, two hundred and sixteen dollars; to Anna Jones, two hundred dollars; to Edward Jones, one hundred and sixty-one dollars; to George W. Jones, one thousand doUars; to Henderson T. Jones, one hundred and ten dollars; to George Julian, five hundred and seventy-five dollars- to George E. Kemp, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Sarah C. King, ninetv- flve dollars ; to James Kirk, forty dollars ; to John W. Laws, ninety-five dollars - to Ai'chibald Leger, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John McCall' MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — WAS. MISCELLANEOUS. 151 two hundred and fifty dollars; to Alexander McClanahan, one hundred and forty-seven dollars; to WiUiam McMsh, one hundred and eighty dollars; to Blisha Martin, junior, one hundred and eighty-three dollars ; to Elisha Martin, junior, administrator of Elisha Martin, deceased, for himself and for Sarah Cletcher, only heirs of said Martin, deceased, seventy-two dollars; to Elizzie Martin, seventy-five dollars; to Isaac A. Martin, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars ; to John Mayes, eighty dollars ; to E. L. Milam, one hundred dollars; to Christopher Miller, one hundred and fifty dollars; to James M. Miller, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Wesley Miller, one hundred and seventeen dollars; to Joseph J. Million, three hundred and twenty-five doUars ; to Cahun G. Mitchell, five hundred and sixty-one dol- lars and twenty cents ; to John T. Mook, two hundred and sixty-two dollars ; to Daniel Morgan, one hundred and eleven dollars; to Eufus Morgan, one hundred and forty dollars: to Thomas 0. Muse, administrator of Daniel O. Muse, deceased, one hundred and eighty two dollars; to Fielding M. Nar- ramore, two hundred and fifty dollars; to William Neil, one hundred dollars; to James Newman, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Harris S. Odom, administrator of Alfred Jones, deceased, one hundred and forty dollars; to James M. O'Neal, two hundred and fifty dollars; to John Palmer, one hundred and thirty-two dollars; to Elizabeth Parham, two hundred and eighty-four dollars; to Levi T. Patterson, one hundred dollars; to Dennis Patterson, son of Simon Patterson, deceased, for himself, Davey, Elmore, Simeon, and Milly Patterson, two hundred dollars ; to George W. Peters, three hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-six cents; to Nancy E. Pickler, widow of James W. Pickler, one hundred and eighty-nine doUars; to John Pierce, three hundred and seventeen dollars; to Thomas E. Eackard, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to John W. Eamsey, three hundred and ninety-one dollars ; to John A. Eawlings, one hundred and forty dollars ; to Jane Eead, one hundred dollars; to William A. Eead, fifty-one dollars; to Wyatt Eeed, forty dollars; to James Eichardson, ninety- three dollars; to Linesy Eose, one hundred and five dollars; to J. C. Ogles, administrator of Susan Eucker, deceased, eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents; to George J. Eule, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Oliver P. Eunyon, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Thomas F. Saffel, four hun- dred and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents; to William C. Sanders, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Moses Segraves, two hundred and eighty dollars; to John W. Shaver, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; toLovedy J. A. Shaw, widow of Bbenezer Shaw, one hundred and fifty dollars ; to Jesse Sheppard, three hundred dollars ; to S usan Simmons, one hundred and ten dol- lars; to Jesse Simpson, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents; to John A. Smith, two hundred and ninety dollars; to WiUiam H. Snodgrass, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Frederick A. Starkey, four hun- dred and thirty -five dollars; to Collier A. Steed, four hundred and thirty- two dollars and fifty cents; to Sarah A. Stephenson, four hundred and seventy-five doUars; to Catharine T. Story, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Thomas Stroud, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars; to Ter- rell Sweat, three hundred and fifty six doUars; to James Talent, five hun- dred and five dollars; to Caswell C. Taylor, three hundred and twenty doUars; to Evan L. Teague, one hundred and eighteen doUars; to Benja- min F. Test, one hundred and ninety-six dollars; to Shadrach Thomas, one hundred and fifteen dollars; to James A. Thompson, one hundred dollars; to John J. A. Thompson, seventy -nine doUars and sixty cents; to Calvin T. Thurman, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Brackin Tinsley, one hun- dred doUars; to Thomas J. Wakefield, four hundred and twenty doUars; to Charles Walker, forty-five doUars and fifty cents; to Sarah M. Walker, sixty doUars; to Samuel WaUace, junior, ninety-nine dollars; to L. L. Wal- ters, five hundred dollars; to Samuel B. Watkins, one thousand seven hun- dred and eighty-one doUars; to Felix G. Wayland, two hundred and forty- seven dollars; to Henry Webb, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars; to Walter O. West, executor of Samuel A. West, deceased, two hundred dol- lars; to Mrs. Thomas 0. White, three hundred and eighteen doUars; to Jacob Widner, one hundred and four dollars ; to Powell W. WiUiams, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars; to Peter Wolfenbarger, thirty-seven dol- 152 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. lars; to William H. Wood, six hundred and seventy dollars; to William H. Wood, t-ffo thousand and seventy -nine dollars; to Allcey Yates, two hun- dred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. OP THE STATE OF TEXAS. To James G-. Browne, four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars; to Ann O., Sam M., and Sidney Johnson, one thousand nine hundred and eighty -six dollars; to Margaret Menly, one thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars. OP THE STATE OP VIEGINIA. To Blias Adkins, two hundred and seventy dollars; to Spottswell, Wil- liam. Nemo, Eobert, James, and Aurelius Adkins, and Eebecca A. Eitson, four hundred and ten doUars; to Susan E. Ager, five hundred and eighty- eight dollars ; to William Alexander, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars ; to William Anderson, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Elias An- drews, three hundred and sixty dollars; to William L. Ashton, one hundred and forty dollars; to George Baker, two hundred dollars; to Samuel Ball, twenty dollars ; to Amos Beans, two hundred and fifty dol- lars; to Eebecca Blackwell, three hundred and forty- two doUars and fifty cents; to Terrill Bradby, administrator of Archie Miles, deceased, one hun- dred and forty-nine dollars; to Albert Brown, eighty dollars; to Edmund C. Brown, one hundred and fifty-five dollars; to Maria Brown, widow of Samuel T. Brown, and to Augustus M. and Henry Brown, Amanda C. Sweet, and Sarah B. Gardner, six hundred and fifteen dollars; to Sylvanus T. Brown, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Warren A. Brown, eighty- eight dollars; to Joseph H. Bundy, seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to Eyburn Bundy, sixty-five dollars; to Warner Bundy, sixty-four doUars; to Thomas A. Chambliss, five hundred and forty-five dollars; to William Charity, one hundred dollars; to Florence F. Armstrong, WUliam E. Clark, and John A. Baker, guardian of John T. Clark and Fannie G. Clark, six hundred and ten dollars; to Joseph H. Cockrille, two hundred and fifty dollars; to Caroline Cook, administratrix of Major Cook, deceased, one hundred dollars; to Oliver Cox, administrator of Philip H. Minor, deceased, for the use and benefit of Smith Minor, one thousand four hundred and three doUars and forty-two cents; to Samuel Crim, five hun- dred and fifty-three dollars; to WUUam Crim, one hundred and fifty dollars; to James H. Crocker, three hundred and eighty-nine dollars; to Carter G. Oropp, two thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars; to WiUiam Daniel, forty-two dollars and fifty cents; to Mary E. Davis, one hundred and five dollars; to John Dean, one hundred and twenty-one doUars and twenty-five cents; to Lewis Edwards, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to EUza Ely, five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; to John B. Everhart, five hundred and fifty-eight doUars; to Jacob Ferguson, eighty- five dollars ; to Mary L. Pinnall and Solomon E. Moxley, guardian of children of EUza Ann Moxley, deceased, two thousand niae hundred and ninety dol- lars; to Fielding Pleshman, seventy doUars; to G. Hanson Flowerree, ninety doUars; to WUliam Fox, three hundred and twenty dollars; to Catharine Fravel, thirty doUars; to Alexander E. Garrison, one hundred and twenty-five doUars; to EUzabeth Hale, sixty doUars; to Susan P. W. HaU, three hundred doUars; to Hugh Hammill, five hundred and eighty doUars; to Eichard Heater, executor of John Heater, deceased, seven hun- dred and twenty-five doUars; to WUliam P. HUlery, seventy-two doUars- to PhiUp B. Hooe, trustee for the heirs of George D. Fowle, deceased one thousand dollars; to Gideon Householder, administrator of Mary Wenner, deceased, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Blucher HudnaU three hundred and ninety-five doUars; to Charles W. Johnson, one hundred and fifty doUars; to Peter Kemper, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one doUars; to Eobert H. Kenney, one hundred and seventy -two doUars- to WUliam H. Krantz, four hundred dollars; to Mary Lamb, forty-eight dol- lars; to Nancy Langston, executrix of James Langston, deceased, two hun- dred and seventy-eight doUars; to WiUiam C. Langston, one hundred and MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT — WAR MISCELLANEOUS. 153 forty-nine dollars; to James Light, one hundred and fifty dollars; to Samuel Lipes, two hundred and seventy-five dollars ; to Thomas Lowry, one hun- dred and forty -three dollars and seventy-five cents; to Mary E. Martain, sixty-five dollars; to Martha Mayo, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Andrew Milbourn, one thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and' fifty cents ; to Cora E. Money, widow of Olmstead Money, fifty dollars ; to William Moore, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to William Moreland, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Lucy H. Morton, administratrix of James Morton, deceased, for the use and benefit of James Morton, Caroline Morton, and William Morton, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and six cents; to Henry Mosby, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Jacob B. Moses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Elizabeth Mummaw, two hundred and eighty-six dollars ; to Octavia L. New, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Elizabeth M. Osmun, widow, and to Little C, Jeremiah M., and Lewis M. Osmun, Kate Skinner, and Annie M. Lee, heirs of Joseph Osmun, deceased, four hundred and fifty-four dollars ; to Edmund Otey, one hun- dred dollars; to Eli S. Patterson, four hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents; to Benjamin T. Boston, executor of William W. Boston, de- ceased, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Edwin H. Potts, five hundred dollars; to Isaiah K. Brice, one hundred and fourteen dollars; to James Russell, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To William A. Scisson, ad- ministrator of Eobert T. Scisson, deceased, for the use and benefit of Nancy EUen Scisson, widow of said deceased, one hundred dollars and sixty-seven cents; Lucy Scisson, widow, Eobert Scisson, Rebecca Roach, widow, Eu- gene T. Scisson, heirs of John A. Scisson, deceased; William A. Scisson, son of Robert T. Scisson, deceased; Elizabeth Vincent, daughter of Maria Burgess, deceased; George W. Wren, son of Sallie Wren; Robert L. Scis- son ; Minty, Thomas L., Bocahontas, and Blanche Mills, children of Harriet E. Mills, deceased; Alton J. and Harriet Dewey, children of Ann M. Dewey, deceased, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixteen cents. To Amos Scott, six hundred and ninety dollars; to Andrew Seitz, administrator of Samuel H. Edwards, deceased, one hundred and eighty-six dollars; to Samuel A. Shaver, three hundred and seven dollars and twenty-five cents; to Simeon Shaw, four hundred and thirty-one dollars; to Thomas Shelton, one hundred and ninety dollars ; to Henry C. Shipley, one thousand one hundred and five dollars; to James Smith, two hundred and sixty-five dol- lars ; to Susan Ann Snoots, one hundred and eighty dollars ; to Isaac S. Stone, five hundred and twenty -three dollars and ten cents; to George W. Stream, ninety-three dollars ; to Barnett Sutphin, one thousand three hun- dred and one dollars and fifty cents; to Frank Sweat, one hundred and five dollars ; to Richard Sykes, executor of WiUiam James, deceased, five hun- dred and ninety dollars ; to Spottswood Tahaferro, one hundred and ten dollars; to WilHam Terry, four hundred and nineteen dollars; to Edward R. Thomas, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Jane Thomas, two hundred dollars; to Joseph T. Thomas, executor of Mary Mitchell, deceased, for the use and benefit of Mrs. Belinda Thomas, Mrs. Mary A. Neilson, and Mrs. Frances A. Xaupi, five hundred and three dollars ; to Lucinda Thomas, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; to Talmadge Thorn, two hundred dol- lars; to John R. Timmons, one hundred dollars; to Daniel Tyler, three hundred and forty dollars; to John Wall, eight hundred and sixty dollars; to George S. Wenner, three hundred and sixty dollars; to Jacob S. Wen- ner, administrator of Jacob Wenner, deceased, three hundred and fifty-three dollars; to Jennie Willoughby, Marion Monteith, Fenton Monteith, and Lucy Monteith, five hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-three cents; to Sarah R. Williams, two hundred and twenty-two dollars; to Eliza A. Wood- ward, three hundred and sixty dollars. OP THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. To James T. Hazlewood, one hundred and twenty dollars ; to Hamilton J. Keiter, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Benjamin Lock, one thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars; to Remington S. Lock, four hundred and ten dollars ; to James W. McCloy, one hundred and fifty-seven "dollars; to Jacob J. Miller, five hundred and five dollars; to Joseph Wel- 39 D A 154 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. shans, two hundred and thirty dollars. Sec. 2. That the cases of Catha- rine A. Schafer, administratrix of Wall 0. Bradford, deceased ; William C. Napur, of Tennessee; Dobson, of Tennessee; Mrs. Julia Elliott, widow and administratrix of Newell D. Elliott, deceased ; Charles M. Holder, James Monroe, Mrs. Ellen G. Sleemaker, Alexander Davis, Alexander W. McCon- nell, Ada Benham, Thomas McGuire; John E. Watkins, administrator of Martha W. Anderson, deceased ; Armistead Burwell, David J. Franklin, Hugh Core, Elias E. Core, Eli T. Diamond, James W. Pettigrew, Jesse H. Harper; Martha A. Jones, widow of John E. Jones ; Charles Aylifif, William McKnight, William If. Eobertson, Henry O. Sykes, Mary McMannaman, William McK. Hall, James G. Belden, Martha Ann Gardner, John Larkin, Silas M. Luck, John E. Stutts, James G. Moore, and Harman Mickle, and Eobert G. Coleman, be, and they are hereby, referred to the Commissioners of Claims for re-examination and report ; and the said Commissioners of Claims shall have full jurisdiction and authority to reopen, examine, and consider the said cases, and to make report thereon to Congress, as in cases provided for in the second section of the act authorizing the appointment of the said commissioners, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. In the case of James G. Belden, the commissioners have au- thority to inquire as to the interest of the widow and heirs of Charles Bod- fish, deceased. In the case of Armistead Burwell and Mrs. Julia Elliott, widow and administratrix of Newell D. Elliott, the commissioners are di- rected to receive and act upon aU testimony filed in the case in the same manner as if it had been taken orally before them. In these cases, men- tioned in this section, the commissioners are authorized to take additional testimony, both on behalf of the Government and the claimant, as the com- missioners may in justice deem proper. Sec. 3. That so much of section one of the act approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, chapter two hundred and forty-three, as appropriates the sum of three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty cents to the payment of George B,, David J., Edwin, Earnest, and Julius Neal, minor children of George V. Neal, deceased, is hereby repealed, and the like amount is hereby appropriated to the payment of George B., David Y., J. Edward, Earnest, and Julius Neal, children of George V. 'Seal, and legatees of Thomas Neal, deceased. Sec. 4. That so much of section one of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as appropriates the sum of three hundred and ten dollars to the payment of Daniel Collins, is hereby re- pealed, and the like amount is hereby appropriated to the payment of Ee- becca OoUins, wife of Daniel Collins. [The total amount appropriated is two hundred and ninety-five thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and six cents.] — Act March 3, 1879 ^295 G49 06 IVATY DEPARTMENT. Salaries, Office of Secretary of Navy, 1880.— For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy eight thousand dollars; for compensation of the chief clerk of the S&yj De- partment, two thousand five hundred dollars; one disbursing clerk two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class three' one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers; and two laborers; in all, thirty-four thou- sand eight hundred and sixty dollars. [The correct amount appropriated by items, is thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars.] For one stenographer at one thousand six hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879. ' 36 700 no Contingent Expenses, Office of Secretary of Navy, 1880.— For stationery, furniture, newspapers ;'"""" and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 2l' Salaries, Bureau of Yards and BocTcs, 1880 — For one chief clerk, one thoiisand eight hun ^' ^^^ ^^ dred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars- one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two- one clerk of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant me'ssen NAVY DEPARTMENT. 155 ger; and one laborer; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 $11,980 00 Contingent Expenses, Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1880. — For stationery, books, plans, draw- ings, labor, and miscellaneous items, six hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 . 600 00 Salaries, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1880. — For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 11, 780 00 Contingent Eocpenses, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1880. — For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 500 00 Salaries, Bureau of Navigation, 1880. — For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, six thousand one hundred and eightv dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 6, 180 00 Contingent Expenses, Bureau of Navigation, 1880. — For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 400 00 Salaries, Bureau of Ordnance, 1880. — For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, seven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 7, 980 00 Contingent Expenses, Bureau of Ordnance, 1880. — For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 ' 400 00 Salaries, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1880. — For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four ; one clerk of class three ; one clerk of class two ; one clerk of class one ; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, ten thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 10, 980 00 Contingent Eocpenses, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1880. — For stationery and miscel- laneous items, four hundred dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 400 00 Salaries, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1880. — For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant draughtsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, ten thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 10, 180 00 Contingent Expenses, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1880. — For stationery and miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 700 00 Salaries, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1880. — ^For chief clerk, one thousand eight hun- dred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 14, 580 00 Contingent Expenses, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1880.— For stationery and miscel- laneous items, four hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 400 00 Salaries, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1880.— For chief clerk, one thousand eight hun- dred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, five thousand seven hun- dred and eighty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 780 00 Contingent Expenses, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1880.— For stationery and miscella- neous items, one hundred dollars. — Act June 21 , 1879 100 00 Salaries, Superintendent, &c., Navy-Department Building, 1880.— For one superintendent of the building occupied by the Navy Department, and for five watchmen and two laborers; in all, five thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. To maintain a force of watchmen and laborers to protect and to attend to the old building occupied by the Navy Department, namely, for four watchmen and two laborers, to be put on duty when the building is vacated, four thousand two hundred dollars. To provide for an additional force for the proper care of and for service in the new building, namely, one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one conductor for the elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and eight char- women, at one hundred and eighty dollars each, to be employed when the 156 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. new building shall be taken possession of, a sufficient sum is hereby appro- priated.— Act June 21, 1879 - ---• $15,890 00 Salaries, Superintendent, &c., Navy-J)epartment Building, 1879. — To maintain a force of watchmen and laborers to protect and to attend to the old building occupied by the Navy Department, namely, for four watchmen and two laborers, to be put on duty when the building is vacated, four thousand two hundred dollars, [an expenditure of nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-two cents incurred in the fiscal year 1879.] To provide for an additional force for the proper care of and for service in the new building, namely, one en- gineer, one thousand two hundred doUars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one conductor for the elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and eight charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each, to be employed when the new building shall be taken possession of, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated, [an expenditure of two hundred and seventy-five dol- lars incurred in the fiscal year 1879.]— Act June 21, 1879 1, 227 42 Contingent Expenses, Navy-Bepartment Building, 1880. — For fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars; for incidental labor, fuel, lights, and miscella- neous items for said building, five thousand doUars. — Act June 21, 1879 ... 7, 000 00 Furniture, New Building, Navy Department, 1879 and 1880. — For furniture, and fitting up shelving, file-cases, fire-apparatus, and similar necessaries for the Secretary's office and the bureaus of the Kavy Department in the east wing of the new building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, to be available as re- quired, under direction of the Secretarv of the Navy, fifty thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 \ 50, 000 00 Postage, Navy Department, 1880. — Sec. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively, of the Depart- ments of State, of the Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Postmaster- General for the necessary amount of postage-stamps for the use of their De- partments, not exceeding the amounts stated in the estimates submitted to Congress; and, upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treas- ury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department for the same fiscal year. — Act June 21, 1879 20, 000 00 NATAI. ESTABIilSHMENT. AN ACT to amend sections fourteen hundred and seventeen, fourteen hundred and eighteen, fourteen hundred and nineteen, fourteen hundred and twenty, and sixteen hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the Navy. Be it enacted hy the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section fourteen hundred and seventeen of the Eevised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows : " Sec. 1417. The number of persons who may at one time be enlisted into the Navy of the United States, including seamen, ordinary seamen landsmen, mechanics, firemen, and coal-heavers, and including seven hun- dred and fifty apprentices and boys, hereby authorized to be enlisted annu- ally, shall not exceed eight thousand two hundred and fifty: Provided That, in the appointment of warrant-officers in the naval service of the United States, preference shall be given to men who have been honora- bly discharged upon the expiration of an enlistment as an apprentice or boy, to serve during minority, and re-enlisted within three months after such discharge, to serve during a term of three or more years: Provided further. That nothing in this act shall be held to abrogate the provisions of section fourteen hundred and seven of the Eevised Statutes of the United States." That section fourteen hundred and eighteen be amended so as to read as follows : "Sec. 1418. Boys between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years mav be enlisted to serve in the Navy until they shall arrive at the age of twenty- NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. 157 one years; other persons may be enlisted to serve for a period not exceeding five years, unless sooner discharged by direction of the President." That section fourteen hundred and nineteen be amended so as to read as follows : '' Sec. 1419. Minors between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years shall not be enlisted for the naval service without the consent of their parents or guardians." That section fourteen hundred and twenty be amended so as to read as follows : " Sec. 1420. No minor under the age of fifteen years, no insane or in- toxicated person, and no deserter from the naval or military service of the United States shall be enlisted in the naval service." That article nineteen of section sixteen hundred and twenty-four be amended so as to read as follows : "Sec. 1624, Article 19. Any officer who knowingly enlists into the naval service any deserter from the naval or military service of the United States, or any insane or intoxicated person, or any minor between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years, without the consent of his parents or guardian, or any minor under the age of fifteen years, shall be punished as a court- martial may direct." Approved, May 12, 1879. AN ACT to abolish the Volunteer Navy of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to organize a board of five line-officers of the Navy, none of whom shall be below the grade of captain, whose duty it shall be to make an examination of the line-officers now composing the Volunteer Navy of the United States, which examination shall be such as is required in the examination of officers for promotion ; and, farther, that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to organize a board of five medical officers of the Navy, none of whom shall be below the grade of lieutenant- commander, whose duty it shall be to make an examination of the eighteen acting and three acting passed assistant surgeons now in the service, should they desire to i^resent themselves, which examination shall be such as is required in the examination of medical officers for admission as assistant surgeons 5 and in all cases where said board shall find that such officers are professionally, morally, and physically qualified to perform the duties of their position, and shall so report to the Secretary of the Navy, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint such officers in the line and assistant surgeons in the Regular Navy of the United States. And in the cases of officers who may not be found to be either professionally, morally, or physi- cally qualified to discharge the duties of their position, then said officers shall be mustered out of the service of the Government, within six months from the passage of this act, with one year's pay: Provided, That in the event of physical disqualification which occurred in the line of duty, such officer may, upon the recommendation of a retiring-board, be placed upon the retired list, with the pay to officers of like designation in the Eegular Navy. Sec 2. That from and after the passage of this act the Secretary of the Navy shall not appoint acting assistant surgeons for temporary service, as authorized by section fourteen hundred and eleven, Eevised Statutes, except in case of war. Approved, February 15, 1879. Pay of the Navy. — For the pay of the Navy: For the active list, namely, one Admiral, one Vice-Admiral, eleven rear-admirals, eight chiefs of bureau, (commodores,) twenty-four commodores, forty-seven captains, ninety commanders, eighty lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and eighty lieutenants, one hundred and one masters, one hundred ensigns, one hundred and four midshipmen, fourteen medical directors, fifteen medical inspectors, fifty surgeons, eighty- 40 D A 158 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. six passed assistant surgeons, fourteen assistant surgeons, twelve pay- directors, thirteen pay-inspectors, fifty paymasters, thirty passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymastei'S, sixty-nine chief engineers, ninety- eight passed assistant engineers, sixty-six assistant engineers, twenty-four chaplains, twelve professors of mathematics, ten naval constructors, five assistant naval constructors, nine civil engineers, two hundred and one warrant-officers, forty-three mates, two hundred and fifty cadet midship- men, additional for thirty-eight cadet midshipmen at sea, one hundred cadet engineers and twenty-five to be admitted in eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, additional for twenty-three cadet engineers when at sea, one acting master, one acting ensign, three acting passed assistant surgeons, and eigh- teen acting assistant surgeons, three million eight hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For pay of the retired list, namely, for forty-six rear-admirals, twenty-five commodores, sixteen captains, thirteen commanders, fourteen lieutenant-commanders, six lieu- tenants, fourteen masters, five ensigns, two midshipmen, four surgeon- generals, twenty-one medical directors, one medical inspector, two surgeons, two passed assistant surgeons, five assistant surgeons, three paymaster- generals, five pay-directors, three paymasters, two passed assistant pay- masters, two assistant paymasters, four chief engineers, seventeen passed assistant engineers, twenty-four assistant engineers, seven chaplains, six professors of mathematics, one chief constructor, four naval constructors, nine boatswains, five gunners, thirteen carpenters, and thirteen sailmakers, six hundred and forty-five thousand four hundred dollars. For pay to petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers' force, and for the Coast-Survey service, not exceeding seven thousand five hundred men in all, two million three hundred thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 $6, 768, 275 00 Pay, Miseellaneous.—FoT secretaries to the Admiral and Vice-Admiral, clerks to fleet-pay- masters, paymasters of vessels, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and sta- tions, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge ; exchange and mileage, and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, in excess of the numbers for each class pro- vided for in this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ; and should the sums hereinbefore appropriated for the pay of the officers on the active and retired lists of the Navy be insufficient, then, and .in that case, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use any and all balances which may be due, or become due, to "Pay of the Navy" from the other bureaus of the Department, for that purpose.— Act February 14, 1879 , 475 000 00 Contingent, Navy, 1880.— For contingent expenses of the Navy, namely : For rent and fur- ' niture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining-boards, with clerks' and witnesses' fees, and travelling expenses and costs; stationery and recording ; expenses of purchasing-paymasters' offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses ■ newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; copying; mail and express-wagons and livery and express-fees and freight; all books for the use of the Navy; care of library; experts' fees and costs of suits ; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges- rehef of vessels in distress and pilotage; recovery of valuables from ship- wrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports professional investigation, and information from abroad; and all other emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but im- possible to be anticipated or classified, eighty thousand dollars Act Feb- Contingent, Navy, 1876.-To pay Leigh Brothers & Phelps,' of Norfolk', 'Virginia; 'commi's- ^^' ^^^ ^^ sions on sale at public auction of the "Macedonian" and "Saint Florence " United States ships, four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fiftv-si'x cents.— Act March 3, 1879 u mt^ hix , ^„ ^^ ' 4/9 56 -». NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT MARINE CORPS. 159 MARINE COEPS. Pay, Marine Corps. — For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, as follows: One colonel-com- mandant, four thousand five hundred dollars; one colonel, four thousand five hundred dollars; two lieutenant-colonels, eight thousand dollars; one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, and one paymaster, two at three thousand five hundred dollars and one at three thousand dollars per annum, ten thousand dollars; four majors, fourteen thousand dollars; two assistant quartermasters, one at two thousand eight hundred dollars and one at two thousand six hundred dollars per annum, five thousand four hundred dol- lars; twenty captains, one at two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars and nineteen at two thousand three hundred and forty dollars per annum, forty -six thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; thirty first lieutenants, fifteen at one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, thirteen at one thou- sand eight hundred dollars, and two at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per annum, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; twenty second lieutenants, eleven at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and nine at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, twenty-nine thou- sand five hundred and forty dollars; one brigadier-general, (retired list,) four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; one lieutenant-colonel, (retired list,) three thousand dollars; four majors, (retired list,) three at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and one at two thousand two two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, ten thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; one assistant quartermaster, (retired list,) two thou- sand one hundred dollars; three captains, (retired list,) one at one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, one at one thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars, and one at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, four thousand four hundred and fifty -five dollars; two first lieutenants, (retired list,) two thousand seven hundred dollars; three second lieutenants, (retired list,) one at one thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars and two at one thousand and fifty dollars per annum, three thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars; one leader of the band, one thousand and eighty dollars; one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, and and one drum-major, one thousand and eighty dollars; fifty first sergeants, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars; one hundred and forty sergeants, niuety at seventeen dollars and fifty at twenty-two dollars per month, thirty- one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; one hundred and eighty cor- porals, one hundred and thirty at fifteen dollars and fifty at twenty dollars per month, thirty -five thousand four hundred dollars; thirty musicians, seven at forty dollars, eight at twenty-six dollars, and fifteen at twenty- three dollars per month, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dol- lars; ninety-six drummers and fifers, seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars; one thousand five hundred privates, six hundred at thirteen dollars, five hundred at sixteen dollars, four hundred at eighteen dollars per month, two hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars; ten clerks and two messengers, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, twenty thousand dollars; transportation of officers travelling without troops, five thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, ten thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and forty-eight thou- sand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars. — ^Act February 14, 1879 $648, 397 00 Pay, Clerics, Marine Corps, 1879. — For pay of clerks and messengers, five thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 5, 714 47 Pay Clothing Undrawn, Marine Corps, 1879. — For undrawn clothing, three thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Provisions, Marine Corps, 1880. — For provisions, seventy-five thousand and seven dollars and fifty cents.— Act February 14, 1879 75,007 50 Clothing, Marine Corps, 1880. — For clothing, sixty thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 . 60, 000 00 Fuel, Marine Corps, 1880. — For fuel, twenty thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 20, 000 00 Military Stores, Marine Corps, 1880.— For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; three mechanics, at two dollars arid fifty cents per day each; repairs of arms, purchase of accoutre- ments, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, five thou- 160 DIGEST OP APPEOPEIATIONS. sand dollars; for purchase of new instruments for the band, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand six hundred and eighty-six dol- lars and fifty cents.— Act February 14, 1879 $9, 686 50 Military Stores, Marine Corps, 1879. — To pay certain amounts due under Quartermaster's department. Marine Corps: For pay of mechanics, one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars ; for purchase of flags, drum-heads, and similar necessaries, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Transportation, and Becruiting, Marine Corps, 1880. — For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, seven thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 7, 000 00 Repairs of Barracks, Marine Corps, 1880. — For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, thirteen thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 13, 000 00 Forage for Morses, Marine Corps, 1880 For forage for three public horses, one for messen- ger to commandant and staff, Washington, District of Columbia, and two for general use at marine barracks, Mare Island, California, five hundred dol- lars—Act February 14, 1879 500 00 Contingent, Marine Corps, 1880. — For contingencies, namely: Freight, ferriage, toll, cart- age, per diem for constant labor, wharfage, purchase and repair of boats, labor, burial of deceased marines, stationery, telegraphing, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, gas, repairs of gas and water-fixtures, water-rent, barrack-furniture, furniture for officers' quarters, bedsacks, wrapping-paper, oil-cloth, crash, rope, twine, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters' tools, repairs to fire-engines, purchase and repair of engine-hose, purchase of lum- ber for benches, mess-tables, bunks, purchase and repair of harness, pur- chase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows, scavengering, purchase and repair of galleys, cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates, gravel for parade-grounds, repair of pumps; brushes, brooms, buck- ets, paving; and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars. — Act Febru- ary 14, 1879 20, 000 00 NAVAL ACADEMY. Pay, If aval Academy, 1880, under the following heads of appropriations, (act Februarv 14, 1879,) viz: ^^ i- , \ j Pay, Professors and, others. Naval Academy, 1880. — For pay of professors and others: For two professors, (heads of departments,) namely, one of drawing and one of modern languages, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars ; three professors, namely, one of physics, (assistant,) one of chemistry, (assistant,) and one of Spanish, (assistant,) at two thousand two hundred dollars each; seven assistant professors, namely, four of French, two of English studies, history, and laws, and one of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; swordmaster, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand -dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; secretary of the Naval Academy, one thousand eight hundred doUars; and assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars, respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, one thousand dollars; one clerk to paymaster, one thousand dollars; one apothecary seven hundred and fifty dollars; one baker, six hundred dollars; one me- chanic m department of physics and chemistry, six hundred dollars- one messman, two hundred and eighty-eight doUars; one cook, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents ; one messenger to superintendent six hundred dollars; one armorer, five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner's mate, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fiftv cents, and one quarter-gunner, four hundred and nine dollars and fiftv cents • one cockswam, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fiftv cents • one sea- man in the department of seamanship, one seaman in the department of astronomy and one seaman in the department of physics and chemistrv at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents each; one bandmaster five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second-class musidans NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT — NAVAL ACADEMY. 161 at three hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-six dollars $53, 126 00 Pay, Watchmen and others, Naval Academy, 1880. — Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per day; four watchmen, at two dollars per day; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works, at five dollars per diem ; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works of academy, one at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars per day each; one steam-pipe fitter, seven hundred and thirty dollars; one foreman of joiners, one foreman of painters, and one foreman of masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each ; two joiners, one painter, and one mason, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in aU, twenty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars 24, 455 00 Pay, Mechanics and others, Naval Academy, 1880. — Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at two dollars and twenty -five cents per diem; one master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty- eight cents per diem; fourteen laborers, to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each and eleven at one dollar and fifty cents per diem each ; one laborer, to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public grounds, at two dollars per diem; six attendants at recitation-rooms, library, chapel and ofBces, and store, at twenty dollars per month each ; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, sixteen thou- sand eight hundred and thirty- five dollars and ninety-five cents 16, 835 95 Pay, Steam-Employes, Naval Academy, 1880. — For pay of employes in the department of steam-enginery: For master-machinist, boiler-maker, and pattern-maker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two machinists, one blacksmith, and one moulder, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem each; and two laborers, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents 8, 577 50 Total Pay, lifaval Academy, 1880 . . 102, 994 45 Repairs, Naval Academy, 1880. — For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls, enclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 $21, 000 00 Heating and Lighting, Naval Academy, 1880. — For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships, seventeen thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 .' 17, 000 00 Contingent, Naval Academy, 1880, under the following heads of appropriations, (act February 14, 1879,) viz: Library, Naval Academy, 1880. — For purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars . $2, 000 00 Stationery, Naval Academy, 1880. — For stationery, blank books, models, maps, and so forth, and for text-books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars 2, 000 00 Chemistry, Naval Academy, 1880. — For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments, in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars 2, 500 00 Stores, Naval Academy, 1880. — For stores in the department of steam-enginery, eight hun- dred dollars 800 00 Materials, Naval Academy, 1880. — For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, one thou- sand dollars 1, 000 00 Board of Visitors, Naval Academy, 1880. — For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, two thousand six hundred dollars That from and after the passage of this act there shall be appointed every year, in the following manner, a Board of Visitors, to attend the annual examination of the acad- emy : Seven persons shall be appointed by the President, and two Senators and three Members of the House of Eepresentatives shall be designated as visitors by the Vice-President or President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives, respectively, at the session of 41 D A 162 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Congress next preceding such examination. Each member of said board shall receive not exceeding eight cents per mile travelled by the most direct route from his residence to Annapolis, and eight cents per mile for each mile from said place to his residence on returning - $2, 600 00 Miscellaneous, Naval Academy, 1880. — For purchase of gas and steam-machinery, steam- pipe and fixtures, rent of building for the use of the academy, freight, cart- age, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, and for the current expenses and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other ap- propriation, thirty-four thousand six hundred dollars 34, 600 00 Total Contingent, Naval Academy, 1880 45, 500 00 BUEEAU OF NAVIGATION. Navigation and Navigation Supplies, Bureau of Navigation, 1880. — For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, forty-five thousand dollars; for services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars; for nautical and astro- nomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war, nine thousand dollars; for books for libraries for ships of war, two thousand dollars; for navy-sig- nals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books, six thousand dollars; for com- pass-fittings, binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of chips' compasses, three thousand dollars; for logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, and leads and other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars; for lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters' use, five thousand dol- lars ; for bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds, four thousand dollars; for oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, running-lights, for chimneys and wicks, and soap, used in navigation department, twenty thousand dollars; for stationery for com- manders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts martial, one thousand five hundred dollars; for musical instruments and music for ves- sels of war, one thousand dollars; for steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 $104 500 00 Hydrographic WorTc, Bureau of Navigation, 1880. — For drawing, engraving, and printing ' and photo-Hthographing charts, purchase of chart-paper, correcting old plates, preparing and pubhshing sailing directions, and other hydrographic information, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That all charts hereafter furnished to mariners or others not in the Grovernment service shall be paid for at the cost price of paper and printing paid by the Government ; for fuel, light, and ofiice-furniture, care of building and other labor, purchase of books for library, drawing materials and other stationery, postage freight, and other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars ; for rent and repair of building, two thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879. ... 46 000 00 Civil EstaUishment, Bureau of Navigation, 1880. — For the civil establishment, ten thousand ' four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Act February 14, 1879 -j^Q ^-^„ 25 Contingent, Bureau of Navigation, 1880.— For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navi- ' gation, namely; For freight and transportation of navigation materials- postage and telegraphing on public business; advertising for proposals' packing-boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, two thou- sand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 2 000 00 Naval Observatory, Bureau of Navigation, 1880.— For expenses of Naval " Observatorv namely : For pay of three assistant astronomers, at one thousand five hun- dred dollars each, four thousand five hundred dollars ; and one clerk at one thousand six hundred dollars ; for wages of one instrument-maker one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, ETC. 163 and repairs to buildings and enclosures ; for fuel, light, and office-furniture ; and for stationery, chemicals for batteries, and freight ; labor and all other contingent expenses, twelve thousand dollars ; for reducing and transcrib- ing astronomical and meteorological observations for publication, two thou- sand two hundred dollars ; for professional books for library, one thousand dollars; for repairs to dome of twenty-six inch telescope, three hundred dollars ; for changing the method of controlling clocks and time-signals, five hundred dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 $22, 100 00 Solar and Stellar Photography, Naval Observatory. — For the United States Naval Observa- tory, * * * for solar and stellar photography, one thousand dollars; which shall be immediately available. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 lll-mtrations for Report on Solar Eclipse, Naval Observatory. — For the United States Kaval Observatory, * * » for illustrations for report on the eclipse of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars ; which shall be immediately available. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Observations of the California Eclipse, Naval Observatory. — For the United States Naval Observatory, * * * for observing the California eclipse, January, eigh- teen hundred and eighty, six hundred dollars ; which shall be immediately available.— Act March 3, 1879 600 00 Wood-cuts of Nebula in Orion., Naval Observatory. — For the United States Naval Observa- tory, » * » and for thirty-five wood-cuts of nebula in Orion, three hundred and fifty dollars; which shall be immediately available. — Act March 3, 1879 350 00 Nautical Almanac, Bureau of Navigation, 1880. — For pay of computers and clerk for pre- paring for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, nineteen thousand dollars; for rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, books, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars; for ephemeris of new planets discovered by American astronomers, two thou- sand doUars.— Act February 14, 1879. 22, 500 00 Velocity of Light, Nautical Almanac, 1880. — To enable the Secretary of the Navy to make certain expenditures in experimenting with a view to obtain a correct knowledge of the velocity of light, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . 5, 000 00 BUEEAU OF OEDNANCB. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Bureau of Ordnance, 1880. — For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the current daily work of the mechanical branches of the ordnance department at the several navy-yards, magazines, and stations, fifty thousand dollars; for labor at aU the navy -yards, maga- zines, and stations, in fitting ships for sea and in preserving ordnance ma- terial, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ; for necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, fifty thousand dol- lars.— Act February 14, 1879 225, 000 00 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, 1880. — For the civil establishment, eleven thou- sand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. — Act Feb- ruary 14,1879 , 11, 886 25 Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, 1880. — For miscellaneous items, namely: For freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, and auctioneers' fees, cartage and express-charges, repairs to fire-engines, gas and water-pipes, gas and water- tax at magazines, toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams, three thou- sand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 3, 000 00 Torpedo Corps, Bureau of Ordnance, 1880. — For the Torpedo Corps, namely : For labor, fif- teen thousand dollars ; material, ten thousand dollars ; freight and express- charges, five hundred dollars; general repairs to grounds, buildings, wharves, and boats, five thousand doUars ; instruction and general torpedo experiments, fourteen thousand five hundred doUars ; in all, forty-five thou- sand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 45, 000 00 BUEEAU OF EQUIPMENT AND EECEUITING. Equipment of Vessels, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1880. — For equipment of vessels : For coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation ; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; 164 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, galleys, and chains; boat detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, wood, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves; life-rafts for monitors; heat- ing apparatus for receiving-ships ; and for the payment of labor in Equipping vessels and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards, eight hun- dred thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 1800, 000 00 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1880. — For the civil establishment, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. — Act February 14, 1879 18, 251 75 Contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Eecruiting, namely: For expenses of recruiting and fitting up receiving-ships; freight and transportation of stores; trans- portation of enlisted men ; printing, advertising, telegraphing; books and models; stationery; express-charges; internal alterations, fixtures, and appliances in equipment-buildings at navy-yards; foreign postage; car- tickets, ferriage, and ice; apprehension of deserters; assistance to vessels in distress; continuous-service certificates and good-conduct badges for enlisted men, including purchase of schobl-books for training-ships, fifty thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 50,000 00 BUEEATJ OF TAEDS AND DOCKS. Maintenance of Yards and DocTcs, Bureau of Yards and Boclcs, 1880. — For general mainte- nance of yards and docks, namely: For freight and transportation of ma- terials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, including the commandant's office; books, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery, and patent-rights to use the same; repairs on steam-engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving-teams, carts, and timber- wheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; postage and telegrams; furniture for government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; fire-engines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing-boxes, four hundred and forty thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 440, 000 00 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Yards and Bocks, 1880. — For the civU establishment, thirty- seven thousand nine hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents. — Act February 14, 1879 37,906 25 Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Bocks, 1880. — For contingent expenses that may arise at navy -yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879. 20, 000 00 Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1880. — At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each ; chief laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars ; four laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stable-keeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, eight hundred and forty-five dollars; water-rent and gas, two thousand dollars- ice, two hundred dollars; car-tickets, two hundred and fifty dollars; ceme- tery and burial expenses, headstones, and digging graves, three hundred and fifty dollars ; improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars ; repairs and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furni- ture, and repairs of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; in all sixty thousand eight hundred and nine dollars. [The correct amount ap- propriated, by items, is fifty-nine thousand three hundred and nine dollars.! Which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval-pension fund — Act February 14, 1879 ' 59^309 qq, NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY, ETC. 165 BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SUEGBEY. Medical I>epartment,Bureauof Medicineand 8urgery,1880. — Forsupport of the medical depart- ment, for surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations. Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, forty-five thousand" dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 $45, 000 00 NavalSospital Fund, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1880. — For the naval-hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire; Chelsea, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; Washington, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; and Yokohama, Japan, fifty thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 50, 000 00 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1880. — For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory : For the maintenance of the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory, forty thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879. 40, 000 00 Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1880. — For necessary repairs of naval labora- tory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, out-houses, steam- heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, thirty thousand dollars. — Act February 14, 1879 30, 000 00 Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the bureau: For freight on medical stores; transportation of insane patients to the Gov- ernment hospitals; advertising; telegraphing; purchase of books; expenses attending the medical board of examiners ; purchase and repair of wagons, harness; purchase and feed of horses, cows; trees, garden-tools, and seeds, .fifteen thousand dollars.— Act February 14, 1879 15, 000 00 BUREAU OF PEOVISIONS AND CLOTHING. Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1880.; — For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations for offlcers, seamen, and marines; expenses of inspectors and storehouses; and for purchase of water for ships, one million and twenty-five thousand doUars. — Act February 14, 1879 1, 025, 000 00 Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1877. — To pay John W. Bigelow for provisions for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty cents. — Act March 3, 1879 15,375 40 Small-Stores, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. — For the purchase of small-stores, one hundred thousand dollars; and it is hereby provided that from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the value of issues of small-stores shall be credited to a fund to be designated as the " small-stores fund," in the same manner as the value of the issues af cloth- ing is now credited to the " clothing fund," the resources of the fund to be used hereafter in the purchase of supplies of small-stores for issue. — Act February 14, 1879 100,000 00 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1880. — For civil establishment, eleven thousand three hundi'ed and ninety-four dollars and twenty-five cents. — Act February 14,1879 11,394 25 Contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1880. — For freight and charges on shipments; candles and fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and commis- sions on sales; toll, ferriages, and car- tickets; postage, telegrams, and ex- press-charges; and yeoman's stores, iron safes, ice, newspapers, and inci- dental expenses absolutely necessary, sixty thousand dollars. — Act Febru- ary 14, 1879 60, 000 00 Contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1878. — To enable the Secretaryof theNavy to pay certain contingent expenses of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, namely: To Evans, Ball and Company, freight to Yille- france, France, two thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty- two cents; to pay Bogart & Morgan, agents, freight to Brownsville, Texas, one hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-five cents; to pay Commercial Advertiser Association for advertising, two hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents; in aU, two thousand five hundred and five dollars and twenty-seven cents.— Act March 3, 1879 2, 505 27 42 DA 166 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. BUEEAU OF CONSTEUCTION AND EEPAIE. Gonstrvotion and Repair^ Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1880. — For preservation of ves- sels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kiuds; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; preservation of mate- rials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and re- pair; and incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage, one million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used in the payment of any other than the expenditures legally to be incurred under this appropriation. — ^Act February 14, 1879 $1, 500, 000 00 Construction and Repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1877. — To pay A. H. Lindsay for timber furnished the Bureau of Construction and Eepair, seven thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-one cents. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 7, 830 51 ConstruMion and Repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1875. — To pay W. Cramp «& Sons for iron furnished the Bureau of Construction and Eepair, under con- tracts of October second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and April fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-one cents. — Act March 3, 1879 12, 353 41 Increase and Repair, 1871 and prior years. — To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay J. F. H. Claiborne amount due him on adjusted account, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and ten cents Act March 3, 1879 748 10 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1880. — For the civil establishment, forty thousand one hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents. — Act February 14, 1879 40,105 75 BUEEAU OF STEAM-ENGINEEEING. Steam-Machinery, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1880. — For repairs and preservation of, boilers and machinery on naval vessels; for fitting, repairs, and preserva- tion of machinery and tools in the several navy-yards; for labor in navy- yards and stations not included above, and incidental expenses; and for purchase and preservation of oils, coals, metals, and all materials and stores, eight hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used in the payment of any other than the expenditures legally to be incurred under this appropriation. — Act February 14, 1879 800, 000 00 Machine for Testing Iron, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1880. — For the purchase of one test- ing-machine for making tests of plate-iron, and so forth, three thousand dol- lars. — ^Act February 14, 1879 3 qoO 00 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1880. — For the civil establishment, twenty ' thousand and thirty-eight dollars. — ^Act February 14, 1879 20 038 00 Contingent, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1880. — For contingencies, one thousand dollars. ' Act February 14, 1879 X qOq oO NAYT-TAEDS AND STATIONS. Navy- Yard, Mare Island, California, 1880. — For continuation of work on stone dry-dock seventy-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 .' 75 qOO 00 Navy-Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, Repairs, Rope-walk, 1880. — For repairs to the rope- walk ' buUding at the Boston navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, new roof and new fioors, and other necessary repairs, to make the building in good condition twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 ' 20 000 00 Repairs and Preservation at Navy- Yards, 1880.— For repairs at the different navy-yards and ' stations, and preservation of the same, three hundred thousand dollars Act March 3, 1879 " 300 000 00 Repairs, United States Ship "Antietam," 1880.— To enable the Secretary of the Navy to alter ' and repair the United States ship "Antietam," so as to provide for the ma- rines at League Island station, seven thousand five hundred and twentv five dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 '' 7 525 00 NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT NAVY MISCELLANEOUS. 167 NAVY MISCELLANEOUS. Hew Propeller for United States Ship ^^AlarmP — That in order to enable the Secretary of the Navy to fit a new propeller to the United States torpedo-boat "Alarm," and to conduct experiments as to the best mode of propelling and steering said vessel, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated; the same to be available immediately on the passage hereof.— Act May 12, 1879 $20, 000 00 Bounty for Destruction of Enemy's Vessels. — To pay certain claims for bounty for the destruc- tion of enemy's vessels, allowed under the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and duly certified by the proper accounting officers, one thousand two hundred and ten dollars and sixteen cents. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 210 16 Destruction of Clothing and Bedding for Sanitary Reasons. — To pay for clothing and bedding of officers and others in the Navy and Marine Corps destroyed to prevent the spread of disease, one thousand two hundred dollars ; to be available immediately.— Act February 14, 1879 1, 200 00 Medals of Honor. — For gratuities and medals of honor, under section fourteen hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars ; to be available imme- diately.— Act February 14, 1879 500 00 Bounty, Gratuity, and Mileage to Seamen, prior to July 1, 1876. — For bounty, gratuity, and mileage to seamen, one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents, as fully set forth on page flfty-two of said Executive Docu- ment, No. 30. [House Doc, No. 30, Forty-fifth Congress, third session.] — Act March 3, 1879 --- 1,356 80 Indemnity for Lost Clothing, prior to July 1, 1876. — For indemnity to seamen for lost cloth- ing, seven hundred and twenty dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 720 00 Burial of Officers and others of United States Steamer "Swrow."- For- expenses of burial of officers and others of the United States steamer " Huron," four hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 412 77 Bxtra Pay to Officers and Men who served in the Mexican War, Navy. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the officers and soldiers " engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mex- ico, and who served out the time of their engagement or were honorably discharged," the three months' extra pay provided for by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the limitations contained in said act, in all cases, upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence that said extra compensation has not been previously received : Provided, That the provisions of this act shall include also the officers, petty officers, sea- men, and marines of the United States Navy, the Revenue-Marine Service, and the officers and soldiers of the United States Army employed in the prosecution of said war. — Act February 19, 1879. Transfer of Lands in Florida not needed for Naval Purposes.— HhaA the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause an examination to be made of the condition of all lands in the State of Florida which have been set apart or reserved for naval purposes, excepting the reservation upon which the navy-yard at Pensacola is located, and to ascertain whether or not such reserved lands are or will be of any value to the Government of the United States for naval purposes. Sec. 2. That all of said lands which, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, are no longer required for naval purposes shall, as soon as practicable, be certified by him to the Secretary of the Interior, and be subject to entry and sale in the same manner and under the same conditions as other public lands of the United States : Pro- vided, That all persons who have, in good faith, made improvements on said reserved lands so certified at the time of the passage of this act, and who occupy the same, shall be entitled to purchase the part or parts so occupied and improved by them, not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one person, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, within such reasonable time as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 3. That the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not 168 DIGEST OP APPKOPEIATIONS. otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions of this act.— Act March 3, 1879 $3, 000 00 Relief of George M. Welles, First Lieutenant United States Marine Corps.— That the Secre- tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to First Lieutenant George M. Welles, of the United States Marine Corps, the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars, being the difference between fur- lough and retired pay, found to be due him in the adjustment of his accounts at the Treasury. — Act March 3, 1879. For additional pay for one first lieu- tenant, retired, two hundred and twenty-five dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 225 00 AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept for the purposes of a voyage of exploration by way of Behring's straits, the ship Jeannette, tendered by James Gordon Bennett for that purpose. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept and take charge of, for the use of a North Polar Expedition by way of Behring's straits, the ship Jeannette, owned by James Gordon Bennett, and by him devoted to this purpose; that he may use, in flttting her for her voyage of exploration, any material he may have on hand proper for the purposes of an Arctic voyage; and that he is further authorized to enlist the necessary crew for the said vessel for " special service," their pay to be temporarily met from the pay of the Navy, and to be paid or refunded by James Gordon Bennett to the Navy Depart- ment under the order of the Secretary of the Navy, and as he may require; the vessel to proceed on her voyage of exploration under the orders and instructions of the Navy Department; that the men so "specially enlisted" as above shall be subject in all respects to the articles of war and Navy regulations and discipline; and that all parts of the act approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, inconsistent with the above, be, and they are hereby, repealed: Provided, That the Government of the United States shall not be held liable for any expenditure incurred or to be incurred on account of said exploration. Approved February 27, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of William Gibson. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to restore William Gibson, now a commander, from the retired to the active list of the Navy : Provided, how- ever, In case of such restoration, the said Gibson shall be entitled to no higher rank on said active list than that held by him as a lieutenant- commander at the time of his transfer to the retired Ust : And provided further, That no claim for arrearages of pay shall accrue to said Gibson by reason of restoration under the provisions of this act. Approved, December 12, 1878. AN ACT for the relief of Henry M. Meade, late paymaster in the United States Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting ofiQcers of the United States Treasury Department be, and are hereby, authorized to adjust the accounts of Henry M. Meade, late a paymaster in the United States Navy, and credit him with the sum of twenfry-five hundred and forty- five dollars and twenty-two cents, for unavoidable losses and checkages sustained by him in the legitimate performance of his duties as paymaster in the United States Navy, irom eighteen hundred and sixty-two to eighteen hundred and seventy-two, which sum stands now charged against him at the United States Treasury Department. Approved, March 1, 1879. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. 169 AN ACT for the relief of "William A. Mann. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury- be, and he is hereby, authorized to credit to William A. Mann, late an acting assistant paymaster in the United States ]S"avy, in his accounts with the Treasury Department, as of the date of the rendition of his final account, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four doUars, moneys of the government, stolen from him without his fault, while he was in service as such oflicer. Approved, March 1, 1879. INTERIOR DEPARTMERTT. Salaries, Office of Secretary of Interior, 1880. — For compensation of the Secretary of the iiterior, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; and two hundred dollars additional as superintendent of the Patent-OfQce building; one law clerk in the office of the Assistant Attorney-General of the Interior Department, twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars ; six clerks, at two thou- sand dollars each, one of whom shall be disbursing clerk; for one stenog- rapher, eighteen hundred dollars; six clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one, one of whom shall be the telegraph -operator of the Department; six copyists; five assistant messengers; four laborers; for one captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; and forty watchmen, to be allotted to day or night-service, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct; in all, one hundred and two thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. Office of Assistant Attoe- net-Geneeai. — For three clerks, at two thousand dollars each; and one clerk, at one thousand two hundred doUars; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of the superintendent of the same, [packing and distributing ofScial documents,] one thousand nine hundred dollars; and so much of section five hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes as provides for said salary is hereby repealed. For one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; and six firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, six thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 $118, 510 00 Salaries, Temporary Clerics, Department of the Interior, 1880.— For temporary clerks for the Department of the Interior, seven thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879. . . 7, 000 00 Stationery, Departmmt of the Interior, 1880. — For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, thirty thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 30, 000 00 Stationery, Department of the Interior, 1879.— For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. 5, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Secretary of the Interior, 1880.— For furniture, advertising, telegraphing, ice, and miscellaneous items, including new books and books to complete broken sets, and cases and maps for library, seven thousand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 - 7, 000 00 Packing, &c., Congressional Documents, 1880.— For expenses of packing and distributing official documents, five thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Bent of Buildings for Department of the Interior, 1880.— For rent of one building for use of the Pension Office and for the Bureau of Education, fourteen thousand dol- lars. For rent of the building on the northeast comer of Eighth and G streets, known as Wright's building, seven thousand two hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to rent such build- ings as may be necessary from time to time for the purpose of the census, the total expenditure not to exceed twenty -five thousand dollars, to be paid from the amount authorized to be expended by section twenty of act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, census act ; also to enable Mm to provide offices for the Geological Survey, and offices for additional ac- commodation of pension clerks, three thousand dollars.- Act June 21, 1879 . 21, 200 00 43 D A 170 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Fuel, Lights, &c., Department of the Interior, 1880.— For fuel, light, and repairs of the heat- ing apparatus, eight thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 -.■•.•■• ^^' ^^^ ^^ Repairs of Building, Department of the Interior, 1880.— For casual repairs of the building, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 6, 000 00 Beconstrueting Interior- Department Building. — For the fire-proof reconstruction of the Patent- Office building within the present walls, under the plans submitted to Con- gress hj the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars, in addition to the unexpended balance of the amount appropriated for this purpose by the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, which is hereby made available for the purpose originally intended; to be expended under the supervision of a board consisting of the Commis- sioner of Patents, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Engineer in Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds.— Act March 3, 1879 150, 000 00 Salaries, General Land Office, 1880. — For the Commissioner of the General Land Office, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thou- sand dollars; recorder, two thousand dollars; three principal clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six clerks of class four; twenty-two clerks of class three; forty clerks of class two; eighty clerks of class one; thirty clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; and nine copyists, at nine hun- dred dollars each; one draughtsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant draughtsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; nine assistant messengers; twelve laborers; and six packers; in all, two hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. [The correct amount is two hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred and twenty dollars :] Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to use any portion of said appropriation for piece- work, or by the day, month, or year, at such rate or rates as he may deem just and fair, not exceeding a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum. — Act June 21, 1879 273, 220 00 Contingent Uxpenses, General Land Office, 1880. — ^For diagrams, furniture, and repairs of the same, miscellaneous items, including two of the city newspapers, to be filed and bound, and preserved for the use of the office; for the actual expenses of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land-entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct; and for advertising and tele- graphing, twenty-five thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 25, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1880. — For compensation of the Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; one stenog- rapher, at one thousand six hundred dollars; eleven clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, seventy-four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 74, 160 00 Contingent Bxpenses, Office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1880. — For blank books, binding, telegraphing, and miscellaneous items, including price-lists and two newspapers, to be filed and bound, and preserved for the use of the office, three thousand dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 3 OOO 00 Salaries, Office of Commissioner of Pensions, 1880. — For compensation of the Commissioner ' of Pensions, three thousand six hundred dollars; deputy commissioner, two thousand four hundred dollars, said office to continue for one year only • chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, two thousand two hun- dred and fifty dollars; twenty-six clerks of class four; fifty-two clerks of class three; eighty-four clerks of class two; one hundred and forty-seven clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one skilled mechanic, at one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty copyists, at nine hun- dred dollars each; one engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger and twelve assistant messengers; and for eight laborers and two watchmen; in all, four hundred and eighty -nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; [the correct amount appropriated, by items, is four hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;] this being in lieu of the paragraph of the same nature in the act of eighteen hundred and seventv-eight, which is not coutmued and rendered available.— Act June 21, 1879 ' 49O §50 00 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. 171 Investigation of Frauds, Office of Commissioner of Pensions, 1880. — For actual and necessary expenses of clerks detailed to investigate suspected frauds and attempts at fraud, as provided by law, forty thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 $40, 000 00 Temporary Clerks, Office of Commissioner of Pensions, 1879 and 1880. — For temporary clerks in tlie Pension Of&ce, and for furniture, rent of additional rooms, and other contingencies, fifty-two thousand two hundred dollars in addition to the appropriations which have been or shall be made under other acts, the same to be available until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty : Provided, That no more than three thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for furniture, contingencies, and rent. — Act March 3, 1879 48, 700 00 Furniture, Contingencies, and Bent, Office of Commissioner of Pensions, 1879 and 1880. — For temporary clerks in the Pension Of6.ce, and for furniture, rent of additional rooms and other contingencies, fifty-two thousand two hundred dollars in addition to the appropriations which have been or shall be made under other acts, the same to be available until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty: Provided, That no more than three thousand five hundred dol- lars shall be used for furniture, contingencies, and rent. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Commissioner of Pensions, 1880. — For contingent expenses of the office, namely: For carpets, mats, furniture, awnings, and repairs of the same; for fuel, gas, and repairing heaters; engraving and retouching plates; for bounty-land warrants, and printing and binding the same; engraving and printing pension-certificates; and for other necessary expenses of the office, including two daily newspapers, eleven thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 11, 000 00 Contingent Erpenses, Office of Commissioner of Pensions, 1879. — For contingent expenses for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Officio of Commissioner of Pensions, 1877. — To pay Semmes & Bar- bour, or their legal representatives, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior, this amount in full satisfaction for their claim for rent of build- ings for the use of the Pension Office, on Louisiana avenue and C street, northwest, known as the Seaton House, and the building adjoining it on the west, known as numbers six hundred and twenty-four, six hundred and twenty-six, and six hundred and twenty-eight Louisiana avenue, and num- bers six hundred and nineteen, six hundred and twenty-one, and six hun- dred and twenty-three C street, and for damage to the said buildings sus- tained while occupied by the Government, and also in full satisfaction for rent for and damages to said buildings subsequent to September fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-four cents, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the contingent fund of the Pension Office for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.— Eesolu- tion June 20, 1879. Salaries, Office of Commissioner of Patents, 1880.— For compensation of the Commissioner of the Patent Office, four thousand five hundred dollars; for assistant com- missioner, three thousand dollars ; for chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three examiners-in-chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner in charge of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; trade-mark examiner, two thousand four hundred dollars; twenty-two prin- cipal examiners, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-two first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; twenty-two second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each- twenty-two third assistant examiaers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one financial clerk, two thousand dollars, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine; one librarian, two thousand dollars; one machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars- four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three, (one of whom shall be translator of languages;) nineteen clerks of class two; and thirty clerks of class one; thirty-two permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each- for sixty-seven copyist clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; for three skilled draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; for one messenger and purchasing clerk, one thousand dollars; five assistant mes- ;[72 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. sengers; for one skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; for ten attendants in model-room, at eight hundred dollars each; for forty laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; and six laborers, at six hundred dol- lars each; four folders and pasters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, four hundred and seven thousand and seventy dollars.— Act June21,1879 r ■.-•--■ ■-;■-■.■•, SJ^^^"'""^ Gontinqent Expenses, Office of Commissioner of Patents, 1880.— For contingent and miscel- laneous expenses of the Patent Ofllce, namely : For construction and repair of model-cases, stationery, portfoUos for drawings, furniture and labor con- nected therewith, repairing, papering, painting, carpets, ice, advertising, books for library, moneys refunded, printing engraved patent-heads, inter- national exchanges, extra labor on indexes and abstracts for annual reports and printing the same, and other contingencies, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than fifteen thousand dollars of this sum may be used for employment of temporary clerks at not more than the rate of one thousand dollars per annum for each clerk; and no money appropriated by this paragraph shall be expended for advertising in newspapers published in the city of Washington other than the Patent-Office Ofificial Gazette.— Act June 21, 1879 35, 000 00 Scientific Library, Office of Commissioner of Patents, 1880.— For a scientific library for the Patent Oflce, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Copies of Drawings, Office of Commissioner of Patents, 1880.— For photo-lithographing, or otherwise producing copies of drawings of current and back issues, for the use of the office and for sale, including pay of temporary draughtsmen, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 25, 000 00 Plates for Patent- Office Official Gazette, 1880.— For photo-lithographing, or otherwise pro- ducing plates for the Official Gazette, including pay of employes engaged on the Gazette, and for making similar plates, twenty-four thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 24, 000 00 Photo-lithographing, Offioe of Commissioner of Patents, 1880. — For photo-lithographing, or otherwise producing copies of the weekly issues of drawings, to be attached to patents and copies, thirty-five thousand dollars; the work of said photo- lithographing, or otherwise producing plates and copies, referred to in this and the two preceding paragraphs, to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, if it can be there done at reasonable rates ; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to make contracts therefor.— Act June 21, 1879 35, 000 00 Tracings of Drawings, Office of Commissioner of Patents, 1880. — For tracings of drawings preparatory to photo-lithographing back issues, and to fill orders, five thou- sand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 ... 5, 000 00 Salaries and Expenses, Offixie of Auditor of Railroad Accounts, 1880. — For auditor, three thousand six hundred dollars; book-keeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant book-keeper, two thousand dollars; railroad engineer, two thousand dollars ; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars ; one copyist, nine hundred dollars ; travellin g and other expenses, one thousan d five hundred dollars; incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand and fifty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 14, 050 00 Salaries and Expenses, Office of Auditor of Railroad Accounts, 1879. — For salaries and ex- penses of the Office of Auditor of Eailroad Accounts, two thousand four hundred dollars.- Act March 3, 1879 2, 400 00 Salaries, Office of Commissioner of Education, 1880. — For the Commissioner of Education, three thousand dollars ; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one clerk of class four ; one statistican, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one clerk of class three ; one translator, one thousand six hundred dol- lars ; one clerk of class two ; four copyists, at nine hundred dollars each ; one assistant messenger; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 17 320 00 Contingent Eoepenses, Office of Commissioner of Education, 1880. — For contingent expenses, namely : Cases for library, five hundred dollars ; library, one thousand dol- lars ; current educational periodicals, two "hundred and fifty dollars ; other current publications, two hundred and twenty -five dollars; completing valu- able sets of periodicals and publications in the library, two hundred dol- INTERIOR DEPARTMENT PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. 173 lars ; telegraphing and expressage, two hundred dollars ; collecting statis- tics and writing and compiling matter for annual and special reports, and editing and publishing circulars of information, fifteen thousand dollars ; fuel and lights, two hundred and seventy-five dollars ; office-furniture, two hundred and fifty dollars; contingencies, five hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 $18, 400 00 Distributing Documents, Bureau, of Education, 1880. — For expenses in wrapping, tying, directing, and packing the publications of the Bureau of Education for dis- tribution, one thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 - 1, 000 00 Salaries of Employes under Architect of the Capitol, 1880. — For person in charge of heating ap- paratus of the Congressional Library and Supreme Court, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; for one laborer in charge of water closet in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars ; for three laborers for cleaning rotunda, corridors, and dome, at six hundred and sixty dollars each ; for the pay of six watchmen employed on the Capitol grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; in all, seven thousand eight hun- dred and twenty-four dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 7, 824 00 Salary, Director of Geological Survey, 1880. — For the salary of the Director of the Geological Survey, which office is hereby established, under the Interior Department, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, six thousand dollars : Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of the geological survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain. And that the Director and members of the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations ; and the geo- logical and geographical survey of the Territories, and the geographical and geological survey of the Eocky-Mountain region, under the Department of the Interior, and the geographical surveys west of the one-hundredth meridian, under the War Department, are hereby discontinued, to take effect on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the coast and interior survey, the geological survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be deposited in the National Museum.— Act March 3, 1879 6, 000 00 Postage, Interior Department, 1880.— Sec. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively, of the De- partments of State, of the Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Post- master-General for the necessary amount of postage-stamps for the use of their Departments, not exceeding the amount stated in the estimates sub- mitted to Congress ; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department for the same fiscal year.— Act June 21, 1879 30,000 00 PUBLIC BUELDINGS AND GEOUNDS. Annual Beoairs of Capitol, 1880.— Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for ^ general repairs thereof, fifty thousand dollars : Provided, That one thousand I five hundred dollars of this amount may be used for the purchase of file- cases or boxes for the file-room of the Clerk's office of the House of Eepre- sentatives. And hereafter the disbursing clerk of the Department of the Interior is hereby required to act as disbursing clerk of the Architect of the Capitol and to disburse all moneys appropriated for the United States Capitol extension and improvement of the grounds, and to receive an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to be paid out of said appropria- tionf-Act March 3, 1879 ., - - V " " ; " LI ,V ;. •-,■ ^^ ^^' °^^ ^^ Improving tlie Capitol Grounds, l^^O.-For improving Capitol grounds, sixty thoiisand dol- ^^^ ^^^ ^^ Retained Perceltlg^ Improving Capitol "Grounds.-Fov payment of retained percentages icetatnea re ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^l^^ during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 41 D A 174 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. hundred and. seventy-six, for paving roadways in Capitol grounds two thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and ninefy-four cents. — Act March 3, 1879 $2,217 94 Lighting the Capitol and Grounds, 1880.— For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including Botanic Garden and Senate stable; for gas, pay of super- intendent of meters, lamplighters, and gas-fitters; for material for electrical battery; and for general repairs to lamps, pipes, and meters, thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of dynamo-electric machines to take the place of the batteries now used to ignite the gas in the rotunda, dome, tholus, and House of Eepresentatives, twenty-four hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 32, 400 00 Heating Apparatus, Senate, 1880. — ^For renewing and repairing portions of the heating apparatus in the Senate wing of the Capitol, four thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Ventilation of the House of Eepresentatives. — For making the necessajy changes and altera- tions for the proper heating, lighting, and ventilation of the Hall of the House of Eepresentatives, according to the plans and specifications made by the Architect of the Capitol Extension, to be expended under the direc- tion of the commission appointed by resolution of the House, thirty thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 - 30, 000 00 Extension of the Oovernment Printing Office. — For fire-proof extension of the Government Printing-OfBce building, upon plans approved by the Architect of the Capitol, and the work to be done under his direction, including heating apparatus and plumbing, said appropriation to be available during the present fiscal year, forty -three thousand eight hundred dollars; and any expenditure on a plan that shall cost a greater sum to complete it shall be deemed unlaw- ful.— Act March 3, 1879 43, 800 00 Buildings and Grounds, Government Hospital for the Insane, 1880. — For airing-courts for the recreation of the inmates, five hundred dollars; for the completion of the rooms in the upper story of the bakery, one thousand five hundred dollars ; for changing a portion of the roof and providing additional accommodations for employ6s in the attic-story of the hospital-building, five thousand dol- lars; in all, seven thousand dollars. For fire-pump and additional pipe and hose to complete the provision against fire, three thousand dollars; for general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . 15, 000 00 Buildings and Grounds, Government Hospital for the Insane, 1879 and 1880. — For the erection of suitable structures for the present accommodation of patients of the chronic class, to be immediately available, thirty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 BEKBFICIAEIBS. Current Expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane, 1880. — For support, clothing, and treatment of the insane of the Army, l^avy. Marine Corps, and Eevenue- Cutter Service, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indi- gent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Gov- ernment Hospital for the Insane, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; and of this sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for trans- porting patients to their friends : Provided, That one-half of the expense of the indigent patients from the District of Columbia shall be reported to the Treasury Department, and charged against the appropriations to be paid toward the expenses of the District by the General Government, with- out regard to the date of their admission.-^Act March 3, 1879 160 000 00 Current Expenses, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 1880. For support of the ' institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 50 000 00 Support of Freedmen^s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, D. C, 1880.— For subsistence, eigh- ' teen thousand dollars ; for salaries and compensation, nine thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars; fuel and hght, three thousand dollars; clothing and bedding, forage and transportation, miscellaneous expenses and repairs, five thousand nine hundred dollars; rent of hospital-buUding and grounds, four thousand dollars; medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 41 736 00 ■^j INTERIOR DEPAETMENT INTERIOR MISCELLANEOUS. 175 INTEEIOE MISCELLAITEOUS. Preservation of Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 1880. — For preservation and care of the collections of the National Museum, including those from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy -six, twenty -three thousand dol- lars. Distribution of duplicates : For expenses of making up into sets for distribution to colleges and museums, the duplicate ores, minerals, and objects of natural history belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 ,$28 000 00 Preserf/ation of Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 1879. — For the preservation of the speci- mens of the United States surveying and exploring expeditions, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 4, 000 00 Preservation of Collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory Building, 1880. — For expense of watching and storage of articles belonging to the United States, including those transferred from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred seventy-six, two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 2, 500 00 Additional Security against Fire, Smithsonian Institution, 1880. — For providing additional security against fire in the Smithsonian building for the Government collec- tions, in accordance with report of the coinmission appointed to examine the public buildings, December tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Expenses of the Tenth Census. — That a census of the population, wealth, and industry of the United States shall be taken on or for the date, June first, eighteen hundred and eighty. Sec. 2. That there shall be established in the Department of the Interior an office to be denominated the Census Office, the chief officer of which shall be called the Superintendent of the Census, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the head of the department, to superintend and direct the taking of the Tenth Census of the United States, in accord- ance with the laws relating thereto, and to perform such other duties as may be required of him by law. Sec. 3. The Superintendent of Census shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and he shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Interior may appoint a chief clerk of the Census Office, six clerks of class four, ten clerks of class three, fifteen clerks of class two, with such number of clerks of class one, and of copyists and computers at salaries of not less than seven hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars, as may be found necessary for the proper and prompt compilation and publication of the results of the enumeration of the census herein pro- vided to be taken. And upon such compilation and publication of said census, said office of Superintendent shall cease, and the period of service of said clerks shall end. Sec 4. The Secretary of the Interior shall, on or before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty, designate the number, whether one or more, of supervisors of census, to be appointed within each State or Territory, who shall be residents of the State or Terri- tory. The supervisors shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The total number of such supervisors shall not exceed one hundred and fifty. The Superin- tendent and the supervisors shall, before entering upon the duties of their offices, respectively, take and subscribe the following oath or afOrmation : ui^ , (Superintendent or supervisor, as the case may be,) do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and perform and discharge the duties of the office of (Superintend- ent or supervisor, as the case may be,) according to law, honestly and cor- rectly to the best of my ability;" which oaths shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 5. Each supervisor of census shall be charged with the performance, within his own district, of the following duties: To propose to the Superintendent of Census the apportionment of his district into subdivisions most convenient for the purpose of enumeration ; to designate to the Superintendent of Census suitable persons, and, with the consent of said Superintendent, to employ such persons as enumerators within his district, one for each subdivision, and resident therein, who shall be selected solely with reference to their fitness, and without reference to their polititcal or party affiliations, according to the apportionment ap- 176 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. proved by the Superintendent of Census; to transmit to enumerators the printed forms and schedules issued from the Census OfSce, in quantities suited to the requirements of each subdivision. To communicate to enu- merators the necessary instructions and directions relating to their duties, and to the methods of conducting the census, and to advise with and coun- sel enumerators in person and by letter, as freely and fully as may be required to secure the purposes of this act; and under the direction of the Superintendent of Census, and to facilitate the taking of the census with as little delay as possible, he may cause to be distributed by the enumerators, prior to the taking of the enumeration, schedules to be fiUed up by house- holders and others ; to provide for the early and safe transmission to his office of the returns of enumerators, embracing all the schedules filled by them in the course of enumeration, and for the due receipt and custody of such returns pending their transmission to the Census Office; to examine and scrutinize the returns of enumerators, in order to ascertain whether the work has been performed in all respects in compliance with the provisions of law, and whether any town or village or integral portion of the district has been omitted from enumeration; to forward to the Superintendent of Census the completed returns of his district in such time and manner as shall be prescribed by the said superintendent, and in the event of discrep- ancies or deficiencies appearing in the returns from his district, to use all diligence in causing the same to be corrected or supplied; to make up and forward to the Superintendent of Census the accounts required for ascer- taining the amount of compensation due under the provisions of this act to each enumerator of his district. Sec. 6. Each supervisor of census shall, upon the completion of his duties to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior, receive the sum of five hundred dollars in full compensation for all services rendered and expenses incurred by him, except an allowance for clerk-hire may be made, at the discretion of the Superintendent of Census. Sec. 7. No enumerator shall be deemed qualified to enter upon his duties until he has received from the supervisor of census of the district to which he belongs a commission under his hand, authorizing him to perform the duties of an enumerator, and setting forth the boundaries of the subdivision within which such duties are to be performedby him. He shall, moreover, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : " I, , an enu- merator for taking the census of the United States, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will make a true and exact enumeration of all the inhabitants within the subdivision assigned to me, and will also faithfully collect all other statistics therein, as provided for in the act for taking the census, and in conformity with all lawful instructions which I may receive, and will make due and correct returns thereof, as required by said act, and will not disclose any information contained in the schedules, lists, or statements obtained by me to any person or persons, except to my superior officers. (Signed) ." Which said oath or affirm- ation may be administered by any judge of a court of record, or any jus- tice of the peace empowered to administer oaths; and a copy thereof, duly authenticated, shall be forwarded to the supervisor of census before the date fixed herein for the commencement of the enumeration. Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of each enumerator, after being qualified in the manner aforesaid, to visit personally each dwelling-house in his subdivision, and each family therein, and each individual living out of a family in any place of abode, and by inquiry made of the head of such family, or of the member thereof deemed most credible and worthy of trust, or of such individual living out of a family, to obtain each and every item of information, and aU the particulars required by this act, as of date June first, eighteen hundred and eighty. And in case no person shall be found at the usual place of abode of such family or individual living out of a family competent to answer the inquiries made in compliance with the re- quirements of this act, then it shall be lawful for the enumerator to obtain the required information, as nearly as may be practicable, from the family or families or person or persons living nearest to such place of abode: Pro- vided^ That Indians not taxed shall be omitted from the enumeration; but the Superintendent of Census may employ special agents, or other means. INTEEIOK DEPARTMENT — INTERIOR MISCELLANEOUS. 177 to make an enumeration of all Indians not taxed, -within the jurisdiction of the United States, with such information as to their condition as may be obtainable. Sec. 9. And it shall be further the duty of each enumerator to forward the original schedules, duly certified, to the supervisor of census of his district, as his returns under the provisions of this act. Sec. 10. The compensation of enumerators shall be ascertained and fixed as follows: In subdivisions where the Superintendent of Census shall deem such an allow- ance sufficient, an allowance not exceeding two cents for each living inhab- itant, two cents for each death reported, ten cents for each farm, and fifteen cents for each establishment of productive industry enumerated and re- turned, may be given in full compensation for all services ; and no claim for mileage or travelling expenses shall be allowed in such subdivisions : Pro- vided, That the subdivisions to which the above rate of compensation shall apply must be designated by the Superintendent of Census at least one month in advance of the enumeration ; and no account of the time occupied in enumeration shall be required for the purpose of ascertaining and deter- mining the compensation of enumerators in such subdivisions. For all other subdivisions, rates of compensation shall be fixed in advance of the enumeration by the Superintendent of Census, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, according to the difficulty of enumeration, having reference to the nature of the region to be canvassed, and the density or sparseness of settlement, or other considerations pertinent thereto ; but the compensation allowed to any enumerator in any district east of the one- hundredth meridian shall not exceed an average of four dollars per day of ten hours actual field-work each; and the compensation allowed to any enumerator in any district west of the one-hundredth meridian shall not exceed six dollars per working-day of equal length. And the Superinten- dent of Census may prescribe a uniform method and suitable forms for keeping account of the time occupied in field-work, for the purpose of ascer- taining the amounts due to enumerators, severally, under the provisions of this act. Sec. 11. The subdivision assigned to any enumerator shall not exceed four thousand inhabitants, according to the census of eighteen hun- dred and seventy: Provided, That in the Territories and in the States ad- mitted into the Union since eighteen hundred and seventy, the supervisors of census may appoint additional enumerators in cases where, in his judg- ment, the ceitisus cannot be properly taken in thirty days by reason of the increase of population or the physical features of the said district. The boundaries of all subdivisions shall be clearly described by civil divis- ions, rivers, roads, public surveys, or other easily- distinguished lines. Sec. 12. That any supervisor or enumerator, who, having taken and sub- scribed the oath required by this act, shall, without justifiable cause, neglect or refuse to perform the duties enjoined on him by this act, or shall, with- out the authority of the Superintendent, communicate to any person not authorized to receive the same, any statistics of property or business in- cluded in his return, shall be deemed giiilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars; or, if he shall wilfully and knowingly swear or affirm falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not ex- ceeding three years or by fine not exceeding eight hundred dollars; or, if he shall wilfuUy and knowingly make false certificates or fictitious returns, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction of either of the last-named oflfences, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding two years. Sec. 13. That if any person shall receive or secure to himself any fee, reward, or compensation as a consideration for the employment of any person as enu- merator or clerk, or shall in any way receive or secure to hunself any part of the compensation provided in this act for the services of any enumerator or clerk he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof,'shaU be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court. Sec 14. That each and every person more than twenty years of age, belonging to any family resid- ing in any enumeration district, and in case of the absenceof the heads and other members of any such family, then any agent of such family shaU be, 45 D A 178 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. and each of them hereby is, required, if thereto requested by the superin- tendent, supervisor, or enumerator, to render a true account to the best of his or her knowledge, of every person belonging to such famUy, in the va- rious particulars required by law, and whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. And every president, treasurer, secretary, general agent, or managing director of every corpora- tion from which answers to any of the schedules provided for by this act are herein required, who shall, if thereto requested by the superintendent, supervisor, or enumerator, wilfully neglect or refuse to give true and com- plete answers to any inquiries authorized by this act, such officer or agent shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name and to the use of the United States, and in addition thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on convic- tion thereof, shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. Seo. 15. That all fines and penalties imposed by this act may be enforced by indictment or appropriate action at law in any court of competent juris- diction where such offences shall have been committed or forfeitures incurred. Sec. 16. That the Superintendent, his chief clerk, supervisors, and enumerators are hereby authorized to transmit through the post ofSce any paper or document relating to the census, by writing thereon " Official business — Census," and subscribing the same, with the addition to his name of his official title. But this privilege shall extend to nothing but documents and papers relating to the census, which shall pass free. And any superintendent, supervisor, enumerator, or clerk who shall use or exercise this privilege for any purpose other than the legitimate dis- charge of the duties of his office shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall forfeit for each offence a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. Sec. 17. The schedules of inquiries at the tenth census shall be the same as those contained in section number twenty-two hundred and six of the Eevised Statutes of the United States, of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, with the following exceptions, to wit: Schedule number one shall contain inquiries as to the relation of each person enumerated to the head of the family, whether wife, son, daughter, servant, boarder, or other; as to the civil conditions of each person enumerated, whether mar- ried, widowed, or single; as to the place of birth of the parents of each person enumerated; as to all foreign-born, whether alien or naturalized per- sons; and as to the physical and mental health of each person enumerated whether active or disabled, maimed, crippled, bed-ridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic, and whether employed or unemployed, and if unemployed, during what portion of the year. Prom the same schedule the inquiries as to the value of real and personal estate owned shall be stricken out. To schedule number two, the Superintendent of the Census may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, add inquiries relating to the acre- age of the several crops reported; and, with a like approval, may drop from the schedule such of the minor crops as it may be deemed expedient to omit from the enumeration. Schedule number three shall contain inqui- ries respecting the kind and amount of power employed in establishments of productive industry, and the kind and number of machines in use, together with the maximum capacity of such establishment, where the Supermtendent of Census shall deem such inquiry appropriate; and the said Supermtendent may, when he shall regard it expedient, prepare special blank forms for separate industries. Schedule number four shall contain inqmnes relating to the public indebtedness of cities, counties, incorporated villages, and towns, and school districts; and of the ownership of the pub- he debt of the United States, by whom owned, and the respective amounts ■ and such additional inquiries respecting the same, as well as respecting the public paupers and criminals, as the Superintendent of Census shall deem necessary to secure full information respecting the numbers and condition of these classes. Schedule number five shall contain inquiries as to the birth-place of the father and mother of each person reported as having died during the year, and as to the usual occupation of each such person The INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — INTERIOR MISCELLANEOUS. 179 Superintendent of Census shall require and obtain from every railroad cor- poration, or the lessee or receiver thereof, the following facts, to exhibit the condition of such corporation, and the condition, characteristics, and opera- tions of the railroad or railroads owned or controlled by such corjjoration, or the lessee or receiver thereof, on the first of Juae of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, to wit : The name of the corporation or company, with the corporate names of all leased lines; the number of miles projected or authorized by law or charter, with the several terminal points of the same; the number of miles completed, exhibiting separately the length of lines within each State; the number of miles operated during the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty; the capital stock allowed by law or charter, and the amount paid up ; the amount of funded and of unfunded debt, with period of funded debt, and rate of interest thereon, and the amount of all sinking-funds provided for the redemption of such debts; the number of acres of land derived from public grants, remain- ing unsold; the total cost of construction, of equipment, and of all permanent investments, including the cost of purchase of other lines of road and of tele- graph lines ; the amoun t and character of rolling-stock ; the number and class of employes ; the receipts of such corporation or company for the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty, exhibiting separately the earnings from through freight, from local freight, from passengers, from expresses, and from mails; the expenses of such corpora- tion or company for said fiscal year, exhibiting separately the amount paid for salaries and wages, for fuel, for national. State, and municipal taxes, for interest on bonds and other debts, for dividends, for repairs, for damage to freight and personal injuries ; also, the operations of said fiscal year, in- cluding mileage of freight, of passenger, and of construction and repair- trains separately, the number of passengers carried, and the amount and class of freight transported each way; also, the number, character, and, so far as ascertained, the cause of all casualties by which life was lost, which occurred upon or within the trains, the tracks, or the buildings of said corporation or company during said fiscal year, and the extent of injury to life and limb resulting therefrom; also the terms of all agreements and contracts by which sleeping-cars, palace and parlor-cars, so called, express- cars, and cars of transportation companies, not identical with the corpora- tion or company making the return herein required, are run upon such road or roads, and the extent of such service, and the amount of all receipts therefrom during the said fiscal year. The Superintendent of the Census shall require and obtain from the owners, proprietors, or managers of every incorporated express company the following facts, to wit: Name of cor- poration or company; capital paid up; total capital stock, and to what extent the same has been watered, and how often corners have been made on such watered stock; length of lines in miles; whether the business is conducted by rail, vessel, or otherwise; total amount paid to railroads or vessels for use of line or lines; number of officers, number of persons engaged in general administration; number of agents and messengers; total receipts, total expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for salaries, for repairs, and for general expenses. He shall also in like manner require and obtain, from the owners, proprietors, or managers of every telegraph company, the following facts, to wit: Name of corporation or companv; terminal points connected; capital and capital paid up; length of lines'^in miles; miles of wire; number of offtces; number of persons en- gao-ed in general administration; number of persons engaged as telegraph- Sperators; the number of messages transmitted by officers of the United States- the number of messages transmitted for the press; the number of messages transmitted for private parties; total number of messages trans- mitted; total receipts from messages; total expenditures of the company, exhibitino- separately the amount expended for salaries, for repairs, and for general expenses. He shall also, in like manner, require and obtain, from the officers or managers of all life-insurance companies, the following facts, to wit- Name of company; amount of capital and paid-up capital; the number of persons employed in the general administration; the number em- ployed as agents ; the total gross assets of the company, exhibiting separately i^gQ DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. realized assets, deferred and unpaid premiums, and premium notes and loans; total liabilities of the company, exhibiting separately losses adjusted and unadjusted, losses resisted, scrip and other dividends, dividends to policy-holders not applied, reinsurance fund ; all other claims, including capi- tal- receipts from cash premiums; receipts from all other sources ; total cash expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for losses and claims, divi- dends to stockholders, dividends to policy-holders, commissions, oacers salaries, medical-examiners' fees, national, State, and local taxation, and all other cash expenditures ; amount and character of deposits m each btate to secure policy-holders ; premium-note expenditures ; the number and amount of policies issued during the year ; also exhibiting policies terminating dur- ing the year, the number and amount terminated by death, by expiration, by surrender, by lapse, by change ; total number and amount of pohcies m force, and the amount of the premiums ; the amount of losses m cash and notes and the percentage of the loss to the total amount of policies m force ; percentage of assets to risks in force. He shall, in Uke manner, require and obtain, from every flre and marine-insurance company, the following facts, to -wit : Name of company ; amount of capital stock ; the amount paid up ; the number of persons employed in general administration; the number employed as agents; the gross assets of company; the total liabilities, ex- hibiting separately the amount of losses adjusted, losses unadjusted, losses resisted, reinsurance fund; all other liabilities, including capital; also, the total receipts, exhibiting separately fire premiums; marine and inland pre- miums, and receipts from all other sources, including interest, dividends, and rents; also the total expenditures, exhibiting separately the number and amount of flre losses, of marine and inland losses, dividends, commis- sions, officers' salaries, State, national, and municipal taxes, and all other expenses. He may require such other information, as to the subjects of this section, as, in his judgment, may be necessary to secure such returns as will exhibit the transactions of said several companies. Sec. 18. Each enumerator in his subdivision shall be charged with the collection of the facts and statistics required by each and all the several schedules, with the following exceptions, to wit: In cities where an official registration of deaths is maintained, the Superintendent of Census may, in his discretion, withdraw the mortality schedule from the several enumerators within such cities, and may obtain the statistics required by this act through official records, paying therefor such sum as may be found necessary, not exceed- ing the amount which is by this act authorized to be paid to enumerators for a similar service, namely, two cents for each death thus returned. Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the Superintendent of Census may withdraw the schedules for manufacturing and social statistics from the enumerators of the several subdivisions, and may charge the collection of these statistics upon experts, and special agents, to be employed without respect to locality. And said Superintendent may employ experts and special agents to investigate in their economic relations the manufacturing, railroad, fishing, mining, and other industries of the country, and the sta- tistics of telegraph, express, transportation, and insurance companies, as he may designate and require. And the Superintendent of Census shall, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, prepare schedules containing such interrogatories as shall, in his judgment, be best adapted to elicit this information, with such specifications, divisions, and particulars ui^der each head as he shall deem necessary to that end. Such experts and special agents shall take the same oath as the enumerators of the several subdi- visions, and shall have equal authority with such enumerators in respect to the subjects committed to them, and they shall receive compensation at rates to be fixed by the Superintendent of Census, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior : Provided, That the same shall in no case exceed six dollars per day and actual travelling expenses. Sec. 19. The enumeration required by this act shall commence on the first Monday of June, and be taken as of that date, and each enumerator shall prose- cute the canvass of his subdivision from that date forward on each week- day without intermission, except for sickness or other urgent cause ; and any unnecessary cessation of his work shall be sufficient ground for his INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — INTERIOR MISCELLANEOUS. 181 removal and the appointment of another person in his place; and any per- son so appointed shall take the oath required of enumerators, and shall receive compensation at the same rates. And it shall be the duty of each enumerator to complete the enumeration of his district, and to prepare the returns hereinbefore required to be made, and to forward the same to the supervisor of his district on or before the first day of July, eighteen hun- dred and eighty, and in any city having over ten thousand inhabitants under the census of eighteen hundred and seventy, the enumeration of pop- ulation shall be taken within two weeks from the first Monday of June; and any delay beyond the dates above, respectively, on the part of any enumer- ator, shall be sufficient cause for withholding the compensation to which he would be entitled by compliance with the provisions of this act, until proof satisfactory to the Superintendent of Census shall be furnished that such delay was by reason of causes beyond the control of such enumerator. Sec. 20. The sum of three millions of dollars is hereby fixed and limited as the maximum cost of the census herein provided for, exclusive of printing and engraving; and it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior or the Superintendent of Census to incur any expense or obligation what- ever, in respect to said census, in excess of that sum. And the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for printing and other preliminary ex- penses is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated, which sum shall form part of the three millions fixed as the cost of the census. Sec. 21. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, whenever he may think proper, to call upon any other Depart- ment or officer of the Government for information pertinent to the enumer- ation herein required. Sec. 22. That if any State or Territory, through its duly appointed officers or agents, shall, during the two months, beginning on the first Monday of June of the year which is the mean between the decennial censuses of the United States is by this act directed to be taken, take and complete a census in all respects according to the schedules and forms of enumeration in the census of the United States, and shall deposit with the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first of September fol- lowing, a full and authentic copy of all schedules returned and reports made by the officers and agents charged with such enumeration, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon receiving a certificate from the Sec- retary of the Interior that such schedules and reports have been duly de- posited, pay, on the requisition of the governor of such State or Territory, out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to fifty per centum of the amount which was paid to aU supervisors and actual enumerators within such State or Territory at the United States census next preceding, increased by one-half the percentage of gain in pop- ulation in such State or Territory between the two United States censuses next preceding: Provided, That the blank schedules used for the purposes of the enumeration herein provided for shall be similar, in all respects of form and size of heading and ruling, to those used in the census of the United States. Sec. 23. The Superintendent of Census, with the consent of the President, may, at any time, remove any supervisor of census and fill any vacancy thereby caused or otherwise occurring; and the supervisor of census may, with the consent of the Superintendent of Census, remove any enumerator in his district, and fill the vacancy thereby caused or otherwise occurring ; and in such cases but one compensation shall be allowed for the entire ser- vice, to be apportioned among the persons performing the same, in the discretion of the Superintendent of Census. Sec. 24. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed ; and all censuses subsequent to the tenth census shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of this act unless Congress shall hereafter otherwise provide.— Act March 3, 1879 $250, 000 00 Uamenses of the Ninth Census.— Tha.t the sum of four thousand and ninety dollars and sixty- nine cents is hereby appropriated to pay adjusted accounts for service or expenses incurred in completing the ninth census. — ^Resolution June 20, 1879. i, 090 69 Uxvmses of the Eighth Census.— To pay Tipton B. Collins, one hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-one cents; David J. Eeed, seventy-nine dollars and ninety-two cents- William D. King, two hundred and one dollars and two cents; T. P. 46 D A 182 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Owen, four hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-four cents; Sylyanus Walker, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents ; in all, one thousand and seventy-three dollars and eighty-six cents. — Act March 3, 1879. That the sum of nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay adjusted accounts for service or expenses incurred in completing the eighth census. — Eesolution June 20, 1879 $10,073 86 Arranging Gourt-of -Claims Booms, United States Capitol, as Committee-Booms, 1880. — For arranging and furnishing as committee-rooms for the use of the Senate and House, to be allotted equally as nearly as practicable, the rooms in the Capitol now occupied by the Court of Claims, the sum of two thousand dollars Eesolution July 1, 1879 2, 000 00 Booms for Court of Claims, 1880. — For suitable and necessary rooms for the use and accom- modation of the Court of Claims, which the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to procure, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as- may be necessary. — Eesolution July 1, 1879 5, 000 00 Adjusting Claims for Indemnity for Swamp-Lands. — To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to adjust and settle the claims of the several States, under the act of Congress approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hun- dred and fifty, and the act supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof, for swamp-lands, including all claims for swamp-land indemnity under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and other acts, fifteen thousand doUars. — Act June 28, 1879 15, 000 00 Commission to Classify Lands and Codify Land Laws, 1880. — For the expense of a commis- sion on the codification of existing laws relating to the survey and disposi- tion of the public domain, and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars; Provided, That the commission shall consist of the commissioner of the General Land Office, the Director of the United States Geological Survey, and three civilians, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a per diem compensation of ten dollars for each day while actually engaged, and their travelling expenses; and neither the Commissioner of the General Land Office nor the Director of the United States Geological Survey, shall receive other compensation for their services upon said commission than their salaries, respectively, except their travelling expenses, while engaged on said duties; and it shall be the duty of this commission to report to Con- gress within one year from the time of its organization; first, a codification of the present laws relating to the survey and disposition of the public do- main ; second, a system and standard of classification of public lands ; as arable, irrigable, timber, pasturage, swamp, coal, mineral lands, and such other classes as may be deemed proper, having due regard to humidity of climate, supply of water for irrigation, and other physical characteristics; third, a system of land-parcelling surveys adapted to the economic uses of the several classes of lands; and, fourth, such recommendations as they may deem wise in relation to the best method of disposing of the public lands of the western portion of the United States to actual settlers. The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thou- sand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication ; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange shall be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization: And the money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the treasury of the United States— Act March 3, 1879 20 000 00 Beproducing Plats of Surveys, General Land Office, 1880.— To enable the Commissioner of the ' Genera] Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats ot surveys now on file, and constituting a part of the records of said office twelve thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ' 12 000 00 INTEEIOE DEPARTMENT — PUBLIC-LANDS SERVICE. 183 Recovery of an Iron Monument from the Colorado River of the West.— For obtaining iron monument from the Colorado river, two hundred and five dollars and twenty-eight cents.— Act March 3, 1879 « 205 28 Repayment for Lands Erroneously Sold, prior to July 1, 1876.— For repayments for' lands erroneously sold, two thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 2 621 60 Reimbursement to American Photclithographic Company.— To pay the American Photo-iitho- ' graphic Company, the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Commissioner of ratents to reimburse said company for the actual expenses it incurred in reproducing ten copies of drawings in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy.— Act March 3, 1879 . 2 000 00 Reimbursement to Buck & Kellogg, Attorneys, Umporia, Kansas.— To enable the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse Messrs. Buck & Kellogg, attorneys-at-law, Emporia, Kansas, for certain moneys paid and fees due as bondsmen and attorneys in a suit brought in the district court of Lyon county, Kansas, entitled L. M. Appleby versus Louis Primeaux, two hundred and eight dol- lars and sixty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 208 60 Payment to John Sherman, Jr., United States Marshal— To pay John Sherman, junior. United States marshal for ^ew Mexico, for services rendered and expenses incurred in paying per diem, witnesses, bailiffs, and other similar and neces- sary expenses in the investigation of the Una de Gato land-grant in the Territory of New Mexico, under authority given by the act of July twenty- second, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-three cents.— Act March 3, 1879 351 93 Payment to John A. Torrence, late Receiver of Public Moneys, &c., Sarrison, ArJcansas.—To pay John A. Torrence, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents, the amount due him as receiver of public moneys at Har- rison, Arkansas : Provided, That of this sum one hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents shall be credited to his account as disbursing agent by the proper accounting ofQcers of the Treasury, and the remainder paid to him. — Act March 3, 1879 458 95 Payment to C. Brumidi, for Frescoing the Capitol To pay C. Brumidi for retouching and blending the picture in fresco on the canopy of the dome of the Capitol, and for constructing a scaffolding under said picture, seven hundred dol- dars Act March 3, 1879 700 00 Relief of Thomas A. Walker. — That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, author- ized and required to allow and pay to Thomas A. Walker, late register of the United States land ofl&ce at Des Moines, Iowa, the sum of five thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents, on account of money paid out and expended by' him as such register for hire of clerks and oifice-rent in his said office during his incumbency; and the said sum is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be received by said "Walker in full satisfaction and payment of all claims and demands whatsoever on the part of said Walker against the Government for clerical and other expenses of his said office. — Act February 15, 1879 - 5, 117 75 JOINT RESOLUTION approving the adverse decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the claim of Anna M. Clark. Resolved by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office adverse to the claim of Anna M. Clark, (Executive Document Number Twelve, House of Eepresentatives, first session, Forty- fourth Congress,) be, and the same is hereby, approved, and the said claim is hereby rejected. Approved, March 3, 1879. PUBLIC-LANDS SERVICE. Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Arizona, 1880.— For surveyor-generalof the Territory of Arizona, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 750 00 184 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of California, 1880.— For surveyor-general of California, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the clerks in his ofiace, eleven thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879. For translating, copying, and indexing original Spanish archives, and preserving from destruction originals greatly defaced, in the offlce of the surveyor-general of California, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, nine thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 $22, 750 00 ^a?anes,0^ceo/;S'Mri)e2/()r-(?eMera?o/(7a?i/brma, 1879.— For bringing up arrears in draughting and other work in relation to private land-claims, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor-General of Colorado, 1880. — For surveyor-general of the State of Colorado, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand five hundred dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 6, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor-General of Dakota, 1880.— For surveyor-general of the Territory of Dakota, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 6, 500 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor-General of Florida, 1880. — For surveyor-general of Florida, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, two thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 3, 800 00 Salaries, Offi^ of Surveyor- General of Idaho, 1880. — For surveyor-general of the Temtory of Idaho, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, two thousand five hundred dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Louisiana, 1880. — For compensation of surveyor-gen- eral of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for clerks in his office, four thousand dollars Act June 21, 1879 5, 800 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Montana, 1880. — For surveyor-general of the Territory of Montana, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 5, 750 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Minnesota, 1880. — For survey or- general of Minnesota, two thousand doUars; and for the clerks in his offlce, five thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 - 7, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Ifebraska and Iowa, 1880. — For survey or- general of ^Nebraska and Iowa, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Nevada, 1880. — For surveyor-general of liTevada, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 500 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of New Mexico, 1880. — For surveyor- general of the Ter- ritory of New Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, six thousand dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 8, 500 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Oregon, 1880. — For surveyor-general of Oregon, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his offlce, four thou- sand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 7, 000 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Utah, 1880. — For surveyor-general of the Territory of Utah, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand doUars. — Act June 21, 1879 5, 750 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Washington, 1880. — For surveyor-general of the Ter- ritory of Washington, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 6, 500 00 Salaries, Office of Surveyor- General of Wyoming, 1880. — For surveyor-general of the Terri- tory of Wyoming, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the clerks in his office, three thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, „ . ^ 1879 6, 250 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Arizona, 1880.— For rent of office for sur- veyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1 500 00 Contingent Expenses, -Office of Surveyor- General of California, 1880.— For fuel, books, station- '. ery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 3 qoo 00^ Safe for Spanish Archives, Office of Surveyor- General of California, 1880.— For purchase of an ' iron safe for the said original Spanish archives, one thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1,000 00 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — PUBLIC-LANDS SERVICE. 185 Contingent Uaypenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Colorado, 1880.— For rent of office for sur- veyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 $1 500 00 Contingent Harpenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Dakota, 1880.— For rent of office of surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor- General of Florida, 1880 For rent of office for sur- veyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Idaho, 1880— For rent of office for sur- veyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Louisiana, 1880.— For fuel, books, sta- tionery, messenger-hire, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dol- lars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Minnesota, 1880.— For fuel, books, sta- tionery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor- General of Montana, 1880. — For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor- General of JSfebrasTca and Iowa, 1880. — For rent of office for survey or- gen era], fuel,, books, stationery, and other incidental ex- penses, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor-General of Nevada, 1880. — For rent of office for sur- veyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Eocpenses, Office of Surveyor-General of New Mexico, 1880. — For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Eocpenses, Ofice of Surveyor-General of Oregon, 1880. — For fael, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor- General of Utah, 1880. — For rent of office for sur- veyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Eo(penses, Office of Surveyor-General of Washington, 1880. — For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Office of Surveyor- General of Wyoming, 1880. — For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Contingent Expenses of Land 0-fflces, 1880.— For incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 100, 000 00 Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers, 1880. — For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys, at ninety-four local land offices, three hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 386, 000 00 Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers, 1873, 1875, and 1876. — For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of the land offices, seven hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-six cents, [as follows : for the year eigh- teen hundred and seventy-three, fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents ; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, four hundred and eighteen dol- lars; and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, three hundred and three doUars and thirty-one cents, in accordance with the estimates in House Executive Document No. 30, Forty-fifth Congress, third session.]— Act March 3, 1879 736 26 Exvenses of Depositing Public Money, 1880.— For expenses of depositmg money received &om the sale of public lands, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879. . . 10, 000 00 Deoredations on Public Timber, 1879 and 1880.— To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, forty thousand dollars, to be made available immediately.— Act March 3,1879 40, 000 00 47 DA 186 DIGEST OF APPEOPEUTIONS. Depredations on Public Timber, 1876 and 1877.— For preveation of depredations on public timber, three hundred and six dollars and forty cents, [as follows : For the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two hundred and forty-four dollars, and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, sixty-two dollars and forty cents, in accordance with the estimates in House Executive Docu- ment, No. 30, Forty-fifth Congress, third session.] For depredations on public timber, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-five cents. — Act March 3, 1879. $605 75 AN ACT to create an additional land district in the Territory of Idaho. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the Terri- tory of Idaho described and bounded as follows, namely : Commencing at the southeastern corner of said Territory ; thence running west on the line between said Territory and the Territory of Utah to the line between ranges numbered twenty -three and twenty-four east, Boise meridian ; thence north to the southern boundary of Lemhi county ; thence west to the western line of said Lemhi county; thence north on said western line of said county to the line between the Territories of Idaho and Montana ; thence easterly on said territorial line to the eastern boundary of the Territory of Idaho ; thence south on the line of the eastern boundary of Idaho Territory to the place of beginning, shall constitute a separate land district to be called Oneida land district, the offtce of which shall be located at Oxford, in Oneida county : Provided, The President of the United States may change the location of said land office, from time to time, as the public interests may require. Sec. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or, during the recess thereof, a register and a receiver of public moneys for said district ; and said officers shall reside in the place where said land offlce is located, and shall have the same powers and re- sponsibilities, and shall receive the same fees and emoluments as like officers now receive in other land offices in said Territory. Sec. 3. That aU persons in said district who, prior to the opening of said Oneida land office, shall have filed their declaratory statements, or ap- plication for pre-emption, homestead, or other land rights, in any land office in said Territory of Idaho, shall hereafter make proofs and entries at said Oneida land office ; and all unfinished business in any other land-office relating exclusively to lands in said Oneida land-district shall be trans- ferred to said Oneida land office when notified by the officers of the open- ing thereof. Approved, February 4, 1879. That public lands situated in States in which there are no land offices may be entered at the General Land Office, subject to the provisions of law touching the entry of public lands ; and that the necessary proofs and affi- davits required in such cases maybe made before some officer competent to administer oaths, whose official character shall be duly certified by the clerk of a court of record. And moneys received by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for lands entered by cash entry shall be covered into the treasury Act June 21, 1879. SUEVEYING PUBLIC LAN^DS. Surveying the Public Lands, 1880 — For surveying the public lands, three hundred thousand doUars; to be available immediately. — ^Act March 3, 1879 qoo n,)f> nn Surveying Private Land Claims in California, 1880 For surveying confirmed private land claims in California, at the rates per mile prescribed by law, and office ex- penses, seven thousand five hundred dollars ^Act March 3, 1879 7 nnn nn Surveying Private Land Claims in New Mexico, 1880 For the preliminary survey "of uncon- firmed and survey of confirmed private land claims in Ifew Mexico at a rate not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile, and office exnenses tpn thousand dollars— Act March 3, 1879 ^ ' ^"^ -, r, ^.., „ „ Surveying Private Land Claims in Arizona, 1880.— For the preliminary survev of "uncon -^">""" "" firmed and survey of confirmed private land claims in Arizona at a rate INTERIOR DEPARTMENT SURVEYING PUBLIC LANDS. 187 not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mUe, and ofQce expenses, fifteen thousand doUars.— Act March 3, 1879 $15, 000 00 Surveying the Northern Boundary of Wyoming, 1880. — Survey of the northern boundary of Wyoming Territory, being that part of the forty-fifth parallel of north lati- tude included between the twenty-seventh and thirty-fourth meridians of west longitude from Washington Observatory, twenty thousand doUars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Examinations of the Public Surveys, 1880. — Occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, inspect mineral deposits, coal-fields, timber districts, and so forth, eight thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 8, 000 00 Appraisement and Sale of Fort Reynolds, Military Reservation in Colorado, 1880. — For ap- praisement of lands and the buildings erected by the United States, and the sale of the same to the highest bidder, in accordance with the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, five thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 5, 000 00 Geological Survey, 1880. — For the expenses of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure; mineral resources, and products of the national domain, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred thousand dollars. [To be immediately available, resolution June 20, 1879.]— Act March 3, 1879 . 100, 000 00 Illustrations for Report on Geological Survey of the Territories, 1879 and 1880. — For the preparation of reports, maps, and such other illustrations as may be neces- sary for completing the office- work of the Geological and Geographical Sur- vey of the Territories, twenty thousand dollars ; to be immediately available. For the completion of the reports of the Geographical and Geological Sur- vey of the Eocky-Mountain Region, with the necessary maps and illustra- tions, twenty thousand dollars; to be immediately available. — ^Act March 3, 1879 .' 4:0, 000 00 Commission to Report upon Depredations of Rocky-Mountain Locusts, 1880. — For the comple- tion of the work of the United States Entomological Commission under the Department of the Interior, in the special investigation of the Eocky- Mountain locust or grasshopper, and the cotton-worm, the sum of ten thou- sand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Investigating the Habits of Insects Injurious to Ootton-Plant and Agriculture, 1880. — United States Entomological Commission. — To provide for the investigation into the habits of the cotton-worm and other insects injurious to the cotton- plant and to agriculture, with a view of preventing their iujuries, five thou- sand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 AN ACT in relation to tlie accounts of the United States Entomological Commission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the accounts of the salaries and disbursements of the United States Entomological Commission may be settled and allowed in the same manner and with the same effect as if the members and oflBcers thereof had taken the oath required by law at the time they entered upon the performance of their duties : Provided, They shaU have taken said oaths before the first day of July, anno Domini one thou- sand eight hundred and seventy-nine. Approved, June 9, 1879. Salaries and Uoopenses of Hot Springs Commission, {Reimbursable.) — That the sum of twenty- seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary, is hereby appropriated to pay for clerk-hire, engineering, marshal's fees, salaries, and other expenses of the Hot Springs Commission ; and the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, three discreet, competent, and dis- interested persons, who shall constitute a board of commissioners, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, who shall hold their oflces for the period of one year from the date of their appointment, and shall have the same powers and authority in all respects as was provided for the commis- sioners appointed under the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act in relation to the Hot Springs 188 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. reservation, ia the State of Arkansas;" -which act is hereby revived and continued in fall force for the purpose of enabling said board of commis- sioners to take possession of all records, papers, and proofs, and to deter- mine the claims presented to the board of commissioners appointed under said act, whose term of office has expired, and to do and perform all other acts and duties authorized by said act. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to lease to the present proprietors of the Arlington Hotel or their assigns, the grounds, not exceeding one acre, now occupied by them, for a period of ten years, unless otherwise provided by law, at an an- nual rental of one thousand dollars. And he is farther directed to lease the bath-houses of a permanent nature, now upon the Hot Springs reservation, to the owners of the same, and lease to any person or persons, upon such terms as may be agreed on, sites for the building of other bath-houses, for the term of five years, unless otherwise provided by law, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; and the tax imposed shall not exceed fifteen dollars per tub per annum, including land-rent: Provided, That said leases shall in no way prejudice any legal right that any person or persons may have acquired under the act hereby revived and continued, to any im- provements on said ground: And provided further, That to prevent monop- oly, no bath-house or hotel shall be supplied with more than enough water for forty bath-tubs of the usual size, unless there shall be more than enough hot water to supply aU other demands for the same, in which case no single establishment shall be allowed more than forty bath-tubs of the usual size: And provided further. That the superintendent shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of free baths for the use of the indigent, and the expense thereof shall be defrayed out of the rentals hereinbefore provided for. In cases where fractions of lots are made by straightening, widening, or laying out streets, the commissioners shall have power to determine the disposal of the same, giving the preference to the owners of abutting lots : Provided, That all titles given or to be given by the United States shall explicitly ex- clude the right to the purchaser of the land, his heirs, or assigns, from ever boring thereon for hot water; and the Hot Springs, with the reservation and mountain, are hereby dedicated to the United States, and shall remain forever free from sale or alienation. — Act December 16, 1878. For services of the Hot Springs Commission acting under the request of the President, from June twenty-fifth to December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sev- enty-eight, at the rate provided by the act creating the commission, and for salaries of clerks, and the necessary incidental expenses incurred during said term, and for fees and per diem due the United States marshal for the eastern district of Arkansas, acting under the authority of said commission, twelve thousand dollars; the same to be disbursed under the direction of Secretary of the Interior. — Act March 3, 1879 $39 500 OO Protection and Improvement of Yellowstone National Park, 1880. — To enable the Secretary ' of the Interior to protect, preserve, and improve the Yellowstone National Park, in compliance with section twenty-four hundred and seventy-five of the Eevised Statutes of the United States, ten thousand doUars. ^Act March 3, 1879 •. 10,000 00 INDIAN AFFAIRS. AN ACT making appropriationsfor the current and oontingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfUMng^ treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Sec. 3. That the several appropriations herein made for miUers, black- smiths, engineers, carpenters, physicians, and other persons, and for various articles provided for by treaty stipulations for the several Indian tribes, may be diverted to other uses, for the benefit of the said tribes respectively within the discretion of the President, and with the consent of said tribes' expressed in the usual manner; and that he cause report to be made to Con- gress, at its next session thereafter, of his action under this provision. INDIAN AFPAIES. 189 Sec. 4. No purchase of supplies for which appropriatious are herein made, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value at any one time shall be made without advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars. Sec. 5. That when not required for the purpose for which appropri- ated, the funds herein provided for the pay of specified employes at any agency may be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the pay of clerks or other employes at such agency, but no deficiency shall be thereby created; and when necessary, specified employes may be detailed for clerical or other service when not required for the duty for which they were engaged. Sec. 6. That so much of the appropriations herein made as may be re- quired to pay for goods and supplies, and for transportation of the same, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, shall be immediately available; but no such goods or supplies shall be distributed or delivered to any of said Indians prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any surplus that may remain in any of the said appro- priations herein made for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur for any tribe: Provided, however, That funds appropriated to fulfil treaty obligations shall not be so used: And provided, further. That any diversions which shall be made under authority of this section shall be reported in detail, and the reasons therefor, to Congress at the session of Congress next preceding such diversion. — Act February 17, 1879. SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES. Pay of Indian Agents, 1880. — For pay of seventy-one agents of Indian affairs at the fol- lowing-named agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely : At the Warm Springs agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Klamath agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; at the Grand Eonde agency, at one thou- sand dollars; at the Siletz agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the Umatilla agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the Mal- heur agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Neah Bay agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; at the Yakama agency, at two thousand doUars; at the Colville agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Nisqually agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the S'Koko- mish agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; at the Tulalip agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars ; at the Quinaielt agency, at one thou- sand doUars; at the Bound Valley agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Hoopa Valley agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Tule Eiver agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Mission agency, at one thou- sand three hundred dollars; at the Nevada agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; at the Western Shoshone agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; at the Nez Perces agency, at one thousand six hun- dred dollars; at the Lemhi agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; at the Fort Hall agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Flat- head agency, at one thousand five hundred doUars ; at the Blackfeet agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars ; at the Crow agency, at two thousand dollars; at the Fort Peck agency, at two thousand dollars; at the Gros Ventres agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Yankton agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; at the Crow Creek agency, at one thousand four hundred doUars; at the Standing Eock agency, at one thousand seven hundred dollars; at the Cheyenne Eiver agency, at one thousand five hun- dred doUars; at the Fort Berthold agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Sisseton agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Devil's Lake agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the Lower Brule agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the Eed Cloud agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars ; at the Spotted Tail agency, at two thousand two hundred doUars ; at the Shoshone agency, at one thou- sand five hundred dollars; at the Uintah agency, at one thousand doUars; at the Pueblo agency, at two thousand dollars; at the Navajo agency, at 48 D A 190 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. two thousand dollars; at the Mescalero agency, at one thousand five hun- dred dollars; at the Los Pinos agency, at one thousand five hundred dol- lars; at the White Eiver agency, at one thousand four hundred dollars; at the Southern Ute agency, at one thousand four hundred dollars; at the Great Nemaha agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Omaha and Winne- bago agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars ; at the Otoe agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Santee agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the Pottawatomie agency, at one thousand dollars; at the Ponca agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Pawnee agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Sac and Pox agency, Indian Ter- ritory, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the Quapaw agency, at one . thousand two hundred dollars; at the Osage agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; at the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars; at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita agency, at two thousand dollars; at the Union agency, at two thousand dollars; at the White Earth agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; at the Eed Lake agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars ; at the Leech Lake agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Sac and Fox agency, Iowa, at one thousand dollars ; at the Green Bay agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the La Pointe agency, at two thousand dollars ; at the Mackinac agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; at the E'ew York agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars ; at the Papago agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; at the Colorado Eiver agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; at the Pima and Maricopa agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; at the San Carlos agency, at two thousand dollars; at the Moguls Pueblo agency, at one thousand three hundred dol- lars; inall, one hundred and four thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 . $104,000 00 Pay of Superintendents and Agents, 1876. — For pay of superintendents and agents, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents. — ^Act March 3, 1879. 588 31 Pay of Interpreters, 1880. — For pay of seventy-six interpreters, as follows, namely : Seven for the tribes in Oregon, namely, two for the Klamath, and one each for Grand Eonde, Siletz, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Malheur agencies, at three hundred dollars per annum each, two thousand one hundred dollars; six for the tribes in Washington Territory, to be assigned to such agencies as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, at three hundred doUars per annum each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two for the tribes in Idaho, namely, at Nez Perces and Port Hall agencies, at three hundred dol- lars per annum each, six hundred dollars; four for the tribes in Nevada, namely, for Pi-Ute, Walker Eiver, Western Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake reservations, at three hundred dollars per annum each, twelve hundred dol- lars; six for the tribes in Montana, namely, one each at Flathead, Black- feet, Gros Ventres,- and Crow, and two at Fort Peck agencies, at three hun- dred dollars per annum each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; eleven for the tribes in Dakota^, namely, two at Fort Berthold, and one each at Yankton, Crow Creek, Standing Eock, Cheyenne Eiver, Sisseton, DevU's Lake, Eed Cloud, Spotted Tail, and Lower Brule agencies, at three hundred dollars per annum each, three thousand three hundred dollars; one for the tribes in Wyoming, at the Shoshone agency, three hundred dollars; one for the tribes in Utah, three hundred dollars ; four for the tribes in New Mexico namely, two for the Navajo, and one each for the Mescalero, Apaches, and Pueblo agencies, at three hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand two hundred dollars ; three for the tribes in Colorado, namely, Los Pinos Southern Ute, and White Eiver agencies, at three hundred dollars each per annum, nine hundred dollars; seven for the tribes in Nebraska, to be assigned to such agencies as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, at three hundred dollars per annum each, two thousand one hundred dollars- nine for the tribes in the Indian Territory, to be assigned as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, at three hundred dollars per annum each two thousand seven hundred dollars; three for the tribes in Wisconsin, namely one for the Green Bay and two for the La Pointe agencies, at three hundred doUars per annum each, nine hundred dollars; four for the tribes in Minne sota, namely, Boise Forte and White Earth agencies, and Eed Lake and Leech Lake special agencies, at three hundred dollars per annum each one INDIAN AFFAIRS — FULFILLING TEEATIES. 191 thousand two liundred dollars; two for the tribes in Michigan, namely, Mackinac agency, at three hundred dollars per annum each, six hundred dollars; six for the tribes in Arizona, namely, one each for the Colorado River, Pima and Maricopa, Moquis Pueblo, and Papago, and two for San Carlos agencies, at three hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for additional payment of the said interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, four thou- sand dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. — Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 $26, 800 00 Pay of Interpreters, 1876. — For pay of interpreters, forty-two dollars and twelve cents.— Act March 3, 1879 42 12 FULFILLING TREATIES. Fulfilling Treaties with Apaches, Kiowas, and Gomanches, 1880. — For twelfth of thirty instal- ments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, concluded at Medi- cine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, with the Kiowas and Oomanches, and under the third article of treaty of the same date with the Apaches, thirty thou- sand dollars ; for purchase of clothing, as provided in the same treaties, fifteen thousand dollars ; for pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, five thousand two hundred dollars ; for the pay of physician and teacher, two thousand five hundred dollars ; in all, fifty-two thousand seven hundred dollars. — Act February 17, 1879. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay, or cause to be paid, in equal portions, to Susanna Marble, Millie Frances Lee, and John Abel Lee, heirs of Abel S. Lee, or their legal representatives, the sum of two thou- sand nine hundred and fifteen dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum from the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, out of any money due and owing, or that may hereafter become due to the Kiowa tribe of Indians, on account of any treaty between the said tribe of Indians and the United States ; the said payment to be in full of all claims of the said heirs of said Abel S. Lee, and of the amount allowed them by the Indian Bureau for property belonging to said Abel S. Lee, taken and destroyed by the said Kiowa Indians in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two.— Act March 3, 1879 52, 700 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans, 1880. — For this amount, to be ex- pended in such goods, provisions, and other articles as the President may, from time to time, determine, in instructing in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, in providing employes, educating children, procuring medicine and medical attendance, care for and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, for the helpless orphans of said Indians, and in every other respect to promote their civilization, comfort, and improvement, forty thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 40, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties loith Gheyennes and Arapahoes, 1880. — For twelfth of thirty instalments provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty- eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand dollars; for purchase of clothing, as per same article, fourteen thousand dollars; for pay of physician and teacher, as per thirteenth article of same treaty, two thou- sand one hundred dollars; for pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, as per same article, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty thousand six hundred dollars. — Act February 17, 1879. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to reserve from that portion of annuities due, or to become due, to Cheyenne Indians, the sum of two thou- sand five hundred dollars for Catharine Germain, aged eighteen years, and two thousand five hundred dollars for Sophia Germain, aged thirteen years, two white children, who were captured in Kansas by said Cheyenne Indians while en route from Georgia to Colorado, and cause the same to be placed to the credit of the said Catharine and Sophia Germain on the books of the Treasury of the United States, to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, and use from time to time the income from the same in such manner as he may deem expedient for their maintenance, education, and support until they attain the age of twenty-one years, when the principal 192 DIGEST OF APPKOPEIATIONS. and all unexpended interest shall be paid to them: Provided, That if before attaining the age of twenty-one years, either said Catharine Germain or Sophia Germain should die without issue, the whole sum due the decedent shall revert to the survivorj and should both die without issue, the whole sum shall revert to the CTnited States; but if either said Catharine Germain or Sophia Germain, or both, have lawful issue, then, at the death of either parent, the amount due to her in her own right, or which she may have inherited, shall become the inheritance of her own issue. — Act March 1, 1879. That there be paid Mrs. Celia C. Short, of Lawrence, Kansas, the sum of five thousand dollars, in five annual instalments of one thousand dollars each, out of any money that may hereafter be appropriated for the use and benefit of the Cheyenne Indians; the first instalment to be paid out of the money appropriated for said Indians by act of Congress approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian de- partment, and so forth."— Act March 3, 1879 $40, 600 00 FulfllUng Treaties with Ohichasaws, 1880. — For permanent annuity, in goods, three thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 3, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Ghippewas, Boise Forte Band, 1880. — For fourteenth of twenty in- stalments, for the support of one blacksmith and assistant, and for tools, iron, and steel, and other articles necessary for the blacksmith-shop, as per third article of treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand five hundred dollars; for fourteenth of twenty instalments, for the support of one school-teacher, and for the necessary books and stationery, as per same article of same treaty, eight hundred dollars; for fourteenth of twenty instalments, for the instruction of Indians in farming, and pur- chase of seeds, tools, and similar necessaries, as per same article of same treaty, eight hundred doUars; for fourteenth of twenty instalments of an- nuity, in money, to be paid per capita, as per same article of same treaty, three thousand five hundred dollars; for fourteenth of twenty instalments of annuity, in provisions, ammunition, and tobacco, as per same article of same treaty, one thousand dollars; for fourteenth of twenty instalments of annuity, in goods and other articles, as per same article of same treaty, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred dol- lars — ^Act February 17, 1879 14 xoo 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Ghippewas of Lake Superior, 1880.— For support of smith and shop, ' during the pleasure of the President, as per twelfth article of treaty of Sep- tember thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and seventh article of treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six hundred dol- lars; for support of two farmers, during the pleasure of the President, as per same articles of same treaties, one thousand two hundred dollars ; for the support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, to be ex- pended for agricultural and educational purposes, pay of clerk, and neces- sary employ6s, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other pur- poses as may be deemed for the best interests of said Indians, fourteen thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. — Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 15 800 Ort Fulfilling Treaties with Chippewas of the Mississippi, 1880.— For thirty-third of forty-six "in- ' stalments, to be paid to the Chippewas of the Mississippi, per third article of treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and fifth article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven one thousand dollars; for fifth of ten instalments of annuity, in monev' last series, per third article of treaty of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and third article of treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, twenty thousand dollars; for the support of a school or schools upon said reservation during the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars; for gilling-twine for nets, three hundred 17 1874 ^^ twenty-five thousand three hundred doUars.— Act February Fulfilling Treaties with Chippewas', Piliager, ' and LaJce winnebagosUsh Bands ' isSO — For ^^' ^^^ ^^ twenty-fifth of forty instabnents of annuity, in money, per third article of treaty of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and INDIAN AFPAIES — FULFILLING TREATIES. 193 third article of treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ten thousand six hundred and sixty- six dollars and sixty- six cents; for twenty-fifth of forty instalments of annuity, in goods, per same articles of same treaties, eight thousand dollars ; for twenty-fifth of forty instalments, for purposes of utility, per same articles of same treaties, four thousand dollars; for fifth of ten instalments, last series, for purposes of education, per same articles of same treaties, two thousand five hundred dollars: for gUUng-twine for nets, three hundred dollars ; in all, twenty-five thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. — Act February 17, 1879 $25, 466 66 Fulfilling Treaties with Ghoctaws, 1880. — For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thou- sand dollars; for permanent annuity, for support of light horsemen, per thirteenth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars; for permanent annuity, for support of blacksmith, per sixth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars; for permanent annuity, for education, per second and thirteenth articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars; for permanent annuity, for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty- second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars; for interest on three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and fifty- seven dollars and ninety-two cents, at five per centum per annum, for educa- tion, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Ohoctaws, in conformity with the provisions contained in the ninth and thirteenth articles of treaty of Jan- uary twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nineteen thousand five hun- dred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all, thirty thousand and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. — Act February 17, 1879 30, 032 89 Fulfilling Treaties with Confederated Tribe^t and Bands of Indians in Middle Oregon, 1880. — For last of five instalments, last series, for beneficial objects, per second article of treaty of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for pay and subsistence of one physician, one sawyer, one miller, one superintendent of farming opera- tions, and one school-teacher, per fourth article of same treaty, five thou- sand one hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for purchasing and keeping in repair all necessary mill-fixtures, mechanics' tools, medicine and hospital stores, books and stationery for schools, and furniture for employes, per fourth article, same treaty, five hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for salary of the head chief of said confederated bands, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars ; in all, eight thousand one hundred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 8, 100 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Creeks, 1880. — For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty of August seventh, seventeen hundred and ninety, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand five hundred dollars ; for permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, three thousand dollars ; for permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty of January twenty -fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty- six, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty thou- sand dollars ; for permanent annuity for blacksmith and assistant, and for shop and tools, per eighth article of treaty of January twenty-fourth, eigh- teen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eight hundred and forty dollars ; for per- manent annuity for iron and steel for shop, per same articles and treaties, two hundred and seventy dollars ; for permanent annuity for the pay of a 49 D A 194 DIGEST or APPEOPEIATIONS. wheelwright, per same articles of same treaties, six hundred dollars ; for five per centum interest on two hundred thousand dollars, for purposes ol' edu- cation, per sixth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, ten thousand dollars ; for interest on six hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-eight doUars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Inte- rior, under provisions of third article of treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty cents ; in all, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty- eight dollars and forty cents.— Act February 17, 1879 9b\i, 9bS 40 Fulfilling Treaties with Grows, 1880.— For eleventh of thirty instalments, to supply male persons, six hundred in number, over fourteen years of age, with a suit of good substantial wooUen clothing, consisting of a coat, hat, pantaloons, flannel shirt, and woollen socks, as per ninth article of treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, eight thousand dollars; for eleventh of thirty instalments, to supply each female, seven hundred in number, over twelve years of age, with a flannel skirt, or the goods neces- sary to make the same, a pair of woollen hose, twelve yards of calico, and twelve yards of cotton domestic, as per same article, six thousand dollars ; for eleventh of thirty instalments, to supply three hundred and fifty boys and three hundred and fifty girls, under the ages named, such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make each a suit as aforesaid, together with a pair of woollen hose for each, per same article, five thousand dollars ; for pay of a physician, per tenth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars ; for tenth of twenty instalments, for pay of teacher and furnishing necessary books and stationery, under seventh article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars ; for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, and for pay of second blacksmith, andiron and steel, as per eighth and tenth articles of same treaty, five thousand three hundred dollars ; for last of ten instalments, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of such articles as, from time to time, the condition and necessities of the Indians may indicate to be proper, the sum of twenty dollars for each Indian engaged in agriculture, as per ninth arti- cle of the same treaty, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ; for this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to furnish flour and meat, sixty-five thousand dollars ; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 112, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Grows, 1875 and 1876. — To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay William Kisskadden for beef furnished the Crows, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and eleven cents.— Act March 3, 1879 9; 416 11 Fulfilling Treaties with i>' Wamish and other Allied Tribes in Washington Territory, 1880, — For last of twenty instalments on one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, under the direction of the President, per sixth article of treaty of Janu- ary twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand two hun- dred and fifty dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the establish- ment and support of an agricultural and industrial school, and to provide said school with a suitable instructor or instructors, per fourteenth article of same treaty, three thousand doUars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the support of a smith and carpenter-shop, and furnishing it with neces- sary tools, five hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician, per four- teenth article of same treaty, four thousand two hundred dollars ; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. — Act February 17, 1879. . . 11 950 00 Fufilling Treaties with Flatheads and other Gonfederated Tribes, 1880. — For last of twenty instalments, for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, keep- ing in repair the buildings, and providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article of treaty of July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty -five, three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for providing suitable instructors therefor, per same article of same treaty, one thousand eight hundred doUars; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair blacksmith, tin and gunsmith, carpenter, and wagon and plow-maker shops, and providing necessary tools therefor, per same article and treaty, INDIAN AFFAIRS FULFILLING TEEATIES. 195 three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of two farmers, two millers, one blacksmith, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and" plow-maker, per same article and treaty, seven thousand four hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair saw and iiouring-mills, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures therefor, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair the hospital, and pro- viding the necessary medicines and furniture therefor, per same article and treaty, three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for pay of a physician, per same article and treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair the buildings required for the various employes, and furnishing the necessary furniture therefor, per same article and treaty, three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instal- ments, for the pay of the head chiefs of the Flathead, Kootenay, and Upper Pend d'Oreille tribes, per same article and treaty, one thousand five hun- dred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 $13, 600 00 Fulfilling Treaty with Ghros Ventres, (1874,) 1873. — For fulfilling treaty with Gros Ventres, fifteen dollars and fifty cents.— Act March 3, 1879 15 50 Fulfilling Treaties with lowas, 1880. — For interest, in lieu of investment on fifty-seven thou- sand five hundred dollars, balance of one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at five per centum per annum, for education or other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the President, per ninth article of treaty of May seven- teenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 2, 875 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Kansas, 1880. — For interest, in Ueu of investment on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, per second article of treaty of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten thousand dol- lars.— Act February 17, 1879 10, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Kickapoos, 1880. — For interest on ninety-three thousand five hun- dred and eighty-one dollars and nine cents, at five per centum per annum, for educational and other beneficial purposes, per treaty of May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, four thousand six hundred and seventy- nine dollars and five cents; for settlement, support, and civilization of Kickapoo Indians in the Indian Territory, lately removed from Mexico, and such as maybe removed hereafter, eight thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and five cents. — Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 12, 679 05 Fulfilling Treaties with Klamaths and Modocs, 1880. — For fourth of five instalments, last series, to be applied under the direction of the President, as per second article of treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, three thousand dollars; for thirteenth of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair one saw-mUl, one flouriQg-mill, buildings for the blacksmith, car- penter, wagon and plow-maker, the manual-labor school, and hospital, as per fourth article of same treaty, one thousand doUars; for fourteenth of twenty instalments, for the purchase of tools and material for saw and flour-mills, carpenter, blacksmith, wagon and plow-maker shops, and books and stationery for the manual-labor school, per same article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars; for fourteenth of fifteen instalments, for pay and subsistence of one superintendent of farmiag, one farmer, one blacksmith, one sawyer, one carpenter, and one wagon and plow-maker, as per fifth article of same treaty, five thousand six hundred dollars ; for four- teenth of twenty instalments, to pay salary and subsistence of one physi- cian, one miller, and two school-teachers, as per same article and treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars ; in all, fourteen thousand seven hun- dred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 14, 700 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Makahs, 1880.— For last of ten instalments of thirty thousand dol- lars, being the fifth series, under direction of the President, as per fifth arti- cle of treaty of January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for support of smith and carpenter-shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per eleventh article of same treaty, five hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments. 196 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and pay of teachers, per same article and treaty, two thousand five hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician, per same article and treaty, three thousand six hundred ^ dollars ; in all, seven thousand six hundred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 . >i 7, 600 00 Fulfilling Treaties loith Menomonees, 1880.— For fourteenth of fifteen instalments of annuity upon two hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and eighty-six dol- lars, for cession of lands, per fourth article of treaty of May twelfth, eigh- teen hundred and fifty-four, and Senate amendment thereto, sixteen thou- sand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and six cents. — Act February 17,1879 :-• 16,179 0& Fulfilling Treaties with Miamies of Kansas, 1880. — For permanent provision for blacksmith and assistant, and iron and steel for shop, per fifth article of treaty of October sixth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fourth article of treaty of June fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, four hundred and eleven dol- lars and forty-three cents ; for permanent provision for miller, in lieu of gunsmith, per same articles and treaties, and per fifth article of treaty of October twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, two hundred and sixty- two dollars and sixty-two cents; for interest on twenty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-one cents, at five per centum, for educational purposes, per third article of treaty of June fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand and ninety-four dollars and twenty-four cents; for last of twenty instalments upon one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, per same article and treaty, three thousand two hun- dred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-two cents; in all, five thousand and fifty-one dollars and one cent. — Act February 17, 1879 5, 051 01 Fulfilling Treaties with Miamies of Eel River, 1880. — For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per fourth article of treaty of August third, seventeen hundred and ninety -five, five hundred dollars; for permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per articles of treaty of August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and five, two hundred and fifty dollars ; for permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third and separate articles of treaty of September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand one hundred dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 1, 100 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Miamies of Indiana, 1880. — For interest on two hundred and twenty- one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents, un- invested, at five per centum, per Senate amendment to fourth article of treaty of June fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, eleven thousand and sixty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. — Act February 17, 1879 11, 062 89 Fulfilling Treaties with Molels, 1880. — For pay of teachers, and for manual- labor schools, and for all necessary materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per fourth article of treaty of December twenty -first, eighteen hun- dred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 3, 000 00- Fulfilling Treaties with Mixed SJwshones, BannocJcs, and Sheepeaters, 1880. — For such goods, provisions, and other articles as the President may, from time to time, determine, in instructiug in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, in pro- viding employes, educating children, procuring medicine and medical attendance, care for and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, for the help- less orphans of said Indians, and in any other respect to promote their civ- ilization, comfort, and improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 25 000 00' Fulfilling Treaties with Navajoes, 1880.— For clothing and subsisting eleven thousand eight ' hundred and sixty-eight Navajjo Indians, twenty-six thousand dollars; for last of ten instalments, to be used by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the purchase of such articles as, from time to time, the condition and necessaries of the Indians may indicate to be proper, the sum of ten dollars to each person who engages in farming or mechanical pursuits, say three thousand persons, thirty thousand dollars; for ninth often instalments, for pay of two teachers, per sixth article of same treaty, two thousand dollars- ^ ,.„. ^ in all, fifty-eight thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 ' 58 000 0a Fulfilling Treaties with Wez Perces, 1880.— For last of five instalments, last series, for bene- ' ficial objects, at the discretion of the President, per fourth article of treatv ot June eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars"- INDIAN AFFAIRS FULFILLING TREATIES. 197 for last of twenty instalments, for the support of two schools, one of which to be an agricultural and industrial school, keeping in repair school-build- ings, and for providing suitable fiirniture, books, and stationery, per same article of same treaty, five hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of one superintendent of teaching and two teachers, per same article and treaty, two thousand seven hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of one superintendent of farm- ing, two farmers, two millers, two blacksmiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plow-maker, per same article and treaty, five thousand dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for pay of a physician, per same article and treaty, one thousand dollars ; for last of twenty instal- ments, for keeping in repair the buildings for the various employes, and for providing the necessary furniture therefor, per same article and treaty, three hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the salary of such person as the tribe may select to be their head chief, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars ; for fourteenth of sixteen instalments, of second series, for boarding and clothing the children who shall attend the schools, providing the schools and boarding-houses with necessary furniture, the purchase of necessary wagons, teams, agricultural implements, tools, and for fencing of such lands as may be needed for gardening and farming pur- poses for the schools, two thousand doUars ; for salaries of two matrons to take charge of the boarding-schools, two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, and two miUers, three thousand five hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicine, and the furniture therefor, three hundred dollars ; for repairs of houses, mills, and tools, and necessary materials, one thousand dollars ; in aU, nineteen thousand eight hundred doUars. — Act February 17, 1879 $19, 800 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Northern Gheyennes and Arapahoes, 1880. — First of ten instalments, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior, for each Indian engaged in agriculture, and roaming, in the purchase of such articles as, from time to time, the condition and necessities of the Indians may indicate to be proper, as per sixth article of treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, thirty-five thousand dollars ; for eleventh of thirty instalments, for purchase of clothing, as per sixth article of treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twelve thousand dollars ; for pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, farmer, blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of same treaty, six thousand dollars ; in aU, fifty -three thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 53, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Omahas, 1880. — For twelfth of fifteen instalments of this amount, being third series, in money or otherwise, per fourth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, twenty thousand doUars. — Act February 17, 1879 20, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Osages, 1880. — For interest on sixty -nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, at five per centum per annum, being value of fifty-four sec- tions of land set apart by treaty of June second, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, for educational purposes, per Senate resolution of January ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars 5 for interest on three hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, to be paid semi-annually, in money or such articles as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, as per first article of treaty of Sep- tember twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty -five, fifteen thousand dol- lars ; in aU, eighteen thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. — ^Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 18, 456 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Otoes and Missourias, 1880.— For twelfth of fifteen instalments, being the third series, in money or otherwise, per fourth article of treaty of March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, nine thousand dollars. — Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 9, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Pawnees, 1880.— For perpetual annuity, at least one-half of which is to be paid in goods and such articles as may be deemed necessary for them, per second article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fiffcy-seven, thirty thousand dollars; for support of two manual-labor schools, per third article of same treaty, ten thousand dollars; for pay of 50 D A $50,000 00 128 DIGEST OF APPBOPEIATIONS. two farmers, two blacksmitlis and two apprentices, one miller and appren- tice, and two teachers, (and for one shoemaker and one carpenter, one tnou- sand six hundred doUars,) seven thousand dollars; forpay ot Physician and purchase of medicines, one thousand two hundred dollars ; for purchase ot iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops, as per fourth article ot treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and flfy-seven, hve hundred dollars; for purchase of farming-utensils and stock, per same article and treaty, one thousand dollars; for repairs of gnst and saw-miils, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand doUars.— Act February l/, 1 Q'7Q ,-.. Fulfiimg Treaties with Poncas', isSO.-Fov sixth of fifteen instalments, last series, ^ be paid to them or expended for their benefit, per second article of treaty of March twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, eight thousand dollars ; tor this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used at the discre- tion of the President, to carry on the work of aiding and instructing tJie Poncas in the arts of civilization, with a view to their self-support, tor clothing, and for pay of employes, ten thousand doUars ; for this amount, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for sub- sistence of the Poncas, thu-ty-five thousand dollars; in all, fifty-three thou- sand doUars— Act February 17, 1879 - •.--■■- H«"» "" FulfilUng Treaties with PoUawatomies, 1880.— For permanent annmty, in silver, per tourtn article of treaty of August third, seventeen hundred and ninety-flve, three hundred and fifty-seven doUars and eighty cents; for permanent annuity, in sUver, per third article of treaty of September thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and nine, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents; for permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of October second, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and ninety-four doUars and fifty cents; for permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and fifteen doUars and sixty cents; for permanent annuity, in specie, per second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty- nine, and second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand' seven hundred and twenty-four doUars a,nd seventy-seven cents; for permanent provision for payment of money, in Ueu of tobacco, iron, and steel, per second article of treaty of September twen- tieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and tenth article of treaties of June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and seven doUars and thirty-four cents; for permanent provision for three blacksmiths and assistants, and for iron and steel for shops, per third article of treaty of October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty- eight, and second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand and eight dollars and ninety-nine cents; for permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-four cents; for interest on two hundred and thirty thousand and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents, at five per centum, in conformity wdth provisions of article seventh of treaties of June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, eleven thousand five hundred and three dollars and twenty-one cents; in aU, twenty thousand six hun- dred and forty-seven doUars and sixty-five cents. — Act February 17, 1879 . 20, 647 65 Fulfilling Treaties with Pottawatomies of Huron, 1880. — For permanent annuity, in money or otherwise, per second article of treaty of November seventeenth, eigh- teen hundred and seven, four hundred dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 400 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Quapaws, 1880. — For education, during the pleasure of the Presi- dent, per third article of treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars ; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith-shop, per same article and treaty, one thou- sand and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand and sixty doUars. — Act Febru- ary 17, 1879 2, 060 00 Fulfilling Treaties loith Qui-nai-elts and Qui-leh-utes, 1880. — For last of five instalments, last series, for beneficial objects, under the direction of the President, per fourth article of treaty of July first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, seven hun- INDIAN AFFAIRS FULFILLING TEEATIES. 199 dred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the support of an agricul- tural and industrial school, and for pay of suitable instructors, per tenth article of same treaty, two thousand two hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for support of smith and carpenter-shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per same article and treaty, three hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of a blacksmith, carpen- ter, farmer, and a physician, per same article of same treaty, three thousand dollars; in aU, six thousand two hundred doUars. — Act February 17, 1879. . $6, 200 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, 1880. — ^For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third article of treaty of November third, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars ; for interest on two hundred thou- sand dollars, at nve per centum, per second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ten thousand dollars; for interest on eight hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars of this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for pur- chase of medicine; in all, fifty-one thousand dollars: And provided, That of of the sum appropriated there be expended one thousand dollars for the support of the school and a farmer for the Sacs and Poxes of the Mississippi at the agency in Iowa ^Act February 17, 1879 51, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri, 1880. — For interest on one hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundred dollars, at five per centum, under the direction of the President, per second article of treaty of October twenty- first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars ; for support of a school, per fifth article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and seventy dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 8, 070 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Seminoles, 1880. — For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity, per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hun- dred dollars; for five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity, (they having joined their brethren west,) per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars ; for interest on fifty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the sup- port of schools, as per third article of treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand five hundred doUars; for interest on twenty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government, as per same ar- ticle of same treaty, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 28, 500 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Senecas, 1880. — ^For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars; for permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five hun- dred dollars; for permanent annuity for blacksmith and miller, per fourth article of treaty of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty- one, to be annually paid to them as a national fund, to be expended by them for such articles and wants and improvements in agriculture as their chiefs (with the consent of their agent) may designate, as stipulated in the seventh article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars; for permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred dollars; for blacksmith and assistant, shops and tools, iron and steel, per fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred and thirty dollars; in aU, three thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 3, 690 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Senecas of New YorTc, 1880.— For permanent annuity, in lieu of in- terest on stock, per act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and 200 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. thirty-one, six thousand dollars ; for interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars, at five per centum, per act of June twenty- seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars ; for interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars, transferred from the Ontario Bank to the United States Treasury, per act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents ; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. — Act Febru- ary 17, 1879 $11, 902 50 Fulfilling Treaties with Shawnees, 1880. — For permanent annuity, for educational purposes, per fourth article of treaty of August third, seventeen hundred and ninety- five, and third article of treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty- four, one thousand dollars ; for permanent annuity, in specie, for educational purposes, per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and third article of treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars ; for interest, at five per centum, on forty thousand dollars, for educational purposes, per third article of last- named treaty, two thousand dollars j in all, five thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 5,000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Eastern Shawnees, 1880. — For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hun- dred and sixty-seven, five hundred dollars ; for blacksmith and assistant, shops and tools, iron and steel, per fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred and thirty dollars ; in all, one thousand and thirty dollars. — Act February 17, 1879. . 1, 030 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Shoshones, 1880. — Western bands : For sixteenth of twenty instal- ments, to be expended, under the direction of the President, in the purchase of such articles as he may deem suitable to their wants, either as hunters or herdsmen, per seventh article of treaty of October first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, five thousand dollars. IsTorthwestem bands : For sixteenth of twenty instalments, to be expended, under the direction of the President, in the purchase of such articles as he may deem suitable to their wants, either as hunters or herdsmen, per third article of treaty of July thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, five thousand dollars. Goship band: For sixteenth of twenty instalments, to be expended, under the direction of the President, in the purchase of such articles, including cattle for herding and other purposes, as he shall deem suitable to their wants and condition as hunters and herdsmen, per third article of treaty of October twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand dollars ; in all, eleven thou- sand dollars. — ^Act February 17, 1879 H qqq qq Fulfilling Treaties with Shosliones and Bannocks, 1880. — Shoshones: For tenthof thirty in- ' stalments, to purchase suits of clothing for males over fourteen years of age, flannel, hose, calico, and domestics for females over the age of twelve years, and such goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls under the ages named, eleven thousand five hundred dollars: for ninth of ten mstalments, for the purchase of such articles as may be considered proper by the Secretary of the Interior, for Indians roaming and for those engaged in agriculture, as per ninth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twenty thousand dollars: for pav of physician teacher, carpenter miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thou- sand dollars; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, per eighth article of the same treatv one thousand dollars. Bannocks: For tenth of thirty instalments, to pur- chase suits of clothing for males over fourteen years of age, flannel hose calico, and domestics for females over twelve years of age, and such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls under the ages named six thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars- for last of ten instalments, for the purchase of such articles as may be consid ered proper by the Secretary of the Interior, for persons roaming 3 for those engaged m agriculture, fourteen thousand dollars; for pay of phyS INDIAN AFFAIES FULFILLING TREATIES. 201 cian, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand four hundred and thirty- seven dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 $63, 437 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Six Nations of New York, 1880. — For permanent annuity, in cloth- ing and other useful articles, per sixth article of treaty of November seven- teenth, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand five hundred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 ' 4, 500 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Sioux of different Tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, 1880. — For tenth of thirty instalments, to purchase clothing for males over four- teen years of age, for flannel, hose, and calico, and domestics required for females over twelve years of age, and for such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls, per tenth article of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; for tenth of thirty instalments, to purchase such articles as may be considered proper by the Secretary of the Interior, for persons roaming; and for tenth of thirty instalments, to purchase such articles as may be considered proper by the Secretary of the Interior, for persons engaged iu agriculture, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars ; for pay of physician, five teachers, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, one farmer, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article of same treaty, ten thousand four hundred dollars; for pay of additional employes at the sev- eral agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska and Dakota, twenty-five thousand dollars ; for industrial schools at the Santee Sioux and Crow Creek agencies, three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; for subsistence of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization, as per agreement ratified by act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including the cost of transporting supplies for the Eed Cloud and Spotted Tail Sioux Indians from the Missouri river and Sidney, Ne- braska, or Cheyenne, Wyoming, one million and ninety-five thousand dol- lars; pay of matron at Santee agency, five hundred dollars; pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material, per eighth article of same treaty, two thousand dollars ; in aU, one million four hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred doUars. — Act February 17, 1879 1, 483, 900 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Sioux, Yankton Tribe, 1880. — For first of ten instalments, third series, to be paid to them or expended for their benefit, per fourth article of treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, twenty-five thousand dollars; for subsistence and civilization of two thousand Yankton Sioux, heretofore provided for in appropriations under "Fulfilling treaty with Sioux of different tribes," sixty thousand dollars; in all, eighty five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 85, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Sisseton, and Wahpeton, and Santee Sioux of Lake Traverse and BeviVs Lake, 1880. — For seventh of ten instalments of the sum of eight hun- dred thousand dollars, named in a certain agreement confirmed by act approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy -four, made by the commissioners appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, under the provisions of the act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, with the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians, for the relinquish- ment by said Indians of their claim to, or interest in, the lands described in the second article of the treaty made with them February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the same to be expended, under the direction of the President, for the benefit of said Indians, in the manner prescribed in said treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as amended by the Senate, said amendment as amended having been ratified by the Indians, as provided by act of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighty thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 80, 000 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Snakes, Wal-pah-pee Tribe, 1880.— For eighth of ten instalments, to be expended under the direction of the President, as per seventh article of treaty of August twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand two hundred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 1, 200 00 Fuinilinq Treaties with S'KlalUms, 1880.— For last of twenty instalments, last series, to be applied to the use and benefit of said Indians, under the direction of the President, per fifth article of treaty of January twenty -sixth, eighteen hun- 51 D A 202 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. dred and fifty-five, one thousand six hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay for suitable teachers, per eleventh article of same treaty, two thousand five hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment ot a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and a physician, per same article and treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars; for support of a smith and carpenter-shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dol- lars.— Act February 17, 1879 • f 8, ^00 UU Fulfilling Treaties with Tabequaclie, Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yampa, Grand Biver, and Uintah Bands of Utes, 1880.— For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and one blacksmith, as per fifteenth article of treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand dollars; for pay of two teachers, as per same article of same treaty, one thousand eight hun- dred dollars ; for purchase of iron and steel, and the necessary tools for blacksmith-shop, per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars; for eleventh of thirty instalments, to be expended under the direc- tion of the Secretary of the Interior, for clothing, blankets, and such other articles as he may deem proper and necessary, under eleventh article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars; for annual amount, for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour, beans, and potatoes, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty-five thousand dollars; for pay of employes at the several Ute agencies, five thousand dollars; in all, seventy-eight thousand and twenty dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 78, 020 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Utahs, Tabequache Band, 1880. — For pay of blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, seven hundred and twenty dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 720 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Walla- Walla, Oayuse, and Umatilla Tribes, 1880. — For last of twenty instalments, being the last series, to be expended under the direction of the President, per second article of treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the pur- chase of all necessary mill-fixtures and mechanical tools, medicine and hos- pital stores, books and stationery for schools, repairs of school-building and furniture for employes, per fourth article of treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the pay and subsistence of one superintendent of farming, one farmer, two millers, one blacksmith, one wagon and plow-maker, one carpenter and joiner, one physician, and two teachers, per fourth article of same treaty, nine thousand dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the pay of each of the head chiefs of the Walla- Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla bands, the sum of five hundred dollars per annum, per fifth article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred dol- lars.— Act February 17, 1879 14^ 500 00 Fulfilling Treaties with Winnebagoes, 1880. — For interest on eight hundred and four thou- sand nine hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and joint resolution of July seventeenth, eighteen hun- dred and sixty-two, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of said Indians, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents; for interest on seventy -eight thousand three hundred and forty dol- lars and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, purchase of stock, agricul- tural implements, seeds, and other beneficial objects, three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and two cents; in all, forty -four thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents.— Act February 17, 1879 ^^ jg2 47 Fulfilling Treaties with Yakamas, 1880.— For last of twenty instalments, last series, for ' beneficial objects, to be expended under the direction of the President, per fourth article of treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the support of two schools, one of which is to be an agricultural and industrial school, keep- INDIAN AFFAIRS — ^REMOVAL, SETTLEMENT, ETC., OF INDIANS. 203 ing in repair school-buildings, and tor providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article of same treaty, five hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of one superintendent of teaching and two teachers, per same article of same treaty, two thousand three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the employment of one superintendent of farming and two farmers, two millers, two black- smiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plow- maker, per same article of same treaty, nine thousand five hundred dol- lars; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair saw and flouring- mills, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for keep- ing in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicine and fixtures therefor, per fifth article of same treaty, three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair blacksmith, tinsmith, gunsmith, carpenter, and wagon and plow-maker shops, and providing necessary tools therefor, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars ; for last of twenty instalments, for the pay of a physician, per same article and treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for keeping in repair the buildings required for the various employes, and for providing the necessary furniture therefor, per same article and treaty, three hundred dollars; for last of twenty instalments, for the salary of such person as the said confederated tribes and bands of Indians may select to be their head chief, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand six hundred dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 $19, 600 00 EEMOVAL, SETTLEMENT, SUBSISTENCE, AND SUPPOET OF INDIANS. Removal of the Utes in Colorado, 1880. — For the removal of the Muache, Capote, and Wee- minuche bands of TJte Indians to the new reservation provided for them under the terms of an agreement made by the United States through Edward Hatch, N. C. McFarland, and Lot M. Morrill, commissioners, and the above-named bands of Ute Indians, at Pagosa Springs, in the State of Colorado, upon the ninth day of November, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for the erection of suitable agency buildings, includ- ing residence for agent upon said new reservation, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Support of GMppewas on White Earth Reservation, 1880. — For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the care and support of the Otter Tail, Pillager, Pembina, and Mississippi Chippewa Indians, on the White Earth reserva- tion in Minnesota, and to assist them in their agricultural operations, five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 5, 000 00 Support of Indians in Idaho, 1880. — Settlement, subsistence, and support of Shoshones and Bannocks and other bands in Idaho: * * * For this amount, to be ex- pended by the direction of the President, in assisting the roving bands of Indians in Southeastern Idaho to move and locate on the Fort Hall reserva- tion in Idaho Territory, and to assist them in educational and agricultural pursuits on said reservation, twenty-five thousand doUars. — Act February 17,1879 25,000 00 Support of Indians in Idaho, 1879. — For the Bannocks and others at Fort Hall, Idaho Ter- ritory, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Support of Indians in Southeastern Oregon, 1880. — Settlement, subsistence, and support of Shoshones and Bannocks and other bands in * * * Southeastern Ore- gon: For this amount, to be expended by direction of the President, in assisting the roving bands of Indians in Southeastern Oregon to move and locate on some proper reservation in Oregon, and to assist them in agricul- tural pursuits thereon, five thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 5, 000 00 Support o) Indians at Fort Feck Agency, 1880.— For this amount, to be expended in such goods, provisions, and other useful articles as the President may, from time to time, determine, in instructing in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, in providing employes, educating children, procuring medicine and medical attendance, care for and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, for the help- 204 DIGEST OF APPKOPEIATIONS. less orphans of said Indians, and in any respect to promote their civiliza- tion, comfort, and improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars. — Act Feb- ruar;^ 17, 1879 - - $75,000 00 iSwpfort of Indians at Fort Peck Agency, 1879.— For the Indians at Fort Peck agency, Mon- tana Territory, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ........ 25, 000 00 Support and Civilization of Sioux at Fort Peck Agency, 1875. — For support and civilization * * * of Sioux at Fort Peck agency, one hundred and fifty dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 150 00 Support and Civilization of Teton Sioux, (1874,) 1873. — For support and civilization * * * of Teton Sioux, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents. — Act March 3, 1879 239 72 Support of Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans, 1880. — Subsistence and civilization of Arickarees, Gros "Ventres, and Mandans : For this amount, to be expended in such goods, provisions, and other articles as the President may, from time to time, determine, in instructing in agricultural and mechanical pur- suits, in providing employes, educating cluldren, procuring medicine and medical attendance, care for and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, for the helpless orphans of said Indians, and in any other respect to promote their civilization, comfort, and improvement, sixty thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 60, 000 00 Support of Apaches of Arizona and JSTew Mexico, 1880. — Collecting and subsisting Apaches and other Indians of Arizona and New Mexico: For this amount, to subsist and properly care for the Apache and other Indians in Arizona and l^ew Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in New Mexico or Arizona, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. And the Presi- dent of the United States is hereby directed to prohibit the removal of any portion of said tribes of Indians to the Indian Territory unless the same shall be hereafter authorized by act of Congress. — Act February 17, 1879 . . 320, 000 00 Support of Arapahoes, Chei/ennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, 1880. — For sub- sistence and civilization of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas who have been collected upon the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 290, 000 00 Support of Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichita^, 1879. — For subsistence, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, of the Arapa- hoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, of the Indian Territory, thirty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 30, 000 00 Support of Indians on the Malheur Reservation, 1880. — For support and civilization of the Indians collected on the Malheur reservation, Oregon, including pay of em ploy^s, twenty thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 20, 000 00 Support of Indians of Central Superintendency, 1880. — For education and civilization of the Indians within the limits of the late Central Superintendency, including clothing, food, and lodging for the children attending school, twenty thou- sand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 20 000 00 Civilization of Indians of Central Superintendency, 1873 and prior years. — For support and ' civilization of Indians in Central Superintendency, four dollars and eighty- six cents. — Act March 3, 1879 ^ gg Support of Kansas Indians, 1880.— For support and civilization of the Kansas' Indians, in- cluding agricultural assistance and pay of employes, ten thousand dol- lars.— Act February 17, 1879 ^q qqq qq Support of Modocs in the Indian Territory, 1880.— For support and civilization of the Mo- ' doc Indians now residing within the Indian Territory, seven thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 7 000 00 Support of Tonkawas at Fort Griffin, Texas, 1880.— For the support of the Tonkawa Indians ' at Fort Griffln, Texas, four thousand eight hundred dollars : Provided, That the sum shall be expended under the direction of the commanding officer at Fort Griffin.— Act February 17, 1879 4 sno nrt Support of Gros Ventres in Mo7ita7ia, 1880.— Foi subsistence and civilization of 'the Gros ^ rrr- J.^^^^^^ ^^ Moutaua, twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 25 000 oo Support of Wichitas and other Affiliated Bands, 1880.— For support and civilization of the Wichitas and afliliated bands, including pay of employes, twenty-four thou- sand doUars.— Act February 17, 1879 : 24 000 00 INDIAN AFFAIRS INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 205 Support of CMppewas of Bed Lake and Pembina, 1880. — For support and civilization of Chip- pewas of Red Lake and Pembina tribe of Chippewas, and for pay of em- ployes, twenty thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 $20, 000 00 Support ofNez Perees, of JosepWs Band, 1880. — For support and civilization of Joseph's band of Nez Perees Indians in the Indian Territory, fifteen thoiisand dol- lars.— Act February 17, 1879 15,000 00 Support of Assinaboines, Montana, 1879. — For the Assinaboines at Fort Belknap, Montana Territory, ten thousand dollars. — ^Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 Collecting and Subsisting Roving Bands of Kickapoos and other Indians on the Borders of Texas and New Mexico, 1873 and prior years. — For collecting and subsisting roving bands of Kickapoos and other Indians on the borders of Texas and New Mexico, five hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-six cents. — ^Act March 3, 1879 565 66 KTGIDEI^TAL EXPENSES. Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Arizona, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, support and civilization of Indians at the Colorado Eiver, Pima and Maricopa, and Moquis Pueblo agencies, and pay of employes at same agencies, forty thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 40, 000 00 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Arizona, 1875 and 1876. — For incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty- five cents.— Act March 3, 1879 164 85 Incidental Eoopenses of Indian Service in California, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, support and civilization of Indians at the Bound Valley, Hoopa Valley, Tule River, and Mission agencies, and pay of em- ployes at same agencies, thirty-five thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 35, 000 00 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Colorado, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service and pay of employes, four thousand dollars. — Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Dakota, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service and pay of employes at eight agencies for the Sioux, twelve thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 Incidental Expenses of Indian Servive in Idaho, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service and pay of employes at Lemhi agency, and additional employes at Fort HaU, Idaho, five thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 . Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Montana, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including pay of employes, six thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Montana, 1875. — ^For tacidental expenses of Indian service, * * • ta Montana, twenty-four dollars and sixty-five cents. — Act March 3, 1879 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Nevada, 1880. — For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, support and civilization of Indians located on the Pi-Ute, Walker Eiver, Western Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake reservations, and pay of employes, same agencies, fifteen thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 15, 000 00 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in New Mexico, 1880.— For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, support and civilization of Indians at Pueblo and Mesealero agencies, and pay of employes at same agencies, twenty thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 20, 000 00 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in New Mexico, 1875 and 1876.— For incidental ex- penses of Indian service, * * * in New Mexico, seventy-two doUars. — Act March 3,1879 72 00 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Oregon, 1880.— For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, support and civilization of Indians at Grand Eonde and SUetz agencies, and pay of employes at the same agencies, twenty-five thousand doHars.— Act February 17, 1879 25,000 00 Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Oregon and Washington, 1873 and prior years.— For incidental expenses of the Indian service * * * m Oregon and Washing- ton, three dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 3 00 52 D A 4,000 00 12, 000 00 5,000 00 6,000 00 24 65 2Qg DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Utah, 1880 -For general ^^f .^.fn Jl TaUefLtn^y" Indian service, support and civilization of Indians ^t Uintah Talley agency, and pay of employes at said agency, twelve thousand doUars.-Act b ebru- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ Incidental Bxpensl ^of I^ian Se^lcein WasMngton;i8s6.-Yov general ifi^ental expenses of the Indian service at seven agencies, and pay of employes and the sui> port and civUization of Indians at ColviUe and Nisqually agencies, twenty thousand dollars—Act February 17, 1879 V^-'-WV] 'L^^^^ ' Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Wyoming, 1880 -For general incidental expenses of the Indian service and pay of employes, two thousand dollars— Act ^ ^^^ ^^ February 17, 1879 - - • --■--■-.- ; • • ■ ; y " ' ' ' Incidental Expenses of Indian Service in Central Snperintendency, 187 7. —Vovmciaenta^iex- penses of Indian service in Central Superintendency, for the fiscal yeai eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two dollars and sixty-one cents— Act ^ ^^ March 3, 1879. GBNBEAL AKD MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Buildings at Agencies, and Repairs, I880.-For buildings at agencies, and repairs of the same, fifteen thousand doUars.— Act February 17, 1879 - - ._^ - ; - - 15, 000 00 Buildings at Agencies, and Repairs, 1876.— To pay J. A. Coffey and Company, for building sold the Government for the use of the Osage Indian agency, and tor con- tingencies of the Indian department, eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty cents. [Of this amount, the sum of four hundred and eighty -nine doUars and ninety-eight cents is on account of building sold the Govern- ment for the use of the Osage Indian agency for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six.]— Act March 3, 1879 - : - • 489 98 Contingencies, Indian Department, 1880.— For contingencies of the Indian service, including travelling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and for pay of employes, and for pay of two special agents, at two thousand dol- lars per annum each, thirty-five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879. 35, 000 00 Contingencies, Indian Department, 1873 and prior years, (1874,) 1873, 1875, and 1876.— For contingencies of the Indian department, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty -three cents, [as follows : For the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, two hundred and forty-two doUars and ninety- four cents ; for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, fifteen dollars and forty-nine cents ; and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nineteen dollars, in accordance with the estimates in House Executive Docu- ment, No. 30, Forty-fifth Congress, third session.] To pay Joseph O- Jib-Way, for services rendered the Indian department, for eighteen hundred and seventy-four and prior years, three hundred dollars, [as follows : For the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, two hundred and seventy dollars, and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four — seventy-three, thirty dollars.] To pay J. A. Coffey and Company, for build- ing sold the Government for use of the Osage Indian agency, and for con- tingencies of the Indian department, eight hundred and eighty -four dollars and fifty cents. [Of this amount, the sum of three hundred and ninety-four doUars and fifty-two cents is on account of contingencies of the Indian depart- ment for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six.] — Act March 3, 1879. 971 95 Pay of Indian Inspectors, 1880. — For pay of three Indian inspectors, at three thousand dol- lars per annum each, nine thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 _ 9, 000 00 Travelling Expenses of Indian Inspectors, 1880. — For necessary travelling expenses of three Indian inspectors, four thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 4, 000 00 Vaccination of Indians, 1880. — For vaccine-matter and vaccination of Indians, five hundred doUars.— Act February 17, 1879 500 00 Salary of Ouray, Head Chief of the TJte Nation, 1880. — For sixth instalment of annuity, to be paid to Ouray so long as he shall be chief of the Ute Indians, one thou- sand doUars.— Act February 17. 1879 1, 000 00 Transportation of Indian Supplies, 1880. — For this amount, for necessary expenses of trans- portation of such goods, provisions, and other articles, for the various tribes of Indians provided for by this act, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 225, 000 00 Telegraphing and Purchase of Indian Supplies, 1880. — To contract for the Indian service, including advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, in- INDIAN AFFAIRS — GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. 207 spection, and all other expenses connected therewitli, including telegraphing, twenty-five thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 $25, 000 00 Telegraphing and Purchase of Indian Supplies, 1879. — For telegraphing, and for purchase of Indian supplies, inspection, and other expenses connected therewith, and for advertising for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, five thou- sand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 5 OOO 00 Uxpenses of Indian Commissioners, 1880. — For the expenses of the commission of citizens serving without compensation, appointed by the President, under the provis- ions of the fourth section of the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 15, 000 00 Uxpenses of Indian Delegations visiting Washington in 1870, 1873 and prior years. — To pay D. E. Eisley for expenses of Indian delegation visiting Washington in eighteen hundred and seventy, two hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty- seven cents. — Act March 3, 1879 231 57 Pay of Indian Police, 1880. — For the services of not exceeding eight hundred privates, at five dollars per month each, and not exceediag one hundred officers, at eight dollars per month each, of Indian police, and for equipments, to be employed in maintainiug order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That Indians em- ployed at agencies in any capacity shall not be construed as part of agency employes named in section live of the act making appropriations for the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. — Act February 17, 1879 60, 000 00 Payment to Flatheads removed to Jocko Reservation, Montana, (Beimbursable,) 1880. — For seventh of ten instalments of fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President, for the Flathead Indians removed from Bitter Eoot Valley, to the Jocko reservation in the Territory of Montana, five thou- sand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 ! 5, 000 00 Support of Schools not otherwise provided for, 1880. — For support of industrial schools and for other educational purposes for the Indian tribes, seventy-five thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 75, 000 00 Support of Schools for Otoes and Missourias, {Eeimhursable,) 1880. — For support of industrial schools at the Otoe agency, the amount to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sales of the lands of said Indians in If ebraska, six thousand dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 6, 000 00 Interest dus Osage Indians on Avails of Diminished Reserve Lands in Kansas, 1880. — For interest due Osages on avails of diminished reserve lands in Kansas, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty. This amount to be expended for the Osage Indians, in accordance with section twelve of the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, being interest at five per centum per annum from March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to March first, eighteen hundred and eighty, on one mil- lion two hundred and six thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents, aggregate of net avails of Osage trust and dimin- ished reserve lands sold prior to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy- niue, as provided for by section two of the act approved May ninth, eigla- teen hundred and seventy-two, sixty thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-six cents.— Act June 28, 1879 60, 312 86 Survey of the BlacTc Sills. — To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the heirs of Henry Newton, deceased, for services on the commission to survey the Black Hills, in Dakota Territory, in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two thousand nine hundred and two dol- lars and ten cents.— Act March 3, 1879 2, 902 10 Surveying Sioux Indian Lands in Dakota, 1880.— For the survey of lands for allotments to the Eed Cloud and Spotted Tail bands of Sioux Indians in Dakota Terri- tory, ten thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 10, 000 00 That so much of "An act making appropriations for sundry civil ex- penses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh- teen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes," approved June twen- tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as is in the words following: " To pay to Charles P. Birkett the sum of thirty-two thousand five hundred 208 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. and five dollars and seventy-one cents, to reimburse the said Birkett, late United States Indian agent, for amount expended by him for the benefit of the Indians at Ponca agency, Dakota," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. And the said Charles P. Birkett is hereby authorized and empowered to institute and prosecute suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of the amount claimed by him, as provided in the act aforesaid, under the rules and regulations governing proceedings in said court, with the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States to either said Birkett or the United States from the judgment of the Court of Claims in said case. — Act March 3, 1879. Relief of James W. Richard and J. S. Brown and Brother, of Denver, Colorado.— That there be appropriated the sum of five thousand and twenty-four dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise ap- propriated, to pay James W. Eichard and J. S. Brown and Brother, of the city of Denver, county of Arapahoe, in the State of Colorado, for flour de- livered by said last-named parties to the Los Pinos Indian agency in Col- orado, during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five; that the same be paid under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. — Act January 13,1879 .- $5,024 00 Relief of Domestic and Indiam, Missions and Sunday-School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. — That the sum of two thousand five hundred and forty-six dol- lars and eighty-seven cents is appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment to the Domestic and Indian Missions and Sunday-School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention the sum due under contract with the United States for clothing and tuition furnished to the pupils in the Pottawatomie mission-school in Kansas, for the quarters ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty, and December thirty -first, eighteen hundred and sixty. — Act February 4, 1879 . 2, 546 87 Relief of Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, Assistant Surgeon United States Army. — That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, or cause to be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri- ated, to Assistant Surgeon Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, United States Army, the sum of seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents, being a refund to the said Jenkins A. Fitzgerald for moneys originally received by him from the Department of the Interior, for medical services rendered at the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indian agency in the years eighteen hun- dred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy, and which moneys so received the said Jenkins A. Fitzgerald was required to return to the treasury by order of the Second Comptroller. — Act March 1, 1879 798 33 TRUST FUNDS. Sec. 2. Payment of interest on certain abstracted and non -paying State stocks, belonging to the various Indian tribes, and held in trust by the Sec- retary of the Interior, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, namely — Act February 17, 1879 : Trust-Fund Interest due CheroJcee National Fund, 1880. — For trastfund interest due Chero- kee national fund, twenty-six thousand and sixty dollars Act February 17, 1879 26 060 00 Trust-Fund Interest due Cherokee School-Fund, 1880.— For trust-fund interest due Cherokee ' school-fund, two thousand four hundred and ten dollars. — Act February 17 1879 2 41 A QQ Trust-Fund Interest due Chickasaw National Fund, 1880. — For trust-fund interest due Chick- ' asaw national fund, nineteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars Act February 17, 1879 ' 19 820 00 Trust-Fund Interest due Choctaw General Fund, 1880.— For trust-fund interest due Choctaw ' general fund, twenty-seven thousand dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 27 000 00 Trust-Fund Interest due Greek Orphans, 1880— For trust-fund interest due Creek orphans ' four thousand and forty-eight dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 . 4 04S 00 Trust-Fund Interest due Delaware General Fund, 1880.— For trust-fund interest due'b'ela- ' ware general fund, eight thousand nine hundred and thirtv dollars —Act February 17, 1879 ^'' 3^33^^^ PENSIONS. 209 Trust-Fund Interest due lotoas, 1880. — For trust-fund interest due lowas, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 . . $3, 520 00 Trust-Fund Interest due KaskasMas, Peorias, Wea^, and Pianlcesliaics, 1880. — For trust-fund interest due Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, four thousand eight hundred and one dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 4, 801 00 Trust-Fund Interest due KasTcasMas', Peorias^, Weas', and PiankesJiaws' School-Fund, 1880. — For trust-fund interest due Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw school-fund, one thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars. — Act Feb- ruary 17, 1879 1, 449 00 Trust-Fund Interest due Menomonees, 1880. — For trust-fund interest due Menomonees, nine hundred and fifty dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 950 00 Trmt-Fund Interest due Ottawas and Ghippeicas, 18S0.--Por trust-fund interest due Otta- ■was and Chippewas, two hundi-ed and thirty dollars. — Act February 17, 1879 230 00 Contingencies of Trust-Fimds, 1880. — For expenses in connection with the Indian trust-fund, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, three hun- dred dollars.— Act February 17, 1879 300 00 PENSIONS. Sec. 2. That any unexpended balances in the items of appropriation contained in the act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, may be applied to the payment of such other items as may be found deficient under the appropriations provided for in the said act. — Act January 27, 1879. Sec. 3. That sections forty-seven hundred and seventy-one, forty-seven hundred and seventy -two, and forty-seven hundred and seventy- three of the Eevised Statutes of the United States, providing for biennial examinations of pensioners, are hereby repealed: Provided, That the Commissioner of Pensions shall have the same power as heretofore to order special examina- tions, whenever, in his judgment, the same may be necessary, and to in- crease or reduce the pension according to right and justice; but in no case shall a pension be withdrawn or reduced except upon notice to the pensioner and a hearing upon sworn testimony, except as to the certificate of the ex- amining surgeon. In order to provide for the speedy payment of arrearages of pensions, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue immediately in payment thereof, as they may be adjusted, the legal- tender currency, now in the United States Treasury, held as a special fund for the redemption of iractional currency under section one of joint resolu- tion number seventeen of the Congress of the United States, approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six ; and fractional currency presented for redemption shall be redeemed in any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. — Act June 21, 1879. AN ACT to provide that all pensions on account of death, or wounds received, or disease contracted in the service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, ■which have been granted, or which shall hereafter he granted, shall commence from the date of death or discharge from the service of the United States ; for the payment of arrears of pensions, and other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all pensions which have been granted under the general laws regiUating pensions, or may hereafter be granted, in consequence of death from a cause which originated in the United States se^^ice during the continuance of the late war of the rebel- lion or in consequence of wounds, injuries, or disease received or contracted in said service during said war of the rebellion, shall commence from the date of the death or discharge from said service of the person on whose ac- count the claim has been or shall hereafter be granted, or from the termi- nation of the right of the party having prior title to such pension : Provided, The rate of pension for the intervening time for which arrears of pension 53 DA 210 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. are hereby granted shall be the same per month for which the pension was originally granted. Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized and directed to adopt such rules and regulations for the payment of the arrears of pensions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause to be paid to such pensioners, or, if the pensioners shall have died, to the person or persons entitled to the same, all such arrears of pension as the pensioner may be, or would have been, entitled to under this act. Sec. 3. That section forty -seven hundred and seventeen of the Eevised Statutes of the United States which provides that "no claim for pension not prosecuted to a successful issue within five years from the date of filing the same shall be admitted without record evidence from the War or Navy Department of the injury or the disease which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made : Provided, That in any case in which the limitation prescribed by this section bars the fur- ther prosecution of the claim, the claimant may present, through the Pen- sion Office, to the Adjutant- G-eneral of the Army or the Surgeon-General of the Navy, evidence that the disease or injury which resulted in the disabil- ity or death of the person on whose account the claim is made originated in the service and in the line of duty; and if such evidence is deemed satis- factory by the officer to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause a record of the fact so proved to be made, and a copy of the same to be transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution of the claim shall thereby be removed," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 4. No claim -agent or other person shall be entitled to receive any compensation for services in making application for arrears of pension. Sec. 5. That all acts or parts of acts, so far as they may conflict with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, January 25, 1879. AN ACT relating to soldiers while in the civil service of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who, under and by virtue of the first section of the act entitled " An act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions," approved March third, eighteen hun- dred and sixty-five, were deprived of their pensions during any portion of the time from the third of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the sixth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by reason of their being in the civil service of the United States, shall be paid their said pensions, withheld by virtue of said section of the act aforesaid, for and during the said period of time from the third of March, eighteen hundred and sixty- five, to the sixth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, March 1, 1879. That the rate at which the arrears of invalid pensions shall be allowed and computed in the cases which have been or shall hereafter be allowed shall be graded according to the degree of the pensioner's disability from time to time, and the provisions of the pension laws in force over the period for which the arrears shall be computed. That section one of the act of January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, granting arrears of pensions, shall be construed to extend to and include pensions on account of soldiers who were enlisted or drafted for the service in the war of the rebellion, but died or incurred disability from a cause originating after the cessation of hostilities, and before being mustered out: Provided, That in no case shall arrears of pensions be allowed and paid from a time prior to the date of actual disability. Sec. 2. All pensions which have been, or which may hereafter be, granted m consequence of death occurring from a cause which originated in the service since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one or m consequence of wounds or injuries received or disease contracted since tuat date, shall commence from the death or discharge of the person on whose account the claim has been or is hereafter granted if the disabiUtv occurred prior to discharge, and if such disability occurred after the discharge PENSIONS. 211 then from the date of actual disability or from the termination of the right of party having prior title to such pension: Provided, The application for such pension has been or is hereafter filed with the Commissioner of Pensions prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty, otherwise the pension shall commence from the date of filing the application; but the limitation herein prescribed shall not apply to claims by or in behalf of insane persons and children under sixteen years of age. Sec. 3. Section forty-seven hundred and nine of the Eevised Statutes is hereby repealed. — Act March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of certain pensioners. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhled, That all pensioners now on the pension- rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, for amputation of either leg at the hip-joint, shall receive a pension at the rate of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per month from the date of the approval of this act. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of soldiers and sailors becoming totally blind in the service of the country. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled "An act to increase the pensions of certain soldiers and sailors who have lost both their hands, or both their feet, or the sight of both eyes, in the service of the country," be so con- strued as to include all soldiers and sailors who have become totally blind from causes occurring in the service of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1879. AN ACT for the relief of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, Paris, Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the pension agent at Knoxville, Tennessee, to issue and deliver to the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Paris, Texas, a duplicate draft of number one hundred and ten thousand three hundred and nine, dated March thirteenth, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-nine, drawn by Daniel T. Boynton, as United States pen- sion agent at Knoxville, Tennessee, on the United States assistant treasurer at New York, for the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dol- lars and sixty cents, in favor of Minerva A. Davis, and by her endorsed to said bank; which duplicate draft is directed to be issued in lieu of the original draft as herein described, and which was mailed by said bank on the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from Paris, Texas, to Donnell, Lawson and Company, of N"ew York, and which was lost in transmission: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is satisfied that the same has not been paid: And provided further, That said Farmers' and Merchants' Bank give bond, with security approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, to hold the United States harmless against the payment of said original draft. Approved, June 24, 1879. Army Pensions, 1880.— For pensions for Army invalids, widows, minors, and dependent rela- tives, survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, twenty-eight mOlion four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the amount expended for each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.— Act January 27, 1879 $28, 400, 000 00 Pay and Allowances, Army Pensions, 1880.— For pay and aUowances for salary, fees for preparing vouchers, rent, fuel, light, and postage on official matter directed to the Departments and bureaus at Washington, two hundred and twenty- seven thousand five hundred doUars. [Two thousand five hundred dollars of the above sum is set apart for Pay and Allowances, Kavy Pensions, 1880, in accordance with letter of the Fourth Auditor, of June 2, 1879.]— Act January 27, 1879 22o,000 00 212 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Fees of Examining- Surgeons, Army Pensions, 1880.— For fees of examining-surgeons, as pro- vided by the several acts of Congress, two hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That a fee of one dollar, and no more, shall be paid to the examining-surgeon for each examination of a pensioner, as pro- vided by law, except when the examination is made by a board of surgeons, in which case the fees now allowed by law shall be paid. [Two thousand dollars of the above sum is set apart for Fees of Examining-Snrgeons, Kavy Pensions, 1880, in accordance with letter of the Fourth Auditor, of June 2, 1879.]— Act January 27, 1879 $202,500 00 Army Pensions to Invalids, 1871 and ;prior years. — To pay John F. Swift, late pension agent at San Francisco, the amount found due to him on settlement of his account, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and four cents. — Act March 3, 1879 . 123 04 Navy Pensions, 1880. — For H^Tavy pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, five hundred and thirty-four thousand doUars : Provided, That the appropria- tions aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy-pension fond, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose : And provided further, That the amount expended for each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. — Act January 27, 1879 534, 000 00 Pay and Allowances, Navy Pensions, 1880. — For pay and allowances for salary, fees for pre- paring vouchers, rent, fuel, light, and postage on official matter directed to the Departments and bureaus at Washington, two hundred and twenty- seven thousand five hundred dollars. [Two thousand five hundred dollars of the above sum is set apart for Pay and Allowances, Navy Pensions, in accordance with letter of the Fourth Auditor, of June 2, 1879; the balance is appropriated under the head of Pay and Allowances, Army Pensions, 1880.]— Act January 27, 1879 2, 500 00 Fees of Fxamining- Surgeons, Navy Pensions, 1880. — For fees of examining-surgeons, as pro- vided by the several acts of Congress, two hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars : Provided, That a fee of one dollar, and no more, shall be paid to the examining-surgeon for each examination of a pensioner, as provided by law, except when the examination is made by a board of sur- geons, in which case the fees now allowed by law shall be paid. [Two thou- sand dollars of the above sum is set apart for Fees of Examining-Surgeons, Navy Pensions, in accordance with letter of the Fourth Auditor, of June 2, 1879; the balance is appropriated under the head of Fees of Examining- Surgeons, Army Pensions, 1880.]— Act January 27, 1879 2, 000 00 Arrears of Army and Navy Pensions. — For the arrears of pensions due on claims in which the pensions were allowed prior to January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five million dollars ; the amounts paid out respec- tively for Army and Navy pensions to be accounted for separately to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department.— Act March 3, 1879 25, 000, 000 OO Fees for Vouchers, Arrears of Army and Navy Pensions. — The pension agents shall receive for their services and expenses in paying the arrears upon pensions allowed previous to January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in- cluding postage on the vouchers and checks sent to the pensioner, thirty cents for each payment ; and the sum of fifteen thousand doUars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the payment of the same. — Act March 3, 1879 15 qqq 00 Army and Navy Pensions, 1879.— For pensions for Army and Navy invalids,' widows ' ininors, and dependent relatives for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth' eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one million eight hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated for those pur- posesj the amounts paid out on account of Army and Navy pensions re- spectively to be accounted for separately to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department.— Act March 3, 1879 1 800 000 00 Printing Pension-Checks, 1880.— For payment of expenses of printing pension-checks for the ' ' fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, nine thousand doUars Act March 3,1879... q OOO 00 Printimi Pension- Checlcs, 1879.— For payment of expenses of printing pension- checks" for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eight thousand five hundred dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 . 8 500 OO Belief of Emilie B. Hooe, widoic, {Pensions.)— Th^t the Secretary of the Interior be and he ' IS hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Emilie E. Hooe, widow of the POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. 213 late Brevet-Major Alexander S. Hooe, of the Piftli Infantry, United States Army, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money equal to twenty dollars per month, from December eighth, eigh- teen hundred and forty-seven, the date of the death of her said husband, to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the time of the commencement of the pension given her by special act of Congress.— Act March 3, 1879 .^. $1,455 33 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Salaries, Post-0 ffice Department, 1880.— For compensation of the Postmaster-General, eight thousand dollars; chief clerk to the Postmaster-General, two thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; ap- pointment clerk of class four, in lien of a fourth-class clerk now provided for; law clerk, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, (office of Assistant Attorney-General for Post-Office Department;) one clerk of class one ; one messenger, (clerk of class one,) one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; topographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; temporary employes, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. Por Pirst Assistant Postmaster-General, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; twelve clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand doUars each; three assistant messengers; superintendent of blank agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of blank agency, one thou- sand six hundred doUars; four assistants to superintendent of blank agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistants to superintendent of blank agency, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer, (for blank agency;) superintendent of free delivery, two thou- sand one hundred dollars; one clerk of class two, (office of superintendent of free delivery;) in all, seventy thousand one hundred and forty dollars. For Second Assistant Postmaster-General, three thousand five hundred dol- lars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division of inspection, two thousand doUars; seven clerks of class four; twenty-six clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two assistant messengers; in all, ninety-nine thousand seven hundred and forty doUars. For Third Assistant Postmaster General, three thousand five hundred doUars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division of dead letters, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of division of postage-stamps, two thousand two hun- dred and fifty doUars; five clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three; twenty- two clerks of class two; thirty-three clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-four female clerks, at nine hun- dred dollars each; three assistant messengers; seven laborers, four female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each ; in aU, one hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred doUars. Third Assistaj^t Postmasteb- Geneeal. — In the office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General the fol- lowing increase of force over that of the current year is hereby authorized and appropriated for, namely: One clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; and three female clerks, at nine hundred doUars per annum each; in all, thirteen thousand one hundred doUars. For superintendent of foreign mails, three thousand doUars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred doUarg; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one assistant mes- senger; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For superintendent of the money-order system, three thousand doUars ; chief clerk, two thousand doUars; two clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand doUars; three laborers; one assistant messenger; in aU, thirty- five thousand five hundred doUars. And for the foUowing additional force 54 D A 214 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. in the money-order ofSce, namely: One clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; and two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, four thou- sand six hundred dollars. For chief of division of mail-depredations, two thousand two hundred and fiity dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars. Office of disbursing clerk and superintendent of building: disbursing clerk and superintendent, two thousand one hundred dollars; one clerk of class two (accountant;) one clerk of class one (storekeeper;) engineer, one thou- sand four hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, who shall be a steam-fitter, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, seven hun- dred and twenty dollars; one carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant carpenter, one thousand dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; for fifteen watchmen and twenty-five laborers; in all, forty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. — Act June 21, 1879. $497, 040 00 Contingent Expenses, Post- Office Department : Stationery, 1880. — For stationery, nine thou- sand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 9, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department : Fuel, 1880. — Fuel for the General ^^ost-Office building, including the Auditor's office, four thousand four hundred dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 4, 400 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: Gas, 1880. — For gas, five thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post- Office Department: Plumbing and Oas-fixtures, 1880. — Plumbing and gas-fixtures, four thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 4, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department : Telegraphing, 1880. — Telegraphing, three thou- sand doUars.— Act June 21, 1879 3, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department : Telegraphing, 1879. — For telegraphing, contin- gent expenses, for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two thousand dol- lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — ^Act March 3, 1879 2, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: Painting, 1880. — Painting, eight thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 8, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: Carpets, 1880. — Carpets, five thousand dol- lars.— Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post- Office Department: Furniture, 1880. — Furniture, five thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 5^ 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post- Office Department : Horses and Wagons, 1880 Keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness, one thousand two hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1, 200 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department : Hardware, 1880. — Hardware, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Offiice Department: Bent, 1880. — And for rent of house numbered nine hundred and fifteen E street, northwest, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Post- Office Department : Miscellaneous Items, 1880.— Miscellaneous items, ' six thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 q ooO 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: Miscellaneous Items, 1879. — For miscellaneous ' items, contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department, for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — Act March 3, 1879 4 000 00 Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: Publication of Official Postal Ouide, 1880.— ' Publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, twenty thousand dollars — Act June 21, 1879 20, 000 00 Provided, That hereafter the expenditure of the contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department shall be expended as specially directed in the law, and according to the appropriations for the items specifically named and that no moneys appropriated for the specific purposes named under the head of "For contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department" shaU be diverted from one purpose to another; and that all moneys unexpended for one or more specific purposes shall be turned into the treasury, and not ex- pended, by the superintendent and disbursing officer, for any object or pur- pose whatsoever other than the specific ones named in the appropriation .n^!oL"^°^*^°^®^* expenses of the Post-Office Department."— Act June 19, 1878, continued by act of June 21, 1879. POST-OFFICE DEPAETMENT POSTAL SEEVICE. 215 Postage-Stamps, Post Office Department, 1879. — For ordinary postage-stamps, under article eight of the Universal Postal Convention, for eighteen hundred and sev- enty-nine, tvo hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — Act March 3, 1879 $250 00 JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the appointment of a oommisaiou to lease a huilding for a city post office in the city of Washington, District of Columhia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General, the chair- man of the Senate and House Committees on Pubhc Buildings and Grounds, are hereby constituted a commission with authority to lease such building in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of a city post ofSce, as in their judgment the good of the public service may require : Provided, That said lease shall be for a term of not less than three nor exceeding five years, and at an annual rental not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum. Approved, June 27, 1879. POSTAL SERYICB. AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assmnbled. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Oflce De- partment for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, out of any money in the treasury arising from the revenues of said Depart- ment, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty- six, as follows: Office of the PostmAster-Geneeal. — ^For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be expended for fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily em- ployed by special agents of the Post-Offlce Department, subject to ap- proval by the Attorney-General ; and the Superintendent of Railway Mail Service and the chief of special agents shall be paid their actual expenses while travelling on the business of the Department. For advertising, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General shall cause adver- tisements of aU general mail-lettings of each State and Territory to be con- spicuously posted up in each post office in the State and Territory embraced in said advertisements for at least siKty days before the time of such general letting; and no other advertisement of such lettings shall be required; but this provision shall not apply to any other than general mail-lettings. For preparing and publishiug a new edition of the Laws and Regulations of the Post-Ofifice Department, twenty thousand dollars, of which sum two thou- sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be paid, upon the order of the Postmaster-General, and, in his discretion, to such officers of the Department as he may designate to prepare and superintend the pubUcation of the volume: Provided, That the time so employed shall in no wise interfere with the regular daDy duties of such officers; the appropri- ation herein provided for to be immediately available. For preparation and publication of post-route maps, including revision of former editions, and maps, diagxams, and other information, thirty-five thousand dollars; and the Postmaster-General may authorize the publication and sale of said maps to individuals at the cost thereof; the proceeds of said sales to be applied as a farther appropriation for said purpose. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, one thousand five hundred doUars. Office of the Fiest Assistant Postmastee-Geneeal.— For com- pensation to postmasters, seven million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing contaiued in section thirty-nine hun- dred and eighty-two of the Revised Statutes shaU be construed as pro- hibiting any person from receiving and delivering to the nearest post office or postal-car maU-matter properly stamped: Provided further, That 216 DIGEST OF APPEOPEUTIONS. from and after the passage of this act Senators, Eepresentatives, and Delegates in Congress, the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives, may send and receive through the mail free, all public documents printed by order of Congress; and the name of each Sen- ator, Eepresentative, Delegate, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House shall be written thereon, with the proper designation of the ofttce he holds, and the provisions of this section shall apply to each of the persons named herein until the first Monday of December, following the expiration of their respective terms of ofilce; for compensation to clerks in post offices, three million six hundred thousand dollars ; for payment to letter-carriers, two million dollars ; for wrapping-paper, twenty thousand dollars ; for wrap- ping-twine, fifty thousand dollars; for marking and rating-stamps, twelve thousand dollars; for letter-balances and scales, three thousand five hun- dred dollars; for rent, light, and fuel, four hundred and twenty-five thou- sand dollars; for ofQce-furniture, twenty thousand dollars; for stationery, fifty thousand dollars; for miscellaneous and incidental items, ninety thou- sand dollars. Office of the Second Assistant Postmastee-Geneeal. — For inland mail transportation, namely: For transportation by postal-cars, one million two hundred and fifty thousand doUars: Provided, That the Post- master-General may use such portion of the postal-car service appropriation as may be spared from it to supply any deficiency that may arise from insuffi- cient appropriations in the item for railway transportation: Provided, That hereafter, in making his estimates for railway-mail service, the Postmaster- General shall separate the estimate for postal-car service from the general estimates; and in case any increase or diminution of service by postal-cars shall be made by him, the reasons therefor shall be given in his annual report next succeeding such increase or diminution. And the proviso to the act entitled "An act to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of mails by railroads for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine," approved December twenty-first, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby repealed: Provided, That the Postmaster-General shall make no deficiency in the appropriation for the current fiscal year by placing postal-cars on any line. For transportation by railroad, nine million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which sum one hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be used by the Postmaster- General to maintain and secure from railroads necessary and special facili- ties for the postal service, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and sixteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight doUars and forty-two cents to pay the balance due for salaries and expenses of the Special Commission on Eailway Mail Transportation. For transpor- tation by steamboat routes, nine hundred thousand dollars; for transporta- tion on star routes, five million nine hundred thousand dollars ; for compen- sation to railway post-office clerks, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That postal clerks, route agents, and mail-route messengers shall not be required to wear uniform other than a cap or badge. For route agents, one million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ; for mail-route messengers, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; for local agents, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars ; for mail-mes- sengers, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; for mail-locks and keys, fifteen thousand dollars; for mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Office of the Thied Assistant Postmastee-Geneeaj..— For man- ufacture of adhesive postage-stamps, of official stamps, and of newspaper and periodical-stamps, ninety -two thousand dollars. If said stamps can be furnished by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury De- partment, at less than the same now cost, the work of printing the same shall be given to said bureau when not in violation of existing contracts. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars; for manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers, four hundred and ninety thousand dol- lors; for pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars ; for POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT POSTAL SERVICE. 217 manufacture of postal-cards, tvro hundred thousand dollars. And the Post- master-General is hereby authorized to furnish and issue to the public postal- cards, with postage-stamps impressed upon them, for circulation in the mails exchanged with foreign countries under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention of June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at a postage charge of two cents each, including the cost of their manu- facture. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars; for registered- package envelopes, locks and seals, and for ofiBce envelopes, and for dead- letter envelopes, sixty-five thousand dollars ; for ship, steamboat, and way- letters, four thousand five hundred dollars ; for engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, one thousand five hundred dollars. Office of Sxjpere^tbndbnt of Foreign Mails. — For transportation of foreign mails, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars; for balances due foreign countries, forty-five thousand dollars, including the portion of the ex- pense payable by the United States for the maintenance of the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, under the provisions of the Universal Postal- Union Convention concluded at Paris, France, June first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. • « * * * * * Sec. 3. The Postmaster-General shall, in all cases, decide upon what trains and in what manner the maOs shall be conveyed. Sec. 4. That all cars or parts of cars used for the railway-mail service shall be of such style, length, and character, and furnished in such manner, as shall be required by the Postmaster-General, and shall be constructed, fitted up, maintained, heated, and lighted by and at the expense of the railroad companies. Sec. 5. That the Postmaster-General shall deduct from the pay of the railroad companies, for every failure to deliver a mail within its schedule time, not less than one-half of the price of the trip, and where the trip is not performed, not less than the price of one trip, and not exceeding, in either case, the price of three trips : Provided, however, That if the failure is caused by a connecting road, then only the connecting road shall be fined. And where such failure is caused by unavoidable casualty, the Postmaster-Gen- eral, in his discretion, may remit the fine. And he may make deductions and impose fines for other delinquencies. Sec. 6. That the Postmaster-General shall request all railroad compa- nies transporting the mails to furnish, under seal, such data relating to the operating, receipts, and expenditures of such roads as may, in his judgment, be deemed necessary to enable him to ascertain the cost of mail transporta- tion and the proper compensation to be paid for the same ; and he shall, in his annual report to Congress, make such recommendations, founded on the information obtained under this section, as shall, in his opinion, be just and equitable. Sec. 7. That mailable matter shall be divided into four classes : First. Written' matter. Second. Periodical publications. Third. Miscellaneous printed matter. Fourth. Merchandise. Sec. 8. Mailable matter of the first class shall embrace letters, postal- cards, and all matters wholly or partly in writing, except as hereinafter Sec' 9. That on mailable matter of the first class, except postal-cards and drop-letters, postage shall be prepaid at the rate of three cents for each half ounce or, fraction thereof; postal-cards shall be transmitted through the mails at a postage-charge of one cent each. Including the cost of manufacture ; and drop-letters shall be mailed at the rate of two cents ner half ounce or fraction thereof, including delivery at letter-carrier ofiBces, and one cent for each half ounce or fraction thereof where free delivery by carrier is not estabUshed. The Postmaster-General may, however, provide, bv reeulation, for transmitting unpaid and duly certified letters of soldiers, sailors, and marines in the service of the United States to their destination, to be paid on delivery. t, n i, n Sec 10 That mailable matter of the second class shall embrace aU newspapers' and other periodical pubUcations which are issued at stated 55 D A 218 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. intervals, and as frequently as four times a year, and are within the condi- tions named in sections twelve and fourteen. Seo. 11. Publications of the second class, except as provided in section twenty-five, when sent by the publisher thereof, and from the ofiB.ce of pub- lication, including sample copies, or when sent from a news agency to actual subscribers thereto, or to other news agents, shall be entitled to transmis- sion through the mails at two cents a pound or fraction thereof, such post- age to be prepaid, as now provided by law. Sec. 12. That matter of the second class may be examined at the office of mailing, and if found to contain matter which is subject to a higher rate of postage, such matter shall be charged with postage at the rate to which the enclosed matter is subject : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prohibit the insertion in periodicals of advertise- ments attached permanently to the same. Sec. 13. That any person who shaU submit, or cause to be submitted, for transportation in the maUs any false evidence to the postmaster rela- tive to the character of his publication, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall for every such offence be punished by a fine of not less than one hun- dred nor more than five hundred dollars. Sec. 14. That the conditions upon which a publication shall be admit- ted to the second class are as follows: First. It must regularly be issued at stated intervals, as frequently as four times a year, and bear a date of issue, and be numbered consecutively. Second. It must be issued from a known office of pubUcation. Third. It must be formed of printed-paper sheets, without board, cloth, leather, or other substantial binding, such as distin- guish printed books, for preservation, from periodical publications. Fourth. It must be originated and published for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some spe- cial industry, and having a legitimate list of subscribers : Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shaU be so construed as to admit to the sec- ond-class rate regular publications designed primarily for advertising pur- poses, or for free circulation, or for circulation at nominal rates. Sec. 15. That foreign newspapers and other periodicals of the same general character as those admitted to the second class in the United States may, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, on application of the publishers thereof, or their agents, be transmitted through the mails at the same rates as if published in the United States. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to allow the transmission through the mails of any pub- lication which violates any copyright granted by the United States. Sec. 16. That publishers of matter of the second class may, without subjecting it to extra postage, fold within their regular issues a supplement; but in all cases the added matter must be germane to the publication which it supplements, that is to say, matter supplied in order to complete that to which it is added or supplemented, but omitted from the regular issue for want of space, time, or greater convenience, which supplement must in every case be issued with the i>ublication. Sec. 17. That mail matter of the third class shall embrace books, tran- sient newspapers and periodicals, circulars, and other matter wholly in print, (not included in section twelve,) proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets, and manuscript copy accompanying the same, and postage shall be paid at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fractional part thereof, and shall fully be prepaid by postage-stamps affixed to said matter. Printed matter other than books received in the mails from foreign countries under the provisions of postal treaties or conventions shall be free of customs duty and books which are admitted to the international mails exchanged under the provisions of the Universal Postal-Union Convention may, when subject to customs duty, be deUvered to addresses in the United States under such regulations for the collection of duties as may be agreed upon by the Secre- tary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General. Sec. 18. That the term " circular" is defined to be a printed letter which, according to internal evidence, is being sent in identical terms to several persons. A circular shall not lose its character as such, when the POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT POSTAL SEEVICE. 219 date and the name of the addressed and of the sender shall be written therein, nor by the correction of mere typographical errors in writing. Sec. 19. That "printed matter" within the intendment of this act is defined to be the reproduction upon paper, by any process except that of handwriting, of any words, letters, characters, figures, or images, or of any combination thereof, not haying the character of an actual and personal correspondence. Seo. 20. That mailable matter of the fourth class shall embrace all matter not embraced in the first, second, or third class, which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise damage the contents of the mail-bag, or harm the person of any one engaged in the postal ser- vice, and is not above the weight provided by law, which is hereby declared to be not exceeding four pounds for each package thereof, except in case of single books weighing in excess of that amount, and except for books and documents published or circulated by order of Congress, or official matter emanating from any of the Departments of the Government or from the Smithsonian Institution, or which is not declared non-maUable under the provision of section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the Eevised Statutes, as amended by the act of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, or matter appertaining to lotteries, gift-concerts, or fraudulent schemes or devices. Seo. 21. That all matter of the fourth class shall be subject to exami- nation, and to a postage-charge at the rate of one cent an ounce or a frac- tion thereof, to be prepaid by stamps affixed. If any matter excluded from the mails by the preceding section of this act, except that declared non- maUable by section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, as amended, shall, by inadvertence, reach the office of destination, the same shall be delivered in accordance with its address : Provided, That the party addressed shall furnish the name and address of the sender to the postmaster at the office of delivery, who shall immediately report the facts to the Postmaster-General. If the person addressed refuse to give the required information, the postmaster shall hold the package subject to the order of the Postmaster-General. AU matter declared non-mailable by sec- tion thirty-eight hundred ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, as amended, which shall reach the office of delivery, shall be held by the postmaster at the said office subject to the order of the Postmaster-General. Sec. 22. That mailable matter of the second class shall contain no writing, print, mark, or sign thereon or therein in addition to the original print, except as herein provided, to wit, the name and address of the person to whom the matter shall be sent, and index figures of subscription book, either written or printed, the printed title of the publication, the printed name and address of the publisher or sender of the same, and written or printed words or figures, or both, indicating the date on which the subscrip- tion to such matter wiU end. Upon matter of the third class, or upon the wrapper enclosing the same, the sender may write his own name or address thereon, with the word "from" above and preceding the same, and in either case may make simple marks intended to designate a word or passage of the text to which it is desired to caU attention. There may be placed upon the cover or blank leaves of any book, or of any printed matter of the third class, a simple manuscript dedication or inscription that does not partake of the nature of a personal correspondence. Upon any package of matter of the fourth class the sender may write or print his own name and address, preceded by the word "from," and there may also be written or printed the number and names of the articles enclosed; and the sender thereof may write or print upon or attach to any such articles, by tag or label, a mark, number, name, or, letter for purpose of identification. Sec. 23. That matter of the second, third, or fourth class containing any writing or printing other than indicated in the preceding section, or made in the manner other than therein indicated, shall not be delivered except upon the payment of postage for matter of the first class, deducting therefrom any amount which may have been prepaid by stamps affixed to such matter;' and any person who shall conceal or enclose any matter of a 220 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIOlirS. higher class in that of a lower class, and deposit, or cause the same to be deposited, for conveyance by mail, at a less rate than would be charged for both such higher and lower-class matter, shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty of ten dollars : Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent publishers of the second class and news agents from enclosing, in their publications, bills, receipts, and orders for subscription thereto; but such bills, receipts, and orders shall be in such form as to convey no other information than the name, location, and subscription price of the publication or publications to which they refer. Sec. 24. That the Postmaster-General may prescribe, by regulation, the manner of wrapping and securing for the mails all packages of matter not charged with first-class postage, so that the contents of such packages may be easily examined; and no package the contents of which cannot be easily examined shall pass in the mails, or be delivered at a less rate than for matter of the first class. Sec. 25. That publications of the second class, one copy to each actual subscriber residing in the county where the same are printed, in whole or in part, and published, shall go &ee through the maUs ; but the same shall not be delivered at letter-carrier offices, or distributed by carriers, unless postage is paid thereon at the rate prescribed in section thirteen of this act : Provided, That the rate of postage on newspapers, excepting weeklies, and periodicals not exceeding two ounces in weight, when the same are deposited in a letter-carrier office for delivery by its carriers, shaU be uniform at one cent each; periodicals weighing more than two ounces shall be subject, when delivered by such carriers, to a postage of two cents each, and these rates shall be prepaid by stamps aifixed. Sec. 26. That all mail-matter of the first class, upon which one full rate of postage has been prepaid, shall be forwarded to its destination, charged with the unpaid rate, to be collected on delivery ; but postmasters, before delivering the same, or any article of mail-matter upon which prepayment in fall has not been made, shall affix, or cause to be affixed, and cancelled, as ordinary stamps are cancelled, one or more stamps equivalent in value to the amount of postage due on such article of mail-matter, which stamps shall be of such special design and denomination as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, and which shall in no case be sold by any postmaster nor received by him in prepayment of postage. That in lieu of the commission now allowed to postmasters at offices of the fourth class upon the amount of unpaid letter-postage collected, such postmasters shall receive a com- mission upon the amount of such special stamps so cancelled, the same as now allowed upon postage-stamps, stamped envelopes, postal-cards, and newspaper and periodical-stamps, cancelled as postages on matter actually mailed at their offices: Provided, The Postmaster- General may, in his dis- cretion, prescribe instead such regulation therefor at the offices where free delivery is established as, in his judgment, the good of the service mav require. "^ Sec. 27. That any postmaster or other person engaged in the postal ser- vice who shall collect, and fail to account for, the postage due upon any article of mail-matter which he may deUver, without having previously affixed and cancelled such special stamps, as hereinbefore provided, or who shall fail to affix such stamp, shaU be deemed guUty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars ' Sec. 28. That any person who shall use, or attempt to use, in payment ot postage, any cancelled postage-stamp or postage-stamps, whether the same have been before used or not, or who shall by any means remove or attempt to remove, or assist in removing, marks from any postage-stamp or postage-stamps, with intent to use the same in payment of postlge, or who 7^^^^^]^ ^^f^ have in his possession any postage-stamp or postage-stamps ^..li h ' ^^^^ '°*^''* ^. '^'^ *^® ^^°^^' *^^ fr«^ ^^""^ sicli cancellation marks have been removed, or who shall sell or offer to sell any such stamp or stamps, or who shall use or attempt to use the same in payment of BostX or who shall remove the superscription from any stamped envelope or posS' card that has once been used in the payment of postage, withffit to aSn i^se the same for a like purpose, shall be deemed guiltV of a misdemeanor POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT POSTAL SERVICE. 221 and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offence, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 29. The provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act entitled "An act establishing post- routes, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmission of official mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, and made applicable to all official mail-matter trans- mitted between any of the officers of the United States, or between any such officer and either of the Executive Departments or officers of the Gov- ernment, the envelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appropriate en- dorsements containing the proper designation of the office from which the same is transmitted, with a statement of the penalty for their misuse. And the provisions of said fifth and sixth sections are hereby likewise extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter sent from the Smithsonian Institution : Provided, That this act shall not extend or apply to pension agents or other officers who receive a fixed allowance as compensation for their services, including expenses for postage. Sec. 30. That section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "The Postmaster-General, whenever he may deem it consistent with the public interest, may accept or require new surety upon any contract existing or hereafter made for carrying the mails, in substitution for and release of any existing surety." Sec. 31. Any person performing the duties of postmaster, by authority of the President, at any post office where there is a vacancy for any cause, shall receive for the term for which the duty is performed the same com- pensation to which he would have been entitled if regularly appointed and confirmed as such postmaster; and all services heretofore rendered in like cases shall be paid for under this provision. Sec. 32. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to take the necessary steps to introduce and furnish for public use a letter-sheet en- velope, on which postage-stamps of the denominations now in use on ordi- nary envelopes shall be placed. And the Postmaster-General is also author- ized to introduce and furnish for public use a double postal-card, on which shall be placed two one-cent stamps, and said card to be so arranged for the address that it may be forwarded and returned, said cards to be sold for two cents apiece ; and also to introduce and furnish for public use a double-letter envelope, on which stamps of the denominations now in use may be placed, and with the arrangement for the address similar to the double postal-card; said letter sheet and double postal-card and double envelope to be issued under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe: Provided, That the appropriation for postal-cards and letter-envelopes for the years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, shall be available for the purchase of said letter-sheet envelopes, double or return postal-cards, and double-letter envelopes: And provided, That no money shall be paid for royalty or patent on any of the articles named. . ^ Sec. 33. That so much of this act as is embraced in sections tour to thirty-one, both inclusive, shall take effect from the first day of May, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-nine, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.— Act March 3, 1879. For compensation of postmasters, for eighteen hundred and seventy- eight two hundred and forty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents; to be paid out of the postal revenues for said fiscal year.— Act March 3, 1879. For railway postal clerks, seventeen thousand dollars; for route agents, six thousand five hundred doUars; for local mail agents, one thousand five hundred dollars, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; in all twenty-five thousand dollars, under House Executive Document Number 56 D A ' 222 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Seventy-seven, third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. For preparation and publication of post-route maps, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879. That for the proper adjustment of the accounts of the Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Western Pacific, and Sioux City and Pacific Eailroad Companies, respectively, for services which have been or may be hereafter performed for the Government for transportation of the Army and transportation of the mails, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby author- ised to make such entries upon the books of the Department as will carry to the credit of said companies the amounts so earned or to be earned by them during each fiscal year and withheld under the provisions of section fifty-two hundred and sixty of the Eevised Statutes and of the act of Con- gress approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; Pro- vided, That this shall not authorize the expenditure of any money from the treasury nor change the method now provided by law for the auditing of such claims against the Government: Provided further, That this paragraph shall not be so construed as to be a disposition of any moneys due or to become due to or from said companies respectively, or to, ia any way, affect their rights or duties or the rights of the United States, under existing laws, it being only intended hereby to enable the proper accounting oflBLcers to state on the books of the Treasury the accounts between the Government and said companies respectively. — Act March 3, 1879. AN ACT to fix the pay of letter-carriers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembUd, That for the more equitable com- pensation of letter-carriers, there shall be in all cities which contain a pop- ulation of seventy-five thousand or more two classes of letter-carriers, to be fixed by the Postmaster-General. Sec. 2. The salaries of carriers of the first class, who shall have been in the service at least one year, shall be one thousand dollars per annum, and the salaries of the carriers of the second class shall be eight hundred dollars per annum. In all cities containing a population of less than seventy-five thousand there shall be one class of letter-carriers, who shall receive a salary of eight hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Sbo. 3. Upon the recommendation of the postmaster of any city, the Postmaster-General may establish a third grade of letter-carriers, known as auxiliaries, who shall be paid at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum. Sbo. 4. Appointments of letter-carriers in cities having two or more classes shall be made to the class having the minimum rate of pay, and pro- motions from the lower grades in said cities shall be made to the higher grades to fill vacancies, after one or more years' service, on certificate of the postmaster to the efficiency and faithfulness of the candidate during the preceding year : Provided, however. That at no time shall the number of carriers in the first class, receiving the maximum salary of one thousand dollars, be more than two-thirds or less than one-half the whole number of carriers actually in service in the city in which they are employed : Pro- vided further, That no boxes for the collection of mail-matter by carriers shall be placed inside of any building except a public building or railroad- station. Sec. 5. Letter carriers shall be employed for the free delivery of mail- matter as frequently as the public convenience may require, at every place containing a population of fifty thousand within the delivery of its post office, and may be so employed at every place containing a population of not less than twenty thousand within its corporate limits, and at post-oifices which produced a gross revenue for the preceding fiscal year of not less than twenty thousand dollars : Provided, This act shall not affect the free delivery in towns and cities where it is now established. Sec. 6. All laws inconsistent herewith are repealed. Approved, February 21, 1879. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT POSTAL SERVICE. 223 AN ACT to extend the time of special postal service until seryice can be obtained by ad- vertisement. Beit enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in cases where special service has already been placed on new routes, the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, extend such service until the time when service can be obtained by advertisement, not exceeding in any case one year. And whenever an accepted bidder shall fail to enter into contract, or a contractor on any mail-route shall fail or refuse to perform the service on said route according to his contract, or when a new route shall be established or new service re- quired, or when, from any other cause, there shall not be a contractor legally bound or required to perform such service, the Postmaster-General may make a temporary contract for carrying the mail on such route, with- out advertisement, for such period as may be necessary, not in any case ex- ceeding one year, until the service shall have commenced under a contract made according to law. And any provision of statute in conflict with this provision is hereby repealed. Approved, June 12, 1879, Deficiency in the Postal Revenues, 1880.— Sec. 2. That if the revenue of the Post-Offlce Depart- ment shall be insufiacient to meet the appropriations made by this act, then the sum of five million four hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and ten cents, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money m the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Oflace Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty.— Act March 3, 1879. For payment to letter- carriers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and to extend the service of such carriers for said year under the provisions of the act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to fix the pay of letter-carriers," in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, four hundred and fifteen thousand dol- lars.— Act June 28, 1879 $g 872, 376 10 Deficiency in the Postal Revenues, 1879. — That the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to meet the deficiency in the appropriation for the transporta- tion of mails by railroads for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: Provided, That no increase in the postal-car service beyond what existed on the first of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall be made during the fiscal year ending June thir- tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. — ^Act December 21, 1878. [Pro- viso repealed by act March 3, 1879.] For payment of increased salary to letter-carriers under the provisions of existing law for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, seventy-one thousand dollars.— Act June 28, 1879 " 521, 000 00 Deficiency in tlie Postal Revenues, 1878 and prior years. — For transportation of the mails by railroads, for eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and previous years, one hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — Act March 3, 1879 166, 392 27 Deficiency in Postal Revenues, 1876 and prior years. — Transpoetation of the Mails. — To pay certain amounts due for carrying the maUs, certified by the Sixth Auditor under section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sev- enty-eight, as more fully set forth in Executive Document J^umber Tliirty, third session of the Forty-fifth Congress, pages fifty-three, fifty-four, and fifty-five. Railroads. — For carrying the mails between Saint Peter and New Ulm, Minnesota, eighteen hundred and seventy -four and eighteen hun- dred and seventy -five, ninety-nine dollars ; for carrying the mails in eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and eigh- teen hundred and seventy-four, four hundred and fifty dollars; for carrying the maOs in eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and sev- enty-three, and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, four hundred and ten dollars and twenty-two cents; for carrying the mails between Hannibal and 224 DIGEST OF APPEOPRIATIONS. Naples, Missouri, from January first to June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand dollars; for carrying the mails between Lehigh Rail- road Company's depot and the post-office at Hazleton, Pennsylvania, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five hundred and forty dollars ; for increased pay, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-five, sixty-six dollars and eighty-four cents; also, for increased pay, from January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eighty-five dollars and ninety cents ; for carrying the mails from May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- sis, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and six cents ; for carrying the mails from April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, from Junction City to Clay Centre, six thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty- three cents; for carrying the mails from September first, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-one cents; for service from November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents; for Sunday service from April first to April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand five hundred and ten dollars and ninety-nine cents. Stab Teans- POKTATiON. — For additional allowance for carrying the mails from April fifth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by reason of increased distance, four dollars and eighty-nine cents; for carrying the mails between Greenville Court-house and Highland Grove, South Carolina, from January sixth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents ; for carrying the mails between Marshall and Kaufman from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred and sixty dollars ; for carrying the mails between Selina and Forest Lawn, Texas, from October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents; for payment made to Elisha Willis for carrying the mails between Akron and New Buda, Missouri, from January first to March thirty- first, eighteenhundred and seventy-three, eighteen dollars and seventy cents; for one month's extra pay on curtailment of service on route numbered eight thousand five hundred and fifty-three, Texas, order of the Postmaster-Gen- eral, numbered three thousand and seventy-five, dated June twenty-seventh eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eleven dollars and sixty-six cents; for amount accrued on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy- five, under order of the Postmaster-General, numbered five thousand five hundred and thirty -eight, dated October first, eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, modifying order of May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy- four, curtailing route numbered twenty thousand one hundred and eighty- two, Kentucky, and allowing one month's extra pay, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents; for additional allowance for carrying the mails on route numbered twenty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-nine, from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, by reason of increase in distance, eighty-one dollars and sixty-six cents; for carrying the mails on route numbered twenty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-two from August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-six, twenty-six dollars and thirty-five cents' for carrying the mails between Eienzi and Jacinto and luka, Mississippi route numbered seven thousand five hundred and two, Mississippi from February twentieth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six two hundred and ninety dollars and seven cents; for carrying the mails between Tuskegee and Chebau, Alabama, route numbered six thousand eight hundred and six, Alabama, from July first, eighteen hundred and ^'^y^^f ' *<^ J'^°® thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three hundred and htty dollars; for carrying the mails between Tuskegee and Chebau Alabama, route numbered seven thousand and fifteen, Alabama, from Jan- POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT POSTAL SERVICE. 225 uary first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and ten dollars; for carrying the mails five trips between Tullahoma and McMinnville, Tennessee, route numbered ten thousand one hundred and thirty-seven, in July, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, twenty-five dol- lars; for one month's extra pay by reason of the annulment of contract, route numbered twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-three, Illinois, (order of the Postmaster-General, numbered six thousand six hun- dred and ninety-nine, dated August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,) twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. Also, one month's extra pay by reason of the annulment of contract on routes numbered twenty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety-eight, and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and two, and the curtailment of route twenty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-one, all in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, fifty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. For carrying the mails on routes numbered fifteen thousand and six and fifteen thousand and eight, Oregon, from Jan- uary first to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two hundred and sixty dollars ; for carrying the mails in Louisiana and Mississippi, dur- ing the years eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred seventy-four, balance on account, one thousand two hundred and fifty- seven dollars and thirty-three cents ; for carrying the mails on routes num- bered eight thousand five hundred and sixty-eight, eight thousand five hundred and seventy, eight thousand five hundred and seventy-one, eight thousand five hundred and seventy-two, and eight thousand five hundred and seventy -four, Texas, during the second quarter of eighteen hun- dred and sixty eight, six hundred and sixty-one dollars and nineteen cents ; for carrying the mails on routes numbered thirty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-six, and thirty-one thousand two hundred and forty, Texas, from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, three hundred and eighty -three dollars and six cents; for an allowance of one month's extra pay on discontinuance of service from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, route numbered twenty-seven thousand two hun- dred, Iowa, twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents; for amount for one desk for the safe-keeping of letters, December twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ten dollars. Steamboat Teanspoetation. — For carrying the mails between Norfolk, Virginia, and New York, New York, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, route numbered four thousand seven hundred and twenty-five, Virginia, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Mail- messenger Service. — For increase of mail-messenger service between the Baltimore and Ohio Eailroad depot and the post offtce, both at Chicago, Illinois, from December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars and eight cents; for mad-messenger service from April fifteenth to June thirtieth, and from July first to fifteenth, eigh- teen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents; this amount being required to reimburse the postmaster, he having paid for the authorized service. Foeeign-mail Teanspoetation.— For carrying the United States mails between San Francisco, New Zealand, Australia, Sandwich and Fiji Islands, from February second to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy -four, being the amount of sea-post- ages on mails conveyed, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars and fourteen cents. Also, for carrying the mails between San Francisco and AustraKa, from October twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to November ninth, eighteen hundred seventy-five, being the amount of sea- postages on mails conveyed, five thousand and two dollars and seventy- three cents. For carrying the United States mails between San Francisco and China ' and Japan, from January fifteenth to September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being nine outward and seven mward trips, five thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-one cents. Also for same service from October nineteenth to December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being three round trips, two thousand nine hundred and four dollars and twenty-three cents. To adjust the ac- 57 D a 226 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. count of F. A. Wilson, for carrying the mails on route numbered fifteen thousand two hundred and eighty-one during the second quarter of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, a transfer to the amount of one thou- sand five hundred doUars on the books of the Treasury is hereby author- ized. To pay George H. Giddings, late contractor, for one month's extra pay on discontinuance of a portion of route numbered eight thousand and seventy-six, Texas, which went into effect July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney-General, four- teen thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.— Act March 3, 1879 860, 456 64 POST-OFFICE MISCELLANEOUS. Belief of Peasley & McClary, of Nashua, New Hampshire. — That the Secretary of the Treas- ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Peasley & McClary, of Nashua, New Hampshire, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, in full compensation for their services in transferring the mails and the route agent in charge of them from the depot of the "Worcester and Nashua Eail- road to the depot of the Wilton Eailroad, in said city of Nashua, from the second day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, until the eigh- teenth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. — ^Act February 19, 1879 125 00 Relief of Josephine G. Owen, Postmaster at Randolph, New YorTc, — That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Josephine C. Owen, postmaster at Eandolph, in the State of New York, the sum of eight hundxed and fifteen dollars, to reimburse her for the loss of postage-stamps and money belong- ing to said post oflce, which were stolen from the vault of the bank in Ean- dolph, where they had been deposited for safe-keeping, without negligence on the part of the said postmaster. — ^Act March 1, 1879 815 00 AN ACT for the relief of Ebenezer Walker. Be it enacted by the Senate and Mouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in the settlement of the ac- counts of Ebenezer WaUier, late postmaster at Okemas, in the State of Michigan, with the proper Department, he shall be allowed, in such settle- ment, as a credit, the sum of seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents. Approved, February 19, 1879. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Oflce Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to credit the account of D. C. Casey, late postmaster at Hot Springs, Arkansas, for salary before his re- jection as postmaster, with the sum of one hundred and two dollars and sixty-four cents. — Act March 3, 1879. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICUETUBE. Salaries, Department of Agriculture, 1880. — For compensation of the Commissioner of Agri- culture, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; entomologist, one thousand nine hundred dollars; chemist, one thousand nine hundred doUars; assistant chemist, one thousand four hun- dred doUars; superintendent of experimental gardens and grounds, one thousand nine hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand nine hundred doUars; disbursing clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; superintendent of seed-room, one thousand six hundred doUars; librarian, one thousand four hundred doUars; botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars- micro- scopist, one thousand eight hundred doUars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; four clerks of class three- five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; superintendent of folding-room DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 227 one thousand two hundred doUars; lady superintendent of flower and seed- room, nine hundred dollars; and for clerks, copyists, laborers, watchmen, carpenters, attendants m museum, and other necessary force, including two clerks of class two, who shall be practical printers, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in aU, sixty-six thousand nine hundred doUars; and in addition to the proper vouchers and accounts therefor to the accounting officers of the Treasury, the Commis- sioner of Agriculture shall present a detailed statement of the manner of the expenditure of this sum, to accompany his estimates to be presented at the next regular session of Congress: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any person receiving at the same time other compensation ^ 77 *.• . • ^.^^ ? o ^. °^ employ^ of the Department— Act June 21, 1879 $66. 900 00 ColUctmg Agnoultural Statistics, I880.-For collecting agricultural statistics and compiling ' and writing and pubUshing matter for monthly, annual, and special reports, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any person receiving at the same time other compensation as an officer or employe of the Department.— Act June 21, 1879 . 10 000 00 Purchase and DistHhution of Valuable Seeds, 1880.— For purchase and propagation and dis- ' tribution, as required by law, of seeds, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, and expenses of putting up the same, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Commissioner shall report, as provided in this act, the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the date of purchase; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Commis- sioner of Agriculture from sending flower, garden, and other seeds to those who apply for the same.— Act June 21, 1879 75 000 00 Experimental Garden, Department of Agriculture, 1880.— For labor on experimental garden, ' four thousand dollars; for flower-pots, five hundred and fifty dollars; re- pairs to greenhouse, one thousand dollars; and purchase of new plants and seeds for the same, six hundred dollars; and repairs to heating apparatus, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred dollars.— -^f^^^^^^^h^^^Q -6,600 00 Museum, JJetpartment of Agriculture, 1880.— For collecting and modelling specimens of fruits and vegetables, and collecting and preparing specimens for the museum and herbarium, one thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1, 000 00 Furniture, Cases and Repairs, Department of Agriculture, 1880. — For repairs of building, heating apparatus, furniture, water and gas-pipes, and new farniture, car- pets and matting, and for constructing ventilators for museum, four thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 4 000 00 Library, Department of Agricuture, 1880.— For entomological works of reference, for botani- cal works of reference, for works on chemistry, mineralogy, and charts, for current agricultural works for the library, for miscellaneous agricultural periodicals, and for the completion of imperfect series, one thousand dol- lars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 ' , 1^ OOO 00 Laboratory, Departm,ent of Agriculture, 1880. — ^For chemicals and apparatus for the use of the chemist and microscopist, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21,1879 1,500 00 Improvement of Grounds, Department of Agriculture, 1880. — For labor, new implements, purchase of trees for arboretum, and repairs of tools, six thousand five hun- dred dollars. — Act Majch 3, 1879 6, 500 00 Building, Department of Agriculture, 1880. — For stable and building for the better preserva- tion of stock, tools, implements, grain, and so forth, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 500 00 Investigating the History of Insects Injurious to Agriculture, 1880. — ^For investigating the history and habits of insects injurious to agriculture; for experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them; for chemicals, travelling expenses, and other expenses in the practical work of the entomological division, five thousand doUars. — Act June 21, 1879 5, 000 00 Investigating Diseases of Swine and other Domesticated Animals, 1880. — ^For the continuance of the investigation of the diseases of swine, and infectious and contagious diseases to which all other classes of domesticated animals are subject, ten thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 10, 000 00 Contingent Eoepenses, Department of Agriculture, 1880. — For stationery, freight and express- charges, fuel, lights, subsistence, and care of horses, and repair of harness 228 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. and wagon, paper, twine, and gum for folding-room, and for incidental and miscellaneous items, namely, for advertising, telegraphing, dry-gx)ods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, and care of stationery, purchasing supplies, and for other necessary items, including actual travelling expenses while on the business of the Department, eight thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 $8, 000 00 Postage, Department of Agriculture, 1880. — For postage on return letters, circulars, and miscellaneous articles, for correspondents and foreign letters, four thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 4, 000 00 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Salaries, Department of Justice, 1880. — Office of the Attorney -General. — For com- pensation of the Attorney-General, eight thousand dollars; Solicitor-General, seven thousand dollars ; three Assistant Attorneys-General, at five thousand dollars each; one Assistant Attorney-General of the Post-Office Department, four thousand dollars ; Solicitor of the Internal-Eevenue, four thousand five hundred dollars ; examiner of claims, three thousand five hundred doUars ; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars ; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; stenographic clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one law clerk, two thousand dollars ; five clerks of class four ; additional for disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars ; one clerk of class two ; two clerks of class one; five copyists; one telegraph - operator, at one thousand doUars ; two assistant messengers ; two laborers ; j and two watchmen ; in all, seventy-three thousand four hundred dollars. And so much of section three hundred and forty-nine of the Eevised Stat- utes as provides for the appointment and payment of a salary to a " naval solicitor " is hereby repealed, and the office is abolished. Office op the Solicitor of the Treasury. — For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant solicitor, three thousand dollars ; chief clerk, two thousand dollars ; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two ; two clerks of class one ; one assistant messenger ; and one laborer ; in all, twenty-eight thou- sand and eighty dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 101, 480 00 Rent of Building, Department of Justice, 1880. — For rent of the four floors of the building occupied by the Department of Justice, ten thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 10, 000 OO Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice: Furniture and Repairs, 1880. — For furniture and repairs, one thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1, 000 00 Contingent Uxpenses, Department of Justice : Booles for Department Library, 1880. ^For law and miscellaneous books for library of the Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice : Boolcsfor Office of Solicitor, 1880. — For law and ' miscellaneous books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 , 500 00 Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice: Stationery, 1880. — For stationery, one thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 50q oo Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice : Horses and Wagons, 1880. — For care and sub- ' sistence of horses and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand two hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 1 200 00 Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice: Miscellaneous Items, 1880. — For miscellaneous ' expenditures, such as telegraphing, fuel, lights, labor, and other necessaries, six thousand dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 6 000 00 Purchase of Law and other necessary Books, Office of Attorney- General, 1871 and prior years.— ' For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, twenty-two dollars Act March 3, 1879 " 22 00 Postage, Department of Justice, 1880 — Sbc. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively ,' of theDe- partments of State, of the Treasury, War, Kavy, and of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Post- master-General for the necessary amount of postage-stamps for the use of DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MISCELLANEOUS. 229 their Departments, not exceeding the amount stated in the estimates sub- mitted to Congress; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department for the same fiscal year. — Act June 21, 1879 $5, 000 00 MISCELLAl!fBOUS. Salary of Warden of Jail, District of Columbia, 1880.— For salary of the warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars.— Act June 21,1879 1,800 00 Defending Suits and Claims for Seizure of Captured or Abandoned Property, 1880.— For pay- ment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury or his agents for the seizure of captured or abandoned property, and for the examination of witnesses in claims against the United States pending in any Department, and for the defence of the United States in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 . . 25, 000 00 Prosecution arid Collection of Claims, 1880. — For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due to the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 2, 500 00 Punishing Violations of Intercourse Acts and Frauds, 1880. — For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney- General in allow- ing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, three thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 3, 000 00 Prosecution of Grimes, 1880. — For detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; investigation of ofQcial acts, records, and accounts, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney- General, twenty thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Editing Fifteenth Volume Opinions of the Attorneys- General. — ^To enable the Attorney-General to pay for the editing and preparing for publication and the superintending of the printing of the fifteenth volume of the Opinions of the Attorneys- General, including the expense of copying the same, one thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1, 000 00 Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia, 1880. — For annual repairs to court-house in the city of Washington, and for new furnaces, one thousand dollars. — Act March 3, 1879 1,000 00 Fxpenses of Territorial Courts in Utah, 1880. — For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including compensation of the United States district attorney, and the fees, per diem, and travelling expenses of the United States mar- shal in the Territory of Utah, with expenses of summoning jurors; subpoe- naing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards ; and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be expended only under the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty thousand dollars. And this appropriation may be used, under the direction of the said Depart- ment, to defray the judicial expenses of the supreme and district courts of said Territory; and the amount so used shall be reimbursed to said ap- propriation out of the treasury of said Territory.— Act March 3, 1879 20, 000 00 Fxpenses of Territorial Courts in Utah, 1879.— For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including compensation of the United States district attorney, and the fees, per diem, and travelling expenses of the United States mar- shal in the Territory of Utah, with expenses of summoning jurors, subpoi- naing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, arising under the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy- four, in relation to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of Utah, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nme, to be paid under the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly verified and certified, six thousand doUars.— Act March 3, ■1 g/TQ ^ 6, 000 00 58 D A 230 DIGEST OF APPKOPEIATIONS. JUDICIAL.. Salaries, Justices, &g., Supreme Court, 1880.— For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand five hundred dollars, and for eight as- sociate justices, ten thousand dollars each; in all, ninety thousand five hun- dred dollars ; for marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand dollars; for salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 $96, 000 00 Salaries, Circuit Judges, 1880. — For nine circuit judges, to reside in circuit, at six thousand dollars each, fifty-four thousand dollars.— Act June 21, 1879 54, 000 00 Salaries, District Judges, 1880. — For salaries of the fifty-one district judges of the United States, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars; for a district judge for the northern district in Texas, three thousand five hundred dollars. And section six hundred and nineteen of the Eevised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows : "All the circuit courts of the United States shall have the appointment of their own clerks, the circuit and district judges concurring ; and in case of a disagreement between the judges, the appointment shall be made by the associate justice of the Supreme Court allotted to such circuit, except in cases otherwise specially provided for by law."— Act June 21, 1879 193, 500 00 Salaries, Retired Judges, 1880. — To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Eevised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and eighty, is hereby appropriated. — ^Act June 21, 1879. Salaries, District Attorneys, 1880. — ^For compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars. — Act June 21, 1879 19, 300 00 Salaries, District Marshals, 1880. — For compensation of the district marshals of the United States, twelve thousand one hundred dollars. — ^Act June 21, 1879 12, 100 00 Salaries, District Marshals, 1877. — For salaries of district marshals for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighteen cents; and no clerk of the district or circuit courts of the United States or their deputies shall be appointed a receiver or a master in any case except where the judge of said court shall determine that special reasons exist therefor, to be assigned in the order of appointment. — Act March 3, 1879 185 18 Salaries, District Marshals, 1875. — For salaries of district marshals, thirty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. — Act March 3, 1879 38 89 Salaries, Justices and Judges of the Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1880. — ^For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and the four associate judges, twenty thousand five hundred dollars; for associate judge of the supreme court in the District of Columbia, four thousand dol- lars. — Act June 21, 1879 24 500 00 Salaries, Justices and Judges of the Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1879. — For salary of ' the additional associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Co- lumbia, appointed under the act of Congress approved February twenty- fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from the date of his appointment to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundi-ed and seventy-nine, one thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. — Act June 28, 1879 1 122 22 Fees of District Attorneys, United States Courts, 1880.— For payment of district attorneys ' and their assistants, three hundred thousand dollars. — ^Act June 30, 1879 300 000 00 Fees of Clerics, United States Courts, 1880.— For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thou- ' sand dollars. — ^Act June 30, 1879 160 000 00 Fees of Commissioners, United States Courts, 1880.— For fees of United States commissioners ' one hundred and forty thousand dollars.— Act June 30, 1879 ' 140 OOO 00 Fees of Jurors, United SUtes Courts, 1880.— For fees of jurors, four hundred thousand dol- ' lars.— Act June 30, 1879 400 000 00 Fees of Witnesses, United States Courts, 1880.— For fees of witnesses, five hun'dred and iftftv ' thousand dollars.— Act June 30, 1879 "^ 550 onn on Support of Prisoners, United States Courts, 1880— For support of United States prisoners one hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars.— Act June 30, 1879 ' 193 ooO 00 JUDICIAL. 231 Bent of Court-rooms^ United States Courts, 1880. — For rent of United States court-rooms, sixty-seven thousand dollars. — Act June 30, 1879 $67, 000 00 Miscellaneous Expenses, United States Courts, 1880. — For expenses of bailiffs, criers, sta- tionery, fuel, lights, furniture, watchmen and janitors, cleaners and sweepers, extra meals for impanelled jurors, transportation of prisoners, moving of records, salaried ofi&cers of the Government summoned as witnesses, travel in collecting evidence in United States cases, for holding seizures, for fees of justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, for stenog- raphers, for post-mortem examinations, for expenses of judges holding extra terms of court outside their districts, of interpreters, fees to township officers in summoning jurors, extra pay to experts as witnesses, for storage for surveys required as evidence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenditures, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.— Act June 30, 1879 . 280, 000 00 Seo. 2. That the per-diem pay of each juror, grand or petit, in any court of the United States, shall be two dollars ; and that the last clause of section eight hundred of the Eevised Statutes of the United States, which refers to the State of Pennsylvania, and sections eight hundred and one, eight hundred and twenty, and eight hundred and twenty-one of the Ee- vised Statutes of the United States, are hereby repealed; and that all such jurors, grand and petit, including those summoned during the session of the court, shall be publicly drawn from a box containing, at the time of each drawing, the names of not less than three hundred persons, possessing the qualifications prescribed in section eight hundred of the Eevised Statutes, which names shall have been placed therein by the clerk of such court and a commissioner, to be appointed by the judge thereof, which commissioner shall be a citizen of good standing, residing in the district in which such court is held, and a well-known member of the principal political party in the district in which the court is held opposing that to which the clerk may belong, the clerk and said commissioner each to place one name in said box alternately, without reference to party affiliations, until the whole number required shall be placed therein. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any judge from ordering the names of jurors to be drawn from the boxes used by the State authorities in selecting jurors in the highest courts of the State; and no person shall serve as a petit juror more than one term in any one year, and all juries to serve in courts after the passage of this act shall be drawn in conformity herewith : Provided, That no citizen possessing all other qualifications which are or may be pre- scribed by law shall be disqualified for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States on account of race, color, or previous condi- tion of servitude. Sec. 3. That the Attorney-General shall include in his annual report a statement of all payments or expenditures during any fiscal year out of any appropriation fund subject to requisitions by him.— Act June 30, 1879. ■'} Expenses of United States Courts, 1879.— For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, of prosecutions for offences com- mitted against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, fifty thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 ■ 50, 000 00 Expenses of United States Courts, 1878.— For expenses of United States courts for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one hundred and ten thousand dol- lars.— Act March 3, 1879 ^Vr".;., iio^ooo 00 Expenses of United States Courts, 1871 and prior years, and 1875.— Fov expenses of Umted States courts, one thousand five hundred and five dollars and nineteen cents. FFor the vear eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, four hun- dred and ninety-five doUars ; and for the year eighteen hundred and sev- enty-five, one thousand and ten dollars and nineteen cents, m accordance with the estimates in House Executive Document No. 30, Forty-fifth Con- gress, third session.]— Act March 3, 1879 1, 505 19 Support of Convicts, I880.-For support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the fiuppon oj V ' Columbia, for support of convicts transferred from other dis- 232 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. f tricts, (and for collection of criminal statistics,) to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars.— Act March 3, 1879 $15,000 00 AN ACT to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the records and files of district and circuit courts of the United States lost or destroyed. Be it enacted ly the Senate and Mouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemiJed, That section nine hundred and two of the Eevised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "In any proceedings in conformity with law to restore the records of any court of the United States which have been or may be hereafter lost or destroyed, the notice required may be served on any non-resident of the district in which such court is held anywhere within the jurisdiction of the United States or in any foreign country; the proof of service of such notice, if made in a foreign country, to be certified by a minister or consul of the United States in such country, under his official seal." Sec. 2. That section nine hundred and three of said Eevised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as foUows: " A certified copy of the official return, or any other official paper of the United States attorney, marshal, or clerk, or other certifying or recording officer of any court of the United States, made in pursuance of law, and on file in any Department of the Government, relating to any cause or matter to which the United States was a party in any such court, the record of which has been or may be lost or destroyed, may be filed in the court to which it appertains, and shall have the same force and effect as if it were an original report, return, paper, or other document made to or filed in such court; and in any case in which the names of the parties and the date and amount of judgment or decree shall appear from such return, paper, or docu- ment, it shall be lawful for the court in which they are filed to issue the proper process to enforce such decree or judgment, in the same manner as if the original record remained in said court. And in all cases where any of the files, papers, or records of any court of the United States have been or shall be lost or destroyed, the files, records, and papers which, pursuant to law, may have been or may be restored or supplied in place of such records, files and papers, shall have the same force and effect, to all intents and purposes, as the originals thereof would have been entitled to." Seo. 3. That section nine hundred and four of said Eevised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows: "That whenever any of the records or files in which the United States are interested of any court of the United States have been or may be lost or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the attorney of the United States for the district or court to which such files and records belong, so far as the judges of such courts, respectively, shall deem it essential to the interests of the United States that such records and files to be restored or supplied, to take such steps, under the direction of said judges, as may be necessary to effect such restoration or substitution, including such dockets, indices, and other books and papers as said judges shall think proper. Said judges may direct the performance, by the clerks of said courts respectively and by the United States attorneys, of any duties incident thereto; and said clerks and attorneys shall be allowed such compensation for services in the matter and for lawful disbursements as may be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, upon a certificate by the judges of said courts stating that such claim for services and disbursements is just and reasonable; and the sum so allowed shall be paid out of the judiciary fund." Approved, January 31, 1879. AN ACT to create an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columhia, and for the better administration of justice in said District. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one addi- tional associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia That the said additional associate justice shall have the same power au- JUDICIAL. 233 thority, and jurisdiction as now or hereafter may be exercised by any of the associate justices of the said supreme court, and shall be entitled to'receive the same salary, payable in the same manner. Sec. 2. Two of the justices, sitting at general term, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but when the two justices shall be divided in opinion, the same shall be noted upon the minutes of the court, and thereupon and within four days thereafter either party in such cause may file with the clerk of the court a motion in writing to have such cause reargued before three or more justices; but no justice shall sit in general term to hear an appeal from any judgment or decree or order which he may have rendered at the special term. Sec. 3. The general term may order two terms of the circuit court to be held at the same time, whenever, in their judgment the business therein shall require it; and they shall designate, by an order of the court, the time and places of holding the same, and the justices by whom they shall, respec- tively, be held ; and shall make all necessary orders for a division of the docket between the justices holding such term; and petit juries shall be drawn therefor, in the same manner as is provided for in such circuit court, at least ten days before the commencement of any such sitting. Sec. 4. That final judgment or decree of the supreme court of the Dis- trict of Columbia in any case where the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the value of twenty-five hundred dollars, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States, upon writ of error or appeal in the same manner and under the same regulations as are provided in cases of writs of error on judgments or appeals from decrees rendered in a circuit court. Sec. 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 25, 1879. AN ACT to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts. Be it enacted ly the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a judicial district is hereby created in the State of Texas, to be called the northern judicial district of said State. * * * And there shall be appointed a district judge for the northern district of Texas, who shall possess the same powers and do and perform all such duties in his district as are now enjoyed, or in any manner appertain to the present district judges for said eastern and west- ern districts of Texas. And the district judge of such district shall be en- titled to the same compensation as by law is provided for the present judges of the eastern and western districts of Texas. Sec. 8. That there shall be appointed one person as district attorney and one person as marshal for said northern district, whose terms of appoint- ment and services, as well as duties and emoluments, shall be the same with those respectively appertaining to the said offices in the said eastern and western districts of Texas; and said marshal shall give, the same bond that other marshals are required to give, to be approved and recorded as now directed by law : Provided, That the present district attorneys for the east- ern and western districts of Texas shaU still hold their offices respectively in said districts, and shall retain charge of aU suits already conimenced until the final termination, unless the President of the United States shall otherwise direct; and the present marshals for said eastern and western districts shall continue to be the marshals for said districts during their re- spective oificial terms: Provided ficrther, Thatit is not intended by this act to work the removal of, or in any manner affect, the clerks of the district courts now holding office in said districts. . . , , „ ■ . , i Sec 9 The dfstrict iudge of the northern district shall appomt a clerk of said court, who shall reside at one of the places designated in this act for holding the courts, and two deputies shall be appointed by the clerk, one of whom shaU reside at each of the other places designated for holding the courts. Approved, February 24, 1879. 59 D A 234 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. AN ACT for the relief of William F. Wheeler. Be it enacted hy the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, in adjusting accounts for expenses of courts rendered by William F. Wheeler, United States marshal for the Territory of Montana, be, and they are hereby, authorized to . allow credit for the amount of vouchers for disbursements destroyed by fire in the office of said marshal, at Helena, on the ninth of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four ; said allowance not to exceed the sum of five thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars : Provided, That before credit be given, the marshal shall furnish proof of his losses to the satisfaction of said accounting officers. Approved, March 1, 1879. EECAPITULATION. RECAPITULATION OF APPROPRIATIONS MABK DURING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, AND FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. LEGISLATIVE. TJNITEB STATES SENATE. Fiscal year 1880. Salaries and mileage of Seuators , $416 000 00 General salary accoant of the Senate 213 632 20 Compiling and preparing Congressional Directory 1, 200 00 Eeporting proceedings and debates, Senate 25, 000 00 Contingent expenses of the Senate _ . 173, 734 81 Total United States Senate 829, 567 01 HOUSE OP REPRESENTATITES. Salaries and mileage of Members and Delegates $1, 631, 622 58 General salary account of the House 280, 290 53 Contingent expenses of the House 309, 921 88 Total House of Representatives 2, 221, 834 99 LEGISLATIVE MISCELLANEOTJS. Pay of Capitol Police $35,500 00 General salary account of the Public Printer 13, 600 00 Contingent expenses of the Public Printer 2, 000 00 General salary account of Library of Congress , . 37, 314 72 Increase of Library of Congress 14, 000 00 Contingent expenses, Library of Congress • 1, 500 00 Works of art - 5,000 00 General salary account, Botanic Garden 10, 000 00 Improving Botanic Garden 9, 495 00 General salary account of Court of Claims 29, 840 00 Contingent expenses, Court of Claims 3, 500 00 General salary account. Southern Claims Commission 29, 646 95 Contingent expenses. Southern Claims Commission 4, 000 00 Total Legislative Miscellaneous — -. 195,396 67 Total Legislative - M^6, 798 67 EXECUTIVE. EXECUTIVE PEOPEE. Salary of tne President Salary of the Vice-President General salary account of Executive Oflce Contingent expenses of Executive Office Total Executive Proper - 60 D A $50, 000 00 8,000 00 31, 464 00 6, 000 00 95, 464 00 238 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. DEPARTMENT OP STATE. General salary account $111, 340 00 Publication of the Annual Statutes 5, 000 00 Postage 2,65000 Contingent expenses 22, 000 00 Total Department of State 140, 990 00 TREASUET DEPARTMENT. General salary account $2, 499, 839 00 Stationery 40, 000 00 Postage 204, 100 00 Contingent expenses 117, 354 77 Total Treasury Department 2, 861, 293 77 INDEPENDENT TEEASUE.T. General salary account $322, 176 61 Compensation of special agents i, 000 00 Checks and certificates of deposit - 12, 000 00 Contingent expenses 40, 334 87 Total Independent Treasury 378 5ii 48 MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. General salary account $177 080 00 Wages of workmen 771 175 qo Contingent exijenses ' 292' 400 00 Total Mints and Assay Offtces 1 240 656 00 TERBITOEIAL G-OTERNMBNTS. General salary account $101. 880 00 Legislative expenses ^^q' ^^2 81 Contingent expenses , 4' 250 oo Total Territorial Governments 222 282 81 INTERNAL REVENUE. Expenses of assessing and collecting 03 ^go aq^ n^ Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws '. ! . ^ . ' lOo' 000 00 Stamps, i^aper, and dies 390' OOO 00 Total Internal Revenue - . o 933 40fi '""' WAR DEPARTMENT. General salary account ^qq. o«f> „„ Furnituie, new War-Department building ^^a' ^K^l n« Contingent expenses )^7 „^^ 1^^ Postage ..'.'.... -[Acnn Salaries ot employes under Commissioner of Public Buildings ol' f 2^ nn Contingent expenses of public buildings and grounds '."."."..' 500 00 Total War Department 1, 211, 270 00 RECAPITULATION. 239 S^AVY DBPAETMENT. General salary account i1 SS '^"^ -!-'> Furniture, new Navy-Department building 5o' 000 00 Contingent expenses iq'/win n/i ^^^^^■S^ -. , „ . 25, 000 00 Total Navy Department. 221,267 42 INTEEIOR DEPAETMENT. General salary account $ , 5^7 10^ 00 Contingent expenses ' -j^gg' ^q^ qq Postage ......".'. .'.'."/.'. 32 100 00 Copies of drawings 25* 000 00 Plates for Patent-Office Official Gazette 04' 000 00 Photo-lithographing ........['...[.'..[].][. 35' 000 00 Tracings 5, 000 00 Total Interior Department 1 8I7 3^4 00 PUBLIC LAND OFFICES. General salary account of surveyors-general $115 §50 OO POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. General salary account $497, 040 00 Contingent expenses 79 850 00 Total Post-Oflice Department 576, 890 00 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. General salary account $66, 900 00 Contingent expenses 8, 000 00 Collecting agricultm-al statistics 10, 000 00 Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds 75, 000 00 Experimental garden 6, 600 00 Museum and Herbarium - 1, 000 00 Furniture, cases, and repairs 4, 000 00 Library 1, 000 00 Laboratory 1, 500 00 Investigating history of insects injurious to agriculture 5, 000 00 Investigating diseases of swine and other domesticated animals 10, 000 00 Postage 4, 000 00 Total Department of Agriculture 193, 000 00 DEPAETMENT OF JUSTICE. General salary account $101, 480 00 Contingent expenses - 21, 722 00 Warden of iail, District of Columbia 1, 800 00 Postage...... 5>050»0 Total Department of Justice - 130, 052 00 Total Executive - ^3, 188, 227 23 240 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. JUDICIAL. General salary account of the Supreme Court $150, 000 00 General salary account of the district courts 193, 500 00 General salary account of the supreme court, District of Columbia 25, 022 22 General salary account of the district attorneys 19, 300 00 General salary account of the district marshals 12, 324 07 Total Judicial 400, 740 29 FOEEIGN INTEECOUESE. Diplomatic salary account $327, 386 12 Contingent expenses of foreign missions 80, 000 00 Consular salary account 466, 129 88 Contingent expenses of consulates ■ 115, 000 00 Loss on bills of exchange 8, 000 00 Salaries and expenses of United States and Spanish Claims Commission 7, 950 00 Prisons for American convicts 18, 750 00 Bringing home of criminals 5, 000 00 Belief and protection of American seamen 50, 055 30 Eescuing shipwrecked American seamen 4, 50O 00 Expenses under neutrality act 5 OOO 00 Shipping and discharging seamen , 6 000 00 Cape Spartel light ' 285 00 Allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic ofQcers who die aoroad 5, 000 00 Eevising and editing Consular Eegulations 3 oOO 00 Eent of court-house and jail in Japan , 3 850 00 Buildings and grounds for the legation in China 3' loO 00 Total Foreign Intercourse 1 109 0O6 30 MILITAEY ESTABLISHMENT. Expenses of Commanding-General's Oflce $2 500 00 Expenses of recruiting and contingencies, Adjutant-General's department 78* 034 30 Signal Service 10^ 500 00 Pay ana travelling and general expenses of the Army 13 oi4 923 40 Pay of Military Academy " " ' 214' 292 33 Current and miscellaneous expenses. Military Academy "^gg 755 go Subsistence of the Army '.'...'.'.[ 2,30o!869 47 Kegular supplies, Quartermaster's department 3 (300 000 00 Incidental expenses. Quartermaster's department i qqq 28O 1'' Horses for cavalry and artillery ■.::;:::";: '2001000 00 Transportation of the Army ^ ggy' ^gy -« Barracks and quarters ' 882' 391 67 Construction and repair of hospitals : yg' qqq ^^^. Clothing and equipage o^o' nno nn Contingencies of the Army V^' oV^ V" Medical and Hospital department oior-Qoo Engineer depot, Willett's Point, New York "5 000 00 Military and Geographical surveys of the Territories of the United States, west' of the ' 100th meridian 9n nnn nn Ordnance Service lTo9?2nS Ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies tkn qi 1 on Powder-depot iwUln Manufacture of arms '"' o^n'Annn^ Armament of fortifications f o"' "Xn r ? ioZ, oUO 00 Total Military Establishment oq itx nn- a- zs, l/J, OOo 4o RECAPITULATION. 241 NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Pay of the Navy Coutingent of the Navy Navigation and supphes, Bureau of Navigation Hydrographic work, Bureau of Navigation Civil establishment, Bureau of Navigation (Jontingent, Bureau of Navigation Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac, &c Ordnance and ordnance stores. Bureau of Ordnance Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance Torpedo Corps, Bureau of Ordnance Equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment and Eecruiting Contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Eecruiting Maintenance of yards and docks. Bureau of Yards and Docks Civil establishment. Bureau of Yards and Docks Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks Naval Asylum, Philadelphia Medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Naval-hospital fund, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Civil establishment, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Eepairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Provisions for the Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing Small stores. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing Civil establishment. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing Contingent, Biireau of Provisions and Clothing Construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Eepair , Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Eepair Steam-machinery, Bureau of Steam-Engineering Civil establishment. Bureau of Steam-Engineering Contingent, Bureau of Steam-Engineering Pay, Naval Academy Eepairs, Naval Academy Heating and lighting, Naval Academy Contingent, Naval Academy Pay, Marine Corps Provisions, clothing, miscellaneous, and contingent, Marme Corps 1, 1, 243 275 00 80 479 56 104 500 00 46 000 00 10 417 25 2 000 00 53 050 00 225 000 00 11 886 25 3 000 00 45 000 00 800 000 00 18 251 75 50 000 00 440 000 00 37 906 25 20 000 00 59 309 00 45 000 00 50 000 00 40 000 00 30 000 00 15 000 00 040 375 40 100 000 00 11 394 25 02 505 27 520 932 02 40 105 75 803 000 00 20 038 00 1 000 00 102 994 45 21 000 00 17 000 00 45 500 00 657 111 47 206 694 00 Total Naval Establishment 14, 079, 725 67 TNDTAN AFFAIES. Current and contingent expenses of the Indian Service. . . Fulfilling treaties with Indian tribes Eemoval, settlement, subsistence, and support of Indians . General and miscellaneous expenses of the Indian Service . Interest on trust-fund stocks $196, 392 36 2,895,292 19 1,393,073 10 323, 769 98 99,518 00 Total Indian Affairs v *> 908, 045 63 Army pensions Navy pensions PENSIONS. $28, 829, 078 37 538, 500 00 Arrears of Army and Navy pensions 25, 015, 000 00 Army and Navy-pension deficiencies -^) »"" """ "" Printing pension-checks _ 17, 500 00 Total Pensions 56, 200, 078 37 61 D A 242 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. PUBLIC WOEKS. Treasury Department: Custom-houses and other buildings $2, 993, 686 87 Light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals 554, 058 17 War Department: Arsenals - 277, 195 29 Fortifications and other works of defence 150, 000 00 Improving rivers and harbors 9, 677, 494 61 Buildings and grounds in and around Washington 601, 000 00 Military Academy 14, 000 00 Navy Department; If a vy -yards and stations _ 402, 525 00 Interior Department: Eeconstructing Interior-Department building 150, 000 00 Capitol building and grounds 178, 617 94 Extension of Government Printing Office '. 43, 800 00 Buildings and grounds, Government Hospital for Insane 45, 000 00 Department of Agriculture: Buildings and grounds 8, 000 00 Department of Justice : Court-house, District of Columbia Total Public Works POSTAL SERVICE. Deficiency in the postal revenues 1,000 00 14, 996, 377 88 $6,621,165 01 MISCELLANEOUS. Legislative: Public printing and binding $1^ 874, 000 00 Payment of judgments. Court of Claims 373 152 84 Miscellaneous items I44' g^g 74 State Department: International Exhibitions at Sidney and Melbourne, Australia 20 000 00 International remonetization of silver 2o' 000 00 Miscellaneous items 27' 564 81 Treasury Department: ' Life-Saving Service. 610 860 00 Eevenue-cutter Service 860 000 00 Engraving and printing V^V^V. ...'..' 35o' 600 00 Eemoval of Bureau of Engraving and Printing , 50' oqo 00 Light-House Establishment 1 98^' qqq 1 q Coast Survey. . ■.:"..:;:;::::::::; '588;ooooo Expenses of national currency 120 000 00 Transportation of coin and bullion . . " ' go' OOO 00 Transportation of United States securities ' go' qoo 00 Propagation, &c., of food-fishes '[' g^' kqo oo Steam-vessel, food-fishes 45' ooo 00 Standard weights and measures j' Ooo 00 Current expenses of buildings, under Treasury Department^ '.'. 716' 70Q Vo Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes 60' 04r ^n Compensation in lieu of moieties ' .' on' ono nn Salaries and travelling expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska is' 821 oq Protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska . . on' nnn nn Lands and other property of the United States 5 nno nn Examination of rebel archives and records of captured property ^' nnn nn Eeturn of proceeds of captured and abandoned property. ">«' o^c ^o Library _ ^ '' ^b, 088 02 Salaries and expenses, National Board of Health r^sn' nnn n^ Promoting education of the blind ^?"' ""^ "^ Eefrigerating-ship for disinfecting purposes 200 000 00 RECAPITULATION. 243 Treasury Department — Continued. North American Ethnology Stereotype-plates of final reports of Centennial Exhibition Eepayment to importers, refunds, &c Belief acts District of Columbia: Fifty per cent, of appropriations for general expenses, fiscal year 1880 General expenses, deficiency liedem j)tion of bonds Water supply, Capitol Hill Additional appropriations for the poor War Department: Observation and report of storms Military -telegraph lines ITational cemeteries and superintendents Headstones for graves of soldiers in private cemeteries Support of transient paupers Artificial limbs Appliances for disabled soldiers Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Survey of Xorthern and Northwestern lakes Publication of ofiicial records of the War of the Eebellion . Expenses of military convicts ^Military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Military posts and roads • f Artillery school. Fortress Monroe Eefunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers - . Mississippi Eiver Commission Collection and payment of bounty, «&c., to colored soldiers and saDors Pay of two and three-years' volunteers . . . . Bounty to volunteers, widows, and legal heirs 3Iiscellaueous items and relief acts Navy Department: Miscellaneous items and relief acts Interior Department: Public-lands service Surveying public lands " -_ Current expenses. Government Hospital for the Insane -■- Current expenses, Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution Expenses of Tenth Census Expenses of Eighth and Ninth Censuses Indemnity for swamp-lands Commission to classify lands and codify land laws jMiscellaneous items and relief acts Department of Justice : Defending suits and claims for seizure of captured or abandoned property. Prosecution and collection of claims Punishing violations of intercourse acts and frauds Prosecution of crimes Editing 15th volume Opinions of Attorneys-General Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Expenses of United States courts Support of convicts $20, 000 00 8, 600 00 81, 019 42 30, 480 77 1, 625, 733 00 466, 533 23 281, 500 00 25, 000 00 20, 000 00 375, 000 00 90, 000 00 159, 000 00 192, 027 49 15, 000 00 100, 000 00 ], 000 00 880, 000 00 85, 000 00 46, 190 00 16, 000 00 67, 410 00 286, 500 00 38, 750 00 86, 625 35 175, 000 00 11, 000 00 87, 988 00 150, 185 99 788, 531 32 28, 024 73 562, 842 01 570, 000 00 160, 000 00 50, 000 00 41, 736 00 37, 500 00 250, 000 00 14, ,164 55 15, 000 00 20. ,000 00 30, , 664 11 25. ,000 00 2, ,500 00 3, ,000 00 20, , 000 00 1, ,000 00 26, , 000 00 2, 251, ,505 19 15, , 000 00 Total Miscellaneous ^^' *^^' 471 26 Total Appropriations for 1880, and Deficiencies 162,404,617 76 244 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Fiscal year 1880. Legislative Establishment 83, 246, 798 07 Executive Establishment 13,188,227 23 Judicial Establishment 400, 746 29 Foreign Intercourse - 1, 109, 006 30 Military Establishment 28, 172, 005 45 Naval Establishment *. 14, 079, 725 67 Indian Affairs 4, 908, 045 63 Pensions *56,200,078 37 Public Works 14, 996, 377 88 Postal Service 6, 621, 165 01 Miscellaneous 19, 482, 471 26 Total 162, 404, 047 76 •This amount includes $25,000,000 arrears of pensions, and $1,800,000 additional pensions caused by arrearage act of January 25, 1^79. RECAPITULATION. 245 CO < ^ -^rs •-:> c* 21 S; 2 5 EH w:S -2 "^ E- '^ t- CO Q Eh fH 62 D A INDEX I I^ X) E X. Abandoned property — Defending suits and claims for seizure of Return of proceeds of - Absecom, N. J. — Light-station Academy — Military, buildings and grounds Military, pay and expenses Military, water supply _ ' Naval, contingent - Naval, heating and lighting _ '_[ Naval, pay Naval, repairs Accounts — Pacific railroad companies, adjustment of Treasury Department, investigation of Additional associate justice — Supreme court. District of Columbia Territory of Dakota Additional compensation — To clerks of Treasury Department, from appropri- ation refunding national debt Additional security — Against fire, Smithsonian Institution Adjusting — Claims for indemnity for swamp-lands Adjustment — • Accounts of Pacific railroad companies Adj utant-General — Salaries and expenses, office of Adjutant-General's department — Contingencies Agencies- Indian, buildings at Agents — And subordinate officers of internal revenue, sal- aries and expenses At seal-fisheries in Alaska, salaries and expenses . Customs service, additional special Independent Treasury, salaries Indian Southern Claims Commission, salaries and ex- penses Agricultural statistics — Collecting Agriculture — Department of, building Department of, contingent expenses Department of, experimental garden Department of, furniture, cases, and repairs Department of, improvement of grounds Department of, laboratory Department of, library Department of, museum Department of, postage Department of, salaries Ahnapee, Wis. — Improving harbor Alabama river, Ala. — Improving Alamosa, Col. — Military road from, to Pagosa Springs "Alarm"— Ship, new propeller for Alaska — Agents at seal-fisheries in, salaries and expenses . . Sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in, protection of 63 D A 229 ■12 64 101 99-101 101 161, 162 161 160, 161 161 94 39 230, 232 73 55 182 94 92 206 59,60 41 55 68 189, 190 24 227 227 227 227 227 227 227 227 227 22S 226 105 106 120 167 41 41 Page. Albany, N. Y.— Custoin-house and post office Alexander, T. E.— Relief of Allegheny river. Pa.— ' Improving Allowances — Army pensions Consular clerks ' For reduction of wages under eight-hour Yaw Navy pensions Or drawbacks To widow of late Bayard Taylor! To widow of late J. E. Colburn '. To widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad Almanac — Nautical Almshouse — Georgetown, District of Columbia Alteration — Of dies and stamps, internal revenue American convicts — In China, rent of prison for In China, wages of keepers, prison for In Japan, rent of prison for ."|" In Japan, wages of keepers, prison for ." In Siam and Turkey, rent of prisons, wages of keepers, &c., for American Photo-lithographic Company — Reimbursement to American seamen — Relief and protection of Rescuing shipwrecked American Shoal, Florida — Light-station Ammunition — Arms and. Secretary of War to issue to Heads of Departments whenever required to protect public property Annis, Ann — ' Relief of Annual expenses — Cape Spartel light Annual repairs — Capitol Annual Statutes — Editing, publishing, and distributing "Antietam" — Ship, repairs of Apache Indians — FuLfilling treaties with Support of ' Apalaohicola river, Fla. — Improving Appliances — For disabled soldiers Appomattox river, Va. — Improving Appraisement — And sale of Fort Reynolds military reservation Aqueduct — Washington Arapahoe Indians — Fulfilling treaties with jgj Support of ' Architect — Capitol, salaries of employes under Supervising, salaries, office of Page. 66 124 107 211 32 121 212 43 29 29 34 163 79 60 33 33 33 33 33 183 33 34 64 126 125 34 173 28 166 191 204 108 97 107 187 79 197 204 173 .35 250 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Archives — Eebel, examination of 41 Arickaree Indians — Snpportof 204 Arizona — Contingent expenses 74 Indian service in .- 205 Legislative expenses 73 Salaries and contingent expenses, ofBce of sur- veyor-general of 183, 184 Salaries, governor, &o 73 Support of Apaches of New Mexico and 204 Surveying private land claims in 186 Aransas Pass and Bay, Texas — Improvement 109 Arkansas river — Improving 109, 111 Armament — Fortifications 102 Armories — National, manufacture of arms at 98 Armory building, Smithsonian Institution — Preservation of collections 175 Arms — And ammunition. Secretary of War to issue to Heads of Departments, whenever required to protect public property 126 Manufacture of 98 Army — Contingencies 92 Pay and travelling and general expenses of 95 Pensions - 211, 212 Pensions, arrears of 212 Pensions, fees for vouchers 212 Pensions, fees of examining-surgeons 212 Pensions, pay and allowances 211 Pensions to invalids - 212 Reorganization of, joint committee on 25 Subsistence 97 Supplies . - 93 Transportation 93 Arranging — Court of Claims' room, Capitol, as committee- rooms 182 Arrears — Army and Navy pensions 212 Army transportation 93 Arsenals — Benicia - 101 Pikesville 101 Repairs of 101 Rock Island 101 Springfield 101 Art- Works of, for the Capitol 22 Artificial — Limbs 97 Artillery — Horses 94 School, Fortress Monroe, Va 121 Ashtabula, Ohio — Improving harbor 104 Assay offices — Contingent expenses 69-71 Salaries 70,71 Wages of workmen 69-71 Assessing — And collecting internal revenue, expenses 60 Assessments — For special improvements. District of Columbia, revision of 77 Assinaboine Indians — Support of 205 Assistant messengers — Salaries of, provision for 33 Assistant treasurers — Baltimore, salaries, office of 68 Boston, salaries, office of (57 Page. Assistant treasurers — Continued. Chicago, salaries, office of 68 Cincinnati, salaries, office of 68 New Orleans, salaries, office of 6^ New York, salaries, office of 67 Philadelphia, salaries, office of 68 Saint Lonis, salaries, office of 68 San Francisco, salaries, office of 68 Associate justice — Supreme court. District of Columbia, additional.. 230, 232 Territory of Dakota, additional 73 Association — For Colored Women and Children, District of Co- lumbia 79 National banking, refunding excess of duty to. . . 43 Women's Christian, District of Columbia 79 Asylum — Freedmen's 174 Lying-in, District of Columbia 79 Naval, Philadelphia 164 St. Ann's Infant, District of Columbia 79 Washington, District of Columbia 78 Atlanta, Ga. — Court-house and post office 66 Atlantic and Gulf coasts — Survey of 60, 61 Attorney-General — Law-books, office of 228 Salaries, office of 228 Attorneys — District, salaries 230 District, United States courts, fees 230 Attorneys-General — Opinions of, editing fifteenth volume 229 Auditor — Fifth, salaries, office of 36 First, salaries, office of 35 Fourth, salaries, office of 36 Railroad Accounts, salaries and expenses, office of . 172 Second, salaries, office of 35 Sixth, salaries, office of 36 Third, miscellaneous claims audited by 93 Third, salaries, office of 36 An Sable, Mich. — • Improving harbor 104 Australia — International exhibitions at Sidney and Mel- bourne 28 Awards — Underconvention between United States andPeru. 29 B. Baggage — Officers of the Army, transportation of Balances — Pension appropriations unexpended Baldwin, William H. H. — Relief of Baltimore, Md. — Improving harbor Post officp, court-house, &c Reimbursement to, for aid in constructing defen- sive works in 1863 Salaries, office of assistant treasurer Banks and bank-plates — National, examinations of Bannock Indians — Fulfilling treaties with igg, Barracks — And quarters Fortress Monroe, Va., erection of Marine Corps, repairs of Bayou La Fourche, La. — Improving Bay Point, S. C— Range-lights Beacon-lights — On the lakes 121 209 128 103 122 68 42 200 94 121 160 109 64 65 INDEX. 251 Page. Beacons — Day, Maine, New Hampsliire, and Massachusetts. 63 Sandy Hook light-station, N. J 64 Beantor, William — Reimbursement to 122 Bedding — Destruction of, for sanitary reasons 167 Beeher, James M. — Relief of 124 Belfast, Maine — Improving harbor 102 Bell, E. B — Reliefof 128 Benicia, Cal.— Arsenal 101 Biennial examinations of pensioners — Abolished 209 Big Sandy river, Ky. — Improving 110 Big Sunflower river. Miss. — Improving 108 Billingsley, H. M.— Reliefof 123 Bills of exchange — Loss on 33 Binding — Final reports of Centennial Commission 21 First and second volumes Catalogue of library of Surgeon-General's office 20 Internal-revenue laws and manual 21 Newspapers, &c., Treasury Department 38, 39 Public 19, 20 Sailing directions for United States Hydrographic office 21 Birkett, Charles P.— Act to reimburse him repealed 208 Blackfeet Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 191 Black Hills— Surveyof 207 Black Lake, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Blackwater river, Va. — Improving 107 Blind- Promoting education of 49 Blood Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 191 Board of Health — National, organization, and provisions regarding . . 47, 48 National, salaries and expenses 44 Board of visitors — Naval Academy - 161 Boise City, Idaho- Assay office, salaries 71 Assay office, wages and contingent expenses 71 Boise Forte Band Chippewa Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 192 Bonds — District of Columbia, redemption of 86 Books — • And maps. State Department 28 For library. Department of Justice 228 Office of Attorney-General, law - 228 Office of Solicitorof Treasury 228 Boston, Mass. — Improving harbor 102 Navy-yard 166 Post office and sub-treasury 66 Salaries, office of assistant treasurer 67 Botanic Garden — Improving - - - 22 Improving buildings - 22 Salaries 22 Bounty — For destruction of enemies' vessels 167 Gratuity, and mileage to seamen 167 Bounty — Continued. Prize-money, &o., of colored soldiers and sailors, collection and payment of 96 To volunteers, widows, and legal heirs 97 Breakwater — Between Straits of Fuca and San Francisco, Cal.. 113 New Haven, Conn 106 Breton bay, Leonardtown, Md. — Improving harbor 103 Bridgeport, Conn. — Improving harbor 102 Bridges — Authority to build, Arkansas 115 District of Columbia, constructing, repairing, and maintaining 78 Rock Island, 111 119 Bringing home — Criminals 33 Brink, Dr. C. W.— ReUef of 30 Brown, J. S. — Relief of 208 Brumidi, C. — Payment to 163 Brunswick, Ga. — Improving harbor 104 Buck & Kellogg — Reimbursement to 183 Buffalo, N. Y.— Improving harbor 103 Buildings — And grounds for legation in China 34 And grounds. Insane Hospital 174 And grounds. Military Academy 101 And grounds under Chief Engineer, salaries and expenses 90 Armory, Smithsonian Institution, preservation of collections 175 At Indian agencies, and repairs 206 Botanic Garden, improving 22 Corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street, rent 89 Corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street, salary of superintendent 89 Corner of Seventeenth and F streets, salaries and expenses 89 Department of Agriculture 227 Department of Justice, rent 228 Fort Snelling, Minn., for military headquarters - - 120 Interior Department, reconstructing 170 Interior Department, rent 169 Interior Department, repairs 170 National Museum, fire-proof 65 Navy Department, furniture 156 Navy Department, salaries and expenses 155, 156 Occupied by Commissary-General, salary of super- intendent 90 On F street, contingent expenses 89 On F street, rent 89 On F street, salaries, superintendent, &c 89 On Tenth street, salary of superintendent 90 Publi c, fuel, lights, and water for 41 Public, furniture and repairs of same, for 40 Public, heatmg apparatus for 41 Public, plans for 41 Public, repairs and preservation 40 Public, vaults, safes, and locks for 41 State, War, and Navy Departments 91 Treasury - 65 Bulletins of health — Collecting data for 55 Bullion — Freight on. Mint at Philadalphia 69 Parting and refining 71 Transportation of - 40 Buoyage — Expenses 63 Of Mississippi, Jlissouri, and Ohio rivers 65 252 DIGEST OF APPRO PEIATIONS. Page. Bureaa of Eagraving and Printing — Removal of 56 Salaries 56 Bureau of Statistics — ■ Salaries 37 Bureau of Weights and Measures — International 29 Bureaus — Navy Department, expenses 162-166 Burial — Officers and others of U. S. steamer " Huron" 167 Burlington, Iowa — Improving harbor 105 Burlington, Vt. — Improviug harbor 102 C. Calcasieu — Range-light - 64 California — And Nevada volunteers, travelling expenses of . . . 121 Eclipse, observation of 163 Indian service 205 Salaries and contingencies, office of surveyor-gen- eral 184 Surveying private land-claims 186 Calumet, 111. — Improving harbor _ . . 104 Cambridge and Pocomoke river, Md. — Improving harbor 103 Camp and garrison — Equipage 94 Camp Stewart, Oregon — Military road from Scottsburgh to 120 Canal — Columbia river, Oregon, around cascade 113 Des Moines rapids, operating Ill Cape Fear river, N. C. — Improving 108 Cape Poge, Mass. — Light-station _ . . 63 Cape Spartel light — Annual expenses of 34 Capitol — And Government Printing Office, telephonic con- nection between _ 22 And grounds, lighting 174 Annual repairs 173 Architect of, salaries of employes under 173 Grounds, improviug, aud retained percentages 173 Telegraph to connect Departments and Printing Office with 91 Works of art for 22 Capitol Hill, District of Columbia — Water supply 87 Capitol police — Contingent fund - 11 17 Salaries 11, 17 Capote Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 Captured property — Defending suits and claims for seizure of 229 Examination of records of 4] Return of proceeds of 42 Care — Public grounds 90 Carmen, Wni. H. — Relief of 227 Carpets — Post-Office Department 214 Treasury Department 39 Carson, Nevada — Mint, contingent expenses 70 Mint, salaries _ ]' 70 Mint, wages of workmen _ . ' 70 Cartage — House of Representatives 17 Senate _ -j^q Page Casey, D. C. — Relief of 226 Catalogue — Library of Surgeon-General's office, printing and binding 20 Cavalry — And artillery horses 94 Cayuse Indians — Fulfilling treaties with ■• - - - 202 Cedar Keys, Fla. — . Improving harbor 104 Cemeteries — National 94 National, pay of superintendents 94 Private, headstones for graves of soldiers in 94 Cemetery grounds — Near Columbus, Ohio, purchase of 121 Census — District of Columbia, defraying expenses 78 Eighth, expenses 181 Ninth, expenses 181 Tenth, expenses 175 Centennial Exhibition of 1876 — Purchase of stereotype-plates of final reports of . . 51 Central superintendency — Indian service 206 Superintendent of Indians of 204 Certificates of deposit — And checks 69 Issue of, in aid of refunding public debt 55 Channel — Lubec, Maine, improving 106 Charges and commissions cases — Repayment to importers 42 Charleston, S. C. — Improving harbor 103 Charlevoix, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Charlotte, N. C— Assay office, salaries 71 Assay office, wages and contingent expenses 71 Charlotte, N. Y.— Improving harbor _ 103 Charts — Coast Survey, distribution to Congress 61 Chattahoochie river, Ga. — Improving . . ." 108 Cheboygan, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Checks — Aud certificates of deposit 69 Chemistry — Naval Academy igi " Cheney, B. P."— Steamer, repeal of act of June 20, 1878, relating to. 129 Cherokee Indiaus — Trust-fund interest due national fund 208 Trust-fund interest due school-fund 208 Cheyenne Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 191 Support of 204 Chicago, 111. — Custom-house and sub-treasury 66 Improving harbor 104 Salaries, office assistant treasurer 68 Chickahomiuy river, Va. — Improving . . _ j^07 Chickasaw Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 192 Trust-fund interest due national fund 208 Chief Engineer — Buildings and grounds under, salaries and expenses. 90 Salaries and expenses, office of ^9 Chief of Ordnance — Salaries and expenses, office of g>i Children — Colored, National Association for, District of Co- lumbia -g INDEX. 253 Page. CMldren's Hospital — District of Columbia 79 Cliina — Buildings and grounds for legation in 34 Eent of prison for American convicts in 33 Salaries, interpreters to consulates in 33 Wages of keepers, &c., prison for Americau con- victs in - 33 Chippewa Indians — Boise Forte band, fulfilling treaty with 19-2 Fulfilling treaty with 192 Support of Red Lake, of Pembina '205 Support of White Earth reservation 203 Trust-fund interest due 209 Chippewa river, Wis. — Improving 112 Choctawhatchie river, Fla. — Improving 108 Choctaw Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 193 Trust-fund interest due general fund 208 Christian Association- Women's, District of Columbia 79 Cincinnati, Ohio — Custom-house and post otfice 67 Harbor of refuge 104 Salaries, oflice assistant treasurer 68 Circuit judges — Salaries 230 Citizens^ Loyal, claims of, for supplies furnished during the rebellion 143 Civil establishment — Bureau of Construction and Repair 166 Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting 164 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - 165 Bureau of Navigation - 162 Bureau of Ordnance 163 Bureau of Provisions and Clothing 165 Bureau of Steam-Engineering 166 Bureau of Yards and Docks 164 Civilization — Of Indians, central superintendency 204 Of Sioux at Fort Peck agency 204 Of Teton Sioux 204 Civil service — Not to be deducted from .pensions ■iW Claims — . . . ^ , . Against United States, private, provision for taking testimony to be used before Congress 26 Audited by Third Auditor, under section four, act June 14," 1878 - 93 Colored soldiers and sailors, payment of 96 Commissioner of, summary reports of 18 For indemnity for swamp-lands, adjusting 182 For quartermaster's stores and commissary sup- plies 1^^ For seizure of captured or abandoned property, defending :---■-■;■-.-■ " ^'^^ Of loyal citizens for supplies furnished during rebellion - 143 Preservation and collection of ■^■^^ Claims Commission — Southern, contingent expenses ^o Southern, salaries f^ Southern, salaries and expenses of agents -4 Spanish, salaries and expenses ^* Clark, Anna M.— Rejection of claim of ^°'' Clark, Hon. Rush— . Payment to widow and heirs of >-■- Clark, Martin — .,„„ Relief of ^-^-^ Cleaning — „ , ^. m Statuary Hall, House of Representatives i-O Clerks — o.^ Consular allowances to - ^- Marine Corps, pay of '■•^•' 64 D A Clerks — Continued. To committees, and pages. Senate 9,10 To committees, House of Representatives 15, 16 United States courts, fees 230 Cleveland, Ohio — Improving harbor 104 Clift, James — Relief of 122 Clothing— And bedding, destruction of, for sanitary reasons. 167 Camp and garrison cquijjage. Array 94 Lost, indemnity for 167 Marine Corps 159 Undrawn, Marine Corps, pay 159 Coast and Geodetic Survey — Expenses 60, 61 Coasts — Atlantic and Gulf, survey of 60, 61 United St.ates, duplicate fog-signals for 65 Western, survey 61 Coast Survey — Distribution of charts to Congress 61 General expenses 61 Publishing observations 61 Repairs of vessels 61 Surveys 60,61 Codify— Land laws, commission to classify lands and 182 Coffee, J. J. — Payment to 29 Cohansey creek, N. J. — Improving 106 Coin — And bullion, transportation of 40 Coins — Gold and silver, reooinage 69 Colburn, J. E.— Allowance to widow of 29 Coldwater river, Miss. — Improving 109 Collecting — Agricultural statistics 227 And subsisting Kickapoos, &o 205 Data to prepare bulletins of health 55 Drilling and organizing volunteers 121 Internal revenue, expense 60 Revenue from customs 42 Statistics relating to commerce 42 Collection — And payment of bounty, prize-money, &c., to col- ored soldiers and sailors 96 Claims 229 Collections — Smithsonian Institution, preservation of 175 Collectors — Internal revenue, salaries and expenses 59 Collier, Professor Peter — Pay to 55 Colorado — Indian service 205 Salaries and contingent, office of surveyor-general. 184, 185 Colorado Ute Indians- Removal of . - 203 Colored soldiers and sailors — Collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, &c., to 96 Colored Women and Children- National Association for. District of Columbia 79 Columbia Hospital for Women — District of Columbia 79 Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb- Current expenses - 174 Columbia river, Oregon — Constructing canal around Cascades 113 Improving mouth of 113 Columbus, Ohio — Purchase of cemetery grounds 121 254 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Page. Comanche Indians^ Fulfilling treaties with 191 Support of 204 Commanding-General's office — ■ Expenses 92 Commerce — Collecting statistics relating to 42 Commercial Bank of Knoxville, Tenn. — Relief of 52 Commissary — Supplies and quartermaster's stores, claims for . . . 129 Commissary-General — Building occupied by, salary of superintendent . . . 90 Salaries and expenses, office of 88 Commission — Entomological, act relative to accounts of 187 Hot-Springs, salaries and expenses- . - 1B7 Mississippi River 117 Southern Claims, contingent expenses 25 Southern Claims, salaries 24 Southern Claims, salaries and expenses of agents . 24 Spanish Claims, salaries and expenses 34 To classify lands and codify laud laws 182 To report upon depredations of Rocky-mountain locusts - 187 Commissioners — Claims, summary reports of 18 Customs, salaries, office of 35 District of Columbia, to have certain powers as to water-service 77 Education, distributing documents, office of 173 Education, salaries and contingent expenses, office of - 172 Indian Affairs, salaries aud contingent expenses, office of 170 Indian, expenses of 207 Internal Revenue, salaries, office of 37 Patents, copies of drawings, office of 172 Patents, photo-lithographing, office of 172 Patents, plates for Official Gazette 172 Patents, scientific library, office of 172 Patents, salaries and contingent expenses, office of. 171, 172 Patents, tracings of drawings, office of 172 Pensions, furniture, contingencies, and rent, office of 171 Pensions, investigation of frauds, office of 171 Pensions, salaries aud contingent expenses, office of 170,171 Pensions, temporary clerks 171 United States courts, fees 230 Commissions — Registers and receivers 185 Superintendents of lights 63 Commissions cases — Repayment to importers 42 Committee — On alleged frauds in Presidential election. Senate. 11 Ou reorganization of the Army 25 On transfer of Indian Bureau to War Department . 26 Compensation — In lieu of moieties 41 To annual employes, House of Representatives, one month's extra 15 To certain employes. House of Representatives. .. 15 To certain employes. Senate, one month's 9 To clerks of Treasury Department, from appro- priation refunding national debt 55 To discharged employes. Senate, one month's 9 Compiling — Congressional Directory H Completion — Foundation of Washington m ounment 54 Comptroller — Currency, salaries, office of 37 First, salaries, office of ' " 35 Second, salaries, office of 35 Conrad, Henry — Relief of 3q Page. Confederated Indians, Middle Oregon — Fulfilling treaty with 1^3 Congressional Directory — Compiling H Congressional documents — Packing 169 Conimicut, R. I. — Light-station 64 Connecticut river. Conn. — Improving 106 Constructing — Bridges, District of Columbia 78 Defensive works in 1863, reimbursement to Balti- more for aid in 122 Construction — And repair of hospitals 95 Military-telegraph lines - - . 119 Construction and Repair — Bureau of, civil establishment 166 Bureau of. Navy 166 Bureau of, salaries and expenses 155 Consular clerks — Allowance to 32 Consular courts — Salaries, marshals for 33 Consular officers — Not citizens, salaries 33 Consular regulations — Revising and editing 34 Consular service — Loss ou bills of exchange 33 Salaries 31, 32 Consulates — Contingent expenses of 33 In Chi D a, Japan, and Siam, salaries, interpreters to . 33 Contesting — Seats, Forty-fifth Congress, payment for 25 Contingencies — Adjutant-General's department 92 Army 92 Indian department 206 Office of Commissioner of Pensions 171 Trust funds 209 Contingent — Cai)itol police 17 Equipment and Recruiting, Bureau of 164 Marine Corps 160 Medicine and Surgery, Bureau of 165 Naval Academy 161, 162 Navigation, Bureau of 162 Navy 158 Ordnance, Bureau of 163 Provisions and Clothing, Bureau of 165 Steam-Engineering, Bureau of 166 Yards and Docks, Bureau of 164 Contingent expenses — Adjutant-General, office of 88 Agricultural Department 227 Assay offices 69 71 Auditor of Railroad Accounts 172 Building corner 17th and F streets 89 Building on F street gg Buildings and grounds under Chief Engineer 90 Chief of Engineers, office of 89 Chief of Ordnance, office of 88 Commissary-General, office of gg Commissioner of Education, office Of 172 Commissioner of Indian Affairs, office of 170 Commissioner of Patents, office of 172 Commissioner of Pensions, office of 171 Construction and Repair, Bureau of 155 Consulates 33 Court of Claims 23 District of Columbia .[[[[[..[ 85 District of Columbia, offices 80 Equipment and Recruiting, Bureau of ..]... ! . . . . 155 Executive office "' 28 Foreign missions ' ^^ INDEX. 255 Contingent expenses — Cantinued. General Land Office 170 House of Representatives 15,17 Independent Treasury 69 Interior Department 169, 173 Justice, Department of . Library of Congress Lif e-Saving Service Medicine and Surgery, Bureau of. Military Justice, office of Mints Navigation, Bureau of 2-28 22 62 ir.5 88 69,71 155 Navy Department 154, 156 156 155 89 214 155 185 19 Navy-Department building Ordnance, Bureau of Paymaster-General, office of Post-Office Department Provisions and Clothing, Bureau of, Public-Lands Service 184 Public Printer, office of Quartermaster-General, office of 88 Secretary of Interior, office of 169 Secretary of Navy, office of 154 Secretary of War, office of 87 Senate 9,11 Southern Claims Commission 25 Spanish Claims Commission. 34 State Department - 28 Steam-Engineering, Bureau of 155 Surgeon-General, oifice of 88 Surveyors-general, office of 184, 185 Territories "4 Treasury Department - 38 War Department 87 War-Department building Yards and Docks, Bureau of Convention — • Between United States and Peru, awards Convicts — American, in China, rent of prison for American, in China, wages of keeper, prison for.. American, in Japan, rent of prison for American, in Japan, wages of keeper, &c., prison for American, in Siam and Turkey, rent of prison wages of keeper, &c., for - Military, expenses of Support of - Coos bay and harbor, Oregon — Improving - Coosa river, Ga. and Ala. — Improving - Coosa wattee river, Ga. — Improving Copies — . . J, Ti . i Drawings, office of Commissioner of Patents Cotton-plant — ... , Investigating habits of insects injurious to Counterfeiting — And fraud, suppressing And other crimes, suppressing Court-house — , ,, , • m And post office, and custom-house, Memphis, Tenu Andpost office, and custom-house, Nash viUe, Tenn. And post office, Atlanta, Ga - And post office, &c., Baltimore, Md • And jail in Japan, rent And post office, Lincoln, Neb And post office, Little Rock, Ark - - Andpost office. New York -- And post office, Philadelphia, Pa - And post office, Raleigh, N. C - - - And post office, Topeka, Kan And post office, Utica, N. Y ™ District of Columbia •^^'^ Court of Claims- Contingent expenses ----- ■ - - --.-•■ - - - - - - - - - Jurisdiction of claims of New Mexico Mounted Volunteers 75 ,40 7,90 89 155 29 33 33 33 33 33 119 231 106 108 108 172 187 41 41 66 66 66 66 34 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 23 24 Court of Claims — Continued. Jurisdiction of claim of schooner "Don Pedro" .. Payment of judgments Reporting decisions Rooms - Rooms, Capitol, arranging as committee-rooms - . . Salaries, judges, &c United States courts, rent of Courts — District of Columbia District of Columbia, supreme, salaries Supreme, United States, salaries Territorial, in Utah, expenses of United States, act relating to records and files lost or destroyed Uuited States, expenses of Craft, Burr S.— Rehef of Creeks, improving — Cohansey, N. J East Chester, N. Y Mispilliou, Del Nomoui, Va Otter, Vt St. Augustine, Ga Urhaua, Va Woodbridge, N. J Creek Indians — Fulfilling treaty with Trust-fund interest due orphan-fund Crimes — Prosecution of Suppressing - Criminals- Bringing home Crow Indians — Fulfilling treaty with Cumberland Head, N. Y. — Light-station Cumberland river, Tenn. — Above Nashville, improving Below Nashville, improving Cumberland Valley Railroad Company of Pennsyl- vania — Refunding taxesfo Currency — Comptroller of, salaries, office of National, expenses of Current expenses — Columbia Institute for Deaf and Dumb Government Hospital for Insane MiUtary Academy Currituck sound and North River bar, N. C. — Improving - Custodians — And janitors, pay Custom-house — And post office, Albany, N. Y And post office, Cincinnati, Ohio And post office. Fall Ri ver, Mass And post office, Hartford, Conn , And post office, Kansas City, Mo And post office. New Orleans, La And post office, St. Louis, Mo And sub-treasury, Chicago, 111 Court-house and post office, Memphis, Tenn Court-house and post office, Nashville, Tenn Customs — Office of Commissioner of, salaries , Custom revenue — Collecting -' Detection and prevention of frauds upon Customs-revenue laws — Amended . - Customs service — Additional special agents in , Cypress bayou, Texas and Louisiana — Improving Page. 24 23 23 182 182 23 231 84 230 230 229 232 230, 231 52 106 106 107 107 106 108 107 106 193 208 229 41 33 194 64 110 110 44 37 40 174 174 99 108 40 66 67 67 67 67 67 67 66 66 66 35 42 43 53 55 109 256 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. D. Page. Day-beacons — " Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts 63 Dakota — Additional associate justice. Territory of 73 Contingent expenses, Territory of 74 Indian service 205 Legislative expenses, Territory of 74 . Salaries and contingent, oflSce surveyor-general . . 184,185 Salaries, Governor, &c., Territory of 74 Deaf and Dumb — • Columbia Institution for, contingent expenses. .. 174 De Ahna, Henry C. — Relief of 51 Debates — Senate, reporting 11 Debt- National, additional compensation authorized from appropriation for refunding 55 Public, refunding, issue of certificates of deposit to aid 55 Public, refunding 55 Decisions — Court of Claims, reporting 23 Defences — Harbor, torpedoes for 102 Defending — Suits and claims for seizure of captured or aban- doned property 229 Defensive works — Reimbursement to Baltimore for aid in constructing. 122 Deficiency — Postal revenues 223 Delaware bay — Piers in, near Lewes, Del 103 Delaware Indians — Trust-fund interest due general fund 208 Delaware river — At Schooner Ledge, imjiroving 107 Improving 107 Lights on 64 Near Cherry Island flats, improving 107 Delegates — Salaries and mileage 12 Delegations — "^ Indian, visiting Washington, expenses of 207 Denver, Col. — Mint, contingent expenses 70 Mint, salaries 70 Mint, wages of workmen 70 Departments — Telegraph to connect Capitol and Printing Office with 91 Depositing public moneys — Expenses of I85 Deposits- Excess of, repayment to importers 42 Depot — Powder gg Sixth light-house district g5 Staten Island, N. Y 54 Twelfth light-house district 65 Willett's Point, N. Y., engineer 99 Depredations — On public timber 185 jgg Rocky-mountain locusts, commission to report on. ' 187 Des Moines rapids — Canal, operating m Improving :::;;;:: ^^^ Destruction — Clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons 167 Detection — And prevention of frauds upon customs revenue . 43 Detroit river, Mich. — Improving 212 Dies — And stamps, alteration of qq Stamps, and paper " cq Page. Diplomatic officers — Who die abroad, allowance to widows or heirs of. 34 Director of Geological Survey — Salary.. ''^ Director of the Mint — Salaries, office of "" Directory — Compiling Congressional H Disabled soldiers — Appliances for "7 Support of National Home for 119 Discharged employfe — Senate, one month's pay to 9 Treasury Department, one month's pay to 38 Discharging — Seamen 34 Diseases — Of swine, investiggiting 227 Disinfecting — Refrigerating-ship for 50 Distributing — Documents, Bureau of Education 173 Revised and Annual Statutes 28 Distribution — Valuable seeds 227 District attorneys — One created for northern district of Texas 233 Salaries 230 United States courts, fees 230 District judges — One created for northern district of Texas 233 Salaries 230 District marshals — ■ One created for northern district of Texas 233 Salaries 230 District of Columbia — Arrearages of general taxes, rate of interest on, fixed 77 Census, defraying expenses 78 Children's Hospital 79 Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asy- lum 79 Commissioners of, to have certain powers as to water-service _ 77 Contingent expenses 85 Court-house 229 Courts - 84 Employment of the poor, filling up grounds 87 Fire department 33 General expenses 85 Georgetown almshouse 79 Health department 84 Holmead cemetery, act to protect 77 Hospital for Insane 79 Howard University 79 Improvement and repairs 78 Industrial Home School 79 Interest and sinking-fund 85 Metropolitan police ] 33 Miscellaneous expenses ] ] 35 Moneys appropriated, how drawn from Treasury! 85 National Association for Colored Women and Chil- dren _ 70 Officers of, salaries and contingent expenses . ' 80 Penny-lunch house ' ' 7^ Public schools 00 Reassessment of real property 73 Redemption of bonds . 86 Redemption of certain funded indebtedness of 8fi Reform School ' ' «q Relief of the poor ] -q Revision of assessments for special improvements 77 Saint Ann's Infant Asylum " 70 Salary of warden of jail. oqq Streets ■^f^ Support and medical treatment of infirm poor " ' 87 Supreme court, salaries ......" 230 INDEX 257 Page. District of Colambia — Continued. Supreme court, adcUtional associate justice cre- ated • 232 Tax-lien certificates 76 Tax-sales aud taxes 76 Transportation of paupers and prisoners 79 Washington aqueduct 79 Wasbington Asylum 78 Water supply, Capitol Hill 87 Women's Christian Association 79 Documents — Bureau of Education, distributing 17H Congressional, packing 169 Dog Island and Saint Mark's light-stations, Fla. — Reimbursement to keepers of 64 Domestic and Indian Missions — Relief of OOS Domesticated animals — luvestiiJating diseases of swine and other 227 "Don Pedro''— Schooner, relief of 24 Douglas, B. B.— Relief of children of 18 Douglass, John W. — Relief of 53 Douglas, Representative — Eugraviui;' and printing portrait of 56 Drafts And substitute fund 121 Drawback — Allowance or 43 Drawings — Copies of, office of Commissioner of Patents 172 Tracings of, ofi&ce of Commissioner of Patents . . 172 Dredging Superior bay, Wis 105 Drilling — Volunteers 121 Duluth, Minn. — Improving harbor 105 Dumb — Columbia Institution for Deaf and, current ex- penses 17*4 Duplicate — Fog-signals, coasts of United States 65 Duties — On Imports, Heyl's 25 Refunding, to national banking associations 43 Refunding, to Saint Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C... ; 43 D'Wamish Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 194 E. Eagle harbor, Mich. — Improving lo4 East Beacon — Sandy Hook light-station, N. J 64 East Chester creek, N. Y. — Improving lO" East river and Hell Gate, N. Y. — Removing obstructions 106 Echo harbor. New Rochelle, N. Y.— Improving 103 Eclipse— California, observations of f^o^ Solar, illustrations for report on 163 Edenton, N. C. — Improving harbor I""' Editing— , Consular regulations - ■ - •^l' Fifteenth volume opinions of Attorneys-General. . 229 Revised and Annual Statutes ~^ Education — „ Bliod, promoting ^^ Eel River Miami Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 1™ Eighth Census — Expenses - 65 D A Eight-hour law — Allowances for reduction of wages under Elizabeth river, N. J. — Improving El Paso, Texas — Military post Elk river, W. Va.— Improving Employ(Ss — House of Representatives, one month's comj)ensa- tion to annual House of Representatives, one mouth's compensa- tion to certain House of Representatives, salaries Public buildings and grounds under Chief Engi- neer, salaries - Senate, one month's compensation to certain Senate, one month's pay to discharged Senate, salaries - Treasury Department, discharged, one month's pay to Under Architect of Capitol, salaries Employment — Poor, District of Columbia Engineer — Chief, buildings and grounds under, salaries and expenses Engineer depot — Willett's Point, N. Y Engineers — Chief of, salaries and expenses, office of English, Wm. E. — Removing remains of Engraving and Printing — Bureau of, removal Bureau of, salaries Labor and expenses - Portrait of late Prof. Joseph Henry Portraits of Representatives Leonard, Quinn, Welch, Williams, Douglas, Hartridge, and Schleicher ^ Entomological Commission — Act relative to accounts of Entrance — Coos bay and harbor, Oregon, improving Sturgeon Bay canal. Wis., harbor of refuge Epidemic diseases — Investigation of Equipage — Camp and garrison - - . Equipment — Vessels Equipment and Recruiting — Bureau of, civil establishment Bureau of, contingent Bureau of, equipment of vessels Bureau of, salaries and expenses Erection — Barracks, Fortress Monroe, Va Erie, Pa.— Improving harbor - Establishing — Life-saving stations Ethnology — North American Examination — Rebel archives and records of captured property.. Examinations — National banks and bank-plates Public surveys Surveys and contingencies of rivers and harbors.. Examiuing-surgeons— Pensions, fees of Excess of deposits- Repayment to importers Exchange — Loss on bills of Page. 121 106 120 107 15 15 12-15 90 9 9 7-9 38 173 87 90 99 89 122 56 56 56 56 56 187 106 105 11,18 94 163 164 164 163 155 121 103 62 51 41 42 187 116 212 42 33 258 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Execution Rocks, N. Y. — Light-station 64 Executive Departments — Postage-stamps for 38 Executive Mansion — Lighting 90 Repairs, fuel, &c 90 Executive Ofiflce — Contingent expenses 28 Salaries - - • 27 Exhibition — Centennial, purchase of stereotype-plates of final reports of - 51 Exhibitions — International, at Sidney and Melbourne, Australia- 28 Expenses — Agents and subordinate offlcers of Internal reve- nue - - 59,60 Agents, Southern Claims Commission 24 Army, travelling and general 95 Assessing and collecting internal revenue 60 Buoyage - - - ■ • 63 Cape Spartel light - 34 Collectors internal revenue 59 Commanding-General's office 92 Compiling Congressional Directory 11 Courts 230,231 Depositing public moneys 185 Eighth Census 1«1 Engraving and printing 56 Fog-signals 63 Incurred in raising volunteers, refunding to States - 118 Indian Commissioners 207 Indian delegations visiting Washington 207 Indian wars of 1835 to 1838, refutiding to Georgia expenses of 119 Inquiry respecting food-fishes 42 Interpreters, guards, &c., in Turkish dominions . . 33 Light-vessels 63 Military convicts 119 National Board of Health - 44 National currency 40 Neutrality act - 34 Ninth Census 181 Quartermaster's department, incidental 92, 93 Recrniting 92 Revenue-cutter service 61 Select committee on alleged frauds in late Presi- dential election 11 Tenth Census 175 Territorial courts in Utah 229 Travelling, California and Nevada volunteers 121 United States courts 230, 231 Experimental garden — Department of Agriculture 227 Extension — Government Printing Office - - 174 Military-telegraph lines 120 Extra compensation — To annual employes, House of Representatives ... 15 Extra pay — To officers and men Tvho served in Mexican War. 51, 121, 167 F. Falkner's Island, N. Y.— Fog-signal Fall River, Mass. — Custom-house and post office Farallon, Cal. — Fog-signal Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Paris, Texas- Relief of . . _ Fees — Clerks, United States courts . . . Commissioners, United States courts District attorneys, United States courts. Examiniug-surgeons, pensions For vouchers, pensions 64 67 65 211 230 230 230 212 212 Page. Fees — Continued. Jurors, United States courts ^3U No attorneys' fees in pension-arrears cases 210 Witnesses, United States courts 230 Femandina, Fla. — Improving inside passage 108 Fifteenth volume — Opinions of Attorneys-General, editing 229 Fifth Auditor- Salaries, office of - - ■ 36 Fig Island, Ga. — Light-station 64 Filling up grounds — District of Columbia, employment of the poor 87 Final reports — Centennial Exhibition, purchase of stereotype- plates of - - . 51 Fire — Additional security against, Smithsonian Institir- tion 175 Fire department — District of Columbia - 83 Fire-extinguishers — Government Printing Office 22 Firemen — Salaries, provision for 38 Fire-proof building — National Museum 65 Fire-plugs — Repairs of - 90 First Auditor — Salaries, office of 35 First Comptroller — Salaries, office of 35 Fitzgerald, J. A. — KeUef of 208 Flathead Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 194 Removal to Jocko reservation, Montana, payment to - 207 Flint river, Ga. — Improving 108 Florida — Salaries and expenses, office of surveyor-general of. 184, 185 Transfer of lands in, not needed for naval pur- poses - 167 Flushing bay, N. Y. — Improving harbor 10;5 Fog-signals — Coasts of United States, duplicate for 65 Expenses 63 Falkner's Island, N. Y 64 Farallon, Cal 65 Folders — House of Representatives, pay of 16 Senate, pay of lO Folding — House of Representatives, materials for 16 Senate, materials for. lO Fontaine, Professor Edward — Printing maps, drawings, &o., accepted from him. 21 Food-fishes — Expenses of inquiry respecting 42 Illustrations for report on 42 Propagation of 42 Steam-vessel for 42 Forage — For horses. Marine Corps 160 Foreign intercourse — Expenses 30.34 Foreign missions — Contingent expenses 3x Fort Brown, Texas — Protection of river-banks 109 Fort Elliott, Texas- Extension of military-telegraph lines from. . 120 Fort Griffin, Texas- Support of Toukawas at 204 INDEX. •259 Page. Fortifications — Armament of 102 Preservatiou and repair of 102 Fort Leaveuwortli, Kansas — Support of military prison at 119 Fort Madison, Iowa — Improving harbor 105 Fort Peck agency — Support of Indiana at '203, -^04 Fortrrss Monroe, Va. — Artillery school 1'21 Erection of barracks V-il Repair of road between MiU Creek and 120 Fort Reynolds military reservation. Col. — Appraisement and sale of 187 Fort Snelling, Minn. — Buildings for military headquarters 120 Forty-fifth Congress — Payment for contesting seats - - 25 Foundation — Washington monument, completion of 54 Fourche Le Fevre river. Ark. — Improving 109 Fourth Auditor — Salaries of office of 36 Fourth light-house district — Repairs and protection of light-stations 65 Fox Indians — Fulfilling treaties with - - - . 199 Fox river, Wis. — Improving - - - 112 Fractional currency — Reserve fund to be issued in payment of pension arrears 209 To be redeemed out of moneys in general treasury . 209 Francis, John R. — Reliefof.- --- 12-t Frankfort, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Fraser, J. — Relief of 53 Fraud — Suppressing 41 Frauds — ... - nnn Intercourse acts and punishing violations of 4)ii> Investigation of, office of Commissioner of Pen- sions - .--- I'l Upon customs revenue, detection and prevention of --■-- 43 Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum- Support of - "4 Freight — ^q On bullion, mint at Philadelphia oa Telegrams, &o., Treasury Department 39 French Broad river, N. C— Improving Frying-pan, Mich. — Light-station Fuel— an Executive Mansion - -"" For heating apparatus. House of Representatives. 17 For heating apparatus. Senate .. - 1^ Li<^hts, &c . , Interior Department l'" Lights and water for public buUdings 4i Marine Corps X^^ Post-Office Department - ■^j-* Treasury Department Fulfilling treaties with — „.. Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches j^j Arapahoes and Cheyennes - |^^ Arapahoes and Northern Cheyennes . - ^^' Bannocks and Shoshones - - *^ Bannocks, Mixed Shoshones, and Sheepeaters - - - ■ iao Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans j^j Bloods, Blackfeet. and Piegans |^.^ Boise Forte band of Chippewas ; " " ' V " Capote, Tabequache, Muache, Weeminucbe, 1 am- pa, Grand River, and Uintah bands of L tes . . - - -'■'■■ Page. Fulfilling treaties with — CoiiUmted. Cayiise, AValla-Walla, and Umatilla tribes 202 Cheyeunes and Arapahoes 191 Chickasawa 192 Chippewas, Boise Forte band 192 CMppewas of Lake Superior 192 Chiiqiewas of the Mississippi 192 Chippewas, Pillaf^er, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands 192 Choctaws 193 Comanches, Apaches, and liiowas 191 Confederated tribes and bands in Middle Oregon. 193 Creeks 193 Crows - - 194 D'Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington Territory 194 Eel River Miamies 196 Flatheads and other confederated tribes - - 194 Foxes and Sacs of the Mississippi 199 Foxes and Sacs of the Missouri 199 Grand River, Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Wee- minuohe, Yampa, and Uintah bands of Utes 202 Gros Ventres 195 Indiana Miamies 196 lowas - 195 Kansas - 195 Kansas Miamies 196 Kickapoos 195 Kiowas, Apaches, and Comanches 191 Klamaths and Modocs - 195 Lake Superior Chippewas 192 Lake Wiunebagoshiah and Pillager bands of Chip- pewas - 192 Makahs - 195 Menomonees - - 196 Miamies of Eel River 196 Miamies of Indiana - 196 Miamies of Kansas 196 Mississippi Chippewas 192 Mississipiii Sacs and Foxes - 199 Missourias and Otoes - 197 Missouri Sacs and Foxes 199 Mixed Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheepeaters 196 Modocs and Klamaths 195 Molels 196 Muache, Tabequache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yam- pa, Grand River, and Uintah bands of Utes 202 Navajoes - - 19*i Nez Perces - 196 Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes 197 Omahas - - - 197 Osagcs - - 19^ Otoes and Missourias - 197 Pawnees 197 Piegans, Blackfeet, and Bloods 191 Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands of Chip- pewas 192 Poncas |^° Pottawatomies 19- Pottawatomies of Huron - - 19d Quapaws - 1^^ Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes 198 Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi 199 Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri 199 San tee Sioux of Lake Traverse and Devil's Lake . . 201 Sautee Sioux of Nebraska - 201 Semiuoles . - - - 199 Senecaa 199 Senecas of New York - 199 Shawnees - ^^^ Shawnees, Eastern .--- ^'m Sheepeaters, Mixed Shoshones, and Bannocks 19b Shoshones and Bannocks 200 Shoshones, Western, Northwestern, and Goship bands 2™ Sioux of different tribes - 201 Sioux, Yankton tribe -01 260 DIGEST OP APPEOPRIATIONS. Fulfilling treaties with. — Coniinited. Sisseton and Wahpeton and Santee Sioux of Lake Traverse and Devil'a Lake Six Nations of New York S'Klallams Snakes, Wal-pali-pee tribe Tabequache bands of lltahs Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuelie, Yam- pa, Grand River, and Uintali bands of Utes "Uintah, Tabequache, Muache, Capote, VVeeminu- che, Yanipa, and Grand River bands of Utes Umatilla, Walla-Walla, and Cayuse tribes Utahs, Tabequache band Utes of various tribes Wahpeton and Sisseton Sionx Walla- Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes Wal-pah-pee tribe of Snakes Weeminnche, Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Yam- pa, Grand River, and Uintah bands of Utes Winnebagoea Yakamas - . Yampa, Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Weemiuu- ohe. Grand River, and Uintah bauds of Utes Yankton tribe of Sioux Fund — Draft and substitute Funded indebtedness — District of Columbia, redemption of Furniture — And repairs, Department of Justice And repairs, House of Representatives And repairs of same, public buildings And repairs. Senate Cases, and repairs, Department of Agriculture Contingencies and rent, office of Commissioner of Pensions Navy Department, new building Post-Office Department State Department Treasury Department War Department, new building 201 201 201 201 202 202 203 202 20-2 202 201 202 201 202 202 202 202 201 121 86 228 17 40 10 227 171 156 214 28 39 89 Galena harbor and river, 111. — Impro\'ing 104 Gall, John W.— Relief of 123 Galveston bay, Texas — Improving ship-channel 109 Galveston, Texas — Improving harbor _ 104 Garden — Experimental, Department of Agriculture 227 Garrison — • Equipage 94 Gas — Post-Office Department 214 Treasury Department _ 39 Gas-fixtures — Post-OfSce Department 214 Gauging — Waters of lower Mississippi river HI Gazette — Patent-Office, plates for 172 General expenses — Army gg Coast Survey <.i District of Columbia -\.. ..\\ ..[[[ 85 General Land Office — Salaries and expenses lyn Geodetic survey — Expenses en 01 „ '^, . , bO, 61 Geographical — Survey of territory west of one-hundredth merid- 1^" 118 Geological — • Survey 187 Survey of Territories, illustrations for report on . . 187 Survey, salary. Director of 173 Georgia — Refunding to, expenses of Indian wars of 1835 to 1838 119 Georgetown almshouse— District of Columbia 79 Gibson, Wm. — — Relief of 168 Gilmer, E. H.— Relief of 53 Gold and silver coins — Recoinage 69 Government Hospital for Insane — Buildings and grounds 174 Current expenses 174 Government Printing Office — Extension 174 Fire-extinguishers 22 Telegraph to connect Capitol and Departments with 91 Telephonic connection between Capitol and 22 Governors — Territories, salaries 73-75 Grand Marias, Minn. — Improving harbor. 105 Grand River Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 Gratuity — To seamen 167 Great Kanawha river. West Va. — Improving 107 Great Sodus bay, N. Y. — Improving harbor 103 Green Bay, Wis. — Improving harbor 105 Gros Ventres Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 195 Support of 204 Grounds — Capitol, improving, and retained percentages 173 Capitol, lighting 174 Department of Agriculture, improvement 227 District of Columbia, employment of the poor, filling up 87 For legation in China. 34 Insane Hospital 174 Military Academy 101 Public, improvement and care 90 Under Chief Engineer, salaries and expenses 90 Guards — In Turkish dominions, expenses 33 Gulf coast — Surveyof go, 61 Guyandotte river, West Va. — Improving igg II. Habits — Insects injurious to cotton-plant and agriculture, investigating Hampton river, Va. — Improving Harbor defences — Torpedoes for Harbors, improving — Ahnapee, Wis Aransas pass and bay, Texas Ashtabula, Ohio ] Au Sable, Mich -...!!!..!!. Baltimore, Md ] Belfast, Maine ,___ Black Lake, Mich ]_ Boston, Mass ' _ Breakwater and harbor of refuge between Straits of Fuca and San Francisco 187 107 102 105 109 104 104 103 102 104 102 113 INDEX. 261 Harbors, improving — Continued. Breakwater. New Haven, Conn Breton bay, Leonardtown, Md Bridgeport, Conn Brunswick, Ga Buffalo, N.Y Burlington, Iowa Burlington, Vt Calumet, M Cambridge, Md Cedar Keys, Fla Charleston, S. C Charlevoix, Mich Charlotte, N. Y Cheboygan, Mich Chicago, 111 Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio - Constructing jetties, &c.. South Pass, Mississippi river Coos bay, Oregon Currituck sound and North Eiver bar, N. C Dredging Superior bay Duluth, Minn Eagle harbor, Jlich Edenton, N. C Entrance to Sturgeon Bay canal. Wis Erie, Pa '. Flushing bay, N. Y Fort Madison, Iowa Frankfort, Mich Galena, HI Galveston, Texas - . - Galveston bay, Texas, ship-channel Grand Haven, Mich - - Grand Marias, Minn Great Sodus bay, X. Y Green bay. Wis - - ■ Hyannis, Mass Ice-harbor, Muskingum river, Ohio Ice-harbor, New Castle, Del - .^ Inside passage, Fernandina to St. John's, Fla Kenosha, Wis - Lake Huron, Mich Little Narragansett bay, R. I. and Connecticut . . Little Sodus bay, N. Y Ludington, Mich Manistee, Mich - Manitowoc, Wis Marquette, Mich Menomonee, Wis - Jlichigan City, Ind - - - Milwaukee, Wis Mobile, Ala Monroe, Mich Muscatine, Iowa Muskegon, Mich - - - ■ Narragansett bay New Haven, Conn New Orleans, La NewRochelle, N.Y Norfolk, Va Norwalk, Conn Oakland, Cal Oak Orchard, N. Y Onancock, Va Ontonagon, Mich Oswego, N. Y' Pensacola, Fla Pentwater, Mich Piers, Delaware bay Plattsburg, N.Y Plymouth, Mass Port Clinton, Ohio Port Jefferson, N. Y Portsmouth, N. H Port Washington, Wis . - Provincetowu, Mass 66 D A Page. 106 1(« lll-J 104 103 10.-. 102 104 103 104 103 104 103 104 104 104 104 116 106 108 105 105 104 103 105 103 103 105 1U4 104 104 109 104 105 103 105 10-2 104 103 lOS 105 104 111-2 103 104 104 105 104 105 104 105 104 105 105 105 106 102 104 103 103 102 105 103 103 105 103 104 105 103 103 102 104 103 102 105 102 Harbors, improving — Continued. Pultiieyville, N. Y 103 Quecnstown, Md 103 Racine, Wis 105 Richmond Island, Maine 102 Sal line Pass, Texas 109 Saint Joseph, Mich 105 San Diego, Cal 106 Sandusky City, Ohio 104 Saugatuck, Mich , . 105 Savannah, Ga 103 Sheboygan, Wis 105 South Haven, Mich 105 Stonington, Conn 103 Sturgeon Bay canal, Wis 105 Swanton,Vt'. 102 Toledo, Ohio 104 Two Rivers, Wis 105 '\^'ashington and Georgetown, D. C 103 White River, Mich 105 Wilmington, Cal 106 Wilmington, Del 103 Wood's HoU, Mass 102 Hardware — Post-Office Department 214 Harleni river, N. Y. — Improving 106 Harman, M. 6. — Relief of 123 Harrisburg, Pa. — Post office : 66 Hartford, Conn. — Custom-house and post ofilce 67 Hartridge, Julian — Engraving and printing portrait of 56 Relief of widow of 18 Headquarters — Military, Fort Snelling, Minn., buildings for 120 Headstones — For graves of soldiers in private cemeteries 94 Health- Bulletins of, collecting data for 55 Department, District of Columbia 84 National Board of, organization and provisions regarding 47, 48 National Board of, salaries and expenses 44 Heating — And lighting Naval Academy 161 Heating apparatus — Public buildings 41 Senate 1"-1 Heirs — Of diplomatic officers who died abroad, allowance to 3^ Of volunteers, bounty to 97 Helena, Montana — Assay office, contingent expenses 71 Assay office, salaries "1 Assay office, wages of workmen 71 Hell Gate, N. Y.— Removing obstructions 106 Henderson, John — Relief of 52 Henry, Professor Joseph — P'ortrait of 56 Heyl's— United States Duties on Imports 25 Hiawassa river, Tenn. — Improving HO Hile, James A.— Relief of 128 Hilton Head and Bay Point, S. C— Range-lights • 64 History — Insects injurious to agriculture 22/ Hohnan, James D.— Relief of 12o 262 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Page. Holmead Cemetery, D. C. — Act to protect 77 Home — For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, support of 119 Hooe, Emilie R.— Relief of 212 Horses — And other property lost in military service 121 And wagons. Department of Justice 228 And wagons, House of Representatives 17 And wagons, Post-Office Department 214 And wagons. Senate 10 Cavalry and artillery 94 Marine Corps, forage for 160 Treasury Department 39 Hospital — And medical department 97 Children's, District of Columbia 79 For Women, Columbia 79 Freedmen's 174 Insane, buildings and grounds. 174 Insane, current expenses 174 Insane, District of Columbia 79 Hospitals — Construction and repair of 95 Hot Springs Commission — Salaries and expenses 187 House of Representatives — Capitol police, contingent fund 17 Capitol police, salaries 17 Cartage 17 Cleaning statuary hall 18 Clerks to committees 15, 16 Contingent expenses 15-17 Fuel for heating aijparatus 17 Furniture and repairs 17 Horses and wagons 17 Investigation of epidemic diseases 18 Materials for folding 16 Miscellaneous items 17 One month's extra compensation to annual eni- ployiSs 15 One mouth's compensation to certain employes. .. 15 Packing-boxes 17 Pages 16 Pay of folders Iti Postage 17 Reporting testimony before committees 17 Salaries and mileage of Members and Delegates. . . 12 Salaries, officers and employes 12-15 Salaries, Capitol police 17 Stationery and newspapers 16 Ventilation of 174 Howard University — District of Columbia 79 Hudson river, N. Y. — Improving 106 "Huron"— Steamer, burial of officers and others of 167 Hyannis, Mass. — Improving harbor 102 Hydrographic work — Bureau of Navigation 162 I. Ice — Treasury Department 39 Ice-harbor — Muskingum river, Ohio 104 New Castle, Del IO3 Idaho — Contingent expenses, Territory of 74 Indian service in 205 Legislative expenses, Territory of 74 Salaries and expenses, office of surveyor-general of. 184, 185 Salaries, governor, &c., Territory of 74 Idaho Indians — Support of 203 Page. Illinois river — Improving H" Illustrations — For report on food-fishes 42 For report on geological survey of the Territories. 187 For report on solar eclipse 163 Importers — Repayment of excess of deposits to 42 Imports — Duties on, "Heyl's" 25 Improvement — And care of public grounds 90 And repairs. District of Columbia 78 Grounds, Department of Agriculture 227 Yellowstone National Park. . . - 188 Improving — Botanic Garden 22 Botanic Garden, buildings 22 Capitol grounds 173 Improving harbors. See Harbors. Improving rivers. See Rivers. Incidental expenses — ■ Indian service , 205, 206 Quartermaster's department 92, 93 Ijicrease— And repair, Navy 166 Library of Congress 22 Increased pensions — To certain pensioners 211 In debtedness — District of Columbia, redemption of certain funded : 86 Indemnity — For lost clothing 167 For swamp-lands, adjusting claims for 182 Independent Treasury — Checks and certificates of deposit 69 Contingent expenses 69 Salaries 67-69 Salaries of special agents 68 Indiana Miami Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 196 Indian agents — Pay 189,190 Indian Bureau — Transfer to War Department, joint committee on . . 26 Indian Commissioners — Expenses of 207 Indian delegations — Visiting Washington, expenses 207 Indian Department — Contingencies 206 Indian inspectors — Pay 206 Travelling expenses 206 Indian interpreters— , Pay 190,191 Indian missions — Relief of 2O8 Indian police — , ,.Pay 207 Indians — Central superintendency, support of 204 Fort Peck agency, support of 203, 204 Idaho, support of 203 Kansas, support of 204 Malheur reservation, support of 204 Southeastern Oregon, support of. . . 203 Support of :;;; 203-205 Vaccination of 2O6 Indian service — Arizona 205 California .2Q5 Colorado " 205 Central superintendency 2O6 Pf';"*''' ;■.;!!;!!;■.;'. 205 Idaho 205 Montana 205 INDEX. 263 Indian service— Conii»«e(f. Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah ' /.y. ]]\. Washington Wyoming Indian superintendents — Pay Indian supplies — Telegraphing and purchase of Transportation of ' " Indian Territory — Support of Modocs in Indian wars of 1835 to 1838 — Eef unding to Georgia expenses of Industrial Hgrne School — District of Columbia Infaut Asylum — Saint Ann's, District of Columbia Infirm poor — District of Columbia, support and medical treat- ment of Insane Hospital — Buildings and grounds Current expenses District of Columbia, appropriation for Insects — Injurious to agriculture, investigating history of . Injurious to cotton-plant and agriculture, inves- tigating habits of Inspecting — Lights Inspector-General — Salaries, office of Inspectors — Indian, pay Indian, travelling expenses Institution — Columbia, for Deaf and Dumb, current expenses . Smithsonian, additional security against fire Smithsonian, preservation of collections Intercourse acts — Punishing violations of Interest — And sinking-fund, District of Columbia Interest due — Indian trust-funds _ . Osage Indians Interior Department — Building, reconstructing Building, repairs Contingent expenses - - . Fuel, lights, &c Postage Eent of buildings for Salaries Stationery Internal Revenue — Commissioner of, salaries, office of , Expenses of assessing and collecting Laws, amended Laws and manual, binding Laws, punishment for violation of Officers, pay to, prior to executing bond Salaries and expenses of collectors Salaries and expenses, officers of International — Bureau of Weights and Measures Exhibitions at Sidney and Melbourne, Australia. . Eemonetization of sUver Interpreters — Guards, &c., in Turkish dominions Indian, pay To consulates in China, Japan, and Siam Invalids- Pensions to Page. 205 205 •205 206 205, 206 206 190, 191 206, 207 206 204 119 79 79 87 174 174 79, 174 187 63 88 206 206 174 175 175 229 208, 209 207 170 170 169-173 170 173 169 169-173 169 37 60 56-59 21 60 54 59 59,60 29 28 29 33 190, 191 33 212 Investigating — Diseases of swine Habits of insects injurious to cotton-plant and agriculture History of insects injurious to agriculture . Investigation — Accounts, Treasury Department Epidemic diseases _ . . _ Frauds, office of Commissioner of Pensions Iowa — Salaries and expenses, offi ce of surveyor-general of . Iowa Indians — Fulfilling treaties with Trust-fund interest due .. Ipswich, Mass — Light-station luquiry — Respecting food-fishes, expenses Ireland, Amos — Relief of estate of Iron — JIachine for testing Iron mouument — Recovery of, from Colorado River of the West Isle La Motte, Vt.— Light-station Ivory, Andrew — Relief of Jail- J. Japan, rent District of Columbia, salary of warden James river, Va. — Improving Jane's Island, Md. — Light-station Janitors — Pay of Japan — Rent of court-house and jail in Rent of prison for American convicts in Salaries, interpreters to consulates in Wages of keepers, prison for American convicts in. Jetties — South Pass, Mississippi river, constructing Jocko reservation, Montana — Payment to Flatheads removed to Johnson, William — Relief of Joint committee — Reorganization of the Army Transfer of Indian bureau to War Department. Joseph's band of Nez Perce Indians — Support of Judges — Circuit, salaries _ Court of Claims, salaries District, salaries Retired, salaries Supreme court. District of Columbia, salaries Judgments — Court of Claims, payment of Jurors — United States courts, fees Justice — Department of, contingent expenses Department of, postage Department of, rent of building _ Department of, salaries _ Justices — Supreme court. District of Columbia, salaries Supreme Court, United States, salaries K. Kansas City, Mo. — Custom-house, post office, &c 227 187 39 11,18 171 184, 185 195 209 63 42 166 183 63 127 34 229 107 64 40 34 33 33 33 116 207 124 25 26 205 230 23 230 230 230 23 230 228 228 228 228 230 230 67 264 DIGEST OF APPROPEIATIONS. Page. Kansas Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 195 Support of 204 Kaskaskia Indians — Trust-fund interest due 209 Trust-fund interest due, school-fund 209 Keepers — Dog Island and St. Mark's light-stations, Fla., re- imbursement to - 64 Light-houses, salaries 62 Kendall, Wm. M.— Relief of - 126 Kennebunk river, Maine — Improving 106 Kenosha, Wis. — Improving harbor - , 105 Kentucky river — Improving 110 Kiokapoo Indians — Collecting and subsisting 205 Fulfilling treaties with 195 Kirabro, E. V.— Relief of 53 Kimbro, Samuel — Relief of 53 Kiowa Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 191 Support of - 204 Klamath Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 195 Knox, T. T.— Eeliefof 126 Kondrup, J. C. — Payment to 16 L,. Labor — And expenses of engraving and printing 56 Laboratory — Department of Agriculture 227 Light-house Board 65 Laborers — Salaries, provision for 38 Lake Huron, Mich.— Improving harbor of refuge 104 Lakes — Northern and northwestern, survey of 118 Lake Superior Chippewa Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 192 Lake Winnebagoshish Indians — Fnlfilling treaties with 192 Lancaster, Leonard L. — Eeliefof 125 Land-claims — Arizona, private, surveying 186 California, pri vate, surveying 186 New Mexico, private, surveying 186 Land-grant railroads — Fifty per cent, of arrears of Army transportation due 93 Land laws- Commission to codify 182 Lands — And other property of the United States 42 Commission to classify i \Yi-> Erroneously sold, repayment for 183 In Florida not needed for naval purposes, trans- Public, surveying 186,187 L'Anguille river. Ark. — Improving 109 Law-books — Office of Attorney-General 228 Laws — Customs-revenue, amended 53 Internal-revenue, amended '_'_ -56-59 Internal revenue, binding 21 Internal-reveuue, punishment for violation oi .... 60 Page. Legal heirs — Of volunteers, bounty to 97 Legation — In China, buildings and grounds for 34 Salaries, secretaries of 31 Legislative expenses — Territories 73-75 Leonard, John E. — Engraving and printing portrait of 56 Payment to heirs or legal representatives of 18 Letter-carriers — Act to fix pay of 222 Lewis, B. E. — Payment to 29 Library — Congress, contingent expenses 22 Congress, increase 22 Congress, salaries ' 22 Congress, works of art for Capitol 22 Department of Agriculture 227 Department of Justice, books for 228 Medical 97 Naval Academy 161 Office of Commissioner of Patents, scientific 172 Surgeon-General's Office, printing and binding Catalogue of 20 Treasury Department 42 Life-Saving Service — Establishing life-saving stations 62 Expenses 62 Salaries, office of 37 Life-saving stations — Establishing 62 Light — Velocity of 163 Light-House Board — Laboratory 65 Salaries, office of 37 Light-houses — Repairs _ 63 Salaries of keepers 62 See light-stations 63 Supplies of 63 Lighting — And buoyage of Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers 65 Capitol and grounds 174 Executive Mansion go Naval Academy \q\ Lights — Commissions to superintendents of 63 For public buildings 41 Inspecting 53 Interior Department 170 On Delaware river 54 On the lakes \ 55 Western river, steam-tender for 65 Light-ship — Trinity shoal. La 54 Light-station — Absecom, N.J g^ American Shoal, Fla \\ 54 Calcasieu range-light, La (54 Cape Poge, Mass (53 Conimicut, E. I " ' g^ Cumberland Head, N. Y 64 Day-beacons, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massa- chusetts go Depot for sixth district g5 Depot for twelfth district g5 Duplicate fog-signals, coasts of United States .'.""" 65 East beacon, Sandy Hook, N. J 54 Execution Rocks, N. Y ra Falkner's Island fog-signal, T^.Y .... ......... 64 Farallon fog-signal, Cal.. . . cr. FigIsland,Ga ;;'. ' g^ Frying-Pan Island, Mich 0= Hilton Head and Bay Point, S. C .^.-.V.V./. 64 INDEX. 265 Page. Light-station — Continued. Ipswich, Mass 63 Isle La Motte, Vt 60 Jane's Island, Md 64 Lights on Delaware river 64 Northwest Passage, Fla 64 Oakland Harbor, Cal 65 Paris Island, S. C 64 Pier-head lights on the lakes 65 Point Pinos, Cal 65 Point Wilson, Wash. Ter 65 Reedy Island, Del 64 Repairs and protection of Fourth District 65 Sandy Hook, N. J., east beacon 64 South Pass, La 64 Stage Harbor, Mass 63 Stannard's Rock, Mich 65 Stateu Island Depot, N. Y 64 Steam-mill Point, N. Y 64 Thirty-mile Point, N. Y' 64 Trinity Shoal light-ship. La 64 Western-river lights, steam-tender for 65 Light- vessels — Expenses 63 Limbs — Artificial 97 Lincoln, Neb. — Court-house and post office 66 Lithographing — State Department 28 Little Kanawha river, W. Va. — Improving - - - 108 Little Narragansett bay, E. I. and Conn. — Improving harbor 102 Little Rock, Ark.— Court-house and post office 66 Little Sodus bay, N. Y. — Improving harbor - . - 103 Locks — For public buildings . - 41 Locusts — Rocky-mountain, commission to report on depre- dations of - IS* Loss — On bills of exchange - 33 Lost clothing — Indemnity for 167 Louisiana — Salaries and expenses, office of surveyor-general of 1^4, 185 Lower Clearwater river, Idaho — Improving - 113 Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers, Oregon — Improving H'' Loyal citizens — Claims of, for supplies furnished during the rebel- lion - 143 Lubec channel, Maine — Improving 10° Ludington, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Lyiug-in Asvlum — Columbia Hospital and, for Women 'J McClung, D. W.— Reliefof 124 MoCormick, V. H. — Relief of 19 Machine — Fortesting iron - lob Machinery — Mint at New Orleans '0 Maddocks, B. — Refund to 43 Madison barracks, Sacket's Harbor, N. Y.— Rebuilding officers' quarters 121 67 DA Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts — Day-beacons 63 Maintaining — Bridges, District of Columbia 78 Maintenance — Military-telegraph lines 119 Yards and docks 164 Makah Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 195 Malheur reservation — Support of Indians on 204 Manasquan river, N. J. — Improving 106 Mandan Indians- - Support of 204 Manistee, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Manitowoc, Wis. — Improving harbor 105 Mann, Wm. A. — Relief of 169 Manual — Internal-revenue, binding 21 Manual, John J. — Relief of 122 Manufacture — Arms at national armories 98 Maps — State Department 28 Mare Island, Cal. — Navy-yard at 166 Marine Corps — Clerks, pay of 159 Clothing .'. 159 Clothing undrawn 159 Contingent 160 Forage for horses - 160 Fuel 159 Military stores 159, 160 Pay 159 Provisions 159 Repairs of barracks 160 Transportation and recruiting 160 Marine-Hospital — Service.- 43 Marquette, Mich. — Improving harbor 104 Marshals — District, salaries 230 For consiilar courts, salaries 33 Massachusetts — Day-beacons . 63 Massie, Wm. S. — Reliefof 128 Master — Of the "Verbena," reimbursement of 65 Materials — For folding, House of Representatives 16 For folding. Senate 10 Naval Academy 161 Meade, Henry M. — Reliefof 168 Measures — Standard weights and 41 Weights and, International Bureau of 29 Mechanics — Naval Academy, pay 161 Medals — Of honor.-- 167 Medical — And hospital department 97 Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 165 Museum and Library - 97 Treatment of transient paupers 91 Treatment of infirm poor, District of Colximbia. . . 87 Medicine and Surgery- Bureau of, civil establishment 165 Bureau of, contingent 165 266 DIGEST OP APPEOPEIATIONS. Page. Medicine and Snrgery — Continued. Bureau of, Medical department 165 Bureau of, naval-hospital fund 165 Bureau of, repairs 165 Bureau of , salaries and expenses 155 Melbourne, Australia — International Exhibition at 28 Members and Delegates — Salaries and mileage 12 Memphis, Tenn. — Custom-house, court-house, and post office 66 Menomonee Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 196 Trust-fund interest due 209 Menomonee, Wis. — Improving harbor 105 Merrimao river, Mass. — Improving 106 Metropolitan police — District of Columbia 83 Mexican war — Extra pay to officers and men of 51, 121, 167 Miami Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 196 Michigan City, Ind. — Improving harbor 104 Mileage — Of Members and Delegates 12 Of Senators 7 To seamen 167 Military — Convicts, expenses of 119 Headquarters at Fort Snelling, Minn., buildings for 120 Justice, salaries and expenses, office of 88 Post at El Paso, Texas 120 Post near Niobrara river 120 Post near Pagosa Springs, Col 120 Prisoners, payment to Tennessee for keeping 121 Prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, support of . .. 119 Road between Fort Monroe and Mill Creek, Va., repair of 120 Eoad from Alamosa, Col., to Pagosa Springs 120 Road from Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, to Pagosa Springs 120 Eoad from Scottsburgh to Camp Stewart, Oregon. 120 Stores, Marine Corps 159, 160 Telegraph lines 119, 120 Military Academy — Buildings and grounds 101 Pay and expenses 99-101 Water supply 101 - Milk river — Extension of military-telegraph lines by way of new post on 120 Mill creek, Va. — Repair of road between Fortress Monroe and 120 Milwaukee, Wis. — Improving harbor IO5 Ministers — Salaries 30,31 Minnesota — Salaries and expenses office of surveyor-general of . 184, 185 Mints — Contingent expenses 69-71 Salaries 69-71 Wages of workmen 69-71 Miscellaneous claims — Audited .by Third Auditor 93 Miscellaneous expenses — District of Columbia 35 Naval Academy j^gg United States courts g3j^ Miscellaneous items — And incidental expenses, Military Academy 100 Department of Justice ' oo^ House of Representatives ~ij Post-Offioe Department 214 Page. Miscellaneous items — Continued. Senate 10 Treasury Department 39, 40 Miscellaneous pay — Navy 158 Mispillion creek, Del. — Improving 107 Mississippi Chippewa Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 192 Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers — Lighting and buoyage of : 65 Mississippi river — At Memphis, Tenn., improving harbor 104 At Quincy, 111., improving Ill Between Ohio and Illinois rivers, improving 111 Des Moines rapids, improving Ill From Des Moines rapids to Illinois river, im- proving Ill From St. Paul to Des Moines rapids, improving .. Ill Gauging waters of lower m Improving m Near Vicksburg, improving 104 Opposite Dubuque, Iowa, removing bar Ill Rock Island rapids, improving m South pass, constructing jetties 116 South pass, examinations and surveys of 113 Surveys for reservoir at source of 112 Upper, improving ni Mississippi River Commission — Expenses ] 17 Mississippi Sac and Fox Indians- Fulfilling treaties with 199 Missouria Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 197 Support of schools for 207 Missouri — Act relative to military services of, during rebellion. 125 Missouri river — Above the mouth of Yellowstone river, improving. 112 At Atchison, Kansas, improving m At Cedar City, improving m At Council Bluffs and Omaha, improving m At Eastport and Nebraska City, improving m At Sioux City, Iowa, improving im At Vermillion, Dakota, improving 112 Improving " -j^ji Lighting and buoyage of ' g5 Near Fort Leavenworth, improving ' m Near Glasgow, Mo., improving m Near Kansas City, Mo., improving 112 Near Saint Joseph, Mo., improving ug Survey of mouth, to Fort Benton m Missouri Sac and Fox Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 1 no Mixed Shoshone Indians — " ' Fulfilling treaties with 1 qk Mobile, Ala.— ^^° Improving harbor , ^^ . Modoc Indians — Fulfilling treaties with , qp- Support of, in Indian Territory . . on^ Moieties— ^ '^"^ Compensation in lieu of .^ Laws to repeal, amended.. . ti Molel Indians— ^'^ Fulfilling treaties with -jna Monongahela river, W. Va. and Pa.— Improving Monroe, Mich. — Improving harbor , „,. Montana^- '^"'^ Contingent expenses, Territory of 7c Indian service in „i.^ Legislative expenses. Territory of 7^ Salaries andexpense8,officeofsurveyor-generaiof' 184 im Salaries, governor, &c.. Territory of " ' tJ Support of Assinaboines in J(.t Support of Gros Ventres in . ' on- 204 INDEX. 267 Monument— ^"^'^ Eecovery of iron, from Colorado River of the West 183 To mark birthplace of George Washington. 29 Washington, completing foundation of. ' " 54 Mosely, Chas. H. — Eelief of ^^04 Muache Indians — Fulfilling treaties with om MuUer, Alfred— ''"'' Belief of cy Muscatine, Iowa — Improving harbor j^qjj Museum — And library. Medical g^ Department of Agriculture _ . . 037 National, fire-proof building for ! ! " ] . "55 Muskegon, Mich. — Improving harbor ]^q5 Muskingum river, Ohio — Ice-liarbor, mouth of jq4 W. Narragansett bay — Improving ^Qg Nashville, Tenu — Custom-house, court-house, and post oifice 66 National armories — Manufacture of arms at 98 National Association — For Colored Women and Children, District of Columbia 79 National banks — And bank-plates, examinations of 42 Refunding to, excess of duty 43 National Board of Health — Organization and provisions regarding 47, 48 Salaries and expenses '44 National cemeteries — Expenses _ 94 Pay of superintendents 94 National currency — Expenses of 40 National debt — Additional compensation authorized from appro- priation for refunding 55 Refunding 55 Refunding, issue of certificates of deposit 55 National Home — For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, support of 119 National Museum — Fire-proof building for 65 Navajoe Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 196 - Naval — Asylum, Philadelphia 164 Observatory 162, 163 Naval Academy — Contingent 161, 162 Heating and lighting 161 Pay 160, 161 Repairs 161 Naval-hospital fund — Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 165 Navigation — And navigation supplies. Bureau of Navigation . . 160 Bureau of, civil establishment 162 Bureau of, contingent 162 Bureau of, expenses 162, 163 Bureau of, hydrographic work lti'2 Bureau of, Naval Observatory 162, 163 Bureau of, navigation and supplies 162 Bureau of, salaries and expenses 155 Navy — Contingent 158 Pay 157,158 Pensions 212 Pensions, arrears of 212 Pensions, fees of esamining-surgeons 212 Navy — Continued. Pensions, fees for vouchers Pensions, pay and allowances ... Provisions for Volunteer, act to abolieh Navy Department— Building Building, furniture ..".."!..".."!! Building, salaries and expenses Postage Salarios and contingent expenses Navy-yards — And stations Boston, Mass Mare Island, Cal '.V... ..^... " Repairs and preservation at Nautical — Almanac Xeale, John T.— Relief of Nebraska — Salaries and contingent, office of surveyor-general Nebula in Orion — Wood-cuts of Neches river, Texas — Improving Neuse river, N. C. — Improving Neutrality act — Expenses under Nevada — Indian service Salaries and contingent, office of surveyor-general Volunteers, travelling expenses of . . . New Castle, Del. — Improving ice-harbor New Hampshire — Day-beacons New Haven, Conn. — Construction of breakwater Improving harbor New Mexico — Contingent expenses. Territory of Indian service Legislative expenses. Territory of Salaries and cojitingent, office of surxeyor-geueral. Salaries, governor, &c., Territory of . '. Support of Apaches of, and Arizona Surveying private-laud claims New Mexico Mounted Volunteers — Relief of New Orleans, La. — Assistant treasurer, salaries, office of Custom-house and post office Improving harbor _ _ . Mint, contingeut expenses Mint, repairs and machinery Mint, salaries Mint, wages of workmen New river, Va. — Improving Newspapers — House of Representatives Senate ._ Treasury Department New York, N. Y.— Assay office, contingent expenses Assay -office, salaries Assay office, wages of workmen Assistant treasurer, salaries, office of Post office and court-house Nez Perces Indians — 'Fulfilling treaty with Supporting Joseph's band of Ninth Census — Expenses 212 212 165 157 91 156 155, 156 156 154, 156 166 166 166 166 163 125 184, 185 163 109 108 34 205 184, 185 121 103 63 106 102 75 205 75 184, 185 75 204 186 24 68 67 104 70 70 70 70 107 16 10 38-39 71 71 71 67 66 196 205 181 268 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Page. Niobrara river — Military post near 120 Nomoni creek, Va. — Improving 107 Norfolk, Va.— Improving harbor 103 North American ethnology — Smithsonian Institution 51 Northern and northwestern lakes — Survey of 118 Northern boundary of Wyoming — Surveying 187 Northern Cheyenne Indians — Fnliilling treaties with 197 North Landing river, N. C. and Va. — Improving 107 North River bar and Currituck sound, N. C. — Improving 108 Northwest Passage, Fla.- — Light-station 64 Northwestern lakes — Survey of 118 Norwalk, Conn. — Improving harbor 102 O. Oakland, Cal. — Improving harbor 105 Light-station, harbor of 65 Oak Orchard, N. Y.— Improving harbor 103 Observations — And report of storms 99 California eclipse - - 163 Coast Survey, publishing 61 Observatory — Naval 162,163 Obstructions — East river and Hell Gate, N. Y 106 "Ocean King" — Schooner, refund to B. Maddocks, owner of 43 Ocmulgee river, Ga. — Improving 108 Oconee river, Ga. — Improving 108 Officers — And employes. House of Representatives, salaries. 12-15 And employes, Senate, salaries 7-9 And men of Mexican War, extra pay to 51, 121 , 167 And others of U. S. steamer "Huron," burial of . . 167 Internal revenue, pay to, prior to executing bond . 54 Internal revenue, salaries and expenses 59, 60 Quarters, Madison barracks, N. Y., rebuilding lai Transportation, Army 121 Ohio river — Improving HO Lighting and buoyage of yr, Ojo Caliente, New Mexico — Military road from, to Pagosa Springs 120 Omaha Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 197 Onancock, Va. — Improving harbor IO3 One-hundredth meridian — Geographical survey of territory west of Hg One month's compensation — To annual employes, House of Representatives. . . 15 To certain employes. House of Representatives. . . 15 To certain employes, Senate g To discharged employes. Senate 9 To discharged employes. Treasury Department .'.'. 3t Ontonagon, Mich. — Improving harbor ^q^ Oostenaula river, Ga — Improving j^Qg Opinions — Attorneys-General, editing fifteenth volume 229 Ordnance — And ordnance stores. Bureau of Ordnance Bureau of, civil establishment Bureau of, contingent Bureau of, ordnance and ordnance stores Bureau of, salaries and expenses Bureau of, Torpedo corps Chief of, salaries and expenses, ofSce of Service Stores and supplies Ordway, N. G.— Reimbursement to Oregon — Indian service in Salaries and expenses, office of surveyor-general of - Support of Indians in Southeastern Organization — National Board of Health Organizing — Volunteers Osage Indians — Fulfilling treaties with Interest due Osage river, Kan. and Mo. — Improving Oswego, N. Y. — Improving harbor Otoe and Missouria Indians — Suijport of schools for Otoe Indians — ■ Fulfilling treaties with Ottawa Indians — Trust-fund interest due Otter creek, Vt. — Improving Ouachita river, Ark. and La. — Improving Ouray — Head chief Ute nation, salary Owen, Josephine C. — Relief of Pacific Railroad companies — Adj ustment of accounts of Packing — Congressional documents Packing-boxes — House of Representatives Senate Pages — House of Representatives Senate ] " Pagosa Springs, Col. — Military post near Military road from Alamosa to '. MiUtary road from Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, to Painting — Post-Office Department Pamlico river, N. C. — Improving Paper — Stamps, and dies Paris Island, S. C. — Range-lights Parting and refining — Bullion Passaic river, N. J. — Improving Pascagoula river. Miss. — Improving Passo Cavallo, Texas— Improving Patent-Office Official Gazette— Plates for Paupers — ' District of Columbia, transportation of Support and medical treatment of transient . .... Page. 163 163 163 163 155 163 88 98 98 18 205 184, 185 203 47 121 197 207 111 103 207 197 209 106 110 206 226 94,222 169 17 10 16 9,10 120 120 120 214 108 60 64 71 106 109 109 172 79 91 INDEX. 269 Pawnee Indians — " Fulfilling treaty witli I97 Pay— And allowances, Army pensions 21 1 And allowances, Navy pensions -^12 And travelling and general expenses, Army 95 Clerks, Marine Corps 159 Clotliing undrawn, Marine Corps 159 Custodians and janitors 40 Folders, House of Representatives 16 Folders, Senate 10 Indian agents 189, 190 Indian inspectors 206 Indian police 207 Interpreters, Indian ' 190 191 Marine Corps ' 159 Military Academy 99 Misoellaneons, Navy 15f< Naval Academy 160, 161 Navy 157, 15H Superintendents, Indian 190 Superintendents of national cemeteries 94 To certain employes. Senate 9 To discharged employes, Senate 9 To discharged employiSs, Treasury Department, one month's 38 To internal-revenue ofificers, prior to executing bond 54 To oliBcers and men of Mexican war 51, 121, 1C7 Two and three-year volunteers 96 Paymaster-General — Salaries and expenses, office of 89 Payment — Bounty, prize-money, &c., colored soldiers and sailors 96 Contesting seats, Forty-fifth Congress 25 Judgments, Court of Claims 23 Payment to — Brulnidi, C 183 Clark, Hon. Eush 18 Coffee, J. J 29 Flatheads, removed to Jocko reservation, Mon- tana 207 Heirs or legal representatives of late John E. Leonard 18 Kondrup, J. C IS Leonard, John E 18 Lewis, B. R., and Coffee, J.J 29 Rice, E. E 30 Sherman, John, jr 183 Tennessee, for keeping military prisoners 121 Torrence, John A 183 Viehe, F. W 51 Widow and heirs of Hon. Rush Clark 18 Pearl river, Minn. — Improving 109 Peaslev &■ McClary — Relief of 226 Pembina — Support of Chippewas of, and Red Lake 205 Penny-lunch house — District of Columbia 76 Penobscot river, Maine — Improving 106 Peusacola, Fla. — Improving harbor 104 Pension-checks — Printing 212 Pensioners — Biennial examination abolished ~0J Special examination authorized 209 Pensions — ^ Arrears of 209, 210 Army 010 Army and Navy, arrears of 21^ Army and Navy, fees for vouchers 212 Army, fees of examiuing-surgeons 212 Army, pay and allowances 211 68 D A -n . ^ Page. l^euswaa— Continued. Army, to invalids 212 Balances unexpended 1879 209 Civil service of pensioners not to be reduced 210 Fractional-currency reserve fund to be issued in payment of arrears of 209 Increase of, to certain pensioners 211 Navy _ 212 Navy, fees of examining-surgeons 212 Navy, pay and allowances 212 No attorneys' fees allowed for arrears 210 Printing checks 212 Prosecution of claims for 210 Rules for payment of arrears to 210 To be paid from date of death or disability 209 Pentwater, Jlich. — Improving harbor 105 Peoria Indians — Trust-fund interest due 209 Trust-fund interest due school-fund 209 Percentages — Retained, improving Capitol grounds 173 Perry, C. F.— Relief of 53 Peru — Convention between United States and, awards under 29 Philadelphia, Pa. — Mint, contingent expenses 69, 70 Mint, freight on bullion ■ 69 Mint, salaries 69 Mint, wages of workmen 69 Post office and court-house 66 Salaries, office assistant treasurer 68 Photography — Solar and stellar, Naval Observatory 163 Photo-lithographing — Office of Commissioner of Patents 172 Piankeshaw Indians — Trust-fund interest due 209 Trust-fund interest due school-fund 209 Pickard, Isaiah — Relief of 53 Piegan Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 191 Pier-head beacon-lights — On the lakes 65 Pikesville. Md. — Arsenal 101 Pillager Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 192 Plans — For public buildings 41 Plates For Patent-Office Official Gazette 172 Of final reports of Centennial Exhibition, pur- chase of 51 Plats— Of surveys, General Land Office, reproducing 182 Plattsburg, N. Y.— Improving harbor 103 Plumbing — Post-Office Department 214 Plymouth, Mass. — Improving harbor 102 Point Piuos, Cal. — Light-station 65 Point Wilson, Washington Territory — Light-station 65 Police — Capitol, contingent fund 11, 17 Capitol, salaries 11, 17 Indian, pay 207 Metropolitan, District of Columbia 83 Pouca Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 198 Poor — District of Columbia, employment of 87 ■270 DIGEST OF APPROPRIATIONS. Page. Poor — Continued. District of Columbia, relief of - 79 District of Columbia, support and medical treat- ment of infirm 87 Port Clinton, Ohio — Improving harbor 104 Port Jefferson, N. Y. — Improving harbor 103 Portraits — Henry, Professor Joseph 56 Representatives Leonard, Quinn, "Welch, Williams, Douglas, Hartridge, and Schleicher 56 Portsmouth, N. H. — Improving harbor 102 Portage Lake, Mich. — Harbor of refuge 105 Port Washington, Wis. — Improving harbor 105 Post- Military, at El Paso, Texas 120 Military, near Niobrara river 120 Military, near Pagosa Springs, Col 120 Postage — Department of Agriculture 228 Executive Departments 38 House of Representatives 17 Interior Department 173 Justice, Department of 28 Navy Department 156 Post-Offtce Department 215 Senate 11 Treasury Department 38 War Department 91 Postal Guide — Publication of 214 Postal revenues — Deficiency in 223 Postal service — Appropriations for 215 Special, act relating to 223 Post office — Albany, N. Y 66 And sub-treasury, Boston, Mass 66 Atlanta, Ga 66 Baltimore, Md 66 Cincinnati, Ohio 67 Fall River, Mass 67 Harrisburg, Pa 66 Hartford, Conn 67 Kansas City, Mo 67 Lincoln, Neb 66 Little Rocii, Ark 66 Memphis, Tenu 66 Nashville, Tenn 66 New Orleans, La 67 New York 66 Philadelphia, Pa 66 Raleigh, N. C 66 Saint Louis, Mo 67 Topeka, Kan 66 Utica, N. Y 66 Post-Offloe Department — Contingent expenses 214 Postage-stamps 215 Salaries 213 Potomac river — At Mount Vernon, improving 107 Pottawatomie Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 198 Powder-depot — Site for, ordnance 98 Preparing — Congressional Directory 11 Preservation — And repair of fortifications 102 And repairs at navy-yards 166 Collections, Smithsonian Institution 175 Public buildings 40 Page. President United States — ■Salary 27 Prevention — Of frauds upon customs revenue 43 Printing — And binding final reports of U. S. Centennial Com- mission 21 And binding first and second volumes Catalogue of Library of Surgeon-General's office 20 And binding, public 19,20 Bureau of Engraving and, removal of 56 Bureau of Engraving and, salaries 56 Engraving and, labor and expenses 56 Maps, drawings, &c., accepted fron Prof. Edward Fontaine 21 Pension-checks. 212 Portrait of the late Professor Joseph Henry 56 Portraits of Representatives Leonard, Quinn, Welch, Williams, Douglas, Hartridge, and Schleicher 56 Printing Office — Government, extension 174 Government, fire-extinguishers 22 Government, telegraph to connect Capitol and Departments with 91 Government, telephonic connection between 22 Prisoners — District of Columbia, transportation of 79 Military, payment to Tennessee for keeping 121 United States courts, support of 230 Prisons — For American convicts in China, rent of 33 For American convicts in China, wages of keepers, &c 33 For American convicts in Japan, rent of 33 For American convicts in Japan, wages of keepers, &c 33 For American convicts in Siam and Turkey, rent of. 33 Military, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, support of.' 119 Private cemeteries — Headstones for graves of soldiers in 94 Private land claims — Arizona, surveying igg California, surveying 186 New Mexico, surveying igg Prize-money — Of colored soldiers and sailors, payment of 96 Proceedings — And debates. Senate, reporting n Proceeds — Captured and abandoned property, return of 42 Professors — Naval Academy, pay jgg Promoting — Education of the blind 49 Proof-reading — State Department oa Propagation — Food-fishes 40 Propeller — For United States ship "Alarm" jgy Property — And lands of the United States 40 Captured or abandoned, defending suits and ciaims for seizure of „„„ Captured and abandoned, return of proceeds 42 Captured, examination of If District of Columbia, reassessment 7^ Lost in the military service -■ A? Prosecution — And collection of claims . . „„(, Crimes ' ■ ^^ Protection— '^''^ And improvement of Yellowstone National Park 188 American seamen iauv. ioo Light-stations, fourth district 5? River banks, Fort Brown, Texas '.'.'.. .." " io9 INDEX. ■271 Page. Protection — Continued. Sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska 41 Providence river and Narragausett bay — Improving 106 Provincetown, Mass. — Improving harbor 102 Provisions — Marine Corps 159 Navy 165 Provisions and Clothing — Bureau of, civil establishment 165 Bureau of, contingencies 165 Bureau of, provisions, Navy 165 Bureau of, salaries and expenses 155 Bureau of, small stores 165 Publication — Postal Guide -214 Eecords of war of rebellion 118 Public buildings — And grounds under Chief Engineer, salaries and expenses 90 Expenses - 91 Fuel, lights, and water for 41 Furniture and repairs of same for 40 Heating apparatus for 41 Plans for 41 Repairs and preservation 40 Vaults, safes, and locks for 41 Public debt- Additional compensation authorized from appro- priation for refunding 55 Refunding - - 55 Refunding, issue of certificates of deposit 55 Public grounds — Improvement and care of 90 Public lands — Service, salaries and expenses 183, 184, 185 Surveying 186, 187 Public moneys — Expenses of depositing 185 Public printing — And binding 19, 20 Public Printer — Contingent expenses, office of 19 Salaries, office of - 19 Public schools — District of Columbia i^- Public timber— lor ibk Depredations on ioOi J^oo Publishing — Observations, Coast Survey bl Revised and Annual Statutes 28 Pultneyville, N. Y.— Improving harbor 1"'' Punishing — Violations of intercourse acts and frauds ^^y Punishment — Violation of internal-revenue laws w And distribution of valuable seeds 2'2' Cemetery grounds near Columbus, Ohio 121 Indian supplies -.- • 20 b, 207 Stereotype-plates of final reports of Centenmal Exhibition - ^1 Quapaw Indians — Fulfilling treaties with Quartermaster-General — Salaries and expenses, office of Quartermaster's department — Incidental expenses ^''■ Regular supplies Quartermaster's stores — And commissary's supplies, claims for 198 88 129 Quarters — Barracks and Rebuilding officers', Madison barracks, N. Y Queenstown, Md.— Improving harbor Quil-leh-ute Indians — Fulfilling treaties with Qui-nai-elt Indians — Fulfilling treaties with Quinn, T. J.— Engraving and printing portrait of Relief of widow of K. Racine, Wis. — Improving harbor Raft- Red river, Louisiana, removing Rahway river, N. J. — Improving Raleigh, N. C— Court-house and post office Range-lights — Calcasieu, La - Hilton Head and Bay Point, S. C Paris Island, S. C Rappahannock river, Va. — Improving Raritan river, N. J. — Improving Reassessment — Real property, District of Columbia Rebel archives — Examination of Rebuilding — Officers' quarters, Madison barracks, N. Y Receivers — Salaries and commissions of Recoinage— Gold and silver coins Reconstructing — Interior-Department building Records — Captured property, examination of War of rebellion, publication of Recovery — Iron monument from Colorado River of the West . . Recruiting — Expenses . - ■ Marine Corps Redemption — Bonds, District of Columbia Bonded indebtedness of District of Columbia Stamps Red Lake — Support of Chippewas of, and Pembina Red River of the North, Minn, and Dakota- Improving - Red river. La. — Month of, improving Removing raft Removing snags Reduction — Wages under eight-hour law, allowance for Reedy Island, Del.— Light-station Refining — Bullion Reform School — District of Columbia Refrigerating-ship— For disinfecting purposes Refuge, harbor of— ^ o -r^ ■ r. i Between Straits of Fuca and San Francisco, Lai. Near Cincinnati, Ohio Portage Lake, Mich - - - Page. 94 121 103 198 198 56 19 105 109 106 66 64 64 64 107 106 41 121 185 69 170 41 118 183 92 160 86 86 43 205 112 109 109 109 121 64 71 79 50 113 104 105 272 DIGEST OP APPROPRIATIONS. Refunding — Duties to Saint Micliael's Cliuroh, Charleston, S. C- National debt, act to facilitate National debt, additional compensation author- ized from appropriation for National debt, issue of certificates of deposit To B. Maddocks To certain parties, taxes illegally collected To Georgia, expenses of Indian wars of 1835 to 1838 To national banking associations, excess of duty. . Taxes illegally collected Taxes to Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, Pa To States, expenses incurred in raising volunteers. Register — Salaries, office of Registers and receivers — Salaries and commissions of Regular supplies — Quartermaster's department Reimbursement — American Photo-lithographic Company Keepers of Dog Island and Saint Mark's light-sta- tions, Fla Master of the "Verbena" Shaw, A. D To Baltimore for aid in constructing defensive works in 1863 - To Buck & Kellogg ToN.G. Ordway To William Beantor Relief and protection — American seamen Relief of — Alexander, T. R Annis, Ann Baldwin, Wm. H. H Beeber, James M Bell, E. B Billingsley, H. M Brink, Dr. C. W Brown, J. S Brumidi, C Buck & Kellogg Carmen, Wm. H Casey, D. C Clark, Hon. Rush Clark, Martin Clift, James Coffee, J.J Colburn, J. E., widow of Commercial Bank of Knoxville, Tenn Conard, Henry Craft, BurrS' De Ahna, Henry C Douglas, B. B., children of Douglass, John W Domestic and Indian Missions and Sunday-School Board of Southern Baptist Conventiou Estate of Amos Ireland Farmers' and Merchants' Bank Fitzgerald, J. A Francis, John R Fraser, J Gall, John W Gibson, William Gilmer, E. H Harmau, M. G Hartridge, Julian, widow of Henderson, John Hile, James A Holman, James D Hooe, Emilie R Ireland, Amos, estate of Ivory, Andrew ] " Johnson, William Kendall, William M Page. 43 55 55 55 43 43 119 43 43 44 118 37 185 92 183 64 65 30 122 183 l.'^ 122 33 124 125 128 124 128 123 30 208 183 183 127 226 IS 123 122 29 29 52 30 52 51 lb' 53 208 52 211 2oe 124 53 123 16b 53 123 1« 52 12b 125 212 52 127 124 126 Relief of — Coniinued. Kimbro, E. V Kimbro, Samuel Knox, T. T Kondrup, J. C Lancaster, L. L Leonard, John E Lewis, B. R MoClung, D. W McCormick, V. H Mann, William A Manuel, John J., and daughters Massie, William S Meade, Henry M Mosely, Charles H Muller, Alfred Neale, John T New Mexico Mounted Volunteers Ordway, N. G Owen, Josephine C Peaseley & McClary Perry, C. F Pickard, Isaiah . . Poor of District of Columbia Quinn, T. J., widow of Reynolds, S. M., sureties of Rice, E. E Richard, James W Richmond Female Institute, Virginia Rockwell, A. F Schlelch er, Gustave, wide w of Schooner " Don Pedro " Segar, T. W Shaw, A. D Shaw, John A Sherman, John W _ Stevenson, Richard Taylor, Bayard, widow of Torrence, John A Viehe, F. W Walker, E benezer Walker, T. A Welch, Frank, widow of Welles,Geo.M Wheeler, Wm. F Wilkinson, H. E Williams, A. S., widow of Williams, George Wyman, Albert U Remains — Of William E. English, removing Removal — Bureau of Engraving and Printing Bar, Mississippi river, opposite Dubuque, lowa. Remains of William E. English Utes in Colorado Remonetization — Of silver, international Rent — Building corner Pennsylvania avenue and Fif- teenth street Building, Department of Justice ] . . Buildings for Interior Department Building on F street Court-house and jail in Japan Court-rooms, United States courts .'.-..!.!!!. Office of Commissioner of Pensions Post-Office Department '_'_ Prison for American convicts in Japan . ] Prison for American convicts in China Prisons for Amer'.cau convicts in Siam and Turkev' Stable and wagon-shed. State Department Treasury Department Reorganization — Army, joint committee on Repairing — Bridges, District of Columbia Page. 53 53 126 18 125 18 29 124 19 169 122 128 16(5 124 52 125 24 18 226 226 53 53 79-87 19 127 30 208 122 127 18 24 124 30 123 183 128 29 183 51 226 183 18 168 234 124 18 126 52 122 56 111 12-2 203 29 228 169 89 34 231 171 214 33 33 33 28 39 25 78 INDEX. 273 Repairs — And machinery, mint at New Orleans 70 And preservation at navy-yards 166 And preservation of public buildings 40 And protection of light-stations, fourth district . . 65 Arsenals 101 Barracks, Marine Corps 160 Buildings at Indian agencies 206 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 165 Capitol, annual 173 Carpets, Treasury Department 3y Department of Agriculture 2i7 Department of Justice 02,-^ District of Columbia 7S Fortifications lOvj Fuel, &c.. Executive Mansion 90 Furniture, House of Eopresentatives 17 Furniture, public buildings 40 Furniture, Senate 10 Hospitals 95 Increase and 166 Interior-Department buildiug 170 Light-houses - 63 MlUtary-telegraph lines 119 Naval Academy . - 161 Eoad between Fortress Jlonroe and Mill creek, Va . 1'20 Rope-walk, navy-yard, Boston 166 United States ship "Antietam" 166 Vessels, Coast Survey - 61 Water-pipes and fire-plugs 90 Repayment — Lands erroneously sold 183 To importers, excess of deposits 42 Reporting — Decisions, Court of Claims 23 Proceedings and debates, Senate 11 Testimony before committees. House of Represent- atives - - 1 ' Report — Of storms 99 On food-fishes, illustrations for 42 On geological survey of Territories, illustrations for 187 On solar eclipse, illnstrations for 163 Reports — Centennial Exhibition, purchase of stereotype- plates of final 51 Commissioners of Claims - - 1- Of United States Centennial Commission, print- ing and binding 21 Reproducing — Plats of surveys. General Land Office 182 Rescuing — Shipwrecked American seamen 34 Reservoir — Sources of Mississippi and other rivers, surveys for 112 Retained percentages- Improving Capitol grounds - - 1'3 Retired judges— Salaries '^■^" Return — , , , ^ ,1 Proceeds of captured and abandoned property 42 Revenue — .„ Customs, collecting - 4j Customs, detection and prevention of frauds upon . 4.. Internal, salaries and expenses of collecting o9, 60 Revenue-cutter service — Expenses of Revenue Marine — „ ,, . -1 Extra pay to officers and men of Mexican war.. . oi Revenues — .,.,„ Postal, deficiency in —^ Revised and Annual Statutes— ^^ Editing, publishing, and distributing Re-i-isiug aiid editing— ., , Consular regulations ■'^ 69 D A Revision — Assessments for special improvements, District of Columbia Reynolds, S. M. — Relief of sureties of Rice, E. E.— Payment to Richard, James W. — Relief of Richmond Female Institute, Richmond, Va.— Relief of Richmond Island, Me. — Improving harbor Rivers, impro\ing — Alabama, Ala Allegheny, Pa Apalachicola, Fla Appomattox, Va Arkansas, Ark. and Kansas Bayou La Fouiche, La . Big Sandy, Ky Big Sunflower, Miss Blackwater, Va Cape Pear, N. C Chattahoochie, Ga Chickahominy, Va Chippewa, Wis Choctawhatchie, Fla Cohausey creek, N.J Coldwater, Miss Connecticut, Conn Constructing canal around Cascades, Columbia river, Oregon Coosa, Ga. and Ala Cumberland, above Nashville, Tenn Cumberland, below Nashville. Tenn Currituck sound and North River bar, N. C Cypress bayou, Texas and La Delaware, at Schooner Ledge Delaware, near Cherry Island flats Delaware, N.J Delaware, Pa Des Moines Rapids canal Des Jloines rapids, Mississippi river Detroit, Mich East Chester creek, N. Y Elizabeth, N. J Elk, W. Va.... Flint, Ga Fort Brown, Texas Fourche Le Fe\'re, Ark Fox and Wisconsin, Wis French Broad, N. C Gauging waters lower Mississippi, &c Great Kanawha, W. Va Guyandotte, W. Va Hampton, Va Harlem, N. Y Hiawassee, Tenn Hudson, N. Y Illinois Inside passage from Fernandina to St. John's, Fla. James, Va Kennebunk, Maine Kentucky L'Anguille, Ark Little Kanawha, W. Va Lower Clearwater, Idaho Lower Willamette and Columbi.a, Oregon Manasquan, X. J Merrimac, Mass Mispillion creek, Del Mississippi, at Quincy, 111 Mississippi, between Ohio and Illinois rivers Mississippi, examination and surveys at South Pass - - - Mississippi, from Des Moines rapids to Illinois river 77 127 30 208 122 102 108 107 108 107 109 109 110 108 107 108 108 107 112 108 106 109 106 113 108 110 110 108 109 107 107 107 107 111 111 112 106 106 107 108 109 109 112 108 111 107 108 107 106 110 106 110 108 107 lOG 110 109 108 113 113 106 106 107 111 111 113 111 274 DIGEST OP APPROPKIATIONS. Rivers, improviug — Continued. Missisaippi, from St. Paul to Des Moines rapids. .. Mississippi, Missouri, and Arliansas Mississippi, opposite Dubuque, Iowa Missouri, above mouth of Yellowstone Missouri, at Atchison, Kansas Missouri, at Cedar City Missouri, at Council Bluifs, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb . Missouri, at Eastport, Iowa, and Nebraska City, Neb - Missouri, at Sioux City, Iowa Missouri, at Vermillion, Dakota Missouri, near Fort Leavenworth, Kan Missouri, near Glasgow, Mo Missouri, near Kansas City, Mo Missouri, near St. Joseph, Mo Missouri, to Fort Benton, survey Monongahela, W. Va. and Pa Mouth of Columbia, Oregon Mouth of Red, La Narragansett bay Neches, Texas Neuse river, N. C New, Va Nomoni creek, Va North Lauding, N. C. and Va Ocmulgee, Ga Oconee, Ga Ohio Oostenanla and Coosawattee, Ga Osage, Kansas and Missouri Otter Creek, Vt Ouachita, Ark. and La Pamlico, N. C Passaic, N. J Paacagoula, Miss Passo Cavallo, Texas Pearl, Miss Penobscot, Maine Potomac, at Mount Vernon Providence Rah way, N. J Rappahannock, Va Raritan, N. J Red, of the North, Minn, and Dakota Red, Louisiana, removing raf t. Red, Louisiana, removing snags in Reservoir at sources of Mississippi and other Rock Island rapids Sabine Pass, Texas Sabine, Texas Sacramento, Cal _ Saginaw, Mich Saint Anthony's Falls, Minn Saint Augustine's creek, Ga Saint Clair flats, Mich Saint Croix, below Taylor's Falls Saint Mary's, and Saint Mary's Falls Canal, Mich. Schuylkill, Pa Scuiipernong, N. C Shrewsbury, N. J , Staunton, Va Tallahatchie, Miss Tar, N. C , - '[ Taunton, Mass Tennessee, above Chattanooga, Teun Tennessee, below Chattanooga, Tenu Thames, Conn Trent, N. C .[.[[[. ... ." Trinity, Texas .....[...... Upper Columbia, Oregon '..!!. Upper Mississippi _ . Upper Red ' " Upper Willamette, Oregoii Urbana creek, Va [[ " Wabash, Ind Warrior and Tombigbee, Ala. and Miss White and Saint Francis, Ark Ill 111 111 112 111 111 111 111 112 112 111 111 112 112 111 108 113 109 106 109 108 107 107 107 108 108 110 108 111 106 110 108 106 109 109 109 106 107 106 106 107 106 112 109 109 112 111 109 109 113 112 112 108 112 113 112 107 108 106 107 109 108 106 110 110 106 108 109 113 111 113 113 107 110 108 110 Page. Rivers, improving — Continued. White, Ark- 110 White, Ind 110 Wicomico, Md 107 Woodbridge creek, N. J 106 Yadkin,N.C 108 Yazoo, Miss 109 Yellowstone 113 Road — Military, between Fort Monroe and Mill creek, Va 120 Military, from Alamosa, Col., to Pagosa Springs.. 120 Military, from Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, to Pa- gosa Springs 120 Military, from Scottsburgh to Camp Stewart, Oregon 120 Rock Island, 111. — Arsenal , 101 Bridge 119 Rock Island rapids, Mississippi river — Improving m Rockwell, A. F.— Relief of 127 Rocky-mountain locusts — Commission to report on depredations of 187 Rooms — Court of Claims 182 Rope-walk — Navy-yard, Boston, repairs 166 S. Sabine Pass, Texas — Improving 109 Sahine river, Texas — Improving 109 Sac Indians — Fulfilling treaty with _ . 199 Sacramento river, Cal. — Improving 1^3 Safe — For Spanish archives 1 34 Safes— For public buildings 41 Saginaw river, Mich. — Improving ^^g bailing-directions — For United States hydrographic office, binding 21 Sailors — And soldiers, colored, payment of bounty, prize- money, &c., of gg Saint Ann's Infant Asylum — District of Columbia 79 Saint Anthony's Falls, Minn. — Improving j ^g Saint Augustine's creek, Ga. — Improving ,„„ Saint Clair flats, Mich.— Improving...- ^jg S;iint Croix river — Improving, below Taylor's Falls 113 Saint Joseph, Mich. — Improving harbor -.f.^- Saiut Louis, Mo. — Custom-house and post office g^ Salaries, office assistant treasurerUnited States at 68 Saint ilark's light-station, Fla.— Reimbursement to keeper of g < Saint Mary's river and St. Mary's Falls canal— Improving _ Saint Michael's Church, Charleston S. C — Refuiidiug duties to .. . ' ■ ■ Salaries— ^'^ Adjutant-General, office of q- Agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska 2i Agents of internal revenue .... -q ^i Agricultural Department . . ^ma And commissions of registers and receiVera" 135 INDEX. 275 Salaries — Continued. And contingent expenses, District of Colainl>in, offices And expenses, agents and subordinate offiiors of internal revenue And expenses, agents Southern Claims Commis- sion - And expenses, collectors of internal revenue And expenses, Hot Springs Commission And expenses, National Board of Healtli And expenses, office of Auditor of Railroad Ac- counts And mileage of Members aud Delegates And mileage of Senators Aud travelling expenses, agents at sual-fisheries in Alaska Architect of the Capitol, employes nndor Assay offices Assistant messengers, pro-\-ision for Assistant treasurers' offices . . , Attorney-General, office of Auditor of Railroad Accorints, office of Auditors, offices of Botanic Garden Building corner Peuusylvania avenue and Fif- teenth street Building corner Seventeenth and F streets Building occupied by Commissary-General Building on F street Building ou Tenth street - Buildings and grounds under Chief Engineer, em- ployes - - Bureau of Engraving and Printing Bureau of Statistics - Bureaus of Navy Department Capitol police Chief of Engineers, office of Chief of Ordnance, office of Circuit judges - - Collectors of internal revenue Commissary-General, office of Commissioner of Customs, office of Commissioner of Education, office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, office of Commissioner of Patents, office of Commissioner of Pensions, office of Comptroller of Currency, office of Comptrollers, offices of - - - Construction and Repair, Bureau of Consular officers not citizens Consular service - Court of Claims Delegates - Director of Geological Survey Director of Mint, office of District attorneys - District judges - District marshals District of Columbia offices - - - Employe's, Public Buildings and Grounds under Chief Engineer - Emploves, Senate - Emploves under Architect of the Capitol Engraving and Printing, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, Bureau of - Executive Office - - Fifth Auditor, office of - Firemen, provision for First Auditor, office of First Comptroller, office of - Fourth Auditor, office of - General Land Office - - Hot Springs Commission - House of Representatives Inspector-General, office of . - - Interior Department - Page. 80 59,60 ■24 59 187 44 17-2 1-2 41 173 69-71 67,68 2-28 17-2 35,36 22 89 89 90 89 90 90 56 37 154, 156 11,17 89 88 230 59 172 170 37 171 170,171 37 35, 37 155 33 31, 32 23 12 173 69 230 230 230 80 90 7-9, 12 173 56 155 o- 36 3S 35 35 36 170 1S7 12-15 88 169-173 Salaries — Continued. Interpreters to consulates in China, Japan, and Siam 33 Judges, Court of Claims 23 Judges, supreme court, District of Coiumbia 230 Justice, Department of 228 Justices, supreme court. District of Columbia 230 Justices, Supreme Court of the United States 230 Keepers of light-houses 62 Laborers, provision for 38 Library of Congress 22 Life-Saviug Service, office of 37 Light-House Board, office of 37 Light-house keepers 62 Marshals for consular courts 33 Medicine and Surgery, Bureau of - . 155 Jlembers and Delegates 12 Mihtary Justice, office of -.. .-. 88 Ministers - - 30, 31 Mints 69-71 National Board of Health 44 Navigation, Bureau of 155 Navy Department — 154-156 Navy-Department building lo5, 156 Officers aud employes, House of Representatives - 12-15 Officers and employes. Senate 7-9, 12 Officers of internal revenue - - . . 59, 60 Ordnance, Bureau of 155 Ouray, head chief Ute nation - . - 206 Paymaster-General, office of 89 Post-Office Department 213 President - 27 Provisions aud Clothing, Bureau of 155 Public-lands service - 183-1-^5 Public Printer, office of 19 Quartermaster-General, office of 88 Register, office of 37 Registers and receivers 185 Retired judges 230 Second Auditor, office of 35 Second Comptroller, office of - - 35 Secretaries of legations 31 Secretary of Interior, office of - - - 169 Secretary of Navy, office of 154 Secretary of Treasury, office of 34, 35 Secretarv of War, office of. f^7 Senate.'.- - - 7-9,12 Signal office 89 Sixth Auditor, office of 36 Solicitor of Treasury, office of - . . 228 Southern Claims Commission 24 Spanish Claims Commission 34 Special agents. Independent Treasury OS State Department - - - . - -^ Statistics, Bureau of 37 Steam-Engineering, Bureau of 155 Subordinate officers of internal revenue 59,60 Superintendent, building corner Pennsylvania ave- nue and Fif teeuth street 89 Superintendent, building corner Seventeenth and F streets - 89 I Superintendent, building occupied by Commissary- General - - - --■ 90 ! Superintendent, building on F street 89 Superintendent, building on Tenth street 90 Superintendent, Navy-Department building 155, 156 Superintendent, War-Department building 89 Supervising Architect, office of 35 Supreme court, District of Columbia 230 Supreme Court, United States - - - 230 Surgeon-General, office of 88 Surveyors-general, offices of - - - 183, 184 Temporary clerks, Interior Department 169 Territories - "^"^"1,^ Third Auditor, office of - - 36 Treasurer U. S., office of : 36 Treasurv Department, office of 34-3t United States and Spanish Claims Commission ... 34 276 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Salaries — Continued. Vice-President 97 Warden of jail, District of Columbia 229 War Department 87-90 War-Department building 89 Watchmen, provision for 38 Yards and Docks, Bureau of 154 Sale- Fort Reynolds military reservation 187 San Diego — Improving harbor - 106 Sandusky City, Ohio — Improving harbor 104 Sandy Hook, N. J. — Light-station, east beacon , 64 San Francisco, Cal. — Assistant treasurer, salaries, ofSce of 68 Breakwater and harbor of refuge, between Straits of Fuca and 113 Mint, contingent expenses 70 Mint, salaries - 70 Mint, wages of workmen 70 Santee Sioux Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 201 Saugatuck, Mich. — Improving harbor - - 105 Savannah, Ga. — Improving harbor — 103 Schleicher, Gustave — Engraving and printing portrait of - - - 56 Relief of widow of - 18 Schools — Artillery, Fort Monroe, Va 121 For Otoes and Missourias, support of 207 Industrial Home, District of Columbia 79 Not otherwise provided for, support of 207 Public, District of Columbia. 82 Reform, District of Columbia 79 Schuylkill river, Pa. — Improving 107 Scientific library — Office Commissioner of Patents 172 Scottsburgh, Oregon — Military road, from, to Camp Stewart 120 Souppernong river, N. C. — Improving 108 Seal-fisheries, Alaska — Protection of 41 Salaries and travelling expenses, agents of 41 Seamen — Bounty, gratuity, and mileage to 167 Relief and protection of 33 Rescuing shipwrecked 34 Shipping and discharging 34 Sea-otter hunting-grounds, Alaska — Protection of 41 Seats— Forty-fifth Congress, payment for contesting 25 Second Auditor — Salaries, office of 35 Second Comptroller — Salaries, office of 35 Secretary — Interior, salaries and expenses, office of 169, 170 Navy, salaries and expenses, office of 154 State, salaries and expenses, office of 28 Treasury, salaries and expenses, office of 34, 35 War, salaries and expenses, office of 87 Secretaries of legation — Salaries 32 Securities — Of the United States, transportation of 40 Security — Against fire, Smithsonian Institution 175 Seeds — Distribution of valuable . . . 227 Segar, T. W.— Relief of ]^24 Page. Select committee, Senate — On alleged frauds in late Presidential election, expenses 11 Seminole Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 199 Senate — Cartage 10 Clerks to committees, and pages 9, 10 Contingent expenses 9-11 Expenses select committee on alleged frauds iu late Presidential election 11 Fuel for heating apparatus 10 Furniture and repairs 10 Heating apparatus 174 Horses and wagons 10 Investigation of epidemic diseases 11 Materials for folding 10 Miscellaneous items 10 One month's compensation to certain employes of. 9 One month's pay to discharged employes of, 9 Packing-boxes 10 Pay of folders 10 Postage 11 Reporting proceedings and debates 11 Salaries 7-12 Salaries and mileage of Senators 7 Salaries of Capitol police 11 Salaries, officers and employes 7-9 Stationery and newspapers 10 Senators — Salaries and mileageof 7 Seneca Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 199 Service — Ordnance 98 Signal 98 Shaw, A. D.— Reimbursement to 30 Shaw, John A. — Relief of 123 Shawnee Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 200 Sheboygan, Wis. — Improving harbor 105 Sheepeater Indians — . Fulfilling treaty with 196 Sherman, John, jr. — Payment to 183 Ship- Refrigerating, for disinfecting purposes 50 Ship "Alarm"— New propeller for ifj7 Ship "Antietam"— Eepairs 166 Ship-channel — Galveston bay, Texas, improving 109 Shipping — And discharging seamen 34 Shipwrecked American seamen — Rescuing 34 Shoshone Indians — Fulfilling treaties with , 200 Shrewsbury river, N. J. — Improving ^06 Siam — And Turkey, rent of prisons, wages of keepers, &c., for American convicts iu 33 Salaries, interpreters to consulates in '. 33 Sidney, Australia — International exhibition at oq Signal — Office, salaries gg Service ' qq Silver— •'^ Coins, recoinage aq International remonetization of • oq Sinking-fund— ''^ District of Columbia oc INDEX. 277 Sioux Indians — ' ' Fulfilling treaties -with different tribes of 201 Support and civilization of, at Fort Peck agency 204 Surveying lauds of, in Dakota 207 Sisseton ludians — Fulfilling treaties with 201 Sixth Auditor — Salaries, office of 3g Sixth light-house district — Depot 65 Six Nation Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 201 S'Klallam Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 201 Small stores — Bureau of Provisions and Clothing 165 Smithsonian Institution — Additional security against fire 175 North American ethnology 51 Preservation of collections 175 Snags — Ked river, La.,. removing 109 Snake Indians — FulfiUiug treaties. with 201 Solar aud stellar photography — Naval Observatory 163 Solar eclipse — Illustrations for report on 163 Soldiers — And sailors, colored, payment of bounty, prize- money, &c., of '. . 96 Disabled, appliances for 97 Disabled, support of National Home for liy Solicitor of Treasury — Books for office of 22S Salaries, office of 22S Southern Baptist Convention — Sunday-School Board of, relief of 20ti Southern Claims Commission— Contingent expenses 25 Salaries - - 24 Salaries and expenses of agents 24 South Haven, Mich. — Improving harbor 105 South Pass, Mississippi river — Examinations and surveys 113 Light-station - - - 64 Spanish archives — Safe for 185 Spanish Claims Commission — Salaries and expenses 34 Special agents — Customs service, additional 55 Independent Treasury, salaries 68 Springfield, Mass. — Arsenal 101 Stable— And wagon-shed. State Department 2tf Stage Harbor, Mass. — Light-station .63 Stamps — And dies, alteration of 60 Stamps — Paper, and dies 6p Redemption of. 43 Stannard's Rock, Mich. — Light-station 65 Standard weights — And measures - 41 State Department — Books and maps ~^ Building - ^1 Contingent expenses '~-- Editing, publishing, and distributing Revised and Annual Statutes - '-^ Foreign intercourse . - - -j" Lithographing .^^ -^ Miscellaneous :.i-H' 70 D A State Department— CoMrtnwet?. Proof-reading gS Rent of stable and wagon-shed 28 Salaries 28 Stationery, furniture, &o 28 Staten Island, N. Y— Depot 64 States - Refunding to, expenses incurred in raising volun- teers 113 Stationery — Aud newspapers. House of Representatives 16 And newspapers, Senate 10 Department of Justice 228 Furniture, iStc, State Department 28 Interior Department 169 Naval Academy 161 Post-Office Department 214 Treasury Department 38 Stations — Life-Saving, establishing 62 Statistics — Agricultural, collecting 227 Bureau of, salaries 37 Relating to commerce, collecting 42 Statuary hall — House of Representatives, cleaning 18 Statutes — Revised and Annual, editing, &c 28 Staunton river, Va. — Improving 107 Steam-employes — Naval Academy, pay 161 Steam-Engineering — Bureau of, contingent 166 Bureaa of, civil establishment 166 Bureau of, niachiue for testing iron 166 Bureau of , salaries and expenses 155 Bureau of, steam-machinery 166 Steamer "B. P. Cheney"— Repeal of act of June 20, 1873, relating to 129 Steamer "Huron" — Burial of officers and others of 167 S team-machinery — Bureau of Steam-Engineering 166 Steam-mill Point, N. Y.— Light-statiou 64 Steam-tender — For western-river lights 65 Steam- vessel — For food-fishes 42 Stellar photography — Naval Observatory 163 Stereotype-plates — Of final reports of Centennial Exhibition, pur- chase of 51 Stevenson, Richard — Relief of 128 Stoniugton, Conn. — Improving harbor 103 Storms — Observation and report of 99 Stores — Marine Corps.. 159,160 Naval Academy 161 Ordnance, Army 98 Ordnance, Navy 163 Quartermasters', claims for 129 Streets — District of Columbia 84 Sturgeon Bay canal, "Wis. — Entrance to harbor of refuge 105 Subordinate officers — Internal revenue, salaries and expenses 59, 60 Subsistence — Army 97 Subsisting— And collecting Kickapoos, &o 205 278 DIGEST OF APPEOPKIATIONS. Substitute — Fund Sub-treasury — Boston, Mass Chicago, 111 Suits — And claims for seizure of captured or abandoned property, defending Summary reports — Commissioners of Claims Superintendents — Building corner Pennsylvania avenue and Fif- teenth street, salary Building corner Seventeenth and F streets, sala- ries - - - Building occupied by Commissary -General, salary. Building on F street, salaries Building on Tenth street, salary Indian, pay Lights, commissions to National cemeteries, pay of Navy-Department building, salaries War-Department building, salaries Superior bay. Wis. — Dredging Supervising Architect — Salaries, office of Supervisors — Internal-revenue, salaries and expenses Supplies — Army Bureau of Navigation Commissary, claims for Furnished during rebellion, claims of loyal citi- zens for Indian, telegraphing and purchasing Indian, transportation of Light-houses Ordnance Quartermaster's department Support — And civilization of Teton Sioux And medical treatment of infirm poor, District of Columbia And medical treatment of transient paupers Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Co- manches, and Wichitas Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans Assinaboines, Montana _ Chippevf as of Eed Lake and Pembina Chippewas on White Earth reservation Convicts - - - Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum Gros Ventres in Montana Indians at Fort Peck agency Indians at Central superintendency Indians in Idaho Indians in Southeastern Oregon. Indians on Malheur reservation Kansas Indians Military prison. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Modocs in Indian Territory National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. .. Nez Perces of Joseph's band _ _ Prisoners, United States courts Schools for Otoes and Missourias Schools not otherwise provided for Tonkawas at Fort Griffin, Texas Wichitas and other affiliated bands Supreme court — District of Columbia, additional associate justice created District of Columbia, salaries United States, salaries Suppressing — Counterfeiting and fraud Counterfeiting and other crimes 121 m 66 229 18 89 90 89 90 190 63 94 155 89 105 35 60 93 162 129 143 206, 207 206 63 98 92 204 87 91 204 204 204 205 205 203 231 174 204 203, 204 204 203 203 204 204 119 204 119 205 230 207 207 204 204 232 230 230 41 41 Page. Surgeon-General's office — Printing and binding Catalogue of Library of 20 Salaries and expenses 88 Surveying — Northern boundary of Wyoming 187 Private land claims in Arizona 186 Private land claims in California 186 Private land claims in New Mexico 186 Public lands 186, 187 Sioux Indian lands iu Dakota 207 Surveyors-general — Contingent expenses, offices of 184, 185 Salaries, offices of 183, 184 Surveys — Atlantic and GuLf coasts 60, 61 Black Hills 207 Coast and geodetic 60, 61 Examinations and contingencies, of rivers and harbors 116 Examinations and. South Pass, Mississippi river.. 113 Examinations of public 187 Geological 187 Geological, salary. Director of 173 Missouri river to Fort Benton Ill Northern and northwestern lakes 118 Eeprodueing plates of 182 Reservoir at sources of Mississippi and other rivers na Rivers and harbors, and cost of improvement 113, 114 Territories, illustrations for report on 187 Territory west of one-hundredth meridian 118 Western coasts 61 Swamp-lands — Adjusting claims for indemnity for 182 Swantou, Vt. — Improving harbor 102 Swine — Investigating diseases of 237 T. Tabequache Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 202 Tallahatchie river, Miss. — Improving _ joQ Tiir river, N. C. — Improving jog Taunton river, Mass. — Improving _ jo6 Taxes — District of Columbia ^g District of Columbia, rate of interest fixed...... 77 Illegally collected, refunding 43 Refunding, to Cumberland Valley Railroad Com- pany, of Pennsylvania 44 Tax-lien certificates — District of Columbia yg Taylor, Bayard — Allowance to widow of . . . on Telegrams— '^^ Treasury Department on Telegraph— '^^ To connect Capitol with Departments and Govern- ment-Printing Office ni Telegraphing — And purchase of Indian supplies. ook on-? Post-Offioe Department ..... 1 !!'.'.!."".'" " ' 314 Telegraph lines — Extension of Military, construction, maintenance,"aid repair of' 1 IQ Telephonic — Connection between Capitol and Government Printing Office Temporary clerks — Interior Department, salaries . . , ^q Office of Commissioner of Pensions. 171 Tennessee — Payment to, for keeping miUtary prisoners 121 INDEX. 279 Page. Tennessee river — Above Chattanooga, Tenn., improving 110 Below Chattanooga, Tenn., improving HO Tentli Census — Expenses of 175 Territorial courts — Utah, expenses 229 Territories — Contingent expenses 74, 75 Government in 72 Geological survey of, illustrations 187 Legislative expenses . - 73-75 Salaries 7:?-75 Testimony — To be used before Congress in private claims, pro- vision for taking 26 Reporting, before committees of House of Repre- sentatives - _ 17 Teton Sioux Indians — Support and civilization of 204 Texas — Northern judicial district of, created 233 Thames River, Conn. — Improving 106 Third Auditor — Miscellaneous claims audited by 93 Salaries, oflBce of 36 Thirty-mile Point, N. Y.— Light-station . . 64 Toledo, Ohio- Improving harbor — 104 Tombigbee river, Miss. — Improving 108 Tonkawa Indians — Support of, at Fort Giiffin, Texas 204 Topeka, Kansas — Court-house aud post office 66 Torpedo corps — Bureau of Ordnance - - - 163 Torpedoes — For harbor defences 102 Torrence, John A. — Payment to 183 Tracings — Drawings, office of Commissioner of Patents 172 T'rjiTi sf 6 r Account, miscellaneous items, Treasury Depart- ment - - - - ■ 40 Indian Bureau to War Department, joint commit- tee on 26 Lands in Florida not needed for naval purposes. . - 167 Transportation — And recruiting, Marine Corps 160 Army - - - ^^ Coin and bullion 4^; Indian supplies - ^06 Officers and their baggage 1^1 Paupers and prisoners. District of Columbia 79 Securities of the United States - 40 Travelling expenses— Agents at seal-fisheries m Alaska 4i Army %^ California and Nevada volunteers i^i Indian inspectors - 2™ Treasury Department ^^ Treasurer United States— Salaries, office of ■'o Treasury building— , „ , , . «= Washington, District of Columbia oo Treasury Department- Additional compensation to clerks of, from appro- priation refunding the national debt oo Binding newspapers, &c - 'tq Carpets and repairs _^ Contingent expenses ■> - ^^ Fuel on Freight, telegrams, &c ^^ Furniture Treasury Department — Continued. Gas 39 Horses, wagons, &c 39 Ice.... 39 Investigation of accounts and travelling expenses. 39 Library _ 42 Misceliiiueous items 39,40 Postage 38 Rent 39 Salaries 34-38 Stationery for 36 Trent river, N. C. — Improving 108 Trinity river, Texas — Improving 109 Trinity shoal, La. — Light-ship 64 Trusses — For disabled soldiers, act relating to 97 Trust-fund interest due — Cherokee national fund 206 Cherokee school-fund 206 Chickasaw national fund 20s Choctaw general fund 208 Creek orphans' fund 208 Delaware general fund _ . 208 Iowa Indians 209 Kaskaskias, Peorias, "\Yeas, and Piankeshaws 209 Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, school-fund 209 ileuomonees 209 Ottawas and Chippewas 20J Trust-funds — Contingencies 209 Turkey — Rent of prisons, wages of keepers, &c., for Ameri- can convicts in 33 Turkish dominions — Expenses for interpreters, guards, &c., in 33 Twelfth light-house district — Depot - - - 65 Two aud three-vear volunteers — Payof.... ."- 96 Two Rivers, Wis. — Improving harbor 105 IJ. Uintah Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 Umatilla Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 Undrawn clothing — Marine Corps, pay of 159 Unexpended balances — Pension appropriations 209 United States — And Spanish Claims Commission, salaries and ex- penses ■ 34 Consulates, contingent expenses 33 Courts, expenses - 230, 231 Duties on Imports, Heyl's 26 Lands and other property of 42 University — Howard, District of Columbia 79 Upper Columbia river, Oregon- Improving 113 Upper Red river- Improving 113 Upper Willamette river, Oregon- Improving 113 Urbana creek, Va.— Improving 107 Utah— ^ .^ , Contingent expenses, Territory of / o Indian service in - 206 Legislative expenses. Territory of -"-,■■ i" ,0, Z° Salaries and expenses, office of surveyor-general of. 184, I80 280 DIGEST OF APPEOPEIATIONS. Page, tJtali — Continued. Salaries, governor, &c., Territory of 75 Territorial courts in, expenses of 229 Utali Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 XJte Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 In Colorado, removal 203 Utica, N. Y.— Court-house and post office 66 V- Vaccination — Indians 206 Vaults — Safes, and locts for public buildings 41 Velocity — Of light 163 Ventilation — House of Representatives 174 "Verbena" — Reimbursement of master of 65 Vessel — For food-fishes 42 Vessels — Coast Survey, repairs - - - 61 Equipment of 163 Light, expenses- 63 Vice-President United States — Salary 27 Viehe, F. W.— Payment to 51 Violations — Intercourse acts, and frauds, punishing 229 Internal-revenue laws, punishment 60 Visitors — Board of, Naval Academy 161 Volunteer Navy — Act to abolish 157 Volunteers — Bounty to _ _ 97 California and Nevada, travelling expenses of 121 Collecting, drilling, and organizing 121 Expenses incurred in raising, refunding to States. 118 Two and three-year, pay of 96 vr. Wabash river, Ind. — Improving 110 Wages — Keepers', prison for American convicts in Siam and Turkey 33 Keepers', prison for American convicts in China. . 33 Keepers', prison for American convicts in Japan . . 33 Under eight-hour law, allowance for reduction of. 121 Workmen, assay of&ces 69-71 Workmen, mints 69-71 Wagons — Department of Justice 228 House of Representatives 17 Post-Offlce Department 214 Senate 10 Treasury Department 39 Wagon-shed — State Department, rent of 28 Wahpeton Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 201 Walker, Ebenezer — Relief of 226 Walker, Thomas A. — Relief of 133 Walla- Walla Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 Wal-pah-pee Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 201 War- Rebellion, publishing official records of lie Page. Warden of jail. District of Columbia- Salary 229 War-Department — Building 91 Building, salaries and expenses 89 Contingent expenses 87-90 Furniture, new building 89 Joint committee on transfer of Indian bureau to . . 26 Postage 91 Salaries 87-90 Warrior river, Ala. — Improving 108 Washington and Georgetown, D. C. — Improving harbors 103 Washington aqueduct — District of Columbia 79 Washington Asylum — District of Columbia 78 Washington, George — Monument to mark birthplace of 29 Washington monument — Completing foundation of 54 Washington Territory — Contingent expenses 75 Indian service in 205, 206 Legislative expenses 75 Salaries and expenses, office of surveyor-general of... 184,185 Salaries, governor, &c., of 75 Watchmen — Naval Academy, pay 161 Salaries, provision for 38 Water — For public buildings 41 Water-pipes and fire-plugs — Repairs of 90 Water-service — District of Columbia, Commissioners to have cer- tain powers as to 77 Water sujiply — Capitol Hill, District of Columbia 87 Military Academy 101 Wea Indians — Trust-fund interest due 209 Trust-fund interest due school-fund 209 Weemiuuche Indians — Fulfilling treaty with 202 Weights and Measures — International bureau of 29 Standard 41 Welch, Frank — Engraving and printing portrait of 56 Relief of widow of jg Welles, George M. — Relief of jgg Western coasts — Survey g-j^ Western-river lights — Steam-tender for gg Wheeler, Wm. F.— Relief of 034 White and St. Francis rivers, Ark. — Improving j-^q White Earth reservation — Support of Chippewas on ona White river, Ark. — Improving ^^^q White river^ Ind. — Improving ^^^ White river^ Mich. — Improving harbor. , „- Wichita Indians — And other affiliated bands, supporting 004 Support of __ ij;* Wicomico river, Md. — Improving ^^^ INDEX. 281 Widows — And lejjal heirs of volunteers, bonnty to 97 Or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad, al- lowance to -^4 Wilkinson, H. E.— Relief of i->^ Willett's Point, N. Y.— Engineer depot at qi) Williams, A. S.— Engraving and printing portrait of r>(i Relief of widow of IS Williams, George — Relief of 126 Wilmington, Cal — Improving harbor 106 Wihnington, Del. — Improving harbor 103 Winnebago Indians — Fulliiling treaty with ooi Wisconsin ri^'e^, Wis. — Improving Ho Witnesses — United States conrts, fees _ 2'iO Women and Children — Colored, National Association for. District of Co- Inmbia 79 Women's Christian Association — District of Columbia 79 Woodbridge creek, N. J. — Improving 106 Wood-cuts — Nebula in Orion 163 Wood's Holl, Mass.— Improvi ng harbor 102 Workmen — Mints and assay offices, wages of 69-71 Works of art — For the Capitol 22 Wymau, Albert U. — Relief of 52 Wyoming — Contingent expenses, Territory of 75 Indian service 206 Legislative expenses, Territory of 75 Salaries and contingent, office of surveyor-general of 184, ld5 Salaries, governor, &c.. Territory of 75 Surveying northern boundary uf 187 T. \adkin river, N. C. — Improving _ 108 Yakama Indians — Fnlfllling treaties with 202 Yampa Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 202 Yankton Sioux Indians — Fulfilling treaties with 201 Yards and Docks — Bureau of, civil establishment 164 Bureau of, contingent 164 Bureau of, maintenance 164 Bureau of, salaries and expenses 154. 155 Yazoo river, Miss. — Improving 109 Yellowstone National Park — Protection and improvement of 188 Yellowstone river — Improving 113 71 n A