rOL. 46
United States Laws,
[Published by Authority.]
LAWS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
SESHON OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 46.]
ACT making appropriations for sun
g civil expenses of the government
• the fiscal year ending June thirty,
;hteen hundred and seventy-two, and
•other purposes.
it enacted by the Senate and house I
Trescntatives of the United States of
-ica in Congress assembled, That
)Ilowing sums be, and the same are
appropriated, for the objects here
-3r expressed. for the fiscal year end
he thirtieth June, eightoon hundred
eventy-two, viz :
STATE DEPARTMENT
r defraying the expenses of defimding
s under the convention with Mexico
sly four, eighteen hundred and sixty
, to be expended under the direction
e Attorney General, twenty thousand
rs.
r the compensation and expenses of
ommission for determining the pend
uestions between Great Britain and
United States, twenty-five thousand
rs.
or the compensation and expenses of a
iission for determining the questions
ing between the United States and
1, growino ' out of the acts of the
ish officials in and about Cuba, fifteen
mod dollars.
.r the increase in the expenses of the
matic and consular officers of the Uni
ltates in Paris, caused by a state of
and also for compensation for extra
tary services performed by such offs
during the war; and also for the ad
nal expenses caused to the legations
consulates of' the United States in
rid, Paris, Berlin, and London, by
m of the war, and by reason of the
action assumed by the United States
mrsons, legations, and consulates of
• powers in Paris, a sum not to exceed
thousand dollars in all, or so much
of as may be necessary, to be expend
nder the direction of the Sesretary of
t, on the approval of the President,
an vouchers to be filed in the Treasn
epartment, and a statement thereof to
:parted to Congress by the Secretary
tate.
) defray the expenses incurred by the
a States legation in Paris, in protect
the subjects of the North German
'ederation in France during the war
reen France and Prussia, including ex
compensation to the secretaries, mes
er, and we of carriage of said lega
, four thousand dollars; and the fore
g appropriations are hereby made
[able immediately upon the passage of
act.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
CRVISING INSPECTORS OF STEAM•
VESSELS.
or carrying out the provisions of the
of thirtieth August, eighteen hundred
fifty-two, for the better protection of
lives of passengers on vessels propell d
Thole or in part by steam, and of the
amendatory thereof, the following
s, viz
'or salaries of fifty-nine local,,inspectors
team•vessels, and clerk in local offices
Tew York and New Orleans, fifty-eight
isand two hundred dollars.
'or ten supervising inspectors of steam
;els, nine at two thousand dollars each,
one at two thousand five hundred dol
, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
, or special agent of the department, two
usand one hundred and ninety dollars.
?or contingent expenses, viz : Travel
; expenses of ten supervising inspectors,
tot to exceed eight hundred dollars in
toy one year each, eight thousand dol
t.
For traveling expenses of fifty-nine in
ctors, fifteen thousand dollars.
?or traveling expenses of the special
nt of the department, one thousand
r hundred dollars.
?or oopoooro.
rd of supervising inspectors, including
VW, and necessary incidental expenses,
I printing of manual and report, four
•usand dollars.
f , ur stationery and postage stamps; fur
are for offices and repairs thereof; in
intents, repairs, transportation, and
ring thereof ; office rent, janitors, and
I ; printing and binding certificates of
mse for pilots and engineers, and mis
laneous items. twenty-five thousand dol
l.
For life-saving stations : Salaries of two
perintendents of the life savit ' , stations
the coast of Long Island and New Jer
-,.at one thousand five hundred dollars
three thousand dollars.
For fifty-five keepers of stations, a two
ndred dollars each, eleven thousand dol-
For pay of six experienced surfmen to
at each of the boats at alternate life
ling stations on the New Jersey coast,
mmencing at the first station from Sandy
3ok, from December fifteenth to March
teenth, to be appointed by the keepers
ereof, at forty dollars per month, ten
ousand and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of life-saving
ttions on the coast of the United States,
thousand dollars.
EEVENITE-CUTTER SERVICE.
For pay of officers, viz : Thirty-five unp
ins, one hundred and two lieutenants,
d fifty-one engineers, three hundred and
teen theusapd three hundred dollars.
For rations fur officers, twenty thousand
id thirty-nine dollars.
For pay of crews, viz : Eight hundred
id seventy-eight petty officers, seamen,
oks, stewards, and boys, three hundred
.ousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For rations for crews, including liquor
iuivalent, one hundred and twenty-one
tousand seven hundred and seventy-nine
illars and ten cents.
For fuel for twenty-four steam-vessels,
ie hundred and twenty-five thousand dol-
For repairs and outfits, of thirty-two yes
:ls, one hundred thousand dollars.
For ship-chandlery for the same, forty
tousand dollars.
For the traveling expenses of the offi
rs traveling on duty under orders from
le Treasury Dapartment, ten thousand
°liars.
For temporaiy employment of pilots,
eretofore permanently employed, and
nnparisation included in estimates for pay
f officers, ten thousand dollars.
Tor •commatation of quarters for officers
n shore duty, ten thousand dollars.
Continent expenses': For payment of
xpenses Incurred in the transaction of
The Huntin g don Journal.
the business of the two boards of examin
ers, (engineer board at Baltimore, Mary
land, and that for the line officers at Wash
ington, District of Columbia;) also, for
that of the special commission, for rent of
offices, including quarters for examining
surgeon, and for miscellaneous expenses,
exclusive of clerk hire or compensation for
service of any kind except consulting en
gineer employed to supervise construction
of engines, five thousand dollars.
MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE.
For supplying deficiency in the fund for
the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
LOANS AND TREASURY NOTES.
For paper, engraving, printing, express
charges, and otker expenses of waking
and issuing the national currency, seventy
five thousand dollars.
For expenses in detecting arid bringing
to trial and punishment persons engaged
in counterfeiting treasury notes, national
bank notes, bonds, and other securities of
the United States, as well as the coins of
the [sited States, and other frauds upon
the Government, one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For payment of the necessary expenses
incurred in defend suits against the Secre
tary 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 respect to such pro
prety, in the Court of Claims, to be ex
pended under the direction of the Attorney
General, sixty thousand dollars, no part of
which shall be paid to attorneys-at-law for
professional services, for appearing and as
sisting in thetrial of causes in the Supreme,
circuit, or district courts of the United
States, or Court of Claims; and that the
Attorney General make report to Congress
at the end of the fiscal year of the manner
of the appropriation of this fund, awl to
whom and for what purpose paid.
For this sum, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney General in the
detection and prosecution of crimes against
the United States, filthy thousand dollars.
For expenses to be incurred in the pro
secutim and collection of claims due the
United States, to be disbursed under the
direction of the Attorney General, twenty-
five thousand dollars.
For continuing the collection of statis
tics of mines and mining, to be laid before
Congress, to be expended under the direc
tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten
thousand dollars.
For compensation of clerks and for ad
ditional compensation to same in the office
of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For facilitating communication between
the Atlantic and Pacific States by electric
telegraph, forty thousand dollars: Provi
ded, That no part of this amount shall be
paid to any company which shall refuse or
neglect to perform telegraphic service for
the government of the United States in
accordance with the provisions of an act
entitled "An act to aid in the construction
of telegraph lines, and to secure the gov
ernment the use of the same for postal,
military, and other purposes, approved
July twenty-four, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six.
For construction of revenue vessels in
accordance with recommendation of the
special commission, approved by the Sec
retary of the Treasury, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For furniture and repairs of furniture
for public buildings under the control of
the Treasury Department, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel, lights, and water for public
buildings under the control of the Treasu
ry Department, two hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
For boating apparatus for public build
ings under the control of the Treasury De
partment, flay thousand dollars.
For vaults, safes, and locks for public
buildings under the control of the Treasu
ry Department, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For photagraphing, engraving, and
printing plans of public buildings under
11.--eeutret of the Treasury Department,
ten thousand dollars.
ig of the
For pay of custodians and janitors for
the public buildings under the control of
the Treasury Department, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of all pub
lic buildings under the control of the Trea
sury Department, two hundred thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay for repairs of government buildings
in San Francisco, used by the assessors'
department of internal revenue service in
the years eighteen hundred and sixty-six
and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the
same being in lieu of rent authorized to
be paid for offices of assistant assessors,
and not so paid during the occupancy of
said building, seven hundred and eighty
one dollars and-eighty-eight. cents.
To paylbr inciaenial printing, for the
Territory of Montana, the amount due to
Messrs. Wilkinson and Ronan, six hundred
and forty-one dollars.
For rent, fuel, lights, postage stamps,
stationery, printing and incidental expen
ses of the Secretary's office of Idaho Terri
tory for the fiscal year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, three
thousand dollars.
To pay T. L. McElroy balance due for
printing journal of house and council of
Washington Territory, session of eighteen
hundred and sixty-five and sixty-six, of
legislature thereof, eight hundred and
seventy-five dollars and sixty-one cents.
To pay the United States marshal of
Wyoming Territory the sum of five hun
dred dollars for superintending taking of
the census of that Territory in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, pursuant
to the organic act.
For amount to pay Charles Prosch for
printing for legislative assembly, Wash
ington Territory, session of eighteen hun
dred and sixty-seven and sixty-eight, nine
hundfcd and seventy-four dollars and forty
ty-five cents.
To pay for incidental printing for the
Territory of Idaho the amount found due
to Frank Kenyon, four thousand eight
hundred and one dollars and thirty-eight
cents.
For necessary expenses in the erection,
furnishing machinery and putting up the
same, outbuildings, fencing grounds and
superintendence of the branch mint at Car
son city, thirty thousand three hundred
and twenty-six dollars.
UNITED STATES COURTS.
For defraying the expenses of the Su
preme Court and circuit and district
courts of the United States, including the
District of Columbia • and also for jurors
and witnesses, and likewise for defraying
the expenses of suits in which the United
States are concerned, and of prosecuting
offenses committed against the United
States, and for the saf-keeping of prison
ers, two million dollars.
For the support and maintenance of con
victs transferred from the District of Co
lumbia, ten thousand dollars.
To pay expenses incurred in arresting
William Kelly, under the direction of the
territorial authorities of Wyoming, six
hundred and one dollars and twenty cents,
or so much thereof as may be necessary.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
PUBLIC LANDS.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Louisiana, fuel, books, stationery, and oth
er incidental expenses, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Florida, fuel, books, stationery, and other
incidental expenses, oue thousand five
hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Minnesota, fuel, books, stationery, and
other incidental expenses, two thousand
two hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Dakota, fuel, books,stationery, and other in
cidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Kansas, fuel, books, statiorery, and other
incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Colorado, fuel, books, stationery, and inci
dental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
New Mexico, fuel books, stationery, and
other incidental expenses, two thousand
dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
California, fuel, books, stationery, and
other incidental expenses, seven thousand
dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Idaho, fuel, books, stationery, and other
incidental expenses, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Nevada, fuel books, stationery, and other
incidental expenses, three thousand seven
hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other
incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Washington Territory, fuel, books, station
ery, and other expenses, two thousand dol
lars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Nebraska and lowa, fuel, books, station
ery, and other expenses, two thousand dol
lars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Montana Territory, fuel, books, stationery,
and other incidental expenses, two thou
sand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
the Territory of Utah, fuel, books, station
ery, and other expenses, one thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
the Territory of Wyoming, fuel, books,
stationery, and other incidental expenses,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
the Territory of Arizona, fuel, books, sta
tionery, and other incidental expenses, in
cluding the necessary furniture to estab
lish his office, three thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior
to pay the account for services of the
superintendent of construction of the pen
itentiary in the Territory of Montana, the
sum of sixteen hundred dollars, or as much
thereof as may be neessary.
EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REV-
ENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS.
For salaries and commissions of registers
of land officers and receivers of public
moneys at eighty-one land offices, three
hundred and minty-one thousand two hun
dred dollars.
For incidental expenses of the land offi
ces, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and
seventy-five dollars-
For expenses of depositing moneys re
ceived from sales of public lands, ten thou
sand dollars.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
For salaries and other necessary expen
ses of the Metropolitan Police for the Dis
trict of Columbia, two hundred and seven
thousand eight hundred and seventy dol
lars : Provided, That a further sum,
amounting to one hundred and three thou
sand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars,
shall be paid to defray the expenses of the
said Metropolitan Police force by the cities
of Washington and Georgetown, and the
county of Washington, (beyond the limits
of said cities,) in the District ofColumbia,
in the proportion corresponding to the
number of privates allotted severally to
said precincts; and the corporate authori
ties of said cities, and proper authorities of
the District of Columbia, are hereby au
thorized and required to levy a special tax,
not exceeding one•third of one per mutual,
which shall be specially deposited once in
each week, as such collections are made, to
be appropriated and expended for saidpur
pose only, soy the service of the fiscal year
ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two.
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR TILE IN-
SANE.
For the support, clothing, medical, and
moral treatment of the insane for the army
and navy, revenue-cutter, and volunteer
service, who may have become insane since
their entry into the service of the United
States, and of the indigent insane of the
District of Columbia, in the Government
Hospital for the Insane, including five
hundred dollars for books, stationery, and
incidental expenses, one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements of the
west wing of the hospital edifice, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For completing the inclosure and build
ing the wall along the river front, ten
thousand dollars.
For inclosing the tract of land known as
the "Sheppered Farm," three thousand
dollars.
COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF
AND DUMB.
For the supply of the institution, includ
ing salaries and incidental expenses, the
maintenance of the beneficiaries of the
United States, and five hundred dollars
for books and illustrative apparatus, forty
thousand five hundred dollars.
For continuing the work on the joules
ure and improving and grading the grounds
of the institution, six thousand dollars.
For necessary expenses in the erection,
furnishing, and fitting up of the buildings
of the institution, in accordance with plans
heretofore submitted to Congress, eighteen
thousand dollars.
COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND
IY,INO-IN ASYLUM, AND OTHER CHAR-
'TIES,
For the support of the Columbia Hospi
tal for Women and Lying-in Asylum, over
and above the probable amount which will
HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 14, 1871
be received. from pay patients, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For rent of building, three thousand
dollars.
For purpose of surgical instruments,
five hundred dollars.
For the Nation Soldiers and Sailors'
Orphans' Home of the city of Washington,
District of Columbia, fifteen thousand dol
lars, to be disbursed under direction of
the Secretary of the Interior.
For care, support, and medical treat
ment of sixty transient paupers, medical
and surgical patients, in some proper med
ical institution in the city of Washington,
under a contract to be formed with such
institution, twelve thousand dollars, or so
much thereof us way be necessaay, under',
the direction of the Secretary of War.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
For preservation of the collections of
the surveying and exploring expeditions
of the government, ten thousand dollars.
For the completion of the hall required
for the government collections, ten thous
and dollars.
BOTANIC GARDEN,
For concreting and paving walks around
the buildings of the Bontanic Garaen ; for
general, repairs to the buildings; and for
improving the large basin with brick or
stone wall, and with white marble coping,
six thousand dollars.
For the completion of the pavino. ' of the
main walk through the Botanic Garden
with Seneca brown-stone flagging, and
taking up and removing the blue-stone
flagging now in the main walk, and relay
ing the same in Maryland avenue, along
the south side of the Botanic Garden, nine
thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For two additional laborers at Botanical
Garden, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
For compensation of librarian of the
Senate library, in the office of the Secre
tary of the Senate, two thousand two hun
dred and twenty dollars.
Under the direction of the Architect of
the Capital extension :
For improving the heating and ventil
ating of the Senate, under the direction
of the Architect of the Capitol extension,
three thousand dollars.
For furnishing and repairing the work
on the Capitol extension, and for curbing
and flagging upper terraces, sixty thousand
dollars.
For enlarging air -shaft, plasternig ceil
ing or corridors, re-adjustment of flues un
der the floor, new registers, and for new
floor in the hall of the House of Repre
sentatives; for additional fans for the ex
haustion of vitiated air from the hall, and
for engines to operate them, and for addi
tional ventilators in the roof of the hall,
and for necessary operation in the light
ing, heating, and ventilating apparatus,
twenty thousand dollars, or so much there
of as may be necessary.
For widening the passage-ways between
the Senate and House wings of the Capi
tol, ten thousand dollars, or so much there
of as may be necessary, if the Architect
shall deem the same safe and practicable ;
and any expenditure on a plan that shall
cost a greater sum to complete it, shad be
unlawful.
For annual repairs of the old portion of
the Capitol building, painting, glazing,
keeping roofs in order, water-pipes, pave
ments, and approaches to the building, ten
thousand dollars.
For finishing and repairing the work on
the new dome of the Capitol, five thous
and dollars.
For continuing the work of grading and
filling the grounds around the Capitol,
twenty thousand dollars.
For capleting the north front of the
Patent Office building, and grading and
paving G street from Seventh to Ninth
streets, and to replace amount returned to
the treasury under the fifth section of the
act approved July twelve, eighteen hun
dred and seventy, two thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For the extension of the Government
Printing Office building, upon the plans
prepared by the Architect of the Capitol
extension including the cost of hoisting
works, said appropriation to be available
during the present fiscal year, forty-five
thousand dollars • and any expenditure on
a plan that shall cost a greater sum to
complete it shall be deemed unlawful.
SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lands in Lou
isiana, at rates not exceeding ten dollars
per lineal mile for township and eight
dollars for section lines,
twelve thousand
two hundred and forty dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Flor
ida, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per
lineal mile for standard, seven dollars for
township, and six for section lines, twelve
thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Min
nesota, at rates not exceeding fifteen dol
lars per lineal mile fir standard lines,
twelve dollars for township and tan for
section lines, forty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands of Dako
ta Territory, at rates not exceeding ten
dollars per mile for standard lines, seven
dollars for township, and six dollars for
section lines, twenty thousand dollars :
Provided, That not less than ten thous
and dollars of this amount shall be expen
ded within the limits of the Pembina laud
district in said Territory.
For surveying the public lands Of Mon
tana Territory, at rates not exceeding fif.
teen dollars per lineal mile for standard
lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten
dollars for section lines, forty thousand
dollat s.
For surveying the public lands in Ne
braska, at rates not exceeding ten dollars
per lineal mile for standard lines, six dol
lars for tewnship, and five dollars for sec
tion lines, forty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Kan
sas, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per
lineal mile for standard lines, six dollars
for township, and five for section lines,
forty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Colo
rada, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars
per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve
dollars for township, and ten dollars for
section lines, forty thousand dollars.
For the survey of the public lands with
in the limits of (he land grant to Kansas
Pacific Railroad Company in the Territory
of Colorado, thirty thousand dollars : Pro
vided, That the foregoing appropriations
for surveys of public lands within the
limits of the above railroad land grants
shall be conditional upon the compliance
of said companies or parties in interest
with the requirements of the twenty-first
section of the act of July second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, entitled 'Au act
to amend an act to aid in the construction
of a railroad and telegraph line from the
Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to
secure to the government the use of the
same for postal. military, and other pur
poses," approved July first, eighteen bun-
r . dred and sixty-two, Statutes volume thir
teen, page three hundred and sixty-five.
For surveying the public lands in Idaho,
at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per
lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dol
lars for township, and ten dollars per sec
tion lines, thirty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in New
Mexico, at rates not exceeding fifteen dol
lars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve
dollars for township, and ten dollars, for
section lines, twenty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Cali
fornia, at rates not exceeding fifteen dol
lars per lineal mile for standard lines,
twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars
for section lines, seventy thousand dollars :
Provided, That the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, in his discretion, may
hereafter authorize public lands in said
State, and also in Oregon and Washington
Territory, densely covered with forests or
thick undergrowth, to be surveyed at aut . ,
mented rates, not exceeding eighteen dol
lars per mile for standard parallels, fifteen
dollars for township, and twelve dollars for
section lines.
For surveying the public lands in Ore
gon, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars
per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve
dollars for township, and ten dollars for
section lines, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Wash
ington Territory, at rates net exceeding fif
teen dollars per lineal mile for standard
lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten
dollars fur section lines, forty thousand
dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Ore
gon situated west f.t" the Cascade moun
tains, densely covered v i h forests or thick
undergrowth; at the ra!tii of not exceeding
sixteen dollars for township and section
lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Utah
Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen
dollars per mile for standard lines, twelve
dollars for township, and ten dollars for
section lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Neva
da, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars
per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve
dollars for township, and ten dollars for
section lines, forty-five thousand dollars-
For surveying the public lands in the
Territory of Wyoming, at rates not ex
ceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for
standard, twelve dollars for township, and
ten dollars for section lines, forty thousand
dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS
To mark and define the boundary lines
between the Territory of Utah on the north
and of Idaho on the south, six, thousand
four hundred and eighty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior
to pay the expenses of the survey of the
diminished reservation of the Great and
Little Osage Indians, in the state of Kan
sas, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary : Pro
vided, That the amount so paid for said
survey shall be refunded to the treasury
from the proceeds of sale of sale reserva
tion; And provided further, That the
compensation for making survey shall not
exceed the respective prices per mile al
lowed by this act for surveying public lands
in Nebraska and Kansas.
For continuing the geological survey of
the Territories of the United States, by
Professor Hayden, under the direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, forty thou
sand dollars.
For continuing the completion of the
survey of the Colorado of the West and
its tributaries, by Professor Powell, under
the direction of the Smithsonian Institu
tion, twelve thousand dollars.
or expenses of prosecuting the inquiry
authorized by law into the causes of the
decrease of the food fishes of the coast
and the lakes, five thousand dollars, to be
expended under the direction of the Sec
retary of the Treasury.
For additional compensation to Henry
Douglass, in the employ of the Doorkeeper
of the House of Representatives, for the
present fiscal year, one hundred dollars;
and his regular amount, a sum sufficient
to pay which for the next fiscal year is
hereby appropriated, and hereafter his
compensation shall be eight hundred and
twenty dollars per annum.
And Godfrey Weitzel, of the corps et
engineers, United States army, and in
charge of the improvement of the Louis
ville canal, is hereby empowered and di
rected, subject to the approval of the Chief
of slid corps of engineers, to adjust and
pay, out of any money appropriated for
the improvement of said canal, to John B.
Brown, any legal or equitable claim he
may have against the United States aris
ing out of his contract by him to perform
work on said improvement of said canal,
in eighteen hundred and seventy: Pro
vided, That there shall not be paid to him
in any event over eight thousand two hun
dred dollars, nor more under that sum
than, together with any sums already paid
him on account of said contract and work,
shall be equal to the fair and reasonable
value to the government of the work done
by him for the government under such
contract.
To pay Vinnie Ream, for making the
marble statute of Abraham Lincoln, ten
thousand dollars, which, in addition to the
sum of five thousand dollars already paid,
shall be in full of all claims of said work.
To reimburse S. Wolf, recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia, for certain
books of record and indexes purchased by
him for the use of his office, one thousand
two hundred and forty-eight dollars.
To Mary B. Walker, widow of Rob rt J.
Walker, for money expended by him when
territorial governor of Kansas, thirteen
thousand and three dollars and seventy
five cents, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, to be paid on vouchers to be
submitted to the proper accounting officers
of the treasury.
For defraying the expenses of taking
ninth census of the United States, one
million two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For the payment of pensions, under the
"Act granting pensions to certain soldiers,
and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred
and twelve, and the widows of deceased
soldiers," approved February fourteen,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, four
million five hundred thousand dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
BUILDINGS AND ODDUNDS IN AND AROUND
WASHINGTON,
For repairs, care, and improvement of
public buildings, grounds, and works in
the District of Columbia, under the direc
tion of the Chief Engineer of the army,
namely :
For casual repairs of the Navy Yard and
Upper bridges, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of government water-pipes
and fire-plugs on Pnnsylvania avenue, five
thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of reserve•
tions on New York, Massachusetts, Ver
mont, and Maryland avenues, fifteen thou •
sand dollars.
For cleaning out sewer-traps along Penn
sylvania avenue, one thousand dollars.
For improving Massachusetts, Connecti
cut, New York, Maine, Delaware, and New
Jersey avenues, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For annual repair of fences around re•
servations, two thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of public re•
nervation number two, and Lafayette
square, seven thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For removing snow and ice from pave
ments and public walks, one thousand dol
lars.
For manure, and hauling . the same to
public grounds and reservations, three
thousand dollars.
For painting iron fences around Lafay
ette square, in front of the War and Navy
Departments, two thousand dollars.
For improvement, care, and protection
of seats and fountains in Capitol grounds,
two thousand dollars.
For hire of carts in the public grounds,
three thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in
public grounds, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of trees
and tree-boxes,
and to whitewash tree-boxes and fences,
five thousand dollars.
For purehzse of flower-pets, mats, glass
es, and twine, one thousand dollars.
For lighting the Capitol, Executive
Mansion and public grounds, forty thou
sand dollars.
For pay of lamp-lighters, plumbing, gas
fitting, lamps, lamp posts, matches, and
repairs of all sorts, ten thousand dollars.
For fuel for center building of the Capi
tol, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of the Executive
Mansion, five thous tnd dollars.
For refurnishing the Executive Mansion
five thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of grounds
south of the Executive Mansion, five thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for the Executive M. :.
three thousand dollars.
For repair of green house at the Exec
utive Mansion, and purchase of plants,
three thousand dollars.
For an iron bridge across the canal at
Thirteenth street west, and improvement
of Monumental reservation, five thousand
dollars.
For repairs of green house at Propaga
ting Garden, three thousand dollars.
For contingents of office of Public Build
ings and Grounds, two thousand dollars.
For improving Franklin square, opening
and graveling walks, and planting trees
and shrubbery, five thousand dollars.
For the improvement of circle at the
intersection of Massachusetts and Vermont
avenues, six thousand dollars.
For paving on Pennsylvania avenue and
Fifteenth street in front of the property of
the United States, in accordance with the
law making change of arade, fourteen
thousand seven hundred and ninety-two
dollars.
For paving Pennsylvania avenue in front
of the Botanic Garden, from the northwest
gate of the Capitol grounds to Third street
west, including grading, laying side-walks,
flag footways, resetting curb, paving, and
building sewer, under act of July eight,
eighteen hundred and seventy, twenty-five
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
dollars.
For cutting street through the Presi
dent's grounds as per plan, one thousand
one hunred and ninety-two dollars.
For construction of circular fence around
and through the President's grounds to
Seventeenth street west, including founda
tion walls, curbing, flagging, and iron fen
cing, forty-five thousand five hundred dol
lars.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.
.For finishing coping and iron railing on
bridgcs numbers one, two, three, and four,
ten thousand dollars.
Fur widening embankments over conduit
and macadamizing roads ; ten thousand dol
lars.
For completing gate-houses at distribu
ting reservoir, twenty thousand four hun
dred and ninety-six dollars.
For completing high-service reservoir,
four thousand dollars.
For ventilators over conduit, two thous
and eight hundred dollars.
For fencing reservoirs, three thousand
six hundred dollars.
For building office at R )ek Creek bridge,
three thousand three hundred dollars.
For engineering, superintendence, and
repairs for the fiscal year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
twenty thousand dollars.
For completing earthwork and making
the slope-wall of division dam, twenty
thousand dollars.
For completing slope-wall of distributing
reservoir, twenty thousand dollars.
ARMORIES AND ARSENALS,
For Springfield armory, Springfield,
Massachusetts: Repairs and preservation
of grounds, buildings, and machinery,
twenty thousand dollars; macadamizing
public roads in and around the armory
grounds, two thousand dollars.
For completing the bridge at Rock Is
land, being an unexpended balance covered
into the treasury under the act of July
twelve, eighteen hundred and seventy, five
hundred thousand dollars.
For Rock Island armory and arsenal,
Rock Island, Illinois : Containing the de
velopment of water-power, two hundred
thousand dollars ; constructing permanent
workshop, two hundred thousand dollars;
purchasing and layingpipe, eight thousand
dollars; two blocks of subaltern officers'
quarters, fifty-five thousand dollars; mac
adamizing main avenues and streets, five
thousand dollars; tools and machinery re
quired for new shops nearly completed,
twenty thousand dollars.
For Alleghany arsenal, Pittsburg, Pa.:
For repairs to public buildings, grounds,
and machinery, one thousand five hundred
dollars; one-half the cost of grading, pa
ving, and curbing on Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth streets, from Butler street to Penn
avenue, and on Penn avenue, between
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets, eleven
thousand seven hundred dollars.
For Augusta arsenal,-Augusta, Georgia :
Quarters for married soldies, one thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For Beniciaarsenal, Benicia, California:
Permanent barracks for enlisted men, and
cistern fcr same, fifty two thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven dollars; cistern
for new office, two thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-seven dollars; brick reser
voir, fourteen thousand two hundred and
eibhty-six dollars; guard house and fire
engine house, eleven thousand four hun
dred and twenty-nine dollars ; grading and
improving arsenalgrounds, five thousand
dollars; repairs of public buildings and
machinery, one thousand dollars.
For Columbus arsenal,'Columbus, Ohio,;
Cisterns and wells, one thousand dollars;.
grading grounds, making ror ds, and drains,
five thousand dollars ; repairs to buildings,
one thousand dollars.
For Charleston arsenal, Charleston,
South Carolina, repairs of officers' quar
ters, enlisted men's barracks, and other
public buildings, grounds, fences, and
draines, five thousand dollars.
For Detroit arsenal, Dearboruville,
Michigan, repairs to public buildings and
grounds, five hundred dollars.
For Fort Monroe arsenal, including
gun-yard with new fence, three thousand
dollars ; repairing two store-houses, one
thousand five hundred dollars; painting
and repairing public buildings, one thous
and five hundred dollars.
For Fort Union arseuel, New Mexico,
one set of quarters, one thousand five hun
dred and seventy-five dollars; repairing
buildings and grounds, three thousand
dollars.
For Frankford arsenal, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, introducing water into quar
ters and offices, one thousand dollars; re
pairing boundary walls and embankments,
three thousand eight hundred dollars; re
pairs to public buildings, one thousand
dollars; repairs to machinery, five thous
and dollars.
For Indianapolis arsenal, Indianapolis,
Indiana, Guard-house and gateway at main
entrance, ten thousand dollars; improving
grounds and roadway; five thousand dol
lars ;repairs to public buildings, drains, and
sewers, six thousand dollars.
For Leavenworth arsenal, Leavenworth,
Kansas, repairing buildings, fences, cis
terns, and walks, five thousand dollars ;
painting public buildings, one thousand
five hundred dollars; macadamizing road
ways, on account of wagon-road leading
from Missouri slyer bridge to the main
road to Leavenworth, three thousand dol
lars ; erecting a new magazine for storing
ammunition, twelve thousand nine hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For New York arsenal, Governor's Is
land, New York harbor, repairs of build
ings, quarters, and grounds, six thousand
nine hundred dollars.
For Pikesville arsenal, Pikesville, Mary
land, repairs and preservation of arsenal,
barracks, quarters, workshops, stables,
magazine, and inclosures, two hundred
dollars.
For Saint Louis arsenal, Saint Louis,
Missouri, officers' quarters on Jefferson
Barracks ordnance reservation, eighteen
thousand dollars.
For San Antonio, Texas, erecting a
store building for stables, wagon-house,
and store-room for forage, harness, and
tools, three thousand dollars; repairs of
officers' quarters, office, and painting
fences, roofs, and gutters of public build
ings, two thousand five hundred dollars.•
For Vancouver arsenal, Washington
Territory, repairs to public buildings and
grounds, one thousand dollars.
For Washington arsenal, Washington,
District of Columbia, improving magazine
grounds, two thousand dollars.
For Watervleit arsenal, West Troy, New
Nork, repairs to buildings, roofs, and per
manent sheds, three thousand dollars, re
pairs to bridges, roads, fences, and inclos
ing walls, one thousand dollars.
For Watertown arsenal, Watertown,
Massachusetts, repairs of buildings, grounds
and machinery, five thousand dollars.
For contingencies of arsenals, repairs of
smaller arsenals, and to meet such unfore
seen expenditures at arsenals as accidents
or other contingencies during the year may
render necessary, ten thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND
ABANDONED LANDS.
For collection and payment of bounty,
prize money, rnd other legitimate claims of
colored soldiers and sailors, viz : For sala
ries of agents and clerks ; rents of offices,
fuel, and lights; stationery and printing;
office furniture and repairs; mileage and
transportation of officers and agents; tele
graphing and postage ; eighty-seven thous
and five hundred dollars.
For support of Freedmen's Hospital and
Asylum at Washington, District of Colom
bia, viz : Pay of medical officers and at
tendants; medicines, medical supplies, and
rations; clothing ; rent of hospital build
ings, fuel, and lights; repairs and trans
portation, seventy-eight thousand dollars :
Provided, That no part of said appropria
tion shall be used in the support of, or to
pay any of the aforesaid expenses on ac
count of any persons hereafter to Le admit
ted to said hospital and asylum, unless
persons removed thither from some other
government hospital.
SIGNAL OFFICE.
For manufacture, purchase, or repair
meteorological and other necessary instru
ments; for telegraphing reports; for ex
penses of storm-signals announcing proba
ble approach and force of storms ; for in
strument shelters; for hire, furniture, and
expense of offices maintained for public
use in cities or posts receiving reports; for
maps and bulletins, to be displayed in
chambers of commerce and boards-of-trade
rooms; for books and stationery; and for
incidental expenses not otherwise provided
for, one hundred and two thousand four
hundred and fifty-one dollars : Provided,
That no part of this appropriation, nor of
any appropriation for the several depart
ments of the government, shall be expend
ed for telegraphing between said depart
ments and their officers or agents, except
at rates first to be established by the Post
master General, under section two of chap
ter two hundred and thirty of the Statutes
of eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For contingencies of the army, namely:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
settle the accounts of disbursing officers for
expenditures already made in pursuance of
law, which will not involve any actual ex
penditure, but merely transfer on the
books of the treasury, two hundred thous
and dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the treasury to
settle the accounts of disbursing officers for
expenditures already made in pursuance of
law, which will not involve any actual expen
diture, but merely a transfer on the books of
the treasury, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For payment of costs and charges of State
penitentiaries for the care, clothing, mainte
nance, and medical attendance of United
States military convicts confined in them, fifty
thousand dollars ;
For continuing the surveys of the northern
and northwestern lakes, one hundred and sev
enty-five thousand dollars.
LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For repairs and incidental expenses in refit.
ting and improving light-houses and buildings
connected therewith, two hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
For salaries of seven hundred and thirty
two light-house keepers and light-beacon
keepers, and their assistants, four hundred
an 4 thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars.
For seaman's wages, rations, repairs, sale
ries, supplies, and incidental expenses of
twenty-five light vessels, and seven relief light
vessels, two hundred and sixty-one thousand
six hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty
cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting,
repairing, removing, and supplying losses Os'
buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for
chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, two
hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses in re-
NO. 24.
newing, refitting, and improving fog signals
and buildings connected therewith, thirty
thousand dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting
lights and other aids to navigation, two thou
sand dollars.
For supplying the light houses and beacon
lights on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific
roasts with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, cha—
mois skins. spirits of wine, whiting, polishing
powder, towels, brushes, soap, paints, and
other cleaning materials, and for expenses of
repairing and keeping in repair illuminating
apparatus and machinery, and of gauging,
testing, transportation, delirery of oil and
other supplies for light-houses, and other in—
dental necessa, expenses, three hundred and
thirty-one thousand.seren hundred and seven
teen dollars.
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
For continuing the survey of the Atlantic
and Gulf coast of the United States, and Lake
Champlain, including compensations of civil
ians engaged in the work, and imclinding pay
and emoluments of officers of the army and
navy and petty officers and men of the navy
employed in the work, three hundred and
ninety-one thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the western
coast of the United States, including compen
sation of civilians engaged in the work, two
hundred and roily thousand dollars: Provided,
That the operations shall include a hydro—
graphic development of the dangers of ocean
navigation between San Diego and Panama.
For pay and rations of engineers for the
steamers used in the coast survey, no longer
supplied by the Navy Department, fire thou
sand dollars.
For continuing the publication of the obser
vations made in the progress of coast survey,
including compensation for civilians engaged
in the work, the publication to be made at the
Government Printing Office, ten thousand dol
lars.
For repairs and maintenance of the comple
ment of vessels used in the coast survey, forty
five thousand dollars.
For extending the triangulation of the coast
survey so as to form a geodetic connection
between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the
United States, including compensation of civ—
ilians engaged in the work, fifteen thousand
dollars : Provided, That the triangulation shall
determine points in each State of the Union
which shall make requisite provisions for its
own typographical and geological surveys.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
FOR NAVY YARDS.
For navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire : Repairs of all kinds, seventy-five thou
sand dollars.
For navy yard at Boston, Massachusetts :
Repairs of all kinds, seventy—five thousand
dollars.
For navy yard at Brooklyn, New York : Re
pairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylva
nia : Repairs of all kinds, forty thousand dol
lars: for building landing-wharves, dredging
and filling in, commencing quay-walls, store
houses, carpenters' shop, joiners' shop;smiths'
shop, machine shop, offices, steam-engines,
scows, boats, derricks, and machinery and
tools of all kinds at League Island, two him
dred thousand dollars.
For navy yard at Washington, District of
Columbia Repairs of all kinds, seventy-five
thousand dollars
For navy yard at Norfolk, Virginia ; Repairs
of all kinds, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For navy yard at Pensacola, Florida; Re
pairs of all kinds, twenty-five thousand dol
lars ; permanent improvements, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For navy yard, at Mare island, California t
Repairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dollars ; permanent improvements, three hun
dred thousand dollars,
For naval stations at Sackett's Ilarbor.New
York: Repairs of all kinds, one thousand dol
lars.
For naval station at Mound city, Illinois;
Repairs of all kinds, four thousand dollars.
For naval station at New London, Connecti
cut: Care and protection of public property,
five thousand dollars.
For naval station at Key West, Florida:
Repairs of all kinds, thirty thousand dollars.
For emergencies that may arise at naval
stations, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of twenty—five Galling
guns and ammunition therefor, fifty thousand
dollars.
ENDER THE DEPARTISEbiT OP AGRICIILTURI.
Fur iiaproveuient of grounds, as follows :
For labor, twe,ve thousand dollars; materials
for completing roads and walks, six thousand
dollars; for finishing terraces, four thousand
five hundred dollars; for vases, three hundred
dollars ; for tools, repairing, blacksmithing,
and similar contingencies, one thousand dol
lars ; and for completing the heating apparat
us for the new green-house, three thousand
dollars ; in all twenty six thousand eight hun
dred dollars.
Sac. 2. That the following sums be, and
they hereby are, appropriated for the various
government buildings as hereinafter expressed :
and any expenditure for any building pro
vided for under this section, otherwise than in
accordance with the limitations and condi
tions affixed, shall be deemed unlawful, viz:
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS UNDER tars SUPERVISING
AROHITNCT OP THE TRIBE:MY.
For custom-house, Astoria, Oregon : Com
pletion of the building, ten thousand dollars.
For custom-house, Cairo, Illinois : Comple
tion of the building, including grading, pav
ing, and fencing the grounds, thirty-three
thousand seven hundred and sixtyeight dol
lars.
For custom-house, Charleston, South Caro.
lina: Continuation of the construction, fifty
thousand dollars.
For custom-house, Knoxville,
Tennessee :
Continuation of the construc tion, twenty
thousand dollars.
For custom-house, Portland, Oregon : Con
tinuation of the construction, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For custom-horse,Saint Paul, Minnesota:
Completion of the b uilding, ninety-four thous
and four hundred and eleven dollars.
For post office and court-house, New York :
Continuation of the construction of the build
ing upon plans that shall limit the ultimate
cost of the completion of the building above
the sill course to a sum not exceeding three
million dollars, and subject to no other limita
tion or restriction, one million three hundred
and ninety-four thousand eight hundred and
ninety seven dollars: Provided, that theplans,
estimates, and expenditures for the object
shall be so made that in no event shall the
total cost of said building exceed the sum
herein named.
For post-office and court house, Omaha,
Nebraska : Continuation of the construction,
fifty thousand dollars, subject in all respects
to the conditions and limitations in other ex
isting appropriations for said purpose.
For post-office and sub-treasury, Boston,
Massachusetts : Continuation of the construc
tion upon plane that shall limit the total ulti
mate cost of said building to a sum not ex
ceeding one million five hundred thousand
dollars, and subject to no other limitation or
restriction, nine hundred and forty-two thous
and five hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For branch mint, San Francisco, California
Completion of the building, five hundred thous
and dollars,
Far Treasury building, Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia : For annual repairs and
improvements, fifteen thousand dollars.
For protection of Treasury building on Fif
teenth street, and repairs of side-walk, nine
teen thousand eighte.n hundred and sixteen
dollars.
For custom-house, New Orleans, Louisiana:
Continuing the completion of the building un
der the last modified plans submitted by the
Supervising Architect of the Treasury in his
letter of February six.eon hundred and seven
ty-one, or that portion thereof which substi
tutes a east-iron cornice, and reduces the total
estimate for the completion of the building to
six hundred and twenty thousand dollars, of
which estimate the sum of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars are hereby appropria
ted.
For the purchase of a site and the erection
of a building for a customhouse and post—
office at Machias, Maine, twenty thousand dol
lars heretofore appropriated.
To complete the construction of the custom
house building in Portland, Maine, forty-two
thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dol
lars and ninety-nine cents.
For the preparation and furniture of as ad
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