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r _ T - C. M ADDEN, Attorney:at-Law
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itinity.
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CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law,
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and all elaims of soldiereand soldiers' heirs against
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United States Laws
[Published by :Authority.]
LA W S
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESAON OF FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
[GENERAL NAT unE—No. 4S.]
AN ACT staking appropriations fir the
support of the :only for the year outing
June thirty, eighteen hundred and sev
enty-two, and fur other purposes.
Bo it enacted by the Senate and House
RepreSentatives of the Ilited Slates of
AMC?' iCAL in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in
the treasury not otherwise • appropria
ted, for the-cuppwt of the army for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and "seventy-two : •
r,:r expenses ut the comm pding Con.
For expenses of recruiting and trims.
.eurram, OTh3 limciTied and
twenty-five thousand five hundred and
eighty'dollars. - - .
For contingent expenses of the Adju
tant General's department at the head
quarters of military divisions and depart
meets, five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the signal service of
the army, five thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, and for payment
to -discharged soldiers for clothing not
drawn, twelve million three hundred thous
and dollars, of whith • sum one hunched
thousand dollars, and no more, mlty be
expended fa. pay of Indian scouts.
For allowance to officers of the army for
transportation of themselves and their
baggage, when traveling on duty, without
troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred,
sand fifty' thousand dollars.
For general expenses, such as addition
al compensation of judge advocates, re
corders, members, and witnesses while on
court-martial service, and traveling ex
penses of paymasters' clerks, and postage
on letters ztlid packages, and telegrams re
ceived and sent by officers of the army on
public business, ono hundred thousand
dollars.
For subsistence of regular troops, en
gineers, and Indian scouts, two million
nine hundred thousand dollars, of which
sum fifty-five thousand dollars, and no
more, may be expended for subsistence of
Indian se:Juts.
For regular supplies of the Quarter
master's department, to wit: For the reg
ular supplies of the Quartermaster's de
partment consisting of fuel Ibr officers, en
listed men, guards, hospitals, storehouses,
and offices ; of forage in kind for the
horses, mules; and -oxen of the Quarter
waster's department at the several posts
and stations, and with the armies in the
field; for the - heroes of the several regi
'Opts of cavalry, the batteries of artillery,
and such companies of infantry as-may be
mounted, sad for the authorized ,:umber
of officers' le roes when serving the fielfi.
, „• 1,
1110_,
~alials;
h , m 4; and of szati..mer . .i,
blank books for- the Quartermaster's de
partment, certificateti for discharged sol
,iiers,. blank ;Veins for the Pay and Quar
termaster's departments, and for printing
of division and department orders and re
ports, four million dollars.
For extra pay to soldiers employed un
der the direction of the Quartermaster'
Department, in -the crectiosi of barracks,
quarters, starehowes, and hospitals, in the
construction of roads, and other constant
labor, for periods ofnot less than ten days,
under the acts of March two, eighteen
; hundred and nineteen, and August four,
eighteen hundred and fifty-fbur, includ
ing these employed as clerks at. division
• and depat ttuent headquarters; expenses
of expresses 0 and from the frontier posts
and armies in the field; of escorts to pay
thasters and ether disbursing officers, and
to trains where military escorts cannot be
furnished; expenses of the interment of
officers killed in action, or who die when
on duty in the field, or at : - post on the
frontiers,
.or atTosts and other places when !
Ordered by the Secretary of War, and of
non-commissioned officers and soldiers;
authorized office furniture, hire of labor
ers in the Quartermaster's dparttnent, in
cluding the hire of interpreters, spires,
'and guides fur the army; compensation of
clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's
department; compansatiati of fbrage and
wagon-masters, authorized by the act of
Jmy five, eighteen hundred rind thirty
- eight ; for the apprehension of deserters,
and the expenses incident t, their pursuit;
and for the - following expenditures re
quired fir the several regiments of caval
ry, the batteries of light artillery, and
such companies of infantry as may be
mounted, namely : The purchase -of trav
eling forges, blachsatiths' and shoeing
Lords, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron,
and steel for shoeing, hire' of veterinary
• surgeons, medicines for horses and mules,
picket ropes, and for simeing the I,
corps named ; also, generally. the •
[jan.4'7l.
and litthorized expenses fur c tbe ..t
and operations of an artily Hirt expr,sly
Z3ie',lll,d crthL, depart . HMV, nine
hundred thousand dollars..
For purchase of horses fur the cavalry
and artillery, and foi Indian- scouts, fur
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, includ
ing baggage of the troops when inuring
either by land pt. water ; of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage front the depots of
Philadelphia and Je'tfersonville to the sev
eral posts and army depotS, and from these
depots to the troops in the field ; and ,f
subsistence stores from the places of pur
chase, and from the plates of delivery un
der contract, to such places as the cireum..
stances of the service may require them
to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores,
and small-arms from the lioundriem and
armories to the arsenals, 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 transpprta
tion of supplies and for garrison purposes.;
for drayage awl .. eartve at the several
posts, hire of teabaSters, transportation of
for the Pay and other .disbursing depart
ments; the expense 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 situation, require it to be brought
front a distance; and for clearing roads
harlows, and rivers, to the extent which
may be required for the actual operations
of the'rroopg in the field, four million dol
lars.
For hire of quarters for officers on mil
itary duty, hire of quarters for troops, of
storeh,,uses for the safe-keeping of milita
ry stores, and of grounds for sunnher can-
Me111.7,1f
tonments ; for the construction of tempo
rary huts, hospitals, and stables; and for
repairing public buildings at established
posts, one million dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, five
thtisand dollars. _ _
For purchase and manufacture of cloth
ing, camp and garrison equipage, and for
preserving and repacking stock of clothing,
camp and garrison equipage, and materials
on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and oth
er depots, five thousand dollars. -
For establishing and maintaining na
tional onneteries, two hundred thousand
For army contingencies, namely: Such
expenses as are not provided for by other
estimates, embracing all branches of the
military service, fifty thousand dollars.
For purchase of medical and' hospital
supplies, p.iy of private physicians employ
ed in emerencies, hire of hospital atten
dants, expenses of purveying depots, of
medical examining beards, and incidental
expenses of the Medical department, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For the Army Medical Museum :aid
ineuieftl ana otn6r necessary works for tit(
library of the Surgeon General's office,
seven thousand dollars.
For trials with torpedoes for harbOr and
land defense and to instruct the engineer
troops in their practical construction and
application, ten thousand dollars.
For completion of barracks and officers'
quarters at the engineer depot at Millet's
Point, New York, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For repairs and preservation of bridge
eluipagc, ten thousand dollars.
For .purchase and supply of material
and laher for repairs of quarters and bar
racks at engineer posts, t W./ thousand
For the ordnance service required to
defray the expenses at the arsenals; of re
ceiving stores and issuing arms and other
ordnance supplies; of police-and office
duties; of rents, tons, fuel, and lights; of
stationery and office furniture, of tools
and instruments for use ; of public ani
mals, forage, and vehicles; incidental ex
penses of the ordnance service, including
those attending practical trials and tests
of ordnance, small arms, and other ord
nance supplies, two hundred thousand dol
lars.
For manufacturing metalin ammuniti,m
for small arms, one hundred thousand dol-
For overhauling, preserving, and clean
ing new ordnance stores en hand in the
arsenals, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For sea-coasCcannon, and carriages for
the same, two hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase and ordnance stores, to
fill requisition of troops, fifty thousand'
dollars.
For manufacture of arms at the national
armory, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
SEc. 2. That the President of the
United States shall be, and he is hereby
authorized to nominate, and ; by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, ap
point a board of commissioners, to be
c,i ur at;
three e:,:eiai,sio;:ur,, nba 6hal: . bc
c• ',llulitsioncti for two years, aud..ialLeae.
it) , it shall be to receive, examine,- and
consider the justice and validity of such
claims as shall be brought before them,
of those citizens who remained loyal ad
herents to the cause and the government
of - the United States dtiring the war,
for
stores or supplies taken or furnished du-
.sing the r4e'llion for fite use of the army
of the United States in States proclaimed
as -in insurrection against the United
States, including_the use and loss of ves
sels or boats while employed in the mili
tary service of the United States. And the
said commissioners in considering said
claimsj h all be satisfied from the testimo- '
ny of witnesses under oath, or from other
sufficient evidence, which shall accompang
each 'claim, taken under such rules and
regulations as the commissioners may
adopt, of the loyalty and adherence of the
claimant to the cause and the government
of the United States before- and at the
time of the taking or furui,hing of the
property fhr which any claim shall be
made, and of the quantity, quality, and
Value of the property alleged to have been
taken or furnished, the time, place,
and material circumstances of the taking
or furnishing of the same. And, upon
satisfactory evidence of the .justice and
validity - of any claim, the' commissioners
snail report their opinion in writing in
each case, and shall certify the • nature,
thuount, and value of the property taken,
furnished or used as aforesaid. And each
claim which shall be considered, and re
jected as unjust and invalid, shall like
wis.: be reported, with the reasons there-
BA. ; and no claimant shall withdraw- w any
material evidence submitted in support of
any claim.
scc. 3. That said _commissioners shall
each take the oath of office .provided by
law to. be taken by all officers of the
United States, and shall proceed without
delay to discharge the duties under this
• 1. The President of the United States
Idl designate in his appointment one of
,iaanissioners to be president of the
acid ,hall b authuri..d. to fill any
-- rac,,,y which may occur, by reason of
death or resignation, iu said board; mid
each commissioner shall have authority to
administer oaths and affirmations, and to
take the depositions of witnesses in all
matters pertaining to their duties. The
said commissioners shall meet and organ
ize said board, and hold their sessions at
Washington. Two members of the board
shall constitute a quorum for the transac
tion of business, and the agreement of two
shall decide all questions in controversy.
The said commissioners shall have authori
ty to make and publish, rules lbr their
procedure, not inconsistent avith this act,
and shall publish notice of their sessions.
They shall keep a journal of their proceed
ings, to be signed by the president of the
board, and a register of all claims brought
before the board, showing the date of pre
sentlition, number, name, and residence of
claimant, subject-matter and amount of
claim, and the amount, if any, allowed;
which 'records shall he open to the inspec
tion of the President and Attorney Gen
eral of the United States, or of such offi
cer as the President may designate. .
St , ,c. 4. That commissioners shall make
report of their proceedings, and of ma
claim considered by them, at the, com
mencement of each session of Congress, to
the Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, who shall lay the same before Con-
gess fn•. consideration; and all claims
within this act and nut presented to said
board shall be barred, and shall not be
entertained by any department of the Gov
ernment with =t further authority of
Congress.
SD:. b.' That the commissioners of
claims shall be paid quarterly under this
act, at the rate-of five thousand dollars
per annum each, and they shaliThave au-
HUNTINGDON, PA., JULY 12, 1871
thority to appoint one clerk and one short
hand reporter, to be paid quarterly at the
rate of two thousand five hundred dollars
per annum each, and one messenger, to be
paid at the rate of one thousand two hun
dred dollars per annum, who shall perform
the services required of them respectively,
and said board shall be furtho: allowed the
necessary actual expenses el office rent,
furniture, fuel, stationery, and printing, to•
be certified by the president cf the board,
and to be audited on •voucheis, and paid
as other judicial expenses are
SEC. U. That a sufficient appropriation
to carry this act into effect is hereby made
out of any money in the treasury not oth•
erwise appropriated.
SEC. 7. That the Secretary gf War, be,
and he is hereby—authorized and directed
to negotiate with a responsible party to
build and operate a telegraph line from
Yancton, Dakota Territory, to Fort Ran
dall, Dakota, and thence to Fort Sully, if,
in the opinion of the Secretary of war,
the public service demands such exten
sion. And upon the completion of each
hundred miles of said line t the satissfise
etary of War, he is au
thorized to pay the party constructing the
same the suns of eight thousand dol
lars; and upon the completion of the
whole line Ise shall pay, as aforesaid,
the suns of eight thousand dollars per
mile for any number of miles the same
may extend over the number of even hun
dreds: Provided, That the money so paid
shall be refunded to the United States in
the use of said telegraph line at rates not
higher than charged private individuals,
nor higher than may, in the opinion of
said Secretary, be just: Provided, also,
That when the money advanced by the
said Secretary of War shall be refunded,
,is above provided, the United States shall
have no title to nor lien upon said line,
but may at all dines use the same for pub-.
lie purposes at such rates - as may be just.
SEC. S. That an amount necessary to
enable the Secretary of War to carry into
effect the provisions of the foregoing sec
tion is hereby appropriated out of any .
money in the treasury not otherwise ap
propriatel
SEC. 9. That, in accordance with the
fifth section of the act approved Jfily two,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled
"An act to amend an act entitled '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 purposes,'. approved
July first, eighteen hundred and sixty
. two, ' the Secretary of the Treasury is
I hereby directed to pay over in money to
the Pacific Railroad Companies mentioned
in said act, and perforMing services for the
United States, one-half of the compensa
tion at the rate provided by law for such
services, heretofore or hereafter rendered:
Provided, That this section shall not be
construed to affect the legal rights of the
government or the obligations of. the com
panies, except as herein specifically pro
vided.
Approved, March 3, 1871.
{G lIN ERA NATliftE—.NO. 50.]
AN ACT making appropriations fur the
certain public works on rivers and har
bors, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Beivesentatires of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums of money be, and are here
by, appropriated, to be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appro
priated, to be expended under the direc
tion of the Secretary of War, for the repair,
preservation, and completion of the follow
ing public works hereinafter named :
For improvement of Superior City har
bor, Wisconsin, sixty thousand dollars.
For improvement of Marquette harbor,
Lake Superior, Michigan, sixty thousand
dollors.
For improvement of Green Bay harbor,
Wisconsin, seventeen thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For improvement of Manitowoc harbor,
-Wisconsin, eleven thousand dollars.
For improvement of Sheboygan harbor,
Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Port Washington
harbor, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
For improvement of Milwifukee harbor,
Wisconsin, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For improvement of , Racine harbor,
Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars.
Yor improvement of Kenosha harbor,
Wisconsin, ten thousand. dollars.
For improvement of Tivo-Rivers harbor,
Wisconsin, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improvement of Ahnapee harbor,
Wisconsin, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improvement of liarbor at mouth of
Menomonee river, Wisconsin and Michi
gall, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fur improvement of the north and - south
branches. of the Shrewsbury river, New
Jersey, fourteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Aux Bees Scies
harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For the - improvement of South river,
New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the removal of obstruction of Sa
lem river, New Jersey, four thonsawridol
, tars.
- • For improvement of Manistee harbor,
Michigan, nine thousand dollars.
For improvement of Ouachita river tram
the Lonisina State line to the town of Ark
. adelphia, in the State of Arkansas, on said
river, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improvement of Pere Marquette
harbor; Michigan, ton thouiand dollars.
For improvement of Pentwater harbor,
• Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of White River har
bor, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.
• For improvement of Muskegon harbor,
Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.
, For improvement of Grand Haven har
bor, Michigan. six thousand dollars.
For improvement of Black Lake harbor,
Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Saugatuck harbor,
Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Cheboygan harbor,
Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of South Haven har
bor, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.
• For improvement of Saint Joseph har
• bor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Saint Mary's Falls
canal and Saint .Mary's river, Michigan,
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
• For improvement of Au sable river,
Michigan, ten thoushnd dollars.
• For harbor of refuge, Lake Huron,
• Michigan, one hundred thous:ind dollars.
for improvement of Clinton river, Mich
igan, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For improvement of Saint Clair flats,
• Michigan, one thousand five hundred
del
lars.-
For improvement of Toledo harbor, Ohio,
fifty thousand dollars.
For improvement of Ashtabula harder,
Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars.
• For clearing and buoying the. channel
of the Scbuykill river, at its mouth, at
Gibson's point, and above to the Chestnut
street bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Erie harlior, Penn
sylvania, twenty nine thousand dollars.
For ithprovethent.of Chicago harbor, Il
linois, one hundred thousand dollars.
For harbor of refuge, at Calumet, Illi
nois, fifty thousand dollars.
For imprOvement'of Michigan City har . -
bor, Indiana, fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of )unkirk harbor,
New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improvement of Port Jefferson har
hor. Long Island, New York, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For improvement of Buffalo harbor, New
York, one hundred thousand dollars.
For improvement of Olcott harbor, New
York, five thousand dollars.
For improvement of Oak Orchard har
bor, New York, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Charlotte harbor,
New York, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Little Sodus harbor,
New York,.fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Pultneyville har
bor, New York, five thousand dollars.
For improvement of - Oswego harbor,
New York, one hundred thousand dollars.
For improvements of Ogdetisburo , hor
bor, New York, twenty-five thoussud
For improvements of Plattsburg harbor,
New York, fifteen thousand dollars. •
Fur the improvement of Peeonic river,
below the village of Riverhead, Long Is
land, five thousand dollars.
For improvement ~f. T.;arlington harbor,
Vermont, thirty tho-a,::nd dollars.
For the preservatioa of the falls of Saint
•Anthony, and the navigation of the - Mis
sissippi river before the same, fifty. thou
. sand dollars.
For improvement of the Ouachita river,
in Louisiana, from the Arkansas State line
to the mouth of said river, twenty-six
thousand dollars. •
For improvement of the upper Missis
sippi river, and removing snags, and dredg
ingrforty two thousand dollars : Provided,
That no part of such suds shall be paid for
the use of any patent. or patented machine
in which any engineer or officer employed
by the government may be interested.
For improvement of the Minnesota riv
er, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Ilia Rock Island
rapids, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For improvement of the Des Moines
rapids, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. • - • -
For improvement of the Mississippi,
Missouri, and Arkansas- rivers, one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars,
For improvement of the mouth of the
Mississippi river. one hundred and twenty
ive thousand dollars.
For improvement of • the falls of the
Ohio river, and Louisville canal, two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
• , For improvement of the Ohio river, fifty
thousand dollars.
• • For improvement or Quomist ern har
bur, Eva fliou,a4oll6ll:re.
For improvement of harluir at Cain.
Niarvlands tkm thousand
For improvement of the ship-channel in
the Patapsco river and Chesapeake bay,
leading toward the harbor of Baltimore,
fifty thousand dollars.
Tor improvement of the channel at the
mouth of Cape Ajar river, North Carolina,
seventy-five thousamidellars.
For improvement of Roanore river, be
low Weldon, North Carolina, twenty thou
sand dollais. •
For improvement of the :.hip-coral in
Charleston harbor, South Carolina, thir
teen thousand dollars.
For improvement of the James river,
below Richmond, "Virginia, fifty thowand
dollars.
For improvemant Of the Appoainttox
river, below Petersburg, Virginia, fifty
thousand dollars.
For improvement of the Rappahannock
river, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of thelfudson river,
New York, folly thousaud dollars. -
For improvement of the East river, New
York, forty thousand dollars,
For improvement of Pawtucket river,
Rh"ode Island, seven-thousand dollars.
For construction of breakwater at Block
Island, Rhode ,Island, seventy-fire thou
sand dollars.
For improvement of Pawtucket river,
Rhode Island and Connectlent, tan th‘in
sand dollars.'
Foi improvement of Thames river, Con.
necticut, fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Connecticut ravcr,
above Hartford and below Holyoke, twenty
thousand dollars.
For improvenicat of connecticut river,
bolos Hartford, thirty-five thousand dol
lars.
For improvement of New Haven harbor,
Connecticut, fOrty thousand deflate.
For inTrOkctuont of the Housatonic riv
er, Connecticut, fifteen. thousand dollars.
For improvement of Bridgeport harbor,
Connecticut, twenty thousand dollars,
Fur improvement of Taunton riv,sr,
MaSsachusetts, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Hyannis harbor,
.Massachusetts, ten flaisand dollars.
For improvement of Proviueetown har
ba2•, Massachusetts, six thousand dollars.
For improvement of Plymouth harbor,
Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars.
or improvement of Boston harbor,
rssachusetts, cne hundred thousand dul-
For improvement of Merrimac river,
above Haverhill, Massachusetts, twenty
five thousand dollars
For improveinent-of Kcnnebunk river,
Maine, five thousand dollars.
For improvement of Saco river, Maine,
fifteen thousand dollars. - •
For improvement of Portland harbor,
Maine, forty thousand dollars.
For improvement or the Cocheco river,
within the town of Dover ; New Hampshire,
ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Kennobee river,
above BaDowell, Maine, ten thousand dol
lars.
For improvement or Kennebec river,
between Gardiner and Richmond, Blaine,
five thousand dollars.
For improvement of navigation at the
"Gut," opposite Bath. Maine, .;ix thousand
five hundred dollars. -
For improvemeattalthe Penobscot river,
at Baugor,-and below Maine, fifty thousand
dollars.
Forimprovemen t of Union river, Maine,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Itoy-al's river,Maine,
ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Narragaugos river,
Maine, twelve theamml dollars.
ran• improvement of Sullivan river,
Maine, ten thousand (I,Alars:. •- -
' For improvement of White, Black, and
Little Red rivers, in the State or Arkan
sas, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement of Saint Francis river,
in the State of Arkansas, ten thousand
doilar.s.
For improvement of the Little Missouri
river,
in the State of Arkansas, ten thou
sand dollars.
For improvement of the Cumberland
river below Nu.Shville; Tennessee, thirty
thousand dollars.
For improVement of Galveston harbor,
Texas, twenty thousand dollars.
For construction of breakwater at Wil
mington harbor, California, two hundred
thousand dollars.
' For improvement of the Umpqua river,
Oregon, twenty-two thousand five hundred
dollars.
Fur the improvement of the bar at the
mouth of the Saint John's river, FlOrida,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For improvement of Mobile harbor, Ala
bama, fifty thousand dollars.
For improvement of the Osage river,
3lisoouri, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improvement of the harbor at Du
Luth, _Minnesota, sixty thousand dollars.
For -improvement of
_the Wiilamette
river,- above .oregon city, Oregon, sixteen
thousand dollars.
For examination and surveys for im
provement on the northern and northwest
ern. lakes and rivers,
and the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, and for contingencies of
rivers and'harbors not provided for in this
act, one hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollasrs. _ .
Sac. if. That all moneys heretofore ap
propriated for the improvement of the,
Tennessee river, and still unexpended,
shall be expended, under the direction of
the Secretary of War, for the repair and
completion of the worksl heretofore begun
betweAl Knoxville . and Chatt:incoga, and
fir . the continuation of the works now in
progress below Chattanooga, including the
Muscle Shoals.
SEC. 3. That the Secretary of War is
hereby directed to cause examinations or
surveys, or both, to be made at the follow
ing points, namely : - At Galveston harbor,
frau' the outer bar up to the Red Fish bar,
on or nearest to the west shore; 'at Mis
sissippi city, for harbor on Mississippi
sound ; at Black river, Missouri, to Poplar
bluff ; at Current river, Missouri, from its
mouth. to Van Bitten ; at Otter creek,
Vermont ; at Norfolk harbor, Virginia • at
Eureka harbor, and at Santa Cruz,
Cali
fornia; at` Passaic river, between Newark
and Passaic, New Jersey; for ship-canal
from the head of Sturgeon .bay, Wiscon
sin, on the line now opened across the
portage through the timber to the shore of
Lake Michigan, with estimates for con
structing the same one hundred feet wide
and thirteen feet deep ; at East Chester
creek or inlet, NeW York; at Port Ches
ter harbor, New York; at Rondont har
bor, Hudson river, New - York; at Maumee
river, above Toledo, Ohio ;• at Fourche La
Faive' river, Arkansas; for resurveying of
Monroe harbor, -Michigan ; for survey and
estimate for removing middle ground at
the mouth of Black river, in Saint Clair
river. Michigan ; harbor at Stonington,
Connecticut ; at ('end Marius, Michigan;
at Viroloil;-flt Aeeotink
' bay. Virginia; at Savannalr harbor, Geor
n la; at Well's harbor, Maine; at Coosa
river, Alabama ; at Huntingdon — harbor,
on south coast of 'Long Island sound; and
to complete the survey of the Cumberland
river, and the resurvey of the Tennessee
river, from Brown's ferry . to Florence,
Alabama; at' Choctawatchee river, Florida;
at Aquia creek, Virginia; for survey of
White river, from Buffalo shoals to the
mouth ~of James fork,
.Missouri ; for the
survey of the Wabash river,
• from its mouth
to the city of Lafayette; fat survey of the
Monongahela river, from New Geneva, in
Pennsylvania-, to Morgantown, in West
Virginia .- ; for a survey beginning at or
near Guntersville, on the. Tennessee river,
to the headwaters of the Warrior and
Coosa rivers, in Alabama, with the view
of determining the practicability of uni
ting the waters of the Tennessrairiver with
the waters of the Warrior or Coosa river
for the purpose of navigation, and esti
mates for necessary locks and dams to ex
tend the navigation on said river to the
last-naMed place; for examination' and
survey of the Etowah river, from its mouth
up to Cartersville, Georgia; Mid also for
examination and survey of Atchafalaya bay
and Calcasieu pass, Louisiana; of: the
Oostenaula river; from Rome, Georgia,
up to the mouth of the Coosawattee ; at
Chattahoochee, river, below Columbus,
Creortia; at the mouth of the Saint John's
river, from Ur outer bar to Jacksonville,
Florida; at the mouth of the St. Mark's
river, from
_Spanish Hole td - St. Mark's,.
Florida; at Apalachicola bay, Florida; at
Tampa bay, at . Tampa, Florida; for resur
rey of Fifteen-mile falls; at Elizabeth and '
Nansemond rivers, Virginia; -at -Camden,
Arkansas, to Trinity, Louisiana, on Oua
chita, river: at Goldsboro, North Carolina,
to the mouth of Neuse river; at the mouth
of Licking river, Kentucky, for harbor of
refuge; for survey of the Cape Fear and
Deep rivers, as far up as LaG range, North
Carolina; at Cvivre river, Missouri, from
its mouth to. Moscow Mills; at Bayou
Bartholomew, from its mouth to the Ar
kansas State line ; for the examination and
survey of the Tangipaha and Chif'uncte
rivers, in the State of Louisiana; for the
• survey of Horse Shoe shoals, in the Dela--
ware river, below Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania; for -the survey of the harbor of
` Norwalk ; Connecticut; for surveying the
mouths of Quantico and Choppa Wamasic
bays, Virginia; for examination and sur
vey of Red river,•from the mouth to a
point above the raft in Louisiana.
SEC. 4 That the unexpended balances
of appropriations made by the act approved
July eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy.
entitled "An act snaking appropriations
for the repair, preservation, and comple
tion of certain public works in rivers and
harbors, and for other purposes," for the
.fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred anti seventy-one, are hereby re
appropriated for the purposes therein spe
cified : Provided, That any part of the ap
propriation made by this act may, at the
discretion of the - Secretary of War, be ap-
Iplied during the current fiscal year.
Approved; March 3, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 53.]
AN ACT making appropriations for the
servie3 . .of • the Post Office Department
for the year ending June thirty, eighteen
. hundred and seventy-two, and for other
purp,ses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse
of Representatives of the United States of
almerica in Congress assembled, That the
following, suss Le, and the same are here
by, appropriated for the service of the
Post Office Department for the year ending
June: thirty, eighteen hundred and
ty-two, out of any moneys in the Treasury .
arising from the revenues of ..said Sspart
meet, in conforittity to the act of July two,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six :
For inland mail transportation, twelve
million three hundred and twenty-nine
dollars.
For pay of mail messengers, five hun
dred and six thousand two hundred and
fourteen dollars. _
For pay of route agents, seven hundred
and eighty-six thousand five hundred and
sixty-nine dollars.
For pay of mail route messengers, fifty
nine thousand four hundred and four dol-
For pay of local ngents, forty-nine thou
sand and forty-four dollars.
For pay of railway post office clerks,
five hundred and eighty-five thousand
three hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge of
through mails, five thousand dollars
For foreign mail transportation, four
hundred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters,
ten thousand dollars.
For pay of postmasters, five million one
hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of clerks in post offices, two
million - six hundred thousand dollars.
For pof letter -carriers one million
- Pour hundred — thousand do - Tars.
For wrapping paper, thirty-five thousand
dollars. •
For twine, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For letter-balances, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For pay of blank agents, ten thousand
dollars. _ .
For office furniture, two thousand five
hundred (Julius.
For advertising, fifty thousand dollars :
Provided, That no part of this sum shall
be paid to any paper published in the Dis
trict of, Columbia for advertising mail
routes other than those in Virginia and
Maryland.
For manufacture of adhesive postage
stamps, one hundred and fifty-nine thous
and dollars.
For manufacture of postage-stamped en
velopes and newspaper wrappers, four hun
dred and fourteen thousand two hundred
dollars : Provided, That no envelope as
furnished by the government shall contain
any lithographing or engraving,- and no
printing except a printed request to return
the letter to the writer.
For salary of distributing agents and
assistants, and incidental expenses of agen
cy, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents,
one hundred and twenty-five thousand cltil-
For mail bags and mail bag catchers.
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for post offices, twelve thousand five hun
dred dollars.
Far balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of post offices, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For fuel for post offices, one hundred
thousand dollars.
Foi! lightF. for Fist offices, one hundred
and ten thonshnd
For stationery and miscellaneous stems
for post offices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
thousanfdollars,
For official envelopes for use of postmas
ters, thirty thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead letters
to writers, four thousand dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys,
clerks of courts, and United States mar
shals, ten thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, gild binding
drafts and warrants, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand
dollars. ' _ _ .
That no money appropriated by . this act
shall be applied to the payment of the al
leged claim against the United States in
favor of George Chorpenning, now pend
ing before the Sixth. Auditor Of the Trea
sury, or any part thereof.
SEc. 2. That the following sums, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
the same arc hereby, appropriated for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz :
For steamship service between San
Francisco, Japan, and China, five hundred
thousand dollars. .
For steamship service between the Uni
ted States and Brazil, one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. _
For steamship service between San Fran
cisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy
five thousand dollars. _ _ _
SEC. 3. That if the revenues of the Post
Office Department shall be insufficient tol
meet the appropriations made by this act,
then the sum of three million nine hun
dred and sixty-nine thousand three hun
dred and eighty-three dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be, and the
same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid
out of any money in the treasury not oth
erwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies
in the revenue of the Post-Office Depart
ment for the year. ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and seventy-tw)..
SEC. 4. That all bidders, upon every
mail route, for the transportation of mails',
upon, the same, shall hereafter accompany
their bids (where they exceed five thousand
dollars) with a certified check or draft,
payable to He order of the Postmaster
General, of some reliable banking house or
bankin ,, c institution, which check or draft
shall not be less than five per cent. on the
'amount that they would receive in any one
year under such bid. In case any bidder,
on being awarded any such contract, shall
fail to enter into good and sufficient bonds
to faithfully carry out such contract, such
bidder or bidders shall forfeit the amount
so deposited to the ,United States, for the
use of the Post Office Department; other
wise, such draft or check, so deposited,
shall be returned to the bidder, to whom
it belongs.
SEc. 5. That it shall be unlawful for the
Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company,
or any other company, or person, to pro
ceed in the erection of the bridge now be
ing constructed over the Ohio river from
the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to the city of
Newport, Kentucky, and the approaches
thereto, unless the said bridge shall be so
constructed' that the channel span of four
hundred feet, as now located, shall hve un
der said span a clear headway, at low wat
er, of one hundred feet below any point of
said channel span, and in sneh case no
draw shall be required in said bridge; all
the other spans of said bridge, which cover
the Ohio river, to low-water mark, shall
have -a clear headway of net less than sev
enty feet above low-water mark, and the
other spans of the said bridge, extending
to each shore, may be made of less eleva
tion than seventy feet above low-water mark
to accommodate a regular grade for the ap
proaches to said bridge. And when the
foregoing requirements shall have been
complied with by the said Newport and
'Esbv,abeW
WArilMiq3l
NO. 27.
Cincinnati Bridge Company, the location
of said bridge, its structures,and approach
es, shall thereupon be deemed to be legal
ized, and declared to be lawful structures,
and shall be recognized and known as a
post route. The plans for changes in such
bridge, made necessary by this act, shall
be submitted by said company to the Sec
retary of War for his approval. And, in
the event of the Bridge Company making
the changes provided for in this act, it
shall be lawful for the said company, after
they shall have made the changes in said
bridge, and the approaches thereto, as
herein provided, to file their bill in equity
against the United States in the circuit
court of the United States for the southern
district of Ohio, and full jurisdiction is
hereby conferred upon said court to de
termine : first, whether the bridge, accor
ding to the plans on which it has progress
ed at the passage of this act, has been con
structed so as substantially to comply with
the provisions of law relating thereto; and,
second, the liability of the United States,
if any there be, to the said company by
reason of the change by this act required
to be made; and if the said court shall de
termine that the United States is so liable,
and that said bridge was so being built,
then the said court shall further ascertain.
and determine the amount of the actual
and necessary cost and expenditures rea
sonably required to be incurred in making
the changes in the said bridge and its ap
proaches as hereby authorized or required,
in excess of the cost of building said bridge
and appoaches, accordiog to the plan pro
posed, before the chAges required by this
act to be made. And the said court is
hereby further authorized and required to
proceed therein to final decree as in other
cases in equity. And it shall he lawful
for either party to the said suit to appeal
from the final decree of the said circuit
court, to the Supreme Court of the United
States as in other cases, and the Supreme
Court shall thereupon proceed to hear
and dertermine the said case and make a
End decree therein, and thereupon, ifsuch
degree shall be in favor of said company,
the Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States shall, out of any moneys in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, pay to the
said company such sum of money as shall
by the said Supreme Court be so decreed
to be paid to the said company: Provided,
nevertheless, That no money shall be paid
by the Secretary of the Treasury to the
said company until the Supreme Court of
the United States, upon appeal taken as
aforesaid, shall render a final decree in the
case in favor of said company.
Approved, March 3, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE.—No. 55.]
. .
AN ACT to renew certain grants of land
to the State of Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
grant of lands made to the State of Ala
bama by the act of Congress approved
June three, eighteen hundred and fifty
six, entiitled "An act granting public
lands, in alternate sections, to the State of
Alabama, to aid in the construction of cer
tain railroads in said State," to assist in
the building ofa railroad from the city of
Montgomery, Alabama, to some point on
the Alabama and Tennessee State line, in
the direction of Nashville, is hereby revi
ved and renewed for the use and benefit of
the South and North Alabama Railroad
Company, subject to all the conditions and
restrictions contained in the act referred
to, and subject to the further limitation,
that if the said railroad is not completed
within three years front the passage of this
act no further sale shall be made for the
benefit of said road, and the lands unsold
shall revert to the United States : Provid
ed, That the lands granted by the act here
by revived, except mineral lands, shall be
sold to actual settlers only, in quantites
not greater than one quarter section to any
one purchaser,.and for a price not exceed
ing two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
SEC. 2. That the right, power, and au
thority is hereby given to the company
building the aforesaid railroad to take
from the public land, adjacent to the lines
of said railroad, earth, stone,. and other
materials for the construction thereof; and
the right of way is hereby granted to the
extent of one hundred feet in width on each
side of said railroad where it may pass
over the public lands, including all neces
sary grounds fur stations and structures
connected therewith, not exceeding forty
acres at any one station.
Approved, March 3,.1871.
[RESOLUTION OP GENERAL NATURE-No. Is.]
A RESOLUTION to amend a "Joint re
solution relating to steamboats and other
vessels ownad in the loyal States," ap
proved December twenty-three, eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine.
Bs it resolved by the Senate and Howie of Ro
-1
preoentatives of the United States of America,
in Congress assembled, That "Joint resolution
relating to steamboat: and other vessels
owned in the loyal States," approved De
cember twenty-three, eighteen hundred and
sixty nine, be, and the same hereby is,
amended by adding at the end thereof the
following : "or in conformity with the
laws of the United States."
~PProved, Match 3, 1871.
'
[RESOLUTION Or GENERAL NATURE-NO. 20.]
A RESOLUTION authorizing the Presi
dent to nominate, and, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, to ap
point Lyman (1 Spaulding a master in
the navy of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre
sentative, of the United, States of America in
Congress assembled, That' the President of the
United States be, and he is hereby, au
thorized to nominate,' and, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint
Lyman G. Spaulding, who resigned as
midshipman in Jine, eighteen hundred
and sixty six, master in the navy of the
United States : Provided, That , it appear
upon examination that he has been reliev
ed from the physical detect which led to
his resignation, and is otherwise physically
competent for service.
Approved, March 3, 1871.
[RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE,-NO. 21.]
A RESOLUTION for the relief of settlers
on the public lands.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
-Representatives of - the United States of
./Interica in Congress assembled, That set
tlers on the public lands of the ignited
States who have been required to make
proof and payment for their lands under
the act to extend the provisions of the pre
emption laws to the Territory of Colorado,
and for other purposes, approved July
fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy,
and by instructions from the General Land
Office, under date July thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy, shall have twelve
months' additional time given them under
which to make such proof and payment.
Approved, March 3, 1871.