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[oFFIcIAL.]
T. A_ AV S
OF THE
UNITED STATES
{GENETLAL NATURE.—No. '77.]
AN ACT to remove political diAabilities
. impose] by the fourteenth article of the
amendments of the Constitution of the
United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and loose of Rep
resentatmea of the United States of America in
Conoress assembled, (two thirds of each house
concurring therein,) That all political disabil
ities inirsed by the third section of t'
fourteenth article of amendments of the
Constitution of the United St tes are here
by removed from all percent wh tursoaver,
except Senators and Representatives of
the Thirty sixth and Thirty seventh C m
,:resses, officers in the judicial, niiliiory,
and naval service of the United States.
head of Departnienis, and foreign minis
ters of the United States.
Approved, May 22, 1872
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 109.]
AN ACT in regard to the c..mmencement
of increased pay to promoted officers in
th 3 navy.
Be it enacted by th. Senate and House
nf Itspresentativcs of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, that the
.dau,e in s,etion seven of the act of July
ifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy.
'making appropriations fir the naval ser
vice for the year ending June thirtieth.
3ighteen hundred and saveuty one, and
l'or other purposes," which enacts "that
hereafter that the increased pay of a pro.
nvited officer shall commence from the
1:.t,3 he is to take rank as given in his
:ommission," be, and the same is hereby,
repealed : Provided, That if such officer
shall have been promoted in course to fill
vacancy, and shall have been in the per
:mmlm of the duties of the higher
zrade from the date he is to take rank, he
may be allowed the increased pay from
:hat date.
Approved, June 5, 187:1.
[GENERAL NATURE—No. 136.1
Acr for the relief of John C. Beau
moot.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of
Representatives of the United States, of
America in Congress assembled, Mit the
President of the United States, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
restore John C. , Beaumont to the position
& captain on the active list, to take psi
;ion at the foot of the .list of c ipt tins :
Provided, That the pissaze of this act
shall nut entitle the said John C. Beau-
mont to draw any additional back pay.
Approved, June 10, 1872.
[GENERAL, NATURE—No. 100.1
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An
act to establish and protect natimial
conetetie,," approved February 22d,
1867.
Be it enacted by the Smote and House
I Representatives of the United States of
merica in Congress assembled, That from
nd after the pass•ige of this act allsoldiers
utd sailors honorably discharged from the
service of the United States, who tnly die
n a destitute c Pnilition, shall be allowed
mrial in the national cemeteries_ of the
Jnited States.
Approved, June 1, 1872.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 101.]
.1N ACT relative to the entry and clear
ance of ferry boats and of bonded cars
pa-sing from one State to another thro'
foreign contiguous territory.
Be it enacted by the &nate and Housg
f Representatives of the United S!ates of
America in Congress assembled, That res.
;els used exclusively as ferry boats carry
ing passengers, baggage, goods, wares, and
merchandise shall not be required to enpr
And clear, nor shall the masters or persons
in charge of such vessels be required to
)resent manifvsts, nor to pay entrance or
:lear.ince fees, nor fees for receiving or
.;ertifying manifests, but they shall, upon
rrival in the United States, be required
to report such baggage, goods, wares, and
merchandise to the proper officer of the
customs, according to law.
SEC 2. That railroad cars or other ye
hicks laden with goods, wares. and mer
,hundise, sealed by a customs officer, un
ler the provisions of section six of the act
f July 28th, 1869, and the regulations of
the Secretary of the Treasury, passing
From one port or place in the United States
to another therein, through foreign con
tiguous territory, shall be exempt from the':
payment of any fees for receiving or certi
ijing manifests thereof.
Approved, June 4, 1872.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 119.]
IN ACT to authorize the appointment of
deputies of clerks of circuit and district
courts.
Be it enacted by the Ssnate and House
of Representatives of the Called States of
Amerira in Congress assembled, That a
deputy or deputies of any clerk of any
court of the United States may be appoint
ed by such court upon the application of
the clerk, and be removable at the pleasure
,f the court; and the compensation of any
such deputy shall be paid by the clerk ;
and in ease of the death of the clerk, his
deputy or deputies shall, unless removed
by the judge, continue in office and per
((inn the duties of the chirk, in his name.
until his successor be duly appointed a id'
qualified; and fir the defaults and mis
feasances in office of any such deputy.
whether in the litotinie of the clerk or af
ter his death, the clerk, and his estate.
and the sureties in his official bond shall
be liable; and his executor or adm'n'stra
lor rhall have such remedy for any such
defaults or misfeasances committed alter
his death as the clerk would be entitled to
if the same had occurred in his lifetime.
Approved, June 8,1872.
[GgNERAL NATURE—No. 113
4N ACT to Continue the act to authorize
the settlement of the accounts of officers
of the army and navy.
Be it enacted by the Smote and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, ghat the
act to authorize the settlement of the ac
counts of the officers of the army and navy,
approved June 23d, 1870, shill continue
and be in force for two years from June
23d, 1872, and no longer.
Approved, June 7, 1872.
. [GENERAL NATURE-NO. 115 ] •
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An
act to regulate the diplomatic and con
sular systems of the United States." ap
proved August 18th, 1856.
Be .macted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United Slates of
dznerica in Congress assembled, That
Schedule C of section three of au act en
titled "An act to regulate the diplomatic
and consular systems of the United States,"
approved Auguot ltith, 1356, be amended
a as to add to the consuls in Brazil a con
sul at Santarem.
Approved, June 3, 1872.
ENERA . II , NATURE--,NO. 102.]
AN ACT further regulating the construc
tion of bridges across the Mississippi
river.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
Anerica in Congress assembled, That alz
bridges hereafter constructed over and
across the Mississippi river under authori
ty of any act of Congress shall be subject
to all the terms. restrictions, and require
ments contained in the fifth section of an
act entitled "An act to authorize the con
struction of a bridge across the Mississippi
river, at or near the town of Clinton, in
the State of lowa, and other bridges acr•ss
said river, and to establish them es p - st
roads," approved Apr 1 let, 1872; end in
hooting any such bridge the Secretary of
War shall have due regard to the security
and convenience of navigation, to conve
nience of access, and to the wants of all
railways and highways crossing said river.
Approved, June 4, 1872.
[G ENERAL NATURE-NO. 123.]
AN ACT to declare the true intent and
meaning Jr seetjon two of an act entitled
"An act to establ:sb a uniform system
of bankruptcy through Out the United
States," approved March 2, 1867.
Be it enacted by the &nate and House
of kpresentatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That the
powers and jurisdiction granted to the
several circuit coact, of the United States.
or any justice theicof, by section two of
an act entitled “Au art to - establi-h a uni
foim system of bankruptcy throughout the
United States," approved March 2d, 1867.
may be exercised in any district in which
the powers or jurisdiction of a circuit court
have been or may be emlfdred on the dis
trict court far such district. as if no such
powers or jurisdiction had been conferred
on such district c mrt ; it being the true
intent and etc inina. of said act that the
system of bankruptcy thereby established
shall be uniform throughout the United
States.
Approved, June 8, 1872.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 124
AN ACT concerning the circuit and dis
trict courts of the United Stites for the
district of Ktnsas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Kpresentatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That from
and after the passage of this act the May
term of the circuit court, and the October
term of the district court, of the United
States for the district of Kansas, shall be
commenced and held Lt the city of Leav
enworth. Kinsas.
Approved, June 8, 1872.
AN ACT making Appropriations for sundry
civil Expenses of the Government for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
lesentatives of the United States of America en
Colinas assembled. That the f flowing sums
be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for
the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fis
cal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hund
red and seventy three, viz :
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
For Life Baying Stations.—For salaries of two
superintendents of the life saving stations on
the coast of ',mtg. Island and New Jersey, at
one thousand five hundred dollars each, three
thousand dollars; and for one superinlendeot
on the coast of Cape Cod and Block Island,
Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For fifty four keepers of stations, at two
hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of experienced surf men at
such stations and for such periods as the Sec
retary of the Treasury may deem necessary
and proper, seventy nine thousand five hund
red and twenty dollars.
For contingencies of life saving stations on
the coast of the United States, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For the establishment of life saving stations
on the coasts of Cape Cod and of Block Island
Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars : Provid
ed, That all life saving stations hereafter erect
ed shall be erected under the supervision of
two captsins of the revenue service, to be des
ignated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and
to be under his directibn.
Revenue Cutter Service.—Thirty four cap
tains, one hundred and one lieutenants, and
sixty three engineers and pilots employed,
three hundred and sixty one thousand three
hundred dollars.
For rations for officers : Thirty four .cap
tains, one hundred and one lieutenants, sixty
three engineers and pi.ots, twenty five thou
sand five hundred and eighty three dollars and
forty cents.
For pay of crews: nine hundred anal forty
two petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards,
bob, coal passers, and firemen, two hundred
and eighty tour thousand two hundred and
ninety two dollars.
Marine hospital Seraice.—For supplying de
ficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and
disabled seamen, one hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars : Provided, That no part of
this sum shall be used to support any sick or
disabled seamen entitled to be received into a
marine hospital, by contract at the lowest bid
der, except when, in the ju lgment of the sec
retary of the Treasury, the acceptance of the
lowest proposal will, for other reasons,
equally
secure the proper care and treatment of marine
patients.
National atrrency.—For paper, engraving,
printing, express charges, and other expenses
of making and issuing the national currency,
one hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay to Warrington Sommers a sum sufficient
to !make his sa'ary, from October first, eigh
teen hundred and sixty eight, to June first,
eighteen hundred and sixty nine, that of a
fourth class clerk in the fifth auditor's office.
one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.
&nate.
For folding documents and material for she
same eight thousand dollars.
For labor, eight thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the joint select commit
tee on alleged cutrages in the Southern Stases,
the sum of one thousand four hundred and
sixty three dollar,. and twenty five cents, said
sum to be carried for the purpose to the con
tingent fund of the senate.
Judiciary.
For defraying the expenses of the courts of
the United States, including the District of
Columbia; for jurors and witnesses, and ex
penses of suits in which the United States are
concerned, of prosecutions for offences com
mitted against the United States; for the safe
keeping of prisoners ; and for the expenses
which may be incurred in the enforcement of
the act, relative to the rightofeitizens to vote,
of February twenty eighth, eighteen hundred
and seventy, or auy acts amendatory thereof
oesupplementary thereto, three million two
hundred thousand dollars ; of which sum two
hundred thousand dollars shall he available
for the expenses incurred during the present
fiscal year, the said act being hereby supple
mented and amended so as to further provide
as follows: "That whenever, in any :minty or
parish, in any congressional district, there
shall be ten citizens thereof of good standing
who, prior to any registration of voters for an
election for representative in Congress, or
prior to any election at which &representative
in Congress is to be voted for, shall make
known, in writing, to the judge of the circuit
court of the United States for the district
wherein such county or parish is simate,
their desire to have said registration or elec
lection both guarded and scrutinized, it shall
be the duty of the said judge of the circuit
court, within not less than tan days prior to
said registration or election, as the case may
be, to open the said court at the most conven
ient point in said district; and the said court,
when so opened by said judge, shall proceed
to appoint and commission, from day to day,
and from time to time, and under the hand of
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1873.
the said judge, aid under the seal of said
court, for such election district or voting pre
cinct in said congressional district, as shall,
in the manner herein prescribed, have been
applied for, and to revoke, change, or renew
sMd appointment from time to tittle, two citi
=is, residents of said election district of
voting precinct in said county or parish, who
shall be of ditibrent'political parties, and aisle,
to read end right the English language, and
who shall be known and designated as super
visors of election ; and the said court, when
opened by the said judge as required herein.
shall, therefrom and thereafter and up to and
including t: nay fo:lowing the day of the
election, be always opec for the transaction
of business under this act; and the powers and
jurisdiction hereby granted and conferred
shall be exercised, as well iu vacation us in
term time.
For the support and maintenance of con
victs transferred from the Districtof Columbia.
ten thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of defending
claims under the convention with Mexico of
fourth July, eighteen hundred and sixty eight,
to he expended under the direction of the At
torney GenCral, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of the necessary expenses in
curred in defending suits against the Secreta
ry of the Treasury, or his agents, for the seia
ure of captured or abandoned property • and
for the examination of witnesses in claims
against the United States pending in any de
partment; and for the defence of the United
States in the court of claims, to he expended
under the direction of the Attorney General,
thirty thousand dot ars, no part of which shall
be paid to attorneys or counsellors at law for
professional services, for appearing and as
sisting in the trial 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 capon
diture of this fund, and to whom and fur what
purposes paid.
For expenses to be incurred in the prosecu
tion and collection of claims due the United
States, to be disbursed under the direction of
the Attorney General, twenty fire thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
collect captured and abandoned property of
the United States, and to collect, and procure;
and preserve all colic iers, papers, records,
and evidence, and to take testimony as to
claims against the United States, to be paid
only upon the certificate of the commissioners
of claims, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
Miscellaneous
For continuing the collection of statistics
of mines and mining, to be laid before Con
gress, to ue expended under the direction of
the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For the continuation of the geological sur
vey of the territories of the Unite i States by
Professor F. V. Hayden, under the direction
of the Secretary of the Interior, during the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eiehteen
Itutedred and seventy three, seventy five thou
sand dollars.
For completing the survey of the Colorado
of the West and its tributaries by Professor
.1. W Powell, under the direction of the
Smithsonian Institution, twenty thousand
dollars.
To pay the hoard of public work of the Dis
trict of Columbia the porportion of the cost
properly payable by the United States g,or
' erument for the inng of the canal from Say
enth street west to Seventeenth street west,
and of the coast of the i..tercepting, Fewer
along the canal adjoining the property of the
United States government, said work being
under the direction of the board of public
works, sixty eight thousand three hundred
and sixty five dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary: Provided, That all pay
ments made under this and the preceding ap
propriation shall be made only upon vouchers
approved by the officer in charge of the pub
lic buildings and grounds of the District ;
and no portion of the money herewith appro
priated shall be used by the boarl of public
works for any other purpose whatever than
the purpose that is named in the said last two
paragraphs. And the land made by the fill
ing up of the said canal is hereby declared to
be the property of the United States. And
the said appropriations shall not be construed
to create or imply any obligation on the part
of the part of tae United States, inany respect
whatever in future.
Supervising Inspectors on Steam- Vessels.—
For carrying out the provisions of the act for
the better protection of the lives of oassengers
on vessels propelled in whole or in part by
steam and of the acts amendatory thereof, the
following sums, six.:
For salaries f steamboat inspectors : Pay
ment ofamlaries of supervising. inspector gen
eral, supervising inspectors, local inspectors,
assistant inspectors, and clerks, one hundred
and sixty five thousand four hundred dollars.
Contimgent expenses of steamboat inspect
ion service: Expenses of instruments station
ery, meetings of board of supervising inspect
ors, mileage of supervising inspectors, at one
thousand dolla-s each, and other miscellaneous
expenses, ninety one thousand dollars.
fo enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay under existing laws contractors for car
rying the mails for services rendered prior to
July first. 1869, thirteen thousand four hun
dred and sixteen dollars.
To pay Edward R. Furguson his salary as
supervising inspector of steamboats, from
March third, 1R72, to May twenty second,
1871, four hundred and twenty eight dollars
and fifty seven cents.
For loss and expense involwed in the re
coinage of gold coins in the treasury which
are below standard weight, •tnder such reg
ulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe. one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Nary to
reimburse the funeral expenses of the late
Admiral David G. Farragut, two thousand
dollars, to be paid to his widow.
Public works under the Treasury Department.
Public Buildings.
Treasury building, Washington, District of
Columbia: For annual repairs and improce
menta, fifte, n thousand dollars ; for improve
ments and repairs of heating apparatus, nine
thousand dollars.
For bontinuation of the construction of the
building, for a custom house at Charleston.
South Carolina, ore thousand dollars.
For c.mtinuation of the canstruction of the
building fur past office and court house at
Columbia, South Carolina. fifty thousand
dollars.
For paving, grading, and fencing the ap
proaches to the building for a custom house
at Mechias, Maine, two thousand doilars.
Fer continuation of the construction of
the building for n custom house at New Or
leans, Louisiana, three hundred thousand
dollars.
For continuation of the construction of the
building for a post office and court house at
Omaha, Nebraska, one hundred thousand dol
lars
For continuation of the extension of the
building for court house and post office at
Baltimore, Maryland, fifty thousand dollars.
,
For continuation of the construction of the
building for the Department of State, Wash
ington, District of Columbia, eight hundred
thousand dollars : For the east wing of the
State, War, and Navy Departments, foul
hundred' thousand dollars: Provided, That alr
appropriations for buildings under the Treas
ury Department shall hereafter be available
immediately upon the approval of the acts
containing such appropriations.
_ .
To commence the erection of a building at
Cincinnati, Ohio, for the accoramodation of
the United Statetceurt. custom house, United
States depository, post office, internal revenue
and pension offices, and for the purchase at
private sale, or by condemnation, of ground
for a site therefor, the entire cost ofcomple
tion of Which building. is hereby limited to two
million two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars (inclusive of the cast of the site of the
same), seven hundrol thousand dollars; and
the act of March twelve, 1872, authorizing the
pnrchase of a site therefor, is hereby so
amended as to limit the cost 3f the site to a
sum not exceeding five hunCred thousand
dollars.
To commence the erection of a building at
Hartford, Connecticut, for the accommodation
of the custom house, post office pension office,
United States circuit and district courts, and
internal revenue offices, one hitedred thousand
dollars.
To commence the erection of a fire proof
building at Albapy, livew York, for the accom
mattion of the custom home, post office,
United States circuit and district courts, and
internal revenue office., one hundred thousand
For necessary furniture and outfits for the
post office and subtreasory building at Boston,
and for preparing the approaches thereto, fifty
.bonsand dollars, to be plid out of the appro
priation already made.
To purchase additional ground adjoining
the site of the building occupied for the pur
poses of the ILIUM States court house- and
post office, Madison, Wisconsin, eleven thpu
sand dollars.
For machinery and apparatus for the new
branch mint building at San Francisco, Cal
ifttrnia, oat hundred and sixty thousand
ollars
Lighthouses, Reacons, and Fog Signal..
Burnt Coat Harbor light station : For t,
beacon lights, to serve as a range on the coast
of Maine, ten thousand dollars, and any bal
ance of the appropriation of ten thousand
dollars by act of March third, 1872, that may
remain i❑ the treasury June thirtieth, 1872.
For a ste,m fog signal on Seguin is'and, at
the mouth of the Kennebec river, on the coast
of liaise, five thousand dollars.
or lighthouse at Vil)od Ead, Provincotown
harbor, — Massachusetts, fifteen' thousand do]
For re-establi.hing and sitting up two
small beacon lights in the harbor of Newberry
port, the site of one of which has been washed
by a storm, ten tho•isand dollars.
For steam fog signal at Beaver TAB light
statioi, on the coast of R:tode bland, five
thousand dollars.
For erecting a portable beacon at Bullock's
pgint, on the east side of Providence river,
Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For fig bell for Newport Harbor lig,ht station
Rhode Island, eight hundred dollars.
Fur ntablishin a eta tin f,g signal at
Point Judith light station, coast of Rhode
Island, five thousand dollars.
For completing the light house at Long
Beach bar, Gardiner bay, Long island sound,
according to the original design, twenty
thousand dollars.
For a small , ight to mark the entrance to
the anchorage inside of Shipping point, Poto
mac river, Virginia, nine thousand dollars.
For completing the light house tower and
buildings at Bodie's island, North Carolina,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For rebuilding keeper's dwelling, and ren
ovation and repairs at Cape Lockout light
station, North Carolina, five thousand dollars.
For a second-class light, on.or near Hunting
island, South Carolina, twenty five thousand
dollars; and such site as may be necessary for
such light shall be selected on lands now in
the possession of the Halted States by the
light house board, and such site shall be ex
empted from the operation of any law pro
viding for the restoration to the fa rmer owners
of lands sold for direct taxes.
For completing the rebuilding of the first
class light house and keeper's dwelling at
Saint Agustine, Florida, in addition to any
balance of the former appropriation that may
remain unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy two, twenty thousand,
dollars.
For completing the erection of the iron light.
house structure on the foundation at South
west Pass light station, Louisiana, twenty five
thousand dollars.
For erection of a light house on the north
side of Presque isle, Erie, Pennsylvania, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the light house and keeper's
dwelling at Gibraltar light station, in the .
Detroit river, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
Light House Establishment.—For repairs and
incidental expenses in refitting and improving
light houses and buildings connected there
with, two hundred thousand dollars.
For salaries of seven hundred and thirty
two light house keepers and light beacon
keepers, and their assistants, four hundred
and thirty nine thousand two bundrel dollar..
Department of the Interior.
Pthlic Lands.—For rent of office of survey
or general of Louisiana, fuel, books, station
ery, sad other incidental expenses, two thou
sand five hundred dollars; and for clerks in
his office, one thousand sevelhundr,d dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Florida, fuel, books, stationery, and other in
cidental expenses, one thousand five hundred
dolitrs ; stud for clerks in his office, one
tholsand seven hundred dollars.
Fbr rent of office of 'surveyor general' of
Minnesota, fuel, hooks, stationery, and other
incidental expe ises, two thousand two hun
drel dollars ; and for clerks in his office, three
thousand seven hundred dollars.
Nor rent of office of survey r general of Ida
ho Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and oth
er incidental expenses, two thousand five
huidred dollars; and for clerks in his office,
four thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor general of
Nevada, fuel, books, stationery, and other in
cidental expenses, three thousand seven hun
dred dollars; and for clerks in his office, two
thousand three hundred dollars.
For rent of office of s:rveyor general of
Washington Territory, fuel, books. stationery,
and other incidental expenses, two thousand
dollars; and for clerks in his office, three
thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Arizona
Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dol
lars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve
dollars for township, and ten dollars far sec
tion lines, !liken thousand do lars.
For surveying the public lands in Califor
nia, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per
linear mile for standard Ilnes, fourteen dollars
for township. and twelve dollars for section
lines, sixty thousand dollars.
For survey of the southern boundary of
Wyoming Territory, at a rate not exceeding
sixty do lars per linear mile, estimated dis
tance three hundred and seventy miles, twenty
two thousand two hundred dollars.
For survey of western boundary of Kansas,
at a rate not exceeding forty dollars per linear
mile, estimated distance two hundred and ten
miles, eight thousand four hundred dollars.
For survey of the north Pru boundary of
Nebraska, at a rate not exceeding forty dollars
per linear mile, the estimated di.tance being
two hundred .d twenty miles, eight thousand
four hundred dollars.
For completion of survey now being execu
ted between the ninety-sixth and ninety-eighth .
meridan of west longitude, Indian Territory,
ninety eight thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the system of land
maps of the committee on public lands, under
direction of the clerk of the house, five hun
dred dollars.
Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from
Sales of Public Lands.—For salaries and com
missions of registers of land offices and re
ceivers of public moneys at eighty one land
offices, four hundred and fifty one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For expenses already incurred under in
structions of the Secretary of the Interior for
suppressing depredations on the public tim
ber, and for expenses yet to be incurred during
the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy two, and June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy three, on the
same account, ten thousand dollars.
Patent !)dice.—To provide for the plates of
an official gazette of the patent office abstracts
of the drawings of patents issued, forty thou
sand dollars, to be expo:v:lA under the direc
tido of the commissioner of patents.
For deficiency in contingent fund, caused
by carrying into effect the jJint resolution of
January eleventh, eighteen hundred and sev
enty one, requiring the commissioner of pat
ents to keep on band tor sale copies of all
specifications and drawings of patents, ten
thousand dollars.
Thatforty thousand dollars of the appropria
Lion for lithographing, engraving, and so forth,
,for the public printing during the fiscal yam
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy three, be, and the same are hereby,
transferred to the appropriation for the patent
office, for photo lithographing, printing, and
paper for the drawings of patents authorized
by the joint resolution approved January elev
enth, eirlitecn hundred and seventy one, en
titled "Joint resolution providing for publish
ing specifications and drawings of patent of
fice."
Metropolitan Police.—For salaries and other
necessary expenses of the Metropolitan police
for the District of Columbia, two hundrei and
seven thousand eight hundred and ninety
dollars: Prouirl4, Teat a further sum, am mat
ing to one hundrel and three thousand nine
hundred and forty fire dollars, sbaq be paid
to defray the expenses of the said Metropolitan
police force by the cities of Washington and
Georgetown, and the noway of Washington,
beyond the limits of said cities in the District
of Columbia, is the proportion corresponding
to the number of privates allotted severally
to said precincts; and the corporate autliori :
ties of said cities, and proper authorities o
the District of Columbia, arc hereby author
ized aid required to levy a special tax. no
exceed:ng one third of ooe per ceutum, wine.
shall be specially deposited once in sac.
week, as such collections are made, to be ap
propriated and expended for said purpose
only, for the service of the fiscal year esdik
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sevent)
three.
Government hospital for the Insane.—Fob
the support, clothing, medical and mom:
treatment of the insane of the army and navy
revenue cutter, and volunteer service, wh.
may have become insane since their entry bite
the service of the United States. and of the
indigent insane of the District of Columbia
in the governme:.t hospital for the insane.
including five hundrea dollars for hooks, sta
tionery, and incidental expenses, one hundred
and twenty five tuo-sand dollars.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting of
an extention of the hospital suf[acient is
accommodate fifty four patients of the excite(
class, thirty seven thousand eight hundrec
dollars.
rolumbia institution fur the Deaf amd Dumb.
—For the support of the institution, ircludin
salaries and incidental expenses, the mainte
nance of the beneficiaries of the United States.
and five hundred dollars for books and il us
trio ive apparatus, furty eight thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the ineosure
improvement, and grading of the grounds al
the institu ion, six thousand do lars.
To provide for payments due and unpaid on
July first, eighteen hundred and seventy two,
on the purchase by the institution of the es
tate known as Keuall Green, szveuty thousand
dollars: Provided, That before the expend!
titre of any parr of this appropriation, by
proper deeds of conveyance, to be approved
by the Attorney General of the United States,
all the real estate now owned by the said
Columbia Institution fur the Deaf and Dumb
shall be vested in the United States as trustee,
for the sole use and purpose provided in the
act entitled "An act to incorporate the Colum-.
bin Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf
Dumb and Hand," approved February six
teenth, eighteen hund ed and fifty seven, and
the several acts amendatory thereof.
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-is
Asylum, and other Charities —For the sup
port of the Columbia Hospital for Wonien and
Lying in Asylum, over and above the probable
amount which will be received from pay pa
tients, eighteen thousand three hundred
For purchase of the building now occupied
by said hospital, with forty thousand feet of
ground, twenty five thousadd dollars ; Pro
vided, That the titre to said real estate shall be
vested in the United States for the use of said
hospital, and that no part of the real or per
sonal property now held or to be hereafter
acquired by said institution shall be devoted
to any other purpose than a hospital for wo
men and lying in asyhan without the consent
of the United States ; and that in addition to
'the directors, whose appointments are now
provided foe' by law, there shall be three other
directors appointed in the following manner
One senator by the presideat of the Senate,
and two representatives by the speaker of the
House; these directors shall hold their office
for the term of a single Congress, and be eligi
ble to re appointment.
For custody and repair of government hos
pitals on Judiciary square, three thousand
dollars.
For case, support and medical treatment
of sixty transient paupers, medical and sur
gical patients, in some proper medicalinstitu
tins in the city of Washington, under a
contract to be formed with which institution,
twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof,
as may be necessary, under the direction of
the Secretary of War. •
Smithsonian Institution.—For preservation
of the collections of tae surveying and explor
ing expeditions of the government, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For completion of a hall requirsd for the
government collections, ten thousand dollars.
--
apitol Extensiou.:For finishing and cc
pairing. the work on the Capitol extension,
and for completing the flagging of the upper
terraces, fifty thous and dollars
For minusl repairs of the old portion of the
Capitol building, for painting, glazing, keep
ing roofs in oraer, water pipes, paverneets,and
approaches to the bu Iding. ten thousand
dollars : Provided, That a sufficient portion of
such appropriation shall be expended, under
the direction cf the architect of the Capitol
extension, to keep in order the arch ways,
door ways, rotundas, and corziders of the
Capitol.
Homilies! Carden.—For recoilstructigg the
enstorn parallelogram of the conservatory in
the botanical garden, to make it correspoqd
with that at the west of the rotunda, thirteen
thousand dollars.
For extending the propagating houses (in
eluding the use of the :,ash for the - old portion
of the conservatory). and for general repairs
to buildings, four thousand five hundred dol
lars
For the construction of a sewer and trap
across Third street, to convey the dra nage of
the botanical garden to the maine sewer. five
hundred dollars.
For continuing fence and erecting gateways
on Third street, seven thousand fire hundred
dollars.
Library of Contrress—For additional beat-
log apparatus in the library of coagreas to ba
expended under the direction of the architect
of the Capitol exteesion, two thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary.
"To enable the librarian to procure for the
library of Congress the English county histor
ies, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.
Survey of the Coast.—For continuing the
survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the
Uaited States, and Lake Cbamplain,inrluding
compensation of civilians engaged in the work,
and including 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 Uaited Mates, including compen
sation of civi iaus engaged in. the work, two
hundred and forty thousand, dollars.
For pay and rations of engineers for the
steamers used iu the cost survey, no longer
supplied by the Navy Department, ten thou
sand dollars.
For coutioeing the publication of the ob
servations made in the progre,s of coast
survey, including compensation for civilians
engaged iu the work, the publication to be
made at the government printing office, ten
thousand dollars.
For repairs and maintenance of the comple
meat of vessels used in the coast survey,
forty five thousand dollars.
Fur extending the traugulation of the coast
survey so as to form a geodetic connection
between the Atlt.ntic and Pacific coasts of the
United States, and assisting in the State our
rep, including compensation of civilians en
gaged it the work, thirty six thousand dollars.
Under the War Department.
Armories and Arsenals.—Springfield arm
ory, hpringfield, Massachusetts: For repairs
and preservation of - groundsi — buildings, and
machinery; and for curbstone for armory
grounds fronting on State street, twenty two
thousand dollars.
Rock Island armory- and arsenal, Rock
Island, Illinois ; For new forging shop of same
dimensions and architecture as shOps already
built, except 'that it will be only one story
one hundred and fifty live thousand
dollars; for new finishing shop for armory,
two hundred thous‘nd dollars, for new fire
proof barracks for enlisted men, including
messbuilding, bakery, and laundry building,
ninety five thousand _ollarsi for new powder
magazine, fifteen thousand dollars ; fur coal-
_ .
pleting development of the water power, one
hundred and ten thousand dollars; for the
construction of :avenues and roads to the Rock
Island wageobridge, and -to-the. new bridge
across the Slissiasiptai river, to the city of
Davenport, and fur building a railroad to con
nect the present arsenal railroad with the
Chicago. and Rock . - bland railroad, when
changed to its new location at the lower end
of the island, and for building two entrances
to the island from the two bridge,s andan iron
fence connecting the two entrances, and be
tween the railroad and the public wagon road
on one side and the arsenal oat the other side,
twenty eight. thousand dollars: for new
machinery for the new shops already comple
ed, twenty thousand dollars ; for laying water
pipe, three thousand dohars ; for putting six
water wheo:s (sixty five horse power each) in
the new dam, with shafting and machinery,
or transmission of pov rer to the shops alread:
use, twenty six thowand dollars ; in •a:l
hundred and fifty t wo thousand dollars.
For completion of tl,c wagon road brifig ,
-onneeting Moline with Rock Island, one bun
fired thousand dollars.
For the construction of the Rock Islam
iridge, the balance of the appropr.ation, con
limed by the act of Mara third, eighteei
iuudred and seventy one. which may be un•
xpended at the close of the present fisca.
sear, is hereby re-appropr.ated.
New York arsenal, (I,veraor's Island, Ness
York harbor, IN..w Yo.7k : For repairs of steau
..agines, tanks, tire apparatut, docks, drains
Ind grounds, and purchase of hose, nine thou
:and dollars ; for grad.ng and improving pub
lic grounds, two thousann dollars: for repair.
if public buildings, six thousand dollars ; fo:
,xtending and rep batlike,
fences, six bake,
altars: in all, s.,veuteen thousand six hull-
Ired dollars.
Magazine. Boston : For a new house fcr
;hell and powder filling twelve thousand do.:
ars.
Saint Louis arsenal, Missouri For porches:.
if a new boiler for steam engine ..t Ovate:
corks, one thousand dollars; for general ra
,airs of public budd ngs and iaclosing fences
Jeffason barracks, Missoula, two taousana
I.idars ; iu all, three thous and dollars.
Wash ngton arsenal, Washington, Distric
Columbia Fur coping for inc rising wall oa
lortheru front of arsenal gross is,
and fo
gates at the termination of Four an
t half street, three thousand dollars.
Watervliet a ;meal, West Troy, New Yori.
Air rep tiring public buildings, fif.een hundret
dollars.
For continuing the surveys of the northerr,
and northwestern lakes, one tin :dred ans
seventy
. five thousand dollars. And this ap
dropriation shall be available from the Ern.
of the passage of this act.
Buildings and Grounds in and around
Washington.—Repairs, care, and improve
meet of public builings, grounds, and work,
an the District of Columbia, under the direc
tion of the chief engineer of the arm), viz :
For fuel for propagating garden and lodges
in public grounds, five hundred dollars.
Improvement and care of public grounds
For annual repair of fences around reserve
tions, two thousand dollars; for manure, and
hauliug tile same ou public grounds, fib,
thousand du'lars ; for p tintmg iron fi nee:
around reservations, and around War and
Navy departments, four thousand dollars ; for
',lire of cuts for public grounds, flea thousand
dollars; for purchase and repair of tools for
public grounds, two thousand dollars ; for
purchase of trees, tree boxes, and whitewash
ing fences, five thousand dollars.
For improving Franklin square, introducing
water, gas, lodge, and urinals, six thousauil
five hundred dollars.
For care and improvement of the Smith
sonian grounds, tvo thousand dollars.
For completing improvements and for care
of Lafayette square, three thousand five hun
died dollars.
For improvement of Farragut square, five
thousand dollars.
Fcr starting a nursery for improvement of
public grounds, two thousand dollars.
For casual repairs of Navy Yard Bridge and
upper bridge, three thousand dollars.
Washington Aqueduct.—For repairs of
dwellings for keepers of the water"gates, one
thousand ' five hundred dollars.
For a dial telegraph connecting the great
falls or the Potomac with the reservoirs and
with the office in Washington, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
For maintenance, ineludingsuperintendence,
salaries, of gate keepers, and general repairs,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For purchase of land for road from the great
falls to canduit road, three thousand one hun
dred and thirty nine dollars.; and all the
foregoing appropriations for the service of
the Washington aqueduct are hereby made
available immediately upon the passage of
this act.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Aban
doned Lands.—For cone:Awn and payment of
bounty, p ize money, ans. other legitimate
Claims of colored soldiers and sailors. viz :
ror salaries of agents and clerks ; rent of of-
Bees, fuel, and lights ; stationery and printing;
office furniture and repairs; mileage and
transportation of officers and agents ; tele
' graphing and postage, one hundred thousand
dollars: Provided, That the Bureau of Refu
gees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands shall
be discontinued from and after June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy two, and that
all agents, clerks, and other employees then
on duty sha 1 be discharged, except such as
may be retained by the reeret. ry of War
for the purpose of this proviso ; and all acts
and parts of :tots pertaining to the collection
and payment of bounties, or othcr.moueys due
to colored soaliers, sailors, and marines, or
their heirs, shall remain in orce until other
wise ordered by Congress, the same to be car
ried into effect by the Secretary of War, who
may employ such clerical force as may be
necessary for the purpose.
Signal-Office.--:For manufacture, purchase,
or repair of meteorological and other necessary
instruments; fur telegraphing reports; for
expenses of storm siguals anuouncing proba
ble approach and force of storms throughout
the Uuited States, for the benefit of commerce
and agriculture ; , for instrument shelters, for
hike, furniture, and expenses of offices Mal.-
tained for public use in cities or posts receiv
ing 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, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War
be, and lie hereby is, authorized and required
to provide, iu the system of observations and
reports in charge of the chief signal officer'of
the army, for such stations, reports, and sig
nals as may be found necessary for the benefit
of agriculture and commercial interests : And
Pr.:tied, That no part of this appropriation,
nor of auy appropriation for the several de
partments of the government shall be paid to
any telegraphic company which shall neglect
or refuse to transmit teiegraphic commuuica
lions between said departments, their officers,
agents, or employees, under the provisions of
the second section of chapter two hundred
and thirty of the statutes of th., Uoited States
for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
and at rates of compensation therefor to be
established by the Postmaster General.
Miscellaneous Osjects.—To provide for the
payment under existing laws for horses and
other property lost or destroyed in the milita
ry service of the United States, one hundred
thousand dollars.
Secret service fund : To enable the Secreta
ry of the Treasury to settle the accounts of
disbursiag officers for expenditures already
made in pursuance of law, which w,ll not in
volve auy actual expen liture, but lunar a
transfer on the books of the treasury, lift
thousand dollars.
To provide for the payment to Bonn Pitman
for a transcript of his phonograph c copy of
the record and proceedings of the court of in
quiry in relation to the conduct of General
D. C. Buell, while in command of the army is
Kentucky and lennessee, the sum of twelve
hundred dollars.
For the purchase and preparation of instru
ments fora proper observation of the transit
of Venus, which is predicted to oceer on the
eighth of Dezember, eighteen hundred and
sevonty four, fifty thousand dollars, to be ex
pended unln the dirscioit of a c smmisson, to
be composed of the superintendent and two
of the profesmrs of m xtheinsties of the navy
attached to the naval observatory, the presir
dent of the national academy of sciences, and
the superibtendent of the coast survey: Pro
vided, That no contracts or engagements sit All
be made for such instruments to an amount
exceeding the sum hereby appropriated.
For pedestal for the eqttestrain statue of
General Winfield Scott, authorized by act of
July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy.
forty two thousanddo'lars..
eor expenses of the Usite I States commis
sioners to the International Penitentiary Con
gress at London, in eighteen hundred and
seventy two, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of the United States commis
sioners to the International Statistical Con
gress at Saint Petersburg, five thousand dol
lars.
To enable the Secretary of the interior to
provide a law library for the territory of Col
orado, two thousand live latadrel dc4lars, said
library to be selected by the ehiefjustice of
said Territory.
For preparing and Twisting a series of maps
no t exo peding twenty in number, to illustrate
graphically the quarto volumes of the ninth
consus,twenty five thousana do.lars.
Under the Navy Department.
Navy Yards.—Navy yard, Portsmouth, New
lampshire : For repairs of all kinds, seventy
ive thousand dollars ; for repairs of floa. in;
locks, eighty thousan 1 dollars ; for p:-emanent
:nprovementz, namely, for bridge connecting
ieavey's island. four thou , an.l dollars; in all,
ins hundred and fifty n.ne thousand two hand
ed dol:ars.
For coastructing ar.d testing experimental
)reech loading boat howitzers, ten thousand
lo:lars.
Eat orgenices at naval sttt'ont : or erne,
;ene;es th tt rn ty arise at nay 1 stations, forty
tiousand
Under the Departmen: of Agriculture.
Buildings and Grounds. or improvement
if grounds For labor, tw ve th a an 1 do!
.ara ; for heating apparatus for new urapery,
wo thousand dollars ; for material for roads
end walks, one thousand fivc !tau ired dollars ;
or cast irou labels fur nammg trees in aroor
:tow, one hundred dollars ; for tools, repairs,
nd blacksinitbing, one thousand dollars; for
tiles for grounds, five hundred d, l•
ors ; for terrace walls, two thousand live hued
nd do:lars ; fur rep..i,ing fence arount grout di
sue thousand dollars ;and for a furnaLe ip t
aboratory, fonrhun !red dollars ; in an, tweu ty
ne thousaud dollars.
Toward completing museum nader the
ALarge of Professor T r ownseud Glover, three
....and dollars.
SEC. 2. That out of the unexpended balance
,f the appropriation (section twenty seven of
he act approved April twentieth, eighteen
red and seventy oae) for more effectually
scoring life and property on the coasts of
Sew Jersey and Long Island.. for the fiscal
ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen and sev-
,iity two, the sum of two hundred thousand
lollars is hereby e cepted from the operation
u the fifth section of the act of July twelfth,
t•igbteen hundred and seveuty.
Sec. 3. That the sue. of two hundred and
twenty five thousand sew-n hundred and fifty
one dollars and eight cents is he eby appro
rr.ated to enable the Secretary of tile Treasu
ry to return to the clerk of the United States
district court for the southern cistaiet of
the one half of four hundred and fitly one
thousand five hundred and two dollars and
sixteen cents paid to said secretary by raid
deli: as prize money, in pursuance of a decree
it said court ma :e ou the eleventh day of May,
tighteeu hundred and sixty four, which ecru°
was afterward, to wit, on the ninth day of
June, eig,liteen handy, d and sixty five, held to
be erectile .us and set aside by said court, and
said money ordered to be returned to said
court for distribution to the lawful owners
thereof and to this end that the said secreta
ry cause to be transferred the said sum of
two hundred and twenty five thotun,nd seven
hundred and fifty one dollars and eight cents
irons the navy pet-ion fund to the credit of the
Treasurer of the United States ; the
the moneys so directed to be returned having
been deposited to the credit of said fund on
the twenty third of May, eighteen hundred
and sixty your, by warrant number one hun
dred and sixty nine.
SEC. 4. That the proper accounting officers
of the Treasury Department, be, and they are
hereby, authorized and directed, in adjusting
tae accounts of William Kapus, collector of
customs for the district of Alaska, to make an
allowance for the compensat on of Charter
H. Pierce for serv:ces rendered in aid of the
collection of the rev, nue tram customs at
the port Onalaska, in said district, of such
sums as they may deem just and equitable far
toe time actually employed, no. to exceed toe
rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per
annum.
SEC. 5. That to enable the Secretary of the
Interior to pay Standish and Ballard, attor
neys, their account for defending the register
and the receiver at lonia, Micnigan, the sum
of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
iEC. 6. That in the settlement of judgments
by the court of claims or the supreme court
of the United States, hereafter to be rendered
for cap ured or abandoned cotton, dr in settle.
meats for cct:on seized subsequent to June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed
to pay such judg,ment , , or the amounts as as •
certained upon such settlements in full with
out deduction on account of internal revenue
tax upon cotton.
SEC. 7. That the accounting officers of the
treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized
and directed, in adjusting the accounts of the
collector of customs for the port of Chicago,
to allow him, as an ex officio depositary of
moneys belonging to the United. States, a
credit for such sum or sums, in coin or cur
rency, as may satisfactorily appear to have
been held by him, as such depositary, at the
time of the fire in said city on the ninth and
tenth days of Octob r, eighteen hundred and
seventy one, and to have been lost or destroy
ed by fire.
Approved, June 10, 1872.
1829. CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1527.
FRANKLIN
FIRE INSURANCE COMFY
PHILADELPHIA
Capital
Aocrued and Prouituuut 2.916.316 88
Cash Assets, November 30. 167. 31.318.316 SS
Premien., October, 187^
Premium., November. 15"."4
Amount insured in the Burned Dis
trict. Boston 5455.196 60
Amount insured on Uutoklrte of Koine, 39,500 OU
It has been definitely ascertained that 52,000
.'over all claims epee the last item, while sal
rages already determined indicate a nct loss of not
$400,000,
Alfred G. Baker. Pre , ii drnt.
George Pales, Vice Precicl. nt.
.1. W. McAllister. Second Vice-President.
Theo. Bogor, Secretary. • •
noel W. Kay, Assistant Secretary.
G. B. ARM IT 4,0194 CO,
Agents for Huntingdon County.
declS-3t.
‘,ITATEMENT Oki SCHOOL AO
COUNT of Jacksnn toirnship School'Fund
fur year Priding June 1, int.
DR.
To amount of school tax
State appropriation
By amount lifted and pail in or
der $3017 :L
Treasurer's per centage 45 2tl
We, the undersigned Auditors of slid township.
certify that the foregoing statement to just and
correct.
Witness oar hands the 30 any of N.svember.lsn
.1. L. WILY ME.
JOHN B. g 311711. }Auditors
JNO. A. WILSON.
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or about ho let of October. 1572. a brindle bull,
supposed to be three years old. Only mark is a
small piece off the right ear. The owner will come
tbrward. prove property, pay the usual ehargesand
remove him, cr he will he dealt with as the laW
7j ,n 73-31. A. M. MYTON.
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