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Appropriations, &c.—Continued.

expenses, headstones, and digging graves, $350; improvement of grounds. $500; repairs and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, $4,500; and for support of beneficiaries, $43,500; in all..

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

For support of the medical department, for surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commis-
sion, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey.
For the naval hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at Ports-
mouth, N. H.; Chelsea, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Annapolis, Md ;
Washington, D. C.; Norfolk, Va.; Pensacola, Fla.; Mare Island, Cal.; and Yokohama,
Japan

For contingent expenses of the bureau: For freight on medical stores; transportation of
insane patients to the government hospitals: advertising; telegraphing: purchase of
books; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; purchase and repair of
wagons, harness; purchase and feed of horses, cows; trees, garden tools, and seeds...
For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads,
wharves, out-houses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farins, and

cemeteries

For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory: For the maintenance of the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory.

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations for officers, seamen, and
marines; expenses of inspectors and storehouses; and for purchase of water for ships.
For the purchase of small-stores...
For civil establishment....

For contingent expenses: For freight and charges on shipments; candles and fuel; books
and blanks; stationery; advertising and commissions on sales: toll ferriages, and car-
tickets; postage, telegrams, and express charges; and yeomen's stores, iron safes, ice,
newspapers, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary: purchase of materials and
stores of all kinds; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; preservation of mate-
rials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care
and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; and incidental ex-
penses, namely, advertising and foreign postage
For the civil establishment..

BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING.

For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval vessels; for fitting, re-
pairs, and preservation of machinery and tools in the several navy-yards; for labor in
navy-yards and stations not included above, and incidental expenses; and for purchase
and preservation of oils, coals, metals, and all materials and stores...
For the civil establishment

For the purchase of one testing machine for making tests of plate iron, and so forth.
For contingencies

NAVAL ACADEMY.

For pay of professors and others: For two professors (heads of departments), namely, one of drawing and one of modern languages, at $2.500 each, $5,000; three professors, namely, one of physics (assistant), one of chemistry (assistant), and one of Spanish (assistant), at $2,200 each; seven assistant professors, namely, four of French, two of English studies, history, and laws, and one of drawing, at 81,800 each; swordmaster, at $1,500, and two assistants, at $1,000 each; boxing-master and gymnast, at $1,200; secretary of the Naval Academy, 81.800; and assistant librarian, at $1,400; three clerks to superintendent, at $1,200, $1,000, and $800 respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, $1,000; one clerk to paymaster, $1,000; one apothecary, $750; one baker, $600; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, 8600; one messman, $288; one cook, $325 50; one messenger to superintendent, $600; one armorer, $529.50; one gunner's mate, $469.50, and one quarter-gunner, $409.50; one cockswain, 8469.50; one seaman in the department of seamanship, one seaman in the department of astronomy, and one seaman in the department of physics and chemistry, at $349.50 each; one bandmaster, $528; twenty-one first-class musicians, at $348 each; seven second-class musicians, at $300 each; in all

Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch and weigher, at $2.50 per day; four watchmen, at $2 per day; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works, at $5 per diem; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works of academy, one at $3, one at $2.50, and eight at $2 per day each; one steam pipe fitter, $730: one foreman of joiners, one fore man of painters, and one foreman of inasons, at $3.50 per day each; two jomers, one painter, and one mason, at $2.50 per day each; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at $2.50 per day each; in all

Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at $2.25 per diem; one masterlaborer, to keep public grounds in order, at $2.28 per diem: fourteen laborers, to assist in same, three at $2 per diem each and eleven at $1.50 per diem each; one laborer, to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public grounds, at $2 per diem; six attendants at recitation-rooms, library, chapel and offices, and store, at $20 per month

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13,067, 464 50

Appropriations, Sc.-Continued.

Brought forward.

.$13,067, 464 50

each; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at 320 per month each; in all For pay of employes in the department of steam-enginery: For master-machinist, boilermaker, and pattern-maker, at $3 50 per day each; two machinists, one blacksmith, and one moulder, at 82.50 per diem each; and two laborers, at $1.50 per diem each; in all For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements and furniture and fixtures For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships. For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for the library. For stationery, blank books, models, maps, and so forth, and for text-books for use of instructors

For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments, in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same.

For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam-pipe and fixtures; rent of building for the use of the academy; freight; cartage; water: music; musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen; telegraphing; and for the current expenses and repairs of all kinds; and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation...

For stores in the department of steam-enginery

For materials for repairs in steam-machinery

For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy...

MARINE CORPS.

For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, as follows: One colonel commandant, $4,500;
one colonel, $4,500; two lieutenant-colonels, $8,000; one adjutant and inspector, one
quartermaster, and one paymaster, two at $3,500 and one at $3.000 per annum, $10,000;
four majors. $14,000; two assistant quartermasters, one at $2,800 and one at $2,600
per annum, $5,400; twenty captains, one at $2.520 and nineteen at $2,340 per annum.
$46,980; thirty first lieutenants, fifteen at $1,950, thirteen at $1,800, and two at $1,650
per annum, $55.950; twenty second lieutenants, eleven at $1,510 and nine at $1,400 per
anuum, $29,540; one brigadier-general (retired list), $4.125; one lieutenant-colonel (re-
tired list), $3,000; four majors (retired list), three at $2.625 and one at $2,250 per annum,
$10,125; one assistant quartermaster (retired list), $2,100; three captains (retired list),
one at $1,620, one at $1,485, and one at $1,350 per annum, $4,455; two first lieutenants
(retired list), $2,700; three second lieutenants (retired list), one at $1,155 and two at
$1,050 per annum, $3.255; one leader of the band, $1,080; one sergeant major, one quar-
termaster-sergeant, and one drum-major, $1,080; fifty first sergeants, $16,200; one hun-
dred and forty sergeants, ninety at $17 and fifty at $22 per month. $31,560; one hundred
and eighty corporals, one hundred and thirty at $15 and fifty at $20 per month, $35,400;
thirty musicians, seven at $40, eight at $26, and fifteen at $23 per month, $9,996; ninety-
six drummers and fifers, $17,736; one thousand five hundred privates, six hundred at
$13, five hundred at $16, four hundred at $18 per month, $276,000; ten clerks and two
messengers, $15,715; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn. $20,000;
transportation of officers traveling without troops. $5,000; commutation of quarters for
officers where there are no public buildings, $10,000; in all.
For provisions..

For clothing.

For fuel

For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, $939; three mechanics, at $2.50 per day each; repairs of arms, purchase of accouterments, ordnance stores, flags, drums, tifes, and other instruments, $5,000; for purchase of new instruments for the band, $1,400; in all

For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting

For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings

For forage for three public horses, one for messenger to commandant and staff, Washington, District of Columbia, and two for general use at marine barracks, Mare Island, California ...

For contingencies, namely: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; per diem for constant labor; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; labor; burial of deceased marines; stationery, telegraphing apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent; barrack furniture; furniture for officers' quarters; bedsacks; wrapping paper; oil-cloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters' tools; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine-hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, bunks; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; scavengering: purchase and repair of galleys, cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates; gravel for paradegrounds; repair of pumps; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes. Total

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8,577 50

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2,600 00

643,397 00 75,007 50

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9,696 50 7,000.00 13, 000 00

500 00

20,000 00

14,029, 968 95

By the act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications and other works of defense, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War

Also the following for the armament of fortifications, namely: For the armament of seacoast fortifications, including heavy guns and howitzers for flank defense, carriages, projectiles, fuses, powder, and implements, their trial and proof, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, and for machine guns

For torpedoes for harbor defenses, and the preservation of the same, and for torpedo experiments in their application to harbor and land defense, and for instruction of engi neer battalion in their preparation and application

Total

$100, 000 00

125,000 00

50, 000 00

275, 000 00

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

By the act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and for prior years, and for those heretofore treated as permanent, and for other pur poses.

SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION.

For salaries of the commissioners, the clerk, reporter, and messenger, $6,477.74: Provided, That so much of the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Southern Claims Commission made by the legislative act approved June 19, 1-78, as may be necessary, not exceeding $7,000, is hereby transferred for the payment of salaries of investigating agents and their expenses, and for additional clerks, for the fiscal year 1879

UNDER THE COURT OF CLAIMS.

For payment of judgments of the United States Court of Claims, as follows: To Frank O. Kihlberg, $608.89; Andrew C. Bradley, to use of A. R. Shepherd, to use of George Taylor and others, trustees, $1,800; the International Steamship and Railway Supply Company, $27,512.50; William C. Rawolle, $197.76; Edward Hunter, $73.04; F. H. E. Ebstein. $150; George F. Foote, $220.83; Frank K. Upham, $88.58; Thomas T. Knox, $208.33; William V. Richards, $323.03; James Miller, $145; Francis Moore, $140.27; Richard I. Eskridge, $147.77; George Searing, $4,632.34; George W. Griffin, surviving partner of the firm of Griffin and Porch, $2,679.12; David R. Godwin, dative tutor of the minor children of Henry S. Hall, deceased, $1,591.62; James W. Goslee, $208.86; Adolphus Erdman, $246; William Crosby, $491.78; E. M. Peterson, administrator of Samuel Ruth, deceased, $1,477.21; James F. Buckner, $177.76; Adolph and Samuel Woolner, copartners under the name of A. and S. Woolner, $801; Kyran A. Murphy, $262.68; Joseph S. Emery, $43,199.49; John C. Grund and Company, $47 50: Joseph S. Farden, $163 05; Jane Quinn, administratrix of David Quinn, deceased, $1.740; Platt M. Thorn, $558.33; to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, $58,260, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all..

$6,477 74

148, 152 84

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.

For salaries of second secretaries of legation to Great Britain, France, and Germany, at
$2,000 each

To enable the Secretary of State to make such allowance as he shall deem just and equi-
table to the widow of the late Bayard Taylor, late minister to Germany, for the extraor
dinary expenses and losses incurred by the estate of said minister in consequence of
his dying within a short period after his arrival at his post of duty.
To enable the Secretary of State to make such allowance as he shall deem just and equi-
table to Mary E. Colburn, widow of the late Justin E. Colburn, late consul-general to
Mexico, for the extraordinary expenses and losses incurred by the estate of the said
consul-general in consequence of his dying within a short period after his arrival at his
post of duty..

6, 000 00

7,000 00

2, 000 00

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.

For certain amounts fully set forth in detail on pages 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of House Executive
Document No. 31, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, being letter of the Secretary of
the Treasury transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the various depart-
ments to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and prior years:
For the legislative and contingent expenses of the Territories, as follows:
For the Territory of Dakota (being for the fiscal year 1877)

For the Territory of Idaho, for 1877, $1,727.14; for 1878, $250; and for 1879, $4,853; in all..
For the Territory of Montana...

For the Territory of Wyoming, for 1877, 8446.33; and for 1878, $3,359.54 cents; in all
For the Territory of New Mexico, being for the fiscal year 1878

For legislative expenses, namely: For compensation and mileage of the members of the
legislative assembly, officers, and clerks, and contingent expenses thereof, and for rent,
light, fuel, printing, stationery, and incidentals, being deficiencies for the fiscal year
1879, for the following Territories, namely: For Arizona, $4,220; for Dakota, $5,680; for
Idaho, $5,680; and for Montana, $5,680..

MISCELLANEOUS.

Checks and certificates of deposit, Independent Treasury: For new supply of checks to be used in the place of coin checks now on hand aud rendered useless under the opera tions of the resumption act, and for the increased number of checks now used in the redemption of United States bonds, and in the payment of interest under the different loans

Salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, being for the year 1879.

Carried forward

1,399.99 6,835 14 2,458 00 3,805 87

800 00

21, 260 00

2, 000 00 25,000 00

233, 189 49

Brought forward.

Appropriations, fc.-Continued.

For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879

For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers of internal revenue, for the fiscal year 1877.

1877.

For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, freight and telegrams, for the fiscal year Life-saving service, contingent expesnes: For fuel for life-saving and life-boat stations and houses of refuge, repairs and outfits for the same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses officers under orders from the Treasury Department; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States

For Thirty Mile Point light-station, New York, for the fiscal year 1877

For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, as set forth in detail in House Ex-
ecutive Document No. 31, third session of the Forty-sixth Congress, referred to above.
For gas, drop-lights and tubing, gas-burners, brackets, and globes, candles, lanterns, and
wicks, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1879.

That in the settlement of the accounts of Henry C. De Ahna, late collector of customs at
Sitka, Alaska, in addition to the salary and fees to which the said De Ahna is entitled
under existing law, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby author.
ized and directed to allow and pay to the said De Ahna the further sum of $1,500 in full
compensation for all expenses incurred and losses sustained by the said De Ahna in
traveling to and from Alaska and in obtaining and furnishing the Treasury Depart-
ment with reports concerning the condition of public affairs in said Territory.
To refund to B. Maddocks, owner of the schooner Ocean King, of Gloucester, Mass., the
sum of...

To adjust the settled account of James Crawford, superintendent of the mint at Carson,
Ne v., on account of wages of workmen, involving no expenditure of money from the
Treasury, $1,332 92, being for the service of the fiscal year 1875.

To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Treasury De-
partment, for printing commissions of revenue marine officers, involving no expendi
ture of money from the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year 1877, $63.80.
To a just the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, tor engraving,
printing, and similar necessary expenses, disbursing officers' transfer and interest
checks, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the year 1878,
$1,392.80.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $250,000, made by the act of June 14, 1878, for the repayment to importers of the excess of deposits for unascertained duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, including interest and costs in judgment cases, is hereby continued and made available for the payment of all claims to which the appropriation is applicable, which are not payable from the permanent annual ap propriation provided for in section 3689 of the Revised Statutes: Provided, That the claims known as the "charges and commissions cases" shall not be paid without further legislation...

$233, 189 49

25,000 00

277 78

2.64

10,000 00

18.52

2,052 13

4,000 00

1,500 00

45.00

Indefinite.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: For the continuation, during the present fiscal
year, of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the triangu-
lation toward the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys..
Survey of the western (Pacific) coasts: For the continuation, during the present fiscal
year, of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, the triangulation toward
the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys...

15,000 (0

25,000 00

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For salaries and expenses of the Office of Auditor of Railroad Accounts

For stationery for the Dej artmut of the Interior and its several bureaus.

To pay John F. Swift, late prsio agent at San Francisco, the amount found due to him on settlement of his accents.

2,400 00

123 04

5,000 00

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

For subsistence, for the year 1879, of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, of the Indian Territory

30,000.00

10,000.00

10,000.00

25,000 00

5,000 00

For the Bannocks and others at Fort Hall, Idaho Territory
For the Assinaboines at Fort Belknap, Montana Territory
For the Indians at Fort Peck Agency. Montana Territory..

For telegraphing, and for purchase of Indian supplies, inspection, and other expenses
connected therewith, and for advertising for the year 1879

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay William Kiskadden for beef furnished the
Crows, 1876

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse Messrs. Buck & Kellogg, attorneys
at law, Emporia, Kans., for certain moneys paid and fees due as bondsmen and attor
neys in a suit brought in the district court of Lyon County, Kansas, entitled L. M. Ap-
pleby vs. Louis Primeaux..

Carried forward

9, 416 11

209 60

413, 233 31

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Brought forward.

For incidental expenses of Indian service in Central Superintendency, for the fiscal year

1877

For depredations on public timber, for the fiscal year 1877.

To pay J. A. Coffey & Co. for building sold the government for the use of the Osage In-
dían Agency, and for contingencies of the Indian Department

To pay D. R. Risley for expenses of Indian delegation visiting Washington in 1870
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the heirs of Henry Newton, deceased, for
services on the commission to survey the Black Hills, in Dakota Territory, in the years
1875 and 1876..

To pay Joseph O-Jib-Way for services rendered the Indian Department, for 1874 and prior

years..

For services of the Hot Springs Commissio, acting under the request of the President, from June 25 to December 16, 1878, at the rate provided by the act creating the commission, and for salaries of clerks, and the necessary incidental expenses incurred during said term, and for fees and per diem due the United States marshal for the eastern district of Ardansas, acting under the authority of said commission.

PUBLIC LANDS.

For bringing up arrears in drafting and other work in relation to private land claims....

PENSION BUREAU.

For contingent expenses, for the year 1879

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

For expenses of United States courts, for the year 1878..
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and district courts of the
United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses,
and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, of prosecutions for of-
fenses committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners.....
For salaries of District marshals for the fiscal year 1877...
Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah: For defraying the contingent expenses of the
courts, including compensation of the United States district attorney, and the fees, per
diem, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal in the Territory of Utah,
with expenses of summoning jurors, subpenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and
transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, of supplying and caring for the
penitentiary, arising under the act of June 23, 1874, in relation to courts and judicial
officers in the Territory of Utah, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, to be paid un-
der the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly verified
and certified...

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay certain contingent expenses of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing for the years 1877 and 1878, namely: To Evans, Ball & Co., freight to Villefrance, France, $2,171.52; to pay Bogart and Morgan, agents, freight to Brownsville, Tex., $119.35; to pay Commercial Advertiser Association for advertising, $214.40; in all....

To pay certain amounts due under Quartermaster's Department, Marine Corps: For pay
of mechanics, $1,375; for purchase of flags, drum-heads, and similar necessaries, $125;
in all

Under Pay Department of Marine Corps: For pay of clerks and messengers, $5,714.47; for
undrawn clothing. $3,000; for additional pay for one first lieutenant, retired, $225 ; in all.
To pay Leigh Brothers and Phelps of Norfolk, Va., commissions on sale at public auction
of the Macedonian and Saint Florence, United States ships
To pay John W. Bigelow for provisions for the fiscal year 1877.

To pay W. Cramp & Sons for iron furnished the Bureau of Construction and Repair, under
contracts of October 2, 1874, and April 5, 1875

To pay A. H. Lindsay for timber furnished the Burean of Construction and Repair..

$413, 233 31 2 61

299 35

884 50 231 57

2.902 10

300 00

12, 000 00

3, 000 00

3, 000 00

110,000 00

50, 000 00

185 18

6,000 00

2,505 27

1,500 00

8,939 47

479 56 15,375 40

12.353 41

7,830 51

WAR DEPARTMENT.

For pay and traveling and general expenses of the Army for the fiscal year 1879
For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, for the fiscal year 1877..
For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, for the fiscal year 1878..

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

That the sum of $466,533.23 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, the same to be credited to the United States on its proportion of the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, as established by the act approved June 11, 1878, the said amount taken in connection with the $1,250,000 appropriated by the act of June 20, 1878, for the general expenses of the District of Columbia, being 50 per centum of the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879; and all said appropriations shall be expended in Carried forward....

700,000 00 3,078 07 3, 102 05

1,357, 202 36

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