Brought forward Appropriations, &c.-Continued. heirs of Abel S. Lee, or their legal representatives, the sum of $2,915 with interest That so much of "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov- And the said Charles P. Birkett is hereby authorized and empowered to institute and For the survey of lands for allotments to the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail bands of Sioux For the removal of the Muache, Capote, and Weeminuche bands of Ute Indians to the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution: For preservation and care of the Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory building: For expense of Additional security against fire: For providing additional security against fire in the Provided, That all the archives, records, and materials relating to the Indians of ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. For the completion of the work of the United States Entomological Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper and the cotton-worm, the sum of Το POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. pay George H. Giddings, late contractor, for one month's extra pay on discontinuance of a portion of route numbered 8076, Texas, which went into effect July 1, 1861, in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney-General.. COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims .$14,462, 752 27 10,000 00 20,000 00 23, 000 00 5, 000 00 2,500 00 3, 000 00 20,000 00 250,000 00 10, 000 00 14,583 33 125, 000 00 Carried forward 14, 945, 835 60 Brought forward....... Appropriations, &c.-Continued. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. MISCELLANEOUS. ..$14,945, 835 60 Defending suits and claims for seizure of captured or abandoned property: For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury or his agents for the seizure of captured or abandoned property, and for the examination of witnesses in claims against the United States pending in any Department, and for the defense of the United States in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General Prosecution and collection of claims: For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due to the United States, to be expeuded under the direction of the Attorney-General Punishing violations of intercourse acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose Prosecution of crimes: For detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, investigation of official acts, records, and accounts, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General To enable the Attorney-General to pay for the editing and preparing for publication and the superintending of the printing of the fifteenth volume of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General, including the expense of copying the same.............. JUDICIAL. 25,000 00 2,500 00 3,000 00 20, 000 00 1,000.00 UNITED STATES COURTS. Support of convicts: For support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the Dis- Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah: For defraying the contingent expenses of the BOTANIC GARDEN. For improvements and repairs to the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, as follows: For two new boilers and additional pipe for conservatory and one propagating house, $750; slate tables for west wing of the conservatory to replace rotten wood, $300 ; plumbing, $200; painting and glazing, 8-09; carpenters work, $300; concrete bottom and completing rim to fountain and curb for beds around the same, $555; hardware, 8100; concrete walks, $1,200; brick work, $100; soil to fill beds to conform to new grade, and for resetting and raising main walk, $1,190; in all.... PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, in- For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $757,000; Carried forward 15,000 00 20,000 00 5,495.00 1,500,000 00 16,537, 830 60 Brought forward. Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Department, $100,000; for the Navy Department, $39,000; for the Interior Department, $191,000; for the Department of Justice, $7,000; for the Post Office Department, $140,000; for the Agricultural Department, $11,000 for the Supreme Court of the United States, $30,000; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, $1,000; for the Court of Claims, $10,000; and for the Library of Congress, $19,000. For fire-proof extension of the Government Printing Office building, upon plans approved by the Architect of the Capitol, and the work to be done under his direction, including heating apparatus and plumbing, said appropriation to be available during the present fiscal year For the purchase of portable fire-extinguishers. For the annual rental and necessary repairs of the telephones and lines connecting the SENATE. To pay D. T. Corbin, late contestant for a seat in the United States Senate from the State of South Carolina, his expenses of such contest To pay Frederick Brackett for services as additional clerk to the Committee on Appropriations under resolution of the Senate, in addition to any other compensation he may be receiving.. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. That the parties named below be allowed the amounts set opposite their names on ac- Jere Haralson P. D. Wigginton T. M. Patterson.. J. H. Acklen. C. B. Darrall J. B. Elam C. E. Nash E. W. Robertson Joseph Jorgensen.. That hereafter no contestee or contestant for a seat in the House of Representatives shall be paid exceeding $2,000 for expenses in election contests; and before any sum whatever shall be paid to a contestant or contestee for expenses of election contests, he shall file with the clerk of the Committee on Elections a full and detailed account of his expenses, accompanied by the vouchers and receipts for each item, which account and vouchers shall be sworn to by the party presenting the same, and no charges for witness fees shall be allowed in said accounts, unless made in strict conformity to section 128, Revised Statutes of the United States. The following sums are hereby appropriated to pay the widows and heirs of members of the present Congress, lately deceased, in conformity with the direction of the House of Representatives, namely: To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the widow of Alpheus S. Williams To pay the widow of Gustave Schleicher To pay Bessie Dandridge Douglas, Evelyn Spotswood Douglas, and Mary Ellen Douglas, children of B. B. Douglas... To pay the widow of Julian Hartridge To pay the widow of Terrence J. Quinn To pay John W. Polk, late Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, two months' extra pay under resolution of the House of June 19, 1878 To pay John E Kelly balance due for services under the Doorkeeper from December, 1876, to March 4, 1877 To pay services of L. Q. Washington as clerk to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, from January 11, 1876, to February 25, 1876 $16, 537, 830 60 To pay Edward L. Parris for services as clerk of the Special Committee on the Florida 715 60 To pay George B. Hilton for forty-two days' services as page during the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress 4,828 57 105 00 To pay F. M. Schulteis for forty-seven days' services as page in the House in the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress. 117 50 Carried forward 16,653, 166 45 Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Brought forward. To pay Charles Christian for services as laborer in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House from July 1, to March 4, inclusive To pay stenographers to Railroad Committee of the Senate for reporting testimony and For services rendered and to be rendered in cleaning Statuary Hall and watching stat- To enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House to pay the widow of Frank Welch To enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House to pay M. M. Herr for ninety-four days' services as messenger in Sergeant-at-Arms's office To pay H. W. Spofford the balance of salary due him as clerk to the Committee on the That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, authorized and di- For making the necessary changes and alterations for the proper heating, lighting, and MISCELLANEOUS. To meet the expenses of collecting the data upon which to prepare bulletins of health, to To enable the Secretary of State to pay John C. Myers, late consul-general at Shanghai, pay David L. Smith, late captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States Army, 8869.47, on account of subsistence of the Army, 1871, and prior years, as per Comptroller's report No. 1597, January 16, 1879 To reimburse William Beantor, of Oregon, for moneys taken from him under the rules of That all sums due upon certificates issued, or which may be issued by the accounting agents, telegraphing, postage, and post-office money orders; and the sum of $50,000 is Carried forward $16,653, 166 45 406 66 229 50 1,440 00 1.000 00 2,500 00 101 90 470 00 264 00 30,000 00 300 00 2,283 81 633 37 869 47 992 57 64,000 00 16,758, 657 73 Brought forward.. Appropriations, &c.—Continued. .816, 758, 657 73 And provided further, That the sum or sums now held by the Treasurer of the United States, turned over to him under the Attorney-General's decision of December 30, 1878, by the chief disbursing officer of the Freedmen's Branch of the Adjutant-General's Office, as the balance in said officer's hands of moneys due and unpaid on account of adjusted claims of the class contemplated in the first clause of this section, shall be turned over to the paymaster who may be charged by the Paymaster-General with the payment of such claims, to be by him paid to the proper claimants under the restrictions imposed in said section. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. That the sum of $1,632,098.78 be, and is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of paying one-half of the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880.. Namely: For improvements and repairs, as follows: Work on Boundary street auxiliary sewer, $100,000; lateral sewers, $15,000; work upon sundry avenues and streets, $100,000; replacement of pavements, at not to exceed $2.25 per square yard, $150,000; repairs to concrete pavements, $100,000; material issued for permit work, $15,000; in all, $480,000. For constructing, repairing, and maintaining bridges, as follows: Ordinary care of Benning's, Anacostia, and Chain bridges, including fuel, oil, lamps, matches, &c., $1,200; replanking and painting Chain bridge, $2,500; repairing Benning's bridge and its carriage ways, 82,500; raising embankments of Anacostia bridge and repairing piers and abutments, $3,000; repairs of Rock Creek bridges, $2,000; in all, $10,200; And one of the two railroad tracks now on said Anacostia bridge shall be at once removed. For maintaining institutions of charity, reformatories, and prisons, as follows: Washington Asylum: One commissioner, $200; one intendant, 3960; one matron, $600; one visiting physician, $1,200; one resident physician, 8480; one resident physician, $360; one clerk, $480; one baker, $420; six overseers, at $600 each, $3,600; one watchman, $300; three watchmen, at $180 each, $540; one driver, $120; one hostler, $60; one cook, $120 two cooks, at $60 each, $120; five nurses, at $60 each, $300; contingent expenses, includ ing provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, hardware, shoes, dry goods, medicines, and miscellaneous items, $35,300; total Washington Asylum, $45,160; Georgetown Almshouse: Support of inmates, $1,800; Hospital for the Insane: Board and clothing of inmates, $17,000; Transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to workhouse, $2,500; Reform School, District of Columbia: Salaries, fuel, and incidentals, repairs and improvements, $20,000; and section 13 of the act entitled "An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia, approved May 3, 1876," is hereby continued in full force; For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $12,000; For the support and maintenance of the Children's Hospital, $5,000; For Saint Ann's Infant Asylum, $5,000; For the Industrial Home School, $5,000; For the National Association for Colored Women and Children, $6,500; For the Women's Christian Association, $5,000; Relief of the poor, $15,000; in all, $138,300. Howard University, for maintenance, $10,000. For the Washington Aqueduct, as follows: Engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, $20,000. GENERAL EXPENSES. For salaries and contingent expenses, as follows: Executive office proper: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each, $10,000; one secretary, $2,160; one clerk, $1,500; one clerk, $1,440; two temporary clerks, arranging, classifying, and preserving records of former governments, at $3 per day each, 81,878; one tempo. rary clerk, arranging, classifying, and preserving records of former governments, at $1.50 per day, $469.50; one messenger, $840; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, $2,712 50; in all, $21,000. Auditor and comptroller's office: Auditor and comptroller, $3,000; one bookkeeper, $1,800; one clerk, $1,500; three clerks, at $1,400, $4,200; one clerk, $1,200; contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, 8860; one clerk, in charge of special assessment branch, $2,160; two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400; one clerk, at $3 per day, $940; two clerks, at $1.50 per day each, $940; in all, $19,000. Sinking-fund office: Two clerks, at $1,200, $2,400; contingent expenses, $300; in all, $2,700. Coroner's office: One coroner, $1,800; contingent expenses, including books, station. ery, and jury and witness fees, $700; in all, $2,500. Collector's office: Collector, $3,000; one clerk, $1,500; one clerk, $1,200; one clerk, $1,000; one clerk, 8960; one clerk, at $3 per day, $940; one messenger, $480; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, $4,720; in all, $13,800. Attorney's office: One attorney, $4,000; one assistant attorney, $1.900; one special as sistant attorney, $960; one clerk, $960; one clerk, $192; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, $988; in all, $9,000. And for the expenses of a revision of the laws of the District of Columbia, $5,000. Treasurer's office: Treasurer and assessor, $3,000; one clerk, $1,200; one messenger, $900; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, car fare, and so forth, $200; in all, $5,300. Inspector's of buildings office: One inspector, $2,400; one assistant inspector and draughtsman, $1,700; one assistant inspector, $1,000; one messenger, $480; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, $300; in all, $5,880. Carried forward H. MIS. 34- -3 $1,632, 09 8 78 18, 390, 756 51 |