Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward For continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the coast, of the rivers, and of the lakes of the United States. For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific States, the Gulf States, and of the For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and For engraving and printing certificates of Centennial stock for the International Exhibition Provided, That this appropriation shall not be construed as in any manner committing the Government of the United States to any other payment whatever to meet the expenses of said exhibition. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the fourteen crippled and dis- To enable the Clerk of the House to have prepared for the Public Printer copies of all the For the purchase of a noiseless steam-pump for the heating and ventilating department of the For salaries and traveling-expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska: one agent, at $3,650 To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the account of the expenditure for "dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal Revenue Department," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, a transfer on the books of the Treasury of such sum as may be necessary is hereby authorized: Provided, That the same shall not involve any actual expenditure of money from the Treasury. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to collect, procure, preserve, and arrange for use all vouchers, papers, records, and evidence, and to take and examine testimony as to claims against the United States, to be paid only upon the certificate of the Commissioners of Claims, the unexpended balance of the sum of $20,000 of the re-appropriation made by act of June 23, 1874, is hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the rebel archives and records of captured annum To defray the expenses of conducting the sanitary service of the District of Columbia. Provided, That the commissioners of the District shall pay concurrently for such service to the board of health a like amount out of the treasury of the District of Columbia, which they are hereby authorized and required to do. For the payment of the salaries of the inspector of gas and meters, and assistant inspector, for the District of Columbia. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to repay Jacob Parmerter, of Plattsburgh, New York, the amount paid by him in satisfaction of a judgment rendered against him for an official act as collector of customs for the district of Champlain Carried forward $8, 271, 994 74 5, 000 00 47,500 00 1,000 00 30,750 00 12,549 60 Indefinite. 1,000 00 1,500 00 1,000 00 60,000 00 13,350 00 125, 000 00 200,000 00 6,000 00 5,000 00 1,060, 000 00 185, 000 00 26, 117 50 3, 000 00 684 10 10,056, 445 94 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Charles Morgan for general average on the To pay Thomas J. Durant for preparing a revision of the laws in relation to the District of To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase such works of art for ornament- And no work of art not the property of the United States shall be exhibited in the Cap- To enable the Postmaster-General to pay for not exceeding 30,000 copies quarterly of the That section 8 of the act approved June 23, 1874, "making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1875, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Insert the word "ounce" in lieu of the words two ounces." That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to rent, furnish, and keep suitable buildings, with grounds appurtenant, at Peking, for the use of the legation in China, at an annual cost not exceeding $5,000; that the period of such lease shall be for two or more years, and with renewals, as the Secretary of State shall determine; and that the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri ated, therefor. To pay the clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims of the Senate.. That hereafter the salary of the supervising surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital service shall be paid out of the marine hospital fund, at the rate of $1,000 per year; and the supervising surgeon-general shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, COAST SURVEY. For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Survey.. For general expenses of the Coast Survey, in reference to the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific For rent of office in San Francisco, Cal ....... For fuel for all the offices and buildings. For the transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; and for gas and other miscellaneous expenses... Vessels for the Coast Survey: For construction, equipment, and outfit of one schooner, of about 72 feet in length, for the observation of currents along and off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts... Carried forward $10,056, 445 94 3, 000 00 3,300 00 15, 000 00 1,666 66 106,000 00 20, 000 00 5,000 00 2,220 00 360, 000 00 231, 000 00 50,000 00 41,000 00 8,000 00 10, 000 00 5,000 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 8,000 00 16,000 00 10,945, 632 60 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward Piedras Blancas light-station, California: For completing station and establishing fog-signal at Piedras Blancas, California.. $13, 881, 632 60 15, 000 00 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. PUBLIC LANDS. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Louisiana, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Florida, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses For rent of office of surveyor-general of Minnesota, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Dakota Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses For rent of office of surveyor-general of Kansas, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Colorado Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses For rent of office of surveyor-general of New Mexico Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses... For rent of office of surveyor-general of California, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses... For rent of office of surveyor-general of Idaho Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nevada, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, fuel, books, stationery, and ! other incidental expenses.. 1,000 00 1,500 00 2,200 00 2,400 00 2,000 00 3, 000 00 2,500 00 7,000 00 2,500 00 4,000 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 3, 000 00 For rent of office of surveyor-general of Wyoming Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses For rent of office of surveyor-general of Utah Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. 2,500 00 2,000 00 For rent of office of surveyor-general of Montana Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Arizona Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a careful examination to be made for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person, firm, or corporation is now occupying any larger portion of the lands known as Rancho Panoche Grande than is authorized and allowed by the laws relating to mining lands; and that he make full and detailed report of such examination to Congress at the beginning of the next session; and to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect this provision, the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated............ SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. For surveying the public lands in Louisiana, at rates not exceeding $12 per linear mile for township and $10 for section lines, $15,000. And it is hereby provided that, out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands in Louisiana for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, the sum of $4,200 may be expended in paying for clerical service in the office of the surveyor-general.... 2,500 00 2,500 00 5,000 00 15,000 00 For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, at rates not exceeding $12 per linear For surveying the public lands in Florida, at rates not exceeding $12 per linear mile for 10,000 00 30,000 00 50,000 00 40,000 00 75,000 00 For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines. For surveying the public lands in Idaho Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines For surveying the public lands in New Mexico Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, 12 for township, and $10 for section lines For surveying the public lands in Arizona Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines. Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward. For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $14 for township, and $12 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered mountain-lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile per standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $14 for township, and $12 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands lying west of the Cascade Mountains, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $14 for township, and $12 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands lying in the mountains, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines.. For surveying the public lands in Utah Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines... For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines.. For surveying the public lands in Wyoming Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines.... For occasional examinations to test the accuracy of surveys in the field For the survey of Indian reservations and subdividing portions of the same.... Provided, That the sum of $100,000 thereof, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be applicable to the payment of such surveys executed prior to the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. For surveying confirmed private land-claims in California at legal rates, including necessary office expenses ... For surveying confirmed private land claims in Colorado Territory, at a rate not exceeding $15 per linear mile For surveying confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding $15 per linear mile. Provided, That the provisions of the third section of the act entitled "An act to reduce the expenses of the survey of the public lands in the United States," approved May 30, 1862, requiring that the cost of survey and platting shall be paid by the claimant for any private land claim before a patent therefor shall be issued, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. For survey of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona, being so much of the thirtysecond meridian west from the Washington Observatory as lies between the parallels of thirty-one degrees and twenty minutes and thirty-seven degrees of north latitude, at a rate not exceeding $70 per linear mile EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys at ninety land-offices For incidental expenses of the land-offices For expenses of depositing moneys received from sales of public lands... To meet the expenses of suppressing depredations upon the timber on the public lands.. CAPITOL EXTENSION. For work on the Capitol, and for general care and repairs thereof... And the telegraph.companies having offices in the Capitol are directed to take from the Capitol Grounds, and the streets around the same, all telegraph poles, and connect these lines with the Capitol by means of cables laid underground; and further, that the Washington and Georgetown and the Metropolitan Railway Companies are directed to take up such portions of their tracks as may come in the way of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and relay the same as may be directed by the officers in charge of the improvements of the Capitol Grounds. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to move from the Capitol Grounds all stables, workshops, and other buildings which may be in the way of the improvements of said grounds. For stable for mail-wagons, &c., for Senate, to be erected on lot at the north of the Capitol, recently purchased by the United States... For repairing steam-boilers and for steam-traps for Senate wing. BOTANIC GARDENS. For lining with wood the iron ventilators of the conservatory, $400; for sash for double glaz ing for north front of the same, $350; for concrete or other walks for garden, $800; for additional forcing-house, $1,000; for painting and glazing, $600; for fence to square on the south side of Maryland avenue, 8600; in all.. For building for soil and coal shed on the south side of Maryland avenue, $1,200; and for filling and grading the bed of the old canal, $1,500... That any moneys appropriated for the purpose of erecting a building on the ground owned by the Women's Christian Association of the District of Columbia, under the act of June 23, 1874, which may remain unexpended on the 30th of June, 1875, are hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the ensuing fiscal year. Carried forward $14, 316, 232 60 70,000 00 70,000 00 40,000 00 30,000 00 20,000 00 30,000 00 10,000 CO 191,820 00 20,000 00 10,000 00 10,000 00 27, 370 00 525,700 00 57,940 00 13, 000 00 5, 000 00 50,000 00 200, 000 00 10, 000 00 3,500 00 3,750 00 2,700 00 15,727, 012 60 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward REFORM SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. For the superintendent, $1,500; two assistant superintendents, at $750 each; matron, $600; two teachers, at $600 each; for medicines and physician's fees, $500; gardener, $720; superintendent of workshops, $600; laborer, $144; seamstress, laundress, and servants, $540; and for fuel, clothing, and incidentals, $2,696; making, in all, the sum of... METROPOLITAN POLICE. For salaries and other necessary expenses of the Metropolitan police for the District of Columbia.. Provided, That a further sum, amounting to $102,635, shall concurrently be paid to defray the expenses of the said Metropolitan police force, out of the treasury of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the duties devolved and the authority conferred upon the board of metropolitan police by law, for police purposes, in said District, shall extend to and include all public squares or places; and said board are hereby authorized and required to make appropriate rules and regulations in relation thereto. To enable the proper accounting officers to settle the accounts of Binger Herman, late receiver of public moneys at Roseburgh, Oregon, the sum of $545.77 is hereby appropriated, of which the sum of $116.53 only may be repaid from the Treasury as balance due him for overpayment on account of sales of public lands.. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. For the support, clothing, medical, and moral treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy and revenue-cutter service, and of all persons who may have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Government Hospital for the Insane. For completing the river-wall and raising boundary-walls, at their intersection with the same For general repairs and improvements, including the main-entrance to the hospital, and for i coal-vault in the rear of the east wing of the hospital building.. For supplying the hospital with water from the Potomac aqueduct.. For the purpose of paying the State Lunatic Asylum for insane convicts, at Auburn, New York, for the keeping of George Sheppard and James Blowers, United States convicts who became insane while undergoing sentence, and who were kept and maintained in said asylum after their term of sentence had expired, the sum of COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, the maintenance of the beneficiaries of the United States, and $500 for the books and illustrative apparatus.. For continuing the work on the erection, furnishing, and fitting up the buildings of the institution, in accordance with the plans submitted to Congress... $15, 727, 012 60 10,000.00 205, 270 00 345 77 150, 171 00 8,748 00 10,000 00 10,000 00 5, 009 46 48,000 00 40,000 00 COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING-IN ASYLUM, AND OTHER CHARITIES. For the support of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from pay-patients To complete the purchase of the ground around Columbia Hospital, $25,000, which shall be available immediately.... For care, support, and medical treatment of 75 transient paupers, medical and surgical pa- To aid in the support of the Children's Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia... For the National Association for the relief of the Colored Women and Children of the District SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern ment........ For fitting up new halls required for the Government collections.. WAR DEPARTMENT. ARMORIES AND ARSENALS. For Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For shop A: For a wood-working and gun-carriage shop for arsenal. For shop F: For a rolling-mill and for forging-shop for the armory And $100,000 of said appropriation for shops A and F shall be available immediately. Carried forward 24,300 00 25,000 00 15,000 00 10,000.00 5,000 00 45, 000 00 10,000 00 10,000 00 20,000.00 10,000 00 2,500 00 178,000.00 75,000.00 16,614,556 83 |