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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, 816 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.

$14, 316, 232 60

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30,000 00

20,000 00

30,000 00 10,000 CO 191,820 00

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10, 000 00

10, 000 00

27, 370 00

525, 700 00 57,940 00 13,000 00 5, 000 00

CAPITOL EXTENSION.

For work on the Capitol, and for general care and repairs thereof...
For improvement of the Capitol Grounds, according to the plans and under the general direc-
tion of Fred. Law Olmstead, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol...

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 Washing. ton 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, $600; 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.

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10,000 00 3,500 00

3,750 00

2,700 00

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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

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REFORM SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

For the superintendent, $1,500; two assistant superintendents, at $750 each; matron, $600; two teachers, at 8600 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 Co

lumbia

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 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.

24,300 00

25,000 00

For care, support, and medical treatment of 75 transient paupers, medical and surgical pa.
tients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington or in the District of
Columbia, under a contract to be formed with such institution, $15,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior....
For the Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Washington City, District of Columbia, to be
expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

To aid in the support of the Children's Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia..
For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum in Washington, District of Columbia, namely: For
subsistence, salaries, and compensation, fuel and light, clothing, rent of hospital buildings,
medicines and medical supplies, forage and transportation, and miscellaneous expenses..
For the immediate relief of the suffering poor of the District of Columbia, to be distributed
by the commissioners of the said District.

For the National Association for the relief of the Colored Women and Children of the District
of Columbia....

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........
To complete the heating-apparatus of the National Museum

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.
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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

16,644,556 83

Appropriations, fc.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Brought forward..

For furnishing power to the shops already built..
For Rock Island bridge: For care and preservation of the bridge..

And this sum and the appropriation for said bridge for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, shall be expended in accordance with the joint resolution in relation to the Rock Island bridge, approved July 20, 1868, and the contract between the United States and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company; and the Secretary of War shall, within six months from the passage of this act, notify said railroad company to remove, from said island and from the Mississippi River, all piers, abutments, embankments, erections, structures, or tracks connected in any way with the old bridge or tracks of said railroad company over or across said island or either branch of said river; and in case of refusal of said railroad company to comply with such notice for the period of six months, then it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States to commence, or cause to be commenced, such legal proceedings against said railroad company as may be necessary to protect and enforce the rights of the United States in that behalf: Provided, however, The Secretary of War may permit the north pier of the old bridge to remain, in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress approved March 3, 1873.

For sewers, building new roads, care and preservation of water-power, painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings and bridges, building fences and grading grounds, and repairs and extension of the railroad.

For new machinery and shop-fixtures for shops..

For Springfield armory, Springfield. Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery....

For Benicia arsenal, California: For one carpenter's shop

For continuing the boring of artesian well, or, if artesian water is procured, for putting down permanent iron pipe and turbine-wheel to force water to reservoir

For repairing roads and building sewers and drains...

For permanent repairs of post, machinery for shops, and for fences....

For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as acci-
dents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary.

To enable the Secretary of War to purchase Gatling guns for the Army and Navy...
For conversion and rifling of heavy guns..

And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause an examination to be made into the
condition of the United States arsenals east of the Mississippi River, and to report to the
next Congress how many of the same can be sold without interfering with the necessities of
the military service, together with an estimate of the amount that can probably be realized
from the sale of each of the same whenever such sale shall be directed by Congress.
That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to dispose of the useless ordnance-material on
hand at public sale, according to law, the net proceeds of which shall be turned into the
Treasury; and an amount equal to the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied to the
purpose of procuring a supply of material adapted in manufacture and caliber to the present
wants of the service; but there shall be expended, under this provision, not more than
$75,000 in one year; and in the case of sale of like materials in the War Department, the
proceeds of which shall be turned into the Treasury, an amount equal to the net proceeds
of such sale is hereby appropriated for the purpose of procuring a supply of material
adapted in manufacture and caliber to the present wants of the war service; and there
shall be expended in the War Department, under this provision, not more than $75,000 in

any one year

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SIGNAL-OFFICE.

Observation and report of storms: For expenses of the observation and report of storms by
telegraph and signals, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United
States; for manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instru
ments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals, announcing probable ap-
proach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at
life-saving stations and light-houses; for instrument-shelters; for hire, furniture, and ex-
penses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river-
reports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards-of-
trade rooms and for distribution; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses
not otherwise provided for, $415,000; $30,000 of which shall be expended on the Atlantic
coast south of Cape Hatteras: Provided, That no expenditure shall be made or obligation
incurred for any amount in excess of the sum hereby appropriated .
For completing the construction, and for maintenance and use of military telegraph-lines on
the Indian and Mexican frontiers, and for the connection of military posts and stations, for
the better protection of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially
in the State of Texas, the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and the Indian Terri-
tory

Provided, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay the expenses of operating and keeping in repair the said telegraph-lines out of any money received for dispatches sent over said lines; any balance remaining after the payment of such expenses to be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt; the money received in any one fiscal year to be used only in payment for the expenses of that year. And a full report of the receipts and expenditures in connection with the said telegraph-lines shall be made quarterly to the Secretary of War through the Chief Signal Officer. And the Chief Signal Officer shall have the charge and control of said lines of telegraph in the construction, repair, and operation of the same. And so much of this appropriation as may be necessary, not to exceed $30,000 in all, shall be used in constructing a telegraph-line from Fort Marcy to Fort Bayard, in New Mexico, and from Fort Bayard to Camp Grant, in Arizona.

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88,000 00

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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Brought forward..

NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES.

For continuation of the survey of northern and northwestern lakes......

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

Amount.

$17,446, 721 83

150, 000 00

For geographical surveys of the Territories west of the one hundredth meridian
For engraving and printing the plates and atlas-sheets accompanying the reports of the
geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian..

To pay John M. Burns, contestee, expenses in contested-election case of Burns vs. Young,
tenth district of Kentucky..

To pay Andrew Sloan, contestant, expenses, case of Sloan vs. Rawls, first district of Georgia.
To pay Benjamin F. Martin, contestant, expenses, case of Martin vs. Hagans, second district
of West Virginia....

To pay John J. Davis, contestee, expenses, case of Wilson vs. Davis, first district of West
Virginia...

To pay Benjamin Wilson, contestant, expenses, case of Wilson vs. Davis, first district of
West Virginia

To pay J. M. Hagans, contestee, expenses, case of Martin vs. Hagans, second district of West
Virginia

To pay M. L. Bell, contestant, expenses, case of Bell vs. Snyder, second district of Arkansas.
To pay O. P. Snyder, contestee, expenses, case of Bell vs. Snyder, second district of Arkansas.
To pay Thomas M. Gunter, contestant, expenses, case of Gunter vs. Wilshire, third district
of Arkansas

To pay John D. Young, contestee, expenses, case of Burns vs. Young, tenth district of Ken-
tucky.

To pay L. C. Gause, contestant, expenses, case of Gause vs. Hodges, first district of Arkansas.
To pay Asa Hodges, contestee, expenses, case of Gause vs. Hodges, first district of Arkansas.
To pay C. Y. Thomas, contestant, expenses, case of Thomas vs. Davis, fifth district of Virginia.
Provided, That no sitting member who shall be unseated before the expiration of Con-
gress shall be entitled to the benefit of this appropriation.

That so much of section 38 of the Revised Statutes as requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives to omit from the pay-roll of Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress those holders of legal certificates whose election he may be notified will be contested, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

For collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors; salaries of agents and clerks; rent of office; fuel, lights, stationery, and similar necessaries; office furniture and repairs; transportation of officers and agents, telegraphing and postage

For the payment of bounties to sailors and marines under existing laws, $50,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary

For continuing the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the
Union and confederate armies, $50,000; which shall be available from and after the passage
of this act; and where extra services are performed after office hours, and in addition to
other regular duties by the clerks employed upon this work, they shall be paid such reason-
able extra compensation therefor as the Secretary of War may determine
For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance,
and medical attendance of United States military convicts, confined in them, $40,000; and
the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by act of June 10, 1872, to provide for
the erection of headstones upon the graves of soldiers in national cemeteries is hereby con-
tinued and rendered available for its original purposes..
That the sum of $600 be appropriated to compensate Messrs. Bryant & Rogers, architects, for
plans and specifications for a military prison prepared and furnished to the United States
commissioners on said prison, at their request, to enable them to complete a report ordered
by the War Department in reference to the construction and cost of said military prison....
That the sum of $8,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and is hereby, appro
priated to pay the expenses of the commissioner appointed by the President under a joint
resolution approved February 16, 1875, to attend the international penitentiary congress to
be held next year at Rome

To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transport-
ing troops for the defense of the United States during the late insurrection, and for arms
and munitions of war taken for said purposes by the United States from States not in insur-
rection.....

To enable the Secretary of War to pay the claims of the Dakota volunteer forces, as examined and reported upon by Inspector-General James A. Hardie, United States Army, under the special act of Congress for that purpose, approved February 20, 1874, the sum of $33,980.304 be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That the proper accounting offi cers of the Treasury shall further examine, pass upon, and approve said claims in the same manner as was provided for the adjustment of the Montana war-claims under the act of

March 3, 1873

To alter three stone buildings, to fit them for the purpose of a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and to build a suitable wall around the building..

Provided, That the amount herein appropriated shall be so expended as to complete the work.

That there is hereby re-appropriated, for the payment of volunteers of Washington and Oregon Territories, who were engaged in the suppression of Indian hostilities therein in the years 1855 and 1856, and for the payment of claims for services, supplies, and transporta

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981 85

1,760 50

1, 015 91

900 00 3,000 00 3,000 00

3,000 00

1,582 00

3,000 00 3,000 00

773 17

75,000 00

50,000 00

50,000 00

40,000 00

600 00

8,000 00

250,000 00

33,980 30

100, 000 00

18,291, 402 31

Appropriations, &c.—Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

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tion incurred in the maintenance of said volunteers, and for horses, and other property lost or destroyed in said service, as provided for by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1861, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred by the Territories of Oregon and Washington in the suppression of Indian hostilities therein in 1855 and 1856," the sum of

For completing south wing of the State, War, and Navy Departments, under the direction of
the Secretary of State, $50,000; and for continuing work on the east wing of the building
for the State, War, and Navy Departments, $700,000, to be expended under the direction of
the Secretary of War

To enable the Secretary of War to pay George W. Seibert for grading streets and sidewalks
in front of the United States arsenal-grounds in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana..
And to pay Michael Faust for grading and graveling the same, and in the vicinity thereto
For the completion of the military road from the city of Santa Fé to Ferdinandez de Taos, in
the Territory of New Mexico, $6,644.80, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appro-
priation made by the act of March 3, 1873, which is hereby continued and made available,
to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War..
The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for
the purchase of the following sites for forts in the State of Texas, in accordance with the
resolutions and recommendations of the board of officers appointed under act of March 3,
1873, entitled "An act to provide for the purchase, by the Secretary of War, of land for the
United States for the sites of forts and military posts:" Fort Brown, $25,000; Fort Duncan,
$10,000; Ringgold Barracks, $10,000...

Provided, That, before the payment of the money hereby appropriated, good titles shall be made to the United States for such land as contemplated by said act and said report; and no more than the amount appropriated shall be paid for such sites. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept for the United States, and free of expense to the same, a conveyance of the site of Fort McIntosh.

And the Congressional Printer is hereby authorized to print and bind 5,000 additional copies of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion; 1,000 of which shall be for the use of the Senate, 3,000 for the use of the House of Representatives, and 1,000 for distribution by the Surgeon-General of the Army; and the Surgeon-General is hereby authorized to continue on duty in his office the acting assistant surgeons now employed on said history until the end of the next fiscal year.

For the construction of a pedestal for an equestrian statue, to be furnished by the association hereinafter named, of Major-General James B. McPherson, who was killed at the battle of Atlanta

Provided, That the design of said pedestal shall be approved by the Secretary of War, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and the corresponding secretary of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, or a majority of them: And provided also, That it shall be erected in Scott Square in the city of Washington, on or near its center, the ground of which shall be adapted to such erection by the discontinuance of the carriage-way connecting Vermont avenue now running through said square, and said square shall be hereafter known as McPherson Square.

To enable the Secretary of War to acquire a full and perfect title to the "Brady collection
of photographs of the war," and to secure by purchase the remainder now in the possession
of the artist

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.
Improvement, repair, and care of public grounds: Of public buildings, grounds, and works
in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the Chief of Engineers :
For filling the ground south of the Executive Mansion...

$18, 291, 402 31

25, 000 00

750,000 00

658 00

1,014 99

6,644 80

45,000 00

25,000 00

25, 000 00

For subdraining and repairing and regraveling the walks and roads of the Smithsonian
grounds north of the building, and for moving trees and construction of fountains.
For completing the improvement of reservation between Third and Sixth streets, as per plan.
For filling and grading reservation on Maryland avenue, lately occupied by the Agricultural
Department

10, 000 00

10, 000 00

10, 000 00

For ordinary care of, and extension to, green-houses, and propagating garden...

For ordinary care of Lafayette Square...

For removal of fences on the eastern and western sides of the Agricultural grounds during the present fiscal year....

For annual repair of fences

For manure, and hire of horses and carts..

For painting iron fences

For care and repair of seats

For purchase and repair of tools..

For trees, tree-boxes, lime, and whitewashing.

For removing snow and ice.....

For flowers, pots, twine, wire, and for Italian lycopodium

For purchase of young trees and plants for nursery, and care of same.

For tree-markers, and marking the same..

For making cages and boxes for sparrow8......

For abating nuisances......

For removing ailanthus-trees from the public grounds condemned by the board of health

For care of, and and repair to, the various fountains

For completing the improvement of reservation numbered three, (Monument Grounds,) as per plan...

For taking up and relaying curb and flag south of the Executive Mansion..

For cutting down embankment on the nursery..

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