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 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 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 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. Carried forward 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 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. 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. 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 16,644,556 83 Appropriations, fc.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Brought forward.. For furnishing power to the shops already built.. 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- To enable the Secretary of War to purchase Gatling guns for the Army and Navy... And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause an examination to be made into the any one year SIGNAL-OFFICE. Observation and report of storms: For expenses of the observation and report of storms by 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. Carried forward 415, 000 00 88,000 00 17,446, 721 83 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 To pay John M. Burns, contestee, expenses in contested-election case of Burns vs. Young, To pay Andrew Sloan, contestant, expenses, case of Sloan vs. Rawls, first district of Georgia. To pay John J. Davis, contestee, expenses, case of Wilson vs. Davis, first district of West To pay Benjamin Wilson, contestant, expenses, case of Wilson vs. Davis, first district of To pay J. M. Hagans, contestee, expenses, case of Martin vs. Hagans, second district of West To pay M. L. Bell, contestant, expenses, case of Bell vs. Snyder, second district of Arkansas. To pay John D. Young, contestee, expenses, case of Burns vs. Young, tenth district of Ken- To pay L. C. Gause, contestant, expenses, case of Gause vs. Hodges, first district of Arkansas. 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 For continuing the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transport- 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 Carried forward 40, 000 00 20, 000 00 2, 164 65 2,922 10 981 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. Brought forward... 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 To enable the Secretary of War to pay George W. Seibert for grading streets and sidewalks 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 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON. $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 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.. Carried forward |