Brought forward.. Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS. Territory of Dakota: For amount due J. M. W. Jones for stationery for the fiscal year 1872.. Territory of Wyoming: For amount due J. M. W. Jones for stationery for the fiscal year 1876 and prior years Territory of New Mexico: For amount due Manderfield and Tucker for printing in the English and Spanish languages the laws, journals, bills, &c., for the twenty-first session of the legislative assembly, as per letter of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1874 Territory of Washington: For amount ascertained to be due and unpaid for printing done and executed for the legislative assembly, as per letter of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1872 and prior years.. To pay Milton Kelly balance due for printing laws and journals of the seventh session of the legislative assembly of Idaho Territory. For legislative expenses of Wyoming Territory, namely: For stationery, rent, fuel, lights, and furniture, $1,000; for incidentals of secretary's office, $710; in all MINTS AND ASSAY-OFFICES. United States mint at Denver: To repay the United States assistant treasurer at Philadelphia for loss on coinage of one unparted gold bar, received from the assayer of the mint at Denver, for the fiscal year 1874 For freight on bullion and coins for the fiscal year 1874. $311, 828 19 135 75 677 61 4,378 24 6, 451 46 538 93 1,710 00 1 37 533 16 United States mint at Philadelphia: For improving facilities for water supply by artesian well....... United States mint at San Francisco: For wages of workmen and adjusters, being for fiscal year 1875.... 10, 000 00 773 70 37, 000 00 19,000 00 For transportation on bullion and trade-dollars for the fiscal year 1874 For contingent expenses, being for the same year.. United States mint at Carson: For wages of workmen and adjusters, being for fiscal year 1875. For contingent expenses, being for fiscal year 1874 For contingent expenses for the fiscal year 1875... For wastage on refining of silver during the fiscal year 1874... Assay-office at New York: For wages of workmen, being for fiscal year 1875. For contingent expenses, being for the same year.. Assay-office at Boise City, Idaho: For fuel, crucibles, chemicals, lights, for the fiscal year 1874..... MISCELLANEOUS. For repairs of sidewalk on Fifteenth street, opposite the Treasury building, for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years, a transfer on the books of the Treasury is hereby authorized of $15.67. For furniture and repairs of same for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years, a transfer on the books of the Treasury is hereby authorized of $42.87. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, for the fiscal year 1874.. For amount due James S. Dean for supplies, furnished supply-steamer Fern, for the fiscal year 1873...... For amount due for publishing advertisement for proposals for furnishing rations for revenuevessels, for the fiscal year 1871.. For transportation of United States securities prior to June 30, 1874, as per certificate of the accounting-officers of the Treasury For amount due National Bank-Note Company, as per certificate of the First Comptroller of For payment of $42.42, amount certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury For amount due Adams Express Company, as per certificate of the First Comptroller of the For paper, engraving, printing, express charges, and other expenses of making and issuing for To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the account of the expenditure dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal Revenue Department," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, 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 Clerk of the House to pay Frank Morey the amount given him by resolution of the House of Representatives of the Forty-first Congress, June 2, 1870, for expenses as contestant in Forty-first Congress. To enable the Attorney-General to pay to the administrator of A. F. Reynolds, late of Woodford County, Illinois, the amount due under the award of the district court for the northern district of the State of Illinois, the sum of To pay F. H. Johnson, Thomas S. Burr, John A. Hurley, and George T. Howard, for eightyfive days each, attendance upon the Joint Select Committee to Investigate the Affairs of the District of Columbia, in charge of valuable papers. $120 each To pay W. D. Mims, for witness fees for attendance upon Congressional Committee of Elections in Louisiana, 15th of December, 1869... Carried forward 16,000 00 4,000 00 79, 000 00 804 07 10,000 00 10, 000 00 177 50 176 30 100 00 16 00 20, 559 07 1,587 50 42 42 1,307 40 216, 000 00 3,000 00 1,282 35 480 00 111 00 757, 672 0 The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay R. A. Connolly, not exceeding $1,460, the To pay George Q. Cannon, contestee expenses, case of Maxwell vs. Cannon, delegate from To pay George R. Maxwell, contestant expenses, case of Maxwell vs. Cannon, delegate from To pay George A. Sheridan, contestant expenses, case of Sheridan vs. Pinchback, at large, To pay Effingham Lawrence, contestant expenses, case of Lawrence vs. Sypher, first district of Louisiana ..... Provided, That no person who shall hereafter be seated by this House shall have any benefit of this appropriation. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. For the completion of the following public buildings: For the court-house and post-office at For furniture, fixtures, carpets, and furnishing of the following new or newly repaired public For repairs and fitting up the old mint building for Government offices at San Francisco. For furniture for United States court-house and post-office at Columbia, South Carolina.. For the erection of a building for storage and other purposes connected with the custom-house For vaults, safes, and locks in public buildings. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, being for the fiscal year 1875. And the unexpended balance of the appropriation of the same character made for the use of the fiscal year 1874, is hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the current fiscal year: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay vouchers for expenditures incurred prior to June 30, 1874, from appropriations for the present fiscal year, as follows: On account of furniture for public buildings, the sum of $500; and on account of repairs and preservation of public buildings, the sum of $5,000, and the same shall not involve any increase of the appropriation specified. To re-imburse the city and county of San Francisco, California, for expenditures made in improvement of the streets, paving and curbing in front of the property of the United States in said city and county.. For the construction and verification of standard weights and measures for the custom-houses of the United States and for the several States, and the necessary miscellaneoas expenses attendant thereon.. For the payment of the necessary expenses of defending the United States in respect to claims for net proceeds of cotton, under section 5 of the act making appropriations to supply deficiencies, approved May 18, 1872 To pay the United States depositary at Buffalo, New York, being for the fiscal year 1871... To pay the amount due David H. Mason, deceased, late United States attorney for Massachusetts, for salary, being for the fiscal year 1873 For printing in pamphlet form the proclamations of the governor of Montana during the fiscal years 1873 and 1874 ....... To pay John W. Wright, for rent of building corner of G and Eighth streets for one year.. To pay the United States supervisors of the congressional election held in Philadelphia on the first Tuesday of November, 1874, the balance claimed by them To pay Dawson Tank & Co., of New London, Connecticut, for completing the landingdock at Little Gull Island, New York, from the appropriation made by act of June 23, 1874, $2,627.40; which sum is hereby continued and made available for said purpose from the unexpended balance of said appropriation. For printing illustrations of the results of the Polaris expedition, under the direction of the To pay William Syphax in full balance to equalize his pay with that of an assistant messen. WAR DEPARTMENT. For postage and telegrams or dispatches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of May 2, 1819, and August 4, 1854, including those employed as Carried forward..... Amount. $757,672 02 1,460 00 1,500 00 1,040 00 750 00 750 00 1,735 00 2,000 00 22, 000 00 40,000 00 40,000 00 30, 000 00 5, 000 00 25, 000 00 7,419 43 3,712 50 5, 000 00 40,313 26 8, 269 33 4,000 00 6, 000 00 891 02 32 42 100 00 9,000 00 22, 155 00 15,000 00 655 38 1,051, 455 36 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward... clerks at division and department headquarters, and hospital stewards on clerical duty; To the Dudley Observatory at Albany, New York; for the use of the building now occupied To enable the Secretary of War to pay the adjusted account of the late firm of Dempsey & To complete the equestrian statue of Nathaniel Greene, including the pedestal for the same... NAVY DEPARTMENT. For computer and workmen at the Naval Observatory, and for repairs and preservation of For the payment, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, of Navy pensions.. $1,051, 455 36 20,000 00 150, 537 83 350, 000 00 1,043 91 20, 000 00 55, 000 00 55, 000 00 588 66 10, 000 00 1,000 00 75, 000 00 90,000 00 MARINE CORPS. For gas, water, rent, stationery, repairing, stoves, brooms, buckets, and furniture at marine barracks, Brooklyn, New York, being for the fiscal year 1874 For hire of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, being for the fiscal year 1865. 2,555 63 For forage for public horses, and for the authorized number of officers' horses, being for the fiscal year 1875. 4,500 00 For amount found due by the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury in settlement of the claim of Francis Scala, late leader of the Marine band, for commutation of quarters, being a defi ciency for the fiscal year 1871 For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps for the fiscal year 1875... INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Packing and distributing of Congressional documents for the fiscal year 1875. Carried forward Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward.. Surveying public lands: For surveying the public lands in the following States and Territories, to wit: New Mexico, $684.41; Oregon, $1,305.27; Washington, $215.42; Dakota, $139.63; Montana, $332.65; Utah, $147.70; Nevada, $146.22; in all $2,971.30, for the fiscal year 1875 and for prior years, as more fully set forth in the estimate of deficiencies, being House Executive Document No. 69, 43d Congress, 2d session... For rent of offices for surveyors-general in Washington Territory, California, and Oregon, $708.69, for the fiscal year, as more fully set forth in the above-named executive docu ment Indian Office: For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to make up defi- For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to re-imburse appropriations for the For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the costs adjudged against the eastern band of the Cherokee Indians in the suits at law and in equity between them and William H. Thomas and others, lately determined in the circuit court of the United States for the western district of North Carolina, and including compensation to special counsel, and for other purposes, in pursuance of the act of Congress of July 15, 1870, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General For this amount, to enable the President of the United States to carry out the provisions of of the third article of the treaty with the Kickapoo Indians of June 28, 1862, to be paid, under such rules as the Secretary ofthe Interior may prescribe, to seven Kickapoo Indians, who have become citizens of the United States, the same being their proportion of the sum of $100,000 provided for said tribe for educational and other beneficial purposes per treaty of May 18, 1854 .. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell for their benefit United States stocks amounting to $3,249.32, being the proportion of said persons of $137,400, held in trust for the Kickapoo tribe of Indians; the proceed thereof to be paid to the seven per. sons who have elected to become citizens of the United States as above. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the consent of the citizen class of Pottawatomie Indians, to sell not exceeding $20,000 worth of their bonds now held in trust by him, and to apply the proceeds of such sale in the purchase of subsistence, seeds, and agricultural implements, and for other beneficial objects, for said Pottawatomies. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized, with the consent of the legislative council of Choctaw Indians, to sell not exceeding $200,000 of the bonds now held in trust by him, and to pay over to the accredited agent of said Choctaw Indians, to be designated by the legislative council of said nation, arising from the proceeds of the sale of said lands. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay deficiencies for ex- For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the balance found due For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the subsistence and support of For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet certain liabilities incurred during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, in providing subsistence supplies for the Navajo Indians in New Mexico... For subsistence of Apaches of Arizona For this amount, to be applied in the payment of liabilities contracted on account of the service at the Malheur agency, Oregon, during the third and fourth quarters, 1873, as per statement of S. B. Parrish, late commissioner in charge, on file in the Indian Office, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1874.. SEC. 2. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to amounts appropriated by the act approved June 23, 1874, for service of the PostOffice Department, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said Department. $1,897,919 19 $2,971 30 708 69 75,000 00 14, 681 39 40,000 00 25,795 13 15,000 00 2,364 86 15,975 83 1,439 36 120,000 00 17,364 71 120,000 00 16,000 00 Carried forward 2,365, 220 46 Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. Brought forward...... For compensation to postmasters............................ Provided, That if the revenues of the Post Office Department together with the amount appropriated by the above-mentioned act as a deficiency shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this act, then the sum of $450,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as an additional deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for advertising for service of the Post Office De- To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal year ending To enable the Postmaster-General to adjust and pay the compensation for the transportation of mails on railroad routes, according to the provisions of "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1874," approved March 3, 1873, he is hereby authorized and empowered to use for this purpose so much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the amount appropriated for deficiencies in the revenues of the postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. SECTION 3. That to enable the Postmaster-General to carry out, so far as certain fourthclass offices are concerned, that provision of section 84 of the act approved June 8, 1872, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-Office Department" which provides for the retroactive adjustment of the salaries of postmasters when there is an extraordinary increase in the revenues, he is hereby authorized and empowered to use for this purpose the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be neces sary, out of the unexpended balances of the amounts appropriated for the deficiencies in the revenues of the postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874. SECTION 4. That the following balances of appropriations carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of the fifth section of the act approved June 20, 1874, being required to complete the service of the fiscal year 1872, and prior years, are hereby continued and rendered available for such purpose, namely: The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to make such transfers in the accounts of his Department for the current fiscal year as may be necessary by reason of the change of the post-offices in the newly annexed part of the city of New York to stations of the New York City post-office. STATE DEPARTMENT. Amount. $2,365, 220 46 300,000 00 150, 000 00 95, 000 00 17,000 00 For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, being for the service of the fiscal year 1872 For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, being for the service of the fiscal year 1871... 122 00 33 84 For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, consular clerks, including loss by exchange, being for the service of the fiscal year 1871 978 97 For stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, flags, rent, postage, 100 00 361 96 TREASURY DEPARTMENT. To pay to internal-revenue collectors, assessors, and other internal-revenue officers their salaries commissions, and expenses allowed by law, as have been or may be ascertained and certified by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department; and to pay such further allowances as have been or may be granted to such collectors and assessore by the Secre tary of the Treasury, in lieu of such salaries and commissions; and to pay miscellaneous expenses of carrying into effect the various provisions of the several acts providing for internal revenues, being for the service of the ten years ending June 30, 1872. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of E. Boyd Pendleton, late collector of the fifth district of Virginia, to audit and allow such amounts as are shown to have been stolen or embezzled by his late deputy collector, R. W. Hobson; it first being proved, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that such embezzlements or larceny did not occur through any fault or negligence of said Pendleton: Provided, That in case any of the money so stolen or embezzled shall hereafter be recovered, the same shall inure to the United States. To pay such claims for services rendered and expenses incurred in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating inter-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, as have been or may be allowed and certified by the proper officers of the Treasury Department, as provided by law, being for the service of the five years ending June 30, 1872. That the provisions contained in the act approved March 3, 1869, entitled "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes," limiting the compensation to be allowed for the disbursement of moneys appropriated for the construction of any public building was intended and shall be deemed and held to limit the compensation to be allowed to any disbursing officer who disburses moneys appropriated for and expended in the construction of any public building as aforesaid to of 1 per cent. for said services. 200,000 00 20, 000 00 Carried forward 3, 148, 817 23 |