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which the said jettees and auxiliary works are being constructed, to the end that the Congress of the United States may be kept fully advised as to the faithfulness and efficiency with which the said works are being executed by the said Eads and associates, it being expressly understood that while said Eads shall be entrammeled in the exercise of his judg. ment and skill in the location, design, and construction of said jettees and auxiliary works, the intent of this act is not simply to secure the wide and deep channel first above named, but likewise to provide for the construction of thoroughly substantial and permanent works by which said channel may be maintained for all time after their completion. And in case the Secretary of War shall be of the opinion that this work is not being constructed according to the spirit and intent of this act, he shall report the same to the President, who shall appoint a commission, consisting of an officer of the Army, an officer of the Navy, and a competent person from civil life, to inspect and examine the works being constructed by said Eads and his associates; and in case the said commission shall report that the works are being constructed upon a design that will not be of a substantial and permanent character when completed, all the facts in the case shall be laid before Congress at the earliest possible moment, and payments upon said works shall be suspended until Congress shall otherwise order.

SEC. That the option of discharging the obligations herein assumed by the United States, either in money or bonds, is expressly reserved; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to issue the bonds of the United States, bearing 5 per cent. interest, of the character and description set out in the act entitled "An act to authorize the refunding of the public debt," approved July 14, 1870, to said Eads, or his legal representatives, in payment at par of the aforesaid warrants of the Secretary of War, unless the Congress of the United States shall have previously provided for the payment of the same by the necessary appropriations of money: Provided, That in no case shall the Government of the United States be liable for any losses incurred by said Eads and his associates in the performance of the work herein mentioned, nor shall any payments thereon be made in excess of the sums nor contrary to the terms hereinbefore prescribed.

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$6,643, 517 50

6,643, 517 50

By the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1876, and for other purposes.

For expenses of the Commanding-General's Office...
For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits...

And no money appropriated by this act shall be paid for recruiting the Army beyond the number of 25,000 enlisted men, including Indian scouts and hospital-stewards. Nothing, however, in this act shall be construed to prevent enlistments for the Signal-Service, which shall hereafter be maintained as now organized, and with the force of enlisted men now provided by law.

For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's Department at the headquarters of military divisions and departments..

For expenses of the Signal-Service of the Army, purchase, equipment, and repair of electric field-telegraphs and signal-equipments..

For pay of the Army, and for allowances to officers of the Army for transportation of themselves and their baggage when traveling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, and for compensation of witnesses while on court-martial service; for traveling-expenses of paymasters' clerks; for payment of postage on letters and packages, and cost of telegrams received and sent by officers of the Army on public business

Provided, That hereafter only actual traveling-expenses shall be allowed to any person holding employment or appointment under the United States, except marshals, district attorneys, and clerks of the courts of the United States and their deputies; and all allow. ances for mileages and transportation in excess of the amount actually paid, except as above excepted, are hereby declared illegal; and no credit shall be allowed to any of the disbursing-officers of the United States for payment or allowances in violation of this provision. For subsistence of regular troops, engineers, Indian scouts, and Indian prisoners, not exceeding $3,000 of which may be used for subsisting Indians visiting military posts.... Provided, That $300,000 of the sum thus appropriated may be applied by the Commissary-General of Subsistence, prior to the 1st day of July, 1875, to the purchase of subsistence supplies intended for the posts supplied through the Upper Missouri and other distant posts.

For regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, to wit: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of stoves for heating and cooking; of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, store-houses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's Department, at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers' horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers' bedding; and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermas ter's Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster's Departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports... Provided, That of this amount a sum not to exceed $50,000 inay be expended before the beginning of the year for the purchase of such supplies as it may be found to the advantage o the Government to purchase immediately.

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For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dispatches; extra pay to sol. diers 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 March 2, 1819, and August 4, 1854, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office-furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's Department; compensa. tion of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July 5, 1838; for the apprehen. sion of deserters, and the expense incident to their pursuit; and for the following expendi tures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department...

For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted...

For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and army-depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse-equipments and of subsistence-stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the serv ice may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance-stores, and small-arms from the founderies amd armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army-depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public trans ports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procur. ing water at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field

Provided That no money shall hereafter be paid to any railroad company for the transportation of any property or troops of the United States over any railroad which, in whole or in part, was constructed by the aid of a grant of public land on the condition that such railroad should be a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States free from toll or other charge, or upon any other conditions for the use of such road, for such transportation; nor shall any allowance be made for the transportation of officers of the Army over any such road when on duty and under orders as military officers of the United States. But nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing any such railroad from bringing a suit in the Court of Claims for the charges for such transportation, and recovering for the same if found entitled thereto by virtue of the laws in force prior to the passage of this act: Provided, That the claim for such charges shall not have been barred by the statutes of limitations at the time of bringing the suit, and either party shall have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States: And provided further, That the foregoing provision shall not apply for the current fiscal year, nor thereafter, to roads where the sole condition of trausportation is that the company shall not charge the Government higher rates than they do individuals for like transportation, and when the Quartermaster-General shall be satisfied that this condition has been faithfully complied with. For hire of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for troops; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, offices, and of grounds for camps and summer cantonments and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts ...... For construction and repairs of hospitals

For purchase and manufacture of clothing and camp and garrison equipage, and for preserv ing and repacking stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage, and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeffersonville, and other depots of the Quartermaster's Department. Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid for the use of any patent process for the preservation of cloth from moth or mildew.

For maintaining and improving national military cemeteries

For Army contingencies not provided for by other estimates, embracing all branches of the m litary service..

Provided, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended, directly or indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary for, and directly connected with, the military service of the Government.

For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of private physicians employed in emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, expenses of purveying depots, of medical examining boards, and incidental expenses of the Medical Department.

For the Army Medical Museum and for medical and other necessary works for the library of the Surgeon General's Office..

For engineer depot at Willet's Point, New York, namely, remodeling portions of bridge equipage, and for the current expenses of the depot, purchase of engineering materials for use in instruction of engineer battalion, and purchase and repair of instruments for general service of the Corps of Engineers

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For torpeuo experments in their application to harbor and land defense, and for instruction
of engineer battalion in their preparation and application....
For the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiv
ing stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of
rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for
use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service,
including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ord-
nance supplies.....

Provided, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended, directly or indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary for, and directly connected with, the military service of the Government; and this restriction shall apply to the use of public animals, forage, and vehicles: And provided further, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended for the construction or repair of buildings.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms..

For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals
For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsen-
als and depots

For saddlers' tools, smiths' tools and materials, tool bags, cavalry forges, with their tools and
materials, for the cavalry service...

For purchase and manufacture of ordnance-stores, to fill requisitions of troops, and for alter-
ation of carriages now in use in sea-coast forts..

For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of valises, haversacks, canteens,
and great-coat straps, and for re-covering cavalry saddles with leather, and of manufacture
of saddle bags, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops.
For manufacture, at national armories, of the new model breech-loading musket and carbine,
adopted for the military service on recommendation of the board of officers convened under
act of June 6, 1872.

Provided, That hereafter no money shall be expended at said armories in the perfection of patentable inventions in the manufacture of arms by officers of the Army otherwise compensated for their services to the United States.

SEC. 2. That in all contracts for material for any public improvement, the Secretary of War shall give preference to American material; and al labor thereon shall be performed within the jurisdiction of the United States.

SEC. 3. That all issues of arms and other ordnance-stores which were made by the War Department to the States and Territories between the 1st day of January, 1861, and the 9th day of April, 1865, under the act of April 23, 1808, and charged to the States and Territories, having been made for the maintenance and preservation of the Union, and properly chargeable to the United States, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, upon a proper showing by such States of the faithful disposition of said arms and ordnance-stores, in the service of the United States in the suppression of the war of the rebellion, to credit the several States and Territories with the sum charged to them respectively for arms and other ordnance-stores which were issued to them between the aforementioned dates, and charged against their quotas under the law for arming and equipping the militia: Provided, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, before making a credit to any of said States and Territories, to investigate and ascertain, so nearly as he can, the disposition made by each of said States and Territories of said arms and ordnance-stores; and, if he shall find that any of said arms or ordnance-stores have been sold or otherwise misapplied, to refuse a credit to such State or Territory for so much of said arms and ordnance-stores as have been sold or misapplied; and the amount thereof shall remain a charge against said State or Territory, the same as if this act had not been passed: And provided further, That so much of the appropriations between the 1st of January, 1861, and the 9th of April, 1865, under the act of April 23, 1808, herein referred to, as would have been used for the pur chase of arms to be distributed to the several States that were in rebellion, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

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By the act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes.

For pay of commissioned and warrant officers at sea, on shore, on special service, and of those on the retired list and unemployed, (and for expenses and transportation of officers traveling under orders,) and for pay of the petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men of the engineer's force, and for the Coast-Survey service, 8,500 men

Provided, That no allowance shall be made in the settlement of any account for traveling expenses unless the same be incurred on the order of the Secretary of the Navy, or the allowance be approved by him.

For contingent expenses of the Navy Department.....

For the civil establishment at the various navy-yards and stations, the sum of..

$27, 278, 830 00

10,000 00

125,000 00

75,000 00 50,000 00

25,000 00

20, 000 00

100, 000 00

100, 000 00

150,000 00

27,933,830 00

6,250,000 00

100, 000 00 158, 000 00

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war.

For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ships, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore

For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing-directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war

For books for libraries for ships of war..

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3,000 00 10,000 00 3, 000 00

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For navy-signals and apparatus, namely: Signal-lights, lanterns, and rockets, including running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal books

For compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses, to be made in the navy-yards..

For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, leads and other appliances for sounding

For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those
for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quar-
termasters' use..

For bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds..
For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when
used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, running-lights, for chimneys and wick and soap
used in navigation department.

For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-
martial.

For musical instruments and music for vessels of war

For steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal-communication on board vessels of war

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, viz: For freight and transportation of navigation-materials; instruments, books, and stores: postage and telegraphing; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices

For drawing, engraving, and printing and photolithographing charts, correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing-directions, and other hydrographic information; and for inaking charts, including those of the Pacific coast...

For fuel, lights, and office-furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing-materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses

For rent and repair of building

For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely:

For pay of three assistants, at $1,500 each, $4,500; and one clerk, at $1,800.

For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office-furniture; and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, and freight, and all other contingent expenses

For reducing and transcribing astronomical observations upon sheets for publication..

For reducing the observations of the transit of Venus.

For expenses of Nautical Almanac:

For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for publication the American
Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

Amount.

$6,574, 000 00

6, 000 00

5,000 00

3,000 00

5, 000 00 5,000 00

20,000 00 2,000 00 1,000 00

2,500 00

4,000 00

60,000 00

5,000 00 2,800 00

6,300 00

10, 000 00 1,200 00

3,000 00

20, 000 00 3, 000 00 1,500 00

For continuance of work on new planets discovered by American astronomers
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items..

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the mechanical branches
of the Ordnance Department at the several navy yards and stations....
For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations

75,000 00 250,000 00

For repairs to ordance-buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character.

10,000 00

5,000 00

12, 000 00

For miscellaneous items, viz: for freight, express-charges, and purchase of instruments.
For the torpedo-corps: For the purchase and manufacture and preservation of gunpowder,
nitro-glycerine, and gun-cotton....

For purchase and manufacture of electrical apparatus, galvanic batteries, and insulated wire.
For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of
torpedoes, and for work on the same

For construction of torpedo-boats, purchase of coffer work or hulks, and contingent expenses.
For labor, including chemist, pyrotechnist, electrician, machinist, and clerical force
For repairs to buildings and wharves, and material and labor for sea-wall....
For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of the Navy......

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers and ships' use, including expenses of trans-
portation; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope;
hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, and galleys; con-
densing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-ovens, and
cooking-stoves; life-rafts; heating-apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of
labor in equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, namely: For expenses
of recruiting, freight, and transportation of stores, transportation of enlisted men, printing,
advertising, telegraphing, books and models, stationery, express charges, internal altera-
tions, fixtures, and appliances, in equipment-buildings at navy-yards, foreign postage, car
tickets, ferriage, and ice, apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in distress, and
good-conduct badges for enlisted men

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For general expenses of the Bureau
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25, 000 00 25,000 00 15, 000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00

1,250,000 00

73, 000 00

8,499, 300 00

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of Yards and Docks: Freight and transportation of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, including the commandant's office; books, models, maps, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam-engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; postage and telegrams; furniture for Government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; fire-engines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing-boxes For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations

At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, $600; steward, $480; matron, $360; cook, $240; assistant cook, $168; chief laundress, $192; three laundresses, at $168 each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at $168 each; six laborers, at $240 each; stable. keeper and driver, $360; master-at-arms, $480; corpora!, $300; barber, $360; carpenter, $45; furnaces, grates, and ranges, $300; water-rent and gas, $1,800; increase of library and car-tickets, $250; furniture, and repairing of the same, $1,750; cemetery and burial expenses, $200; repairs and preservation, $1,000; and for support of beneficiaries, $40,000; in all, $52,973; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval-pension fund.....

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

For support of the medical department for surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission,
navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey.

For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves,
outhouses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens, and farms.
For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory.....
For contingent expenses of the Bureau, freight on medical stores, transportation of insane
patients to the Government hospital, advertising, telegraphing, purchase of books, expenses
attending the naval medical board of examiners, purchase and repair of wagons, harness;
purchase and feed of horses, cows; trees, garden-tools, and seeds...

$8,499, 300 00

760,000 00 40,000 00

52,973 00

30,000 00

20, 000 00 35,000 00

25,000 00

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

For provisions for the officers, seamen, and marines
For purchase of water for ships...

For contingent expenses: For freight and transportation to foreign and home stations; can-
dles, fuel; interior alterations and fixtures in inspection-buildings; tools, and repairing the
same at eight inspections; special watchmen in eight inspections; books and blanks; station-
ery; telegrams; advertising; postage and express-charges; tolls, ferriages, and car-
tickets; ice; and incidental labor not chargeable to other appropriations

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postages....

For salaries of subagents and watchmen and miscellaneous expenses incurred in the protection of timber-lands

BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING.

For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval vessels, and for fitting, repair, and preservation of yard machinery and tools, and for labor in navy-yards and stations not before included, and for incidental expenses, and for purchase and preservation of oils, coal, iron, and all materials and stores; and for completing and erecting on board vessels compound engines with boilers

NAVAL ACADEMY.

For pay of professors and others: For two professors, (heads of departments,) namely, one of drawing, and one of English studies, history, and law, $2,500 each; three professors, namely, one of mathematics, (assistant,) one of chemistry, and one of French, at $2,200 each: twelve assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of Spanish, three of English studies, history, and law, one of mathematics, one of astronomy, and two of drawing, at $1,800 each; sword-master, at $1,500, and two assistants, at $1,000 each; boxing-master and gymnast, at $1,200, and assistant librarian, at $1,400; three clerks to superintendent, at $1,200, $1,000, and $800, respectively; one clerk to commandant of midshipmen, $1,000; one clerk to pay. master, $1,000; one apothecary, $750; one commissary, $288; one cook, $325.50; one messenger to superintendent, $600; one armorer, $529.50; one gunner's mate, $469.50, and one quarter-gunner, $409.50; one coxswain, $469.50; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at $349.50 each; one band-master, $528; eighteen first-class musicians, at $348 each; seven second-class musicians, at $300 each; two drummers and one fifer, (first-class,) at $348 each; in all....

Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch, at $2.50 per day. $912.50; four watchmen, at $2.25 per day, $3,285; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works, at $5 per diem, $1,825; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works of academy, and at school-ships, one at $3.50, one at $3, and eight at $2.50 per day each, $9,672; three joiners, two painters,

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