Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward... purpose he shall report to the first session of the next Congress such a rate of compensation for postmasters and other employés of that Department as will reduce such compensation to a rate not exceeding that paid for equal service in private employments, and to limit the number of clerks and employés, and to reduce the number of free-delivery cities, and the compensation of postal transportation companies; and that he also report a rate of postage on printed matter and packages approaching the actual cost of their transportation and delivery, together with such practical measures that will, in his opinion, tend to make the Post-Office Department self-sustaining. SEC. 7. That seeds transmitted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, or by any member of Congress or delegate receiving seeds for distribution from said Department, together with agricultural reports emanating from that Department, and so transmitted, shall, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General shall prescribe, pass through the mails free of charge. And the provisions of this section shall apply to ex-members of Congress and exdelegates for the period of nine months after the expiration of their terms as members and delegates. Total By the act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, professors, cadets, and musicians.... Provided, That the President of the United States be authorized to fill any vacancy occurring at said academy by reason of death, or other cause, of any person appointed by him. all That the assistant instructors of tactics commanding cadet companies at West Point shall receive the same pay and allowances as assistant professors in the other branches of study. For repairs and improvements, timber, planks, boards, joists, wall-strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, nails, screws, locks, butts, hinges, glass, paints, oils, turpentine, varnish, stone, brick, lime, cement, plaster, hair, drain-pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, $14,500; and for pay of citizen-mechanics and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that cannot be done by enlisted men, $8,000; in For fuel and apparatus, namely, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, fire-brick, and repairs of steam-heating spparatus, $14,000; gas-pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, gas-lamps gasometers, retorts, and annual repairs, $600; fuel for cadets' mess-hall, shops and laundry, $3.500; postage and telegrams, $300; stationery, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, pencils, erasers, wax, ink, and mucilage, $600; transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages. $1,800; printing-type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, registers, and blanks, $900; in all For compensation to pressman and to lithographer, $50 each, $100; clerk to disbursing officer For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely, tan-bark for riding-hall For department of French, namely, text-books and stationery for instructors, and for exam. For department of Spanish, namely, text-books and stationery for use of instructors.. Carried forward 837, 524, 361 00 37,524, 361 00 235, 000 00 22,500 00 21, 700 00 4,750 00 80.00 970 00 3, 100 00 3,860 00 5,930 00 200 00 200 00 50 00 420 00 298,780 00 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward.... For department of law, namely, stationery, text-books, and books of reference.. For expenses of the board of visitors.......................... MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. For gas-coal, oil, candles, wicking, and matches for lighting the academy, cadet-barracks, mess-hall, hospital, offices, stables, and sidewalks For water pipes, plumbing, and repairs... For cleaning public buildings, not quarters, $560; brooms, brushes. tubs, pails, soap, and For increase and expense of library, books, magazines, periodicals, and binding.. For contingencies for superintendent of the academy. For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs, $100; printing catalogue for library, $700; renewing furniture in academic section rooms and offices, $1,000; papers and periodicals for cadet hospital, $60; and for carpeting and repairs to chapel for cadets, officers' families, and visitors, $1,000; in all.... For repairing and opening roads and walks ..... For continuing superstructure of the new hospital for cadets For continuing construction of sewerage from barracks and quarters. .... $298, 780 00 100 00 600 00 4,200 00 4,000 00 2,000 00 860 00 4,840 00 2, 000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 2,860 00 For repairs to reservoirs and increasing capacities For construction of school-house for soldiers' children, and furniture for same.. Total........ By the act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. For Fort Preble, Portland Harbor, Me For Fort Scammel, Portland Harbor, Me For completing batteries on Gerrish's Island, and at Jerry's Point, Portsmouth Harbor, N. H.. 500 00 30,000 00 3, 000 00 500 00 8,000 00 500 00 364,740 00 10, 000 00 20, 000 00 20, 000 00 20, 000 00 25,000 00 30,000 00 15,000 00 20, 000 00 20, 000 00 25, 000 00 For Fort Hamilton and additional batteries, New York Harbor, N. Y For Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York Harbor For fort on the site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island, New York Harbor, N. Y...... For Battery Hudson, New York Harbor, N. Y....... For battery at Finn's Point, Delaware River, N. J.... For fort opposite Fort Delaware, Delaware River. For Fort Mifflin, Delaware River, Pa For Fort McHenry, Baltimore Harbor, Md..... 25, 000 00 10,000 00 5, 000 00 20, 000 00 15,000 00 25, 000 00 25, 000 00 25,000 00 20, 000 00 For Fort Mouroe, Hampton Roads, Va..... For Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, S. C For Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, Ga For Fort Taylor and batteries, Key West, Fla For Fort Jackson, Mississippi River, La For Fort Pickens, Pensacola Harbor, Fla.. For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi River, La............ For Fort Morgan, entrance to Mobile Bay, Ala.... For fort at Fort Point, entrance to San Francisco Harbor, Cal For fort at Lime Point, San Francisco Harbor, Cal... For fort on Alcatraz Island, harbor of San Francisco, Cal.. For torpedoes for harber defenses, and preservation of the same... Provided, That the money herein appropriated for torpedoes shall only be used in the establishment and maintenance of torpedoes to be operated from shore-stations for the destruction of an enemy's vessel approaching the shore or entering the channel and fairways of harbors. For contingencies of fortifications.. For surveys and reconnaissances for sea-coast defenses... Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. By the act making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the commissioners of claims under the act of Congress of March 3, 1871. Amount. $140.00 1,014 00 610 00 1,329 00 455 00 630 00 242 00 100 00 285 00 184 00 510 00 150 00 310 00 140 00 215.00 375 00 40.00 370 00 1,316 50 388 50 50 00 150 00 483 00 203 00 180 00 700 00 300 00 1,350 00 874 00 812.00 318 00 568 00 122 30 To Henry Gargis, administrator of the estate of William King, deceased. To Margaret J. Gaylord, executrix of the estate of Thomas W. Gaylord, deceased. To William W. Glass To John H. Gray To Samuel Greenhill To George Grigsby... To Andrew Hames...... ................ To William Harrold To Philip Harwood.. ........... To Alexander Hawkins.............................. To Benjamin Hawkins....................... To James M. Henderson... To Louisa Hill To Martha Hobgood To William Hodges. To Margaret E. Holloway To John W. Holt.. To Burrell Howell... To Jerome B. Hyatt To Samuel M. Hyde To Mary James.. To James C. King. To Clinton Kirby To David H. Kirkland To Edward Legg.. To David J. Lemons.. To William Liles To Eda Lynch.... Carried forward.. 215.00 3,795 00 265 00 175.00 455.00 390 00 465 00 645 00 477 00 350 00 272 00 280 00 2,058 15 250 00 133 00 108 75 247 09 195.00 942 50 156 00 110 00 152 50 190 00 35,493 62 To Matilda Mason, administratrix of the estate of Nelson Mason, deceased.. To Philip Pointer, jr., administrator of the estate of Philip Pointer, deceased, for the loyal heirs of decedent.... To John W. Sims, administrator of the estate of Elijah H. Sims, deceased. Amount. $34,493 62 406 00 380 00 367 50 125 00 218 00 3,975 00 275 00 405 00 210 00 1, 161 00 1,406 00 1, 010 00 596 00 150 00 214 60 346 00 150 00 120 00 320 00 149 50 155 00 543 00 150 00 725 00 1,080 00 250 00 150 00 225 00 185 00 363 50 556 50 307 00 140 00 420 60 150 00 245.00 85.00 490 00 277 80 34 25 405 00 250 00 480 00 150 00 227 30 348 00 832 00 135 00 328 50 881 00 475 00 125 00 505 75 1, 125 00 132 00 300 00 3, 100 GO 239 60 150 00 350 00 360 00 1,543 00 78.00 454 00 OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. To George W. Abbott 125 00 To William A. Adams, executor of the estate of William E. Adams, deceased.. Brought forward. To Patience Baxter... To James Byrne To Green L. Cagle. Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. To Harriet A. Campbell, widow of William G. Campbell. To Thomas M. Campbell To Joseph M. Carlisle.. To William Chambers To James Cheek To George M. Cline. To Choctaw Clinton To Wilson W. Collins. To Chester Corey. To James W. Crisp. To George W. Damron, administrator of the estate of John Rogers, deceased.. To Joseph T. Daugherty. To Isabella C. Davis, administratrix of the estate of John Davis, deceased To Monarky Dearmond.. To Barbara Degan, administratrix of the estate of Harmon Degan, deceased. To Mark H. and Quintína Deputy and Lucy J. Penny, heirs of Doctor Joseph S. Deputy, deceased To Edward L. and William Saint John Hubbard and Sarah L. Fitzhugh, heirs of John M. Amount. $72, 117 2 525 00 295 00 744 00 100 00 578-00 399 00 433 00 160 00 2,300.00 441 50 15.00 1,668 00 625.00 80.00 100 00 305.00 125 00 494 00 760 00 268 00 100.00 4, 190 00 150 00 1,193 00 9,544 00 436 00 400 00 410 00 205.00 1,400 00 602 00 920 00 172 50 370.00 300 00 215.00 320 00 160 00 100 00 70.00 107 50 683 00 90.00 500 00 400 (0 60 00 290 00 622 50 174.00 375.00 180 00 5,040 00 100 00 630 00 7,214 00 200 00 195.00 560 00 308 50 445 00 260.00 4,135 00 320 00 959 00 394 00 420 00 800 00 55 00 230.00 781 00 80.00 345 00 210 00 340.00 180 00 125.00 366 00 131,995 32 |