Brought forward To John W. Clubb..... To Adam Cooper............ To Silas Corbin ... To Endymion D. Cornick.. To Lewis A. Crump To Annie E. Dixon... To John M. Dogans.. To James M. Downey Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. To Margaret Eastman, administratrix of the estate of Hiram Eastman, deceased. To Martin Ellis..... To Primus Everett....... To John Everhart To William Fahnestock Amount. $634,248 37 255 00 55 00 475 00 200 00 280 00 150 00 425 00 399 96 40 00 230 00 441 80 1,802 00 85 54 1,074 00 116 00 3,222 00 268 00 310 00 75.00 203 00 To John Everhart To James W. Lawson, executor of the estate of James Lawson, deceased, for the loyal heirs.. 95 50 2,270 00 200 00 168 40 103 00 552 25 335 00 100 00 100 00 1,263 00 307 20 77 00 51 00 298 00 701 00 2,600 00 2, 065 00 225 00 265 00 102 00 90 00 150 00 100 00 508 00 621 CO 110 00 680 00 105 00 495 00 238 00 179 00 705 50 125 00 590 00 250 25 500 00 160 00 235 00 306 00 100 00 303 00 250 00 422 72 125 00 825 00 235 00 570 00 100 00 540 00 125 00 943 00 297 90 1,035 00 215 00 451 00 210 29 225 00 127 00 371 25 669, 762 93 Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward.. To William Lutz To Henry A. Mann... To Mary A Mark, executrix of the estate of William E. N. Mark, deceased.. To James R. Ransom To Elon G. and Nancy Read, heirs of Caleb Read, deceased To Statia V. Reid, administratrix of the estate of William S. Reid, deceased. 300 00 285.00 69 80 200 00 110 00 198 00 266 00 281.00 To Joseph Ruse To John R. Ryley To Agnes Sampson, administratrix of the estate of Lewis Sampson, deceased. To Harold S. Scott.. To Joseph Segar. To Rebecca Sexsmith. To Samuel Shank To William D. Shaw. To Basil W. Shoemaker.. To Isaac Silver...... To Charles H. Slow.. To Thomas Slow To Annie Smith and Bettie Turner.. To Bennett H. Smith To Job Smith To Thomas Smoot and Joseph T. Janney 140 00 80.00 200 00 100 00 9,592 00 1, 125 00 436 50 75.00 77 75 1,063 00 300 00 160 00 388 00 240 00 170 00 375 00 705.00 475 00 To Edward Steers To David C. Steiner... To Jacob Thomas, administrator of the estate of Daniel Thomas, deceased To Elizabeth A. Von Pelt, administratrix of the estate of Abram Von Pelt. 100 00 171 75 105.00 303 00 514 50 315 00 150 00 250 00 375.00 114 75 712 50 600 00 320 00 726 00 775.00 504 00 400 00 115.00 1,090 50 714, 476 69 To Edward W. Miller, Abraham Martin, and Edward C. Pechin, executors, and Margaret To James S. Pitzer. To John J. Ramsburg.. To David Thompson.. SEC. 2. That the cases of Joseph Garland, Moses Maples, William B. Worsham, John Campbell, administrator of the estate of Stephen S. Springer, deceased, James C. Freeman, Joseph Bontura, Anthony R. Frazer, Caroline Heater, and Gilbert Vanderwerken be, and they are hereby, referred to the commissioners of claims for re-examination and report, and the said commissioners of claims are hereby authorized to re-open, examine, and consider the said cases, and to make report thereon to Congress; and it shall hereafter be the duty of the commissioners of claims, who concur in making any report, to sign the same; and if either of said commissioners dissents from the report, such dissent, with the reasons therefor, shall also accompany it. 2,068 00 1,886 00 4, 080 00 245 00 40.00 376 00 Total........ 729,653 62 By the act making an appropriation to enable the Postmaster-General to carry into effect the law requiring the prepayment of postage on newspapers, approved June 25, 1874. That the sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purchase of scales for the use of the Post-Office Department.... Proposals for furnishing said scales shall be invited by seven days' public notice, given by the Postmaster-General, and the contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder; the contractor to be allowed a reasonable time, in the discretion of the PostmasterGeneral, to deliver the article contracted for. By the act to provide an appropriation for continuing the construction of the post-office and custom-house at Saint Louis, Missouri. That the sum of $150,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be available immediately, for the purpose of continuing the construction of the custom-house and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri, now in course of construction ..... By the act to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds, That the sum of $30,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds to the portions of the country which have suffered from grasshopper-ravages during the past summer....... By the act to re-imburse the city of Boston for certain expenses incurred in the improvement of That there is hereby appropriated the sum of $1,638.53, to re-imburse the city of Boston for By the act for the relief of certain officers of the Navy who were dropped, furloughed, or retired under the act of February 28, 1855. That all officers now in the Navy, and the widows or heirs of those who have died while attached to the Navy, including the widow of Capt. Elisha Peck, relieved by special act of March 3, 1873, who were dropped, furloughed, or retired under the act of February 28, 1855, and who were afterward promoted and restored to the active list of the Navy under the operations of the act of January 16, 1857, or by the President under the operation of subsequent laws, shall be entitled to receive the difference between the pay respectively received by them and the pay at that time designated by law for officers on the active list of the rank to which they were respectively promoted, for and during the time they were affected by the operation of the said acts of February 28, 1855, and January 16, 1857. 30, 000 00 150,000 00 30, 000 00 1,638 53 Indefinite. Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. By the act to provide for the relief of persons suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to direct the issue, through the proper officers of the Army, temporarily, of supplies of food and disused Army clothing sufficient to prevent starvation and suffering and extreme want to any and all destitute and helpless persons living on the western frontier, who have been rendered so destitute and helpless by ravages of grasshoppers during the summer last past, and to report to Congress such issue of food and clothing. And the sum of $150,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this act..... SEC. 2. That this act shall expire on the 1st day of September, 1875. By the act in regard to the visit of His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands. That the sum of $25,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid to defray the expenses attending the visit of his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, and suite, in the United States; the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended | under the direction of the Secretary of State, and on vouchers to be filed in the Treasury Department, and a statement thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of State.. By the act to make an appropriation to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. That there be appropriated the sum of $20,000; the same to be added to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives By the act for the protection of the United States custom-house in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby empowered and directed to purchase from the owner or owners thereof, at a price not to exceed $12,500, all that certain piece of ground in the city of Louisville, county of Jefferson, and State of Kentucky, situate west of and adjoining the United States custom-house, fronting 25 feet on Green street, and extending back 150 feet, parallel with and the same depth as the custom-house property; and for that purpose the sum of $12,500, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated: Provided, however, That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be paid or expended until a clear, perfect, and absolute title in fee-simple to the ground shall have been secured and conveyed to the United States by a good and sufficient deed of general warranty By the act to authorize the purchase of a site for a public building at Topeka, Kansas. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to purchase at private sale, or procure by condemnation, a suitable tract of ground in the city of Topeka, Kansas, as a site for a fire-proof building for the accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, post-office, pension-agency, land-office, and other Government offices in said city; said tract of land not to exceed in cost the sum of $10,000, which sum is hereby appropri ated. The same shall not be available until a valid title to the land shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Kansas shall relinquish its jurisdiction over the same, and all right to tax or assess the same while owned by the United States... By the act providing for the payment of certain employés of the House of Representatives. Amount. $150,000 00 25, 000 00 20.000 00 12,500 00 10,000 00 That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated, namely: To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay fourteen disabled soldiers in the service of the House from December 7, 1874, to April 1, 1875 For the pay of five pages, from December 7, 1874, to April 1, 1875 . 6,000 00 For the pay of seven folders, from July 1, 1874, to December 1, 1874.. 1.450 00 Also for the pay of six colored laborers, from December 7, 1874, to April 1, 1875 3,966 66 1,400 00 Total........ By the act to provide for the construction of military roads in Arizona. That there be, and is hereby, appropriated the sum of $15,000, to be used under the direction of the Secretary of War in the construction of military roads in the Territory of Arizona, as follows, namely: From Fort Whipple to Camp McDowell, with a branch to Camp Verde, and from Fort Whipple to Skull Valley direct. 12.816 66 15,000 00 By the act to make an appropriation for public buildings at Covington, Kentucky. That the sum of $150,000 be, and is hereby, appropriated for the completion of public buildings at Covington, Kentucky.. 150,000 00 Appropriations, &c.—Continued. Object of appropriation. By the act to authorize the purchase of a site for public buildings at Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase at private sale, or procure by condemnation, a suitable tract of ground in the city of Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, for the erection thereon of a building for the accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices in said city; and the sum of $160,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purchase of such tract of ground Provided, That the sum hereby appropriated shall not be available until a valid title to the land shall be vested in the United States, and the State of Pennsylvania shall relinquish its jurisdiction over the same, and all right to tax or assess the same, while owned by the United States. By the act for the payment of interest on three sixty-five bonds of the District of Columbia. That the sum of $182,500 in currency, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the interest on the bonds of the District of Columbia, known as three-sixty-five bonds, due on February 1, 1875, issued under the act entitled "An act for the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved June 20, 1874; said interest to be paid by the Treasurer of the United States, or the assistant treasurer of the United States in New York, on surrender of the proper coupons..... Provided, That the said sum hereby appropriated shall be considered and adjusted as a part of the proper proportional sum to be paid by the United States toward the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, and toward the payment of the interest on the funded debt of the District. By the act for the relief of D. R. Haggard. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to D. R. Haggard, late colonel of the Fifth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, the sum of $4,000, in full compensation and satisfaction of his claim against the Government of the United States for quartermaster's and commissary's stores taken from his farm near Burksville, Ky., by United States forces, during the war of the rebellion, and used by them........... By the act for the relief of John Aldredge. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to John Aldredge, of McNairy County, Tennessee, such sum, not exceeding $9,606, as the Secretary may deem reasonable, for money paid into the Treasury of the United States by vir the of an assessment made upon the disloyal citizens of and around Henderson Station, Tenn., to make repayment for the destruction of cotton, the property of said Aldredge; the sum so to be paid to be charged to the account of captured and abandoned property. By the act for the relief of Courtland Parker, as administrator of George W. Anderson, deceased. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to Courtland Parker, as administrator of George W. Anderson, the sum of $13,254.67, being the amount received into the Treasury of the United States, under certain proceedings and decree in the southern district of New York, undertaking to condemn the stock and dividends of said Anderson in the Minnesota Mining Company, the Rockland Mining Company, the Superior Mining Company, and the Steel River Mining Company, the same being in full for all claims and demands of said Parker as administrator, or the heirs or representatives of said estate, against the United States, connected with, or in any manner growing out of, said claim, for which a receipt shall be taken in full by the proper officer of the Treasury.. By the act for the relief of M. Von Entress Fuersteneck, late second lieutenant of the Sixtyeighth New York Volunteers. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of $1.455.20, to be paid to M. Von Entress Fnersteneck, late second lieutenant of Company A of the Sixty-eighth Regiment of New York Volunteers, to cover a period of service from August 30, 1863, to December 21, 1864, inclusive, at which time he was commissioned, and actually performed duty as a second lieutenant, but was not mustered in.. By the act for the relief of Mrs. Sarah B. Forest, widow of Lieut. Dulaney A. Forest, late of the United States Navy. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Sarah B. Forest, widow of Lieut. Dulaney A. Forest, late of the United States Navy, the sum of $20, which shall be in full discharge of all claims of said Sarah B. Forest against the United States for balance due from an allotment of pay made by her late hus band, being the amount due from April 1 to December 6, 1861, at the rate of $100 a month. II. Mis. 95-7 Amount. $160,000 00 182,500 00 4,000 00 9,606 00 13, 254 67 1,455 20 820 00 |