Court-house in Washington.

Proviso.

Hayden's geological, &c., survey.

For repairs and preservation of the court-house building in the city of Washington, and for tiling the basement-floors of the same, three thousand dollars: Provided that hereafter the building shall be under the supervision and control of the Attorney-General.

MISCELLANEOUS.

For the continuation of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six: by the first division, under F. V. Hayden, in Colorado and such adjacent portions of Utah and New Mexico as were not explored the preceding year, seventy-five thousand dollars; Powell's survey and by the second division, under J. W. Powell, in Utah, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immedi ately available.

in Utah.

Maps, &c., illustrating geological

surveys of the Territories.

Collection of mi

For the preparation and publication of the maps, charts, geological sections, and other engravings necessary to illustrate the reports of the United States geological and geographical survey of the Territories: by the first division, twenty thousand dollars; and by the second divis ion twenty thousand dollars; in all, forty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

For collection of mining and mineral statistics, under charge of Proning, &c., statistics fessor Rossiter W. Raymond, the amount to be immediately available, under charge of Professor Ray- to be expended, and to be for the completion of the work, fifteen thou

mond.

Map of the United States.

Jail, in D. C.

Safe for Department of Interior.

Capitol building at Olympia, Washington Territory.

Additional compensation for investigating pens i o n frands under R. S., 4744, p. 931.

Inquiry into causes of decrease

of food-fishes.

Introduction of

United States.

sand dollars.

For three thousand six hundred copies, including paper of the map of the United States, prepared in the General Land Office, six thousand dollars.

For completion of the jail in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the plans and specifications therefor, one hundred and forty thousand and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.

For fencing and enclosures around said jail, nine thousand and nine hundred dollars.

For heating-apparatus, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars, after advertisement, to the lowest responsible bidder: Provided, That it does not interfere with existing contracts.

For kitchen utensils, wash-room apparatus, and driving-engine, five thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase a suitable safe for the use of the disbursing-clerk of the Department of the Interior, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For furniture, carpenter and mason work, and materials, painting, plastering, and other work necessary to the proper repair of the capitol building, at Olympia, Washington Territory, five thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

That the additional compensation authorized by section four thousand seven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, to be paid to clerks detailed to investigate suspected attempts of fraud upon the Government through and by virtue of the pension-laws, shall be the actual and necessary expenses of transportation, and a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding four dollars per diem.

For continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of foodfishes of the coast, of the rivers, and of the lakes of the United States, five thousand dollars.

For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific States, the shad and other Gulf States, and of the Mississippi Valley, and of salmon, white-fish fish into waters of and other useful food-fishes, into the waters of the United States to which they are best adapted, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be available from the passage of this act, to be expended under the direction of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.

For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars.

For engraving and printing certificates of Centennial stock for the International Exhibition to be held in the city of Philadelphia in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, thirty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That that this appropriation shall not be construed as in any manner committing the Government of the United States to any other payment whatever to meet the expenses of said exhibition.

Illustrations for

report.

Engraving and printing Čenten

nial stock.

Proviso.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the four- Crippled and disteen crippled and disabled soldiers now in the employment of the Door- abled soldiers emkeeper of the House, from April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, keeper of House. ployed by Doorto December sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty cents; which is hereby appropriated.

Isaac Strohm.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Isaac Strohm for the time employed in making out the warrants for bringing, by order of the House, persons before its bar, and other papers requir ing the seal of the House of Representatives, one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, a sum sufficient for the purpose is hereby appropriated, and added to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. To enable the Clerk of the House to have prepared for the Public Summary reports. Printer, copies of all the "Summary Reports" of the Commissioners of Claims in cases reported to Congress as disallowed under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, of which twenty-five v. 16, p. 524. copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the Senate and twentyfive copies for the use of the House, one thousand dollars.

1871, c. 116, s. 2,

tatives.

to

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to cause to be Monuments erected in the Congressional Cemetery, monuments in memory of those deceased RepresenRepresentatives who have died since the erection of those last authorized, said monuments to be of marble or granite, and of uniform size and style with those previously erected, and to be contracted for by him with the lowest responsible bidder therefor, after due public notice, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces

sary.

Steam-pump for House of Repre

sentatives.

For the purchase of a noiseless steam-pump for the heating and ventilating department of the House of Representatives, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For temporary clerks of the Treasury Department, forty thousand Temporaryclerks dollars; and for temporary clerks in the office of the Treasurer of the in Treasury Department. United States, twenty thousand dollars.

For salaries and traveling-expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Salaries and Alaska: one agent, at three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per of agents at sealtraveling-expenses annum; one assistant agent, at two thousand nine hundred and twenty fisheries in Alaska. dollars per annum; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each per annum ; and for necessary traveling-expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty be made from indollars. And hereafter no payment whatever shall be made for this definite appropriapurpose from indefinite appropriations.

Payment not to

tions.

For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment per- Expenses in desons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank tecting and bringing to trial, &c., notes, and other securities of the United States, and the coinage thereof, persons counterand for detecting other frauds upon the Government, one hundred and feiting Treasurytwenty-five thousand dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under customsrevenue laws, two hundred thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the account of the expenditure for "dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal Revenue Department," for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun dred and seventy-five, a transfer on the books of the Treasury of such

notes, &c.

Compensation in lieu of moieties. Adjusting account of expenditure for "dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal Revenue Department."

Proviso.

Re-appropriation of unexpended bal

ance for Southern Claims Commission.

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 Secretary of the Treasury to collect, procure, preserve, and arrange for use all vouchers, papers, records, and evidence, and to take and examine testimony as to claims against the United States, to be paid only upon the certificate of the Commissioners of Claims, the unexpended balance of the sum of twenty-thousand dollars of the 1874, c. 455, ante, re-appropriation made by act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

210.

Rebel archives.

Vinnie Ream.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the rebel archives and records of captured property examined, and information furnished therefrom for the use of the Government, six thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the first instalment due under contract made by him, in accordance with the joint resolution 1874, res. 14, ante, approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, with Miss Vinnie Ream, for the statue of the late Admiral Farragut, five thousand dollars.

288.

General expenses of District of Columbia.

Salaries not to be changed.

1874, c. 337, ante,

116.

Interest on threesixty-five bonds. 1874, c. 337, ante,

116.

Salary of commissioner of sinking-fund.

Sanitary service of District of Columbia. Proviso.

Salaries of inspector and assistant of gas and meters.

Jacob Parmerter.

Charles Morgan.

Thomas J. Durant.

Works of art for Capitol.

Exhibition of

Capitol.

To pay on behalf of the United States, as a portion of the general expenses of the District of Columbia, to be expended by the commissioners of said District, one million and sixty thousand dollars, only to be drawn as needed for immediate use; and three hundred thousand dollars of this sum shall be available from the passage of this act no salaries to be changed from the standard fixed under act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

To pay the interest on the three-sixty-five bonds issued under the act entitled "An act for the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes" one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; and the salary of the commissioner of the sinking-fund, acting as treasurer thereof, shall be one thousand dollars per annum

To defray the expenses of conducting the sanitary service of the District of Columbia, twenty-six thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents: Provided, That the commissioners of the District shall pay concurrently for such service to the board of health a like amount out of the treasury of the District of Columbia, which they are hereby authorized and required to do.

For the payment of the salaries of the inspector of gas and meters, and assistant inspector, for the District of Columbia, three thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to repay Jacob Parmerter, of Plattsburgh, New York, the amount paid by him in satisfaction of a judgment rendered against him for an official act as collector of customs for the district of Champlain, six hundred and eighty-four dollars and ten cents.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Charles Morgan for general average on the ship Alabama, three thonsand dollars.

To pay Thomas J. Durant for preparing a revision of the laws in relation to the District of Columbia, under the direction of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, three thousand three hundred dollars.

To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase such works of art for ornamenting the Capitol as may be ordered and approved, fifteen thousand dollars.

And no work of art not the property of the United States shall be works of art in exhibited in the Capitol, nor shall any room in the Capitol be used for private studios or works of art, without permission from the Joint Committee on the Library, given in writing; and it shall be the duty of the Architect of the Capitol Extension to carry these provisions into effect.

Studios, &c.

Rent of rooms,

For rent of rooms on the second and third floors of the house numbered one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the corner of Penn- &c., for Northern Boundary Commissylvania avenue and Twentieth street, from November first, eighteen sion. hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seveuty-six, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, to be paid from the unexpended balance of appropriation for the Northern Boundary Commission, in which service the rooms are occupied. And the remaining balance of said appropriation, namely, the appropriation made by act of June eleventh eighteen hundred and seventy-four, with the portion aforesaid, is hereby continued and rendered available for the purpose 71. for which it was originally intended, and to complete the office work. For repairs to the Postoffice Department building, including necessary repairs to the roof, the construction of stairways to basement, and Office Department. the cost of heating apparatus for the entire building, one hundred and six thousand dollars.

1874, c. 275, ante,

Repairs to Post

Official Postal

To enable the Postmaster General to pay for not exceeding thirty thousand copies quarterly of the United States Official Postal Guide, Guide. and for mailing the same, twenty thousand dollars.

That section eight of the act approved June twenty-third, eighteen Mailable matter hundred and seventy-four, "making appropriations for the service of the of third class. Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Insert the word "ounce" in lieu of the words "two ounces."

That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to rent, furnish, and keep suitable buildings, with grounds appurtenant, at Peking, for the use of the legation in China, at an annual cost not exceeding five thousand dollars; that the period of such lease shall be for two or more years, and with renewals, as the Secretary of State shall determine; and that the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, therefor. To pay the clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims of the Senate, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

That hereafter the salary of the supervising surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital service shall be paid out of the marine hospital fund, at the rate of four thousand dollars per year; and the supervising surgeon-general shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

COAST SURVEY.

1874, c. 456, s. 8, ante, 233, amended.

Rent of build

ings at Peking, China; period of lease.

Clerk to Committee on Private Land Claims.

Salary of supervising surgeongeneral of marine hospital service. Appointment of.

Atlantic and

Gulf Stream and

For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United Gulf Coasts, &c. States, with soundings and observations of deep-sea temperatures in the Gulf Stream and Gulf of Mexico, and observations of currents along the same coasts, and the preparation, engraving, lithographing, and issuing Gulf of Mexico. charts, the preparation and publication of the Coast Pilot, and other results of the Coast Survey, the purchase of materials therefor, and Pilot. including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and pay and subsistence of engineers for the steamers engaged on those coasts, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

Charts and Coast

Pacific coasts.

Japan Stream.

For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, with soundings and observations of deep-sea temperatures in the branch of the Japan Stream off, and observations of other currents along, the same coasts; and the preparation, engraving, lithographing, and issuing of charts; the preparation and publication of the Coast Pilot and other results of the Coast Survey, with the purchase of materials there- Pilot. for, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and pay and subsistence of engineers for the steamers used on those coasts, two hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars.

Charts and Coast

Survey between Atlantic and Pa

cific coasts, &c.

Repairs, &c., of Coast-Survey ves

sels.

Publication of observations.

General ex

penses.

Rent.

Fuel.

Transportation

For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the triangulation of the Coast Survey to form a connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and assisting in the state surveys, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Survey, forty-one thousand dollars.

For continuing the publication of observations, and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, eight thousand dollars.

For general expenses of the Coast Survey, in reference to the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States, namely:

For rent of buildings numbered two hundred and eleven, South New Jersey avenue, and two hundred and fifteen, South Capitol street, (except such small portions as are occupied for the preservation and preparation of standard weights and measures,) for offices, work-rooms, and work-shops in Washington, District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars.

For rent of fire-proof building numbered two hundred and five South New Jersey avenue, (except the portion used for standard weights and measures,) for the safe-keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; the engraved plates, instruments, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey; five thousand dollars.

For rent of office in San Francisco, California, two thousand dollars. For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars. For the transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase and purchase of in- of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; and for gas and other &c., and miscella- miscellaneous expenses, eight thousand dollars.

struments, maps,

neous expenses. Vessels.

Weights and

measures.

Rent of workshops and rooms.

Fuel and light. Miscellaneous ex

penses.

Keepers and assistants.

Vessels for the Coast Survey: For construction, equipment, and outfit of one schooner, of about seventy-two feet in length, for the observation of currents along and off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, sixteen thousand dollars.

For construction, equipment, and outfit of two schooners, of about eighty-five feet in length, for inshore work of all kinds along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, to replace old and worthless vessels, each at twenty thousand dollars, forty thousand dollars.

For construction, equipment, and outfit of two small steamers, of about eighty feet in length, for inshore work of all kinds on the coast of Louisiana and other parts of the Gulf coast, each at seventeen thousand dollars, thirty-four thousand dollars.

For construction, equipment, and outfit of one small steamer, for inshore coast-hydrography on the Pacific coast, fifty-five thousand dollars. For construction and verification of standard weights and measures for the custom-houses of the United States and for the several States, and of the metric standards for the same, five thousand dollars; and for rent of workshops, in building numbered two hundred and fifteen South Capitol street, four hundred dollars; rent of fire-proof rooms in the building numbered two hundred and five South New Jersey avenue; for the safe-keeping and preservation of finished weights and measures, balances and metric standards, one thousand dollars; fuel and light, two hundred and fifty dollars; and for travelling-expenses, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seven thousand six hundred dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

For salaries of nine hundred and seventy-five light-house keepers and light beacon keepers, and their assistants, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.