Patent office. Office of the Attorney General. For deficiency in appropriations for salaries under act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, three thousand three hundred dollars. For deficiency in appropriation for contingent expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of two temporary clerks from January first to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twelve hundred dollars. For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and maps for the Library for the Interior Department, three thousand dollars. For compensation for temporary clerks in the Pension Bureau for the current fiscal year, twenty thousand dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane. For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane of the army and navy and the revenue cutter service, and of the District of Columbia, at the government hospital for the insane in said District, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, ninety thousand five hundred dollars. For finishing, furnishing, and lighting additional accommodations in the east wing; for new bedding for the west wing, and for the extension and replanking of the coal wharf, ten thousand dollars. For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds of the hospital, ten thousand dollars. For removing and repairing three old frame houses and building two new cottages for the occupation of the employees of the hospital having families, six thousand dollars. Patent Office. For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care of copyright books, charts, and other copyright matter, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For preparing illustrations and descriptions for report, six thousand dollars. For finishing the saloon in the north wing of the Patent Office building, and for furnishing the same with suitable accommodations for the reception and convenient exhibition of the models, thirty thousand dollars: "ProCarpets to be vided, That in the purchase of carpets for any of the public buildings or offices under any appropriations herein provided, they shall be of domestic manufacture. of domestic manufacture. Census office. Department of the interior. Office of engi neer. Mileage of engineer, examining route of Union Pacific Census Office.-For making good the aggregate difference between the original rates of salaries paid the clerks and employees of the Census Office, before they were assigned to the General Land Office, from June one to December thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-one cents. For paying the salaries at the original census rate, of principal clerk and other clerks and one employee from January one to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six thousand four hundred and sixty dol lars. For incidental expenses of the Census Office, fifteen hundred dollars. For one clerk, six months, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, nine hundred dollars. For one clerk, six months, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For one clerk, six months, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, six hundred dollars. For mileage of Government engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Omaha, Nebraska, and thence to Washington, in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, directed by the President of the United States to examine and report upon Union Pacific railroad routes west from Omaha, two thousand nine hundred and two miles, at ten cents per mile, two hundred and ninety dollars and twenty cents. For mileage of the same, from Washington to New York and back, in August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, on account of Union Pacific railway, two hundred and twenty-five miles, each way, at ten cents per mile, forty-five dollars. Bridge and Quarters and fuel. For cost of completing bridge over Big Sioux river, near Sioux City, and government wagon road from Sioux City, Iowa, to Fort Randall, Da- wagon road. kota Territory, in addition to former appropriations, ten thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters and fuel to officer of corps of engineers, United States army, in charge of engineer office, Department of the Interior, agreeably to army regulations, from first August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to be paid by Department of the Interior, agreeably to army regulations, eleven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents. For contingencies, two thousand dollars. Library of Congress. For purchasing files of leading American news- Library of Conpapers for the Library of Congress, one thousand five hundred dollars. gress. William H. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to pay the first instalment due on a contract made with William H. Powell for a naval picture to be placed in the Capitol, in pursuance of a joint resolution Powell, for naval picture. approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two thousand Vol. xiii. p. 570. dollars. Botanic Garden. — For grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, Botanic Garden fuel, and repairs, purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, three thousand three hundred dollars. For pay of superintendent of botanic garden, and assistants in the botanic garden and green-houses, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, six thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents. For the purchase and removal of materials, and for erecting four greenhouses in the botanic garden, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, twenty-five hundred dollars. Columbian In Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. — For salaries and incidental expenses, including five hundred dollars for the purchase of books stitution for the and illustrative apparatus, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of the two extensions to the buildings, to provide enlarged accommodations for the male department, and to furnish rooms for the instruction of the pupils in useful labor, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents. For the proper enclosure, grading, and improvement of the grounds of the institution, three thousand five hundred dollars. deaf and dumb. Surveying the Public Lands. For surveying the public lands in Wis- Surveying pubconsin, six thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, fifteen thousand dollars. lars. For surveying the public lands in Nebraska Territory, twenty-five thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Kansas, twenty-five thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, fifteen thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Nevada, fifteen thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. lic lands. &c. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. For the fencing in, repair and completion of the UnitCourt-house, ed States court-house and post-office at Indianapolis, Indiana, and paving the sidewalks in front of the same, the sum of eight thousand dollars, or such part thereof as may be necessary. D. S. Payne. 1863, ch. 117. For the alteration and repair of the court-house in the city of Boston, five thousand dollars. For repairs of United States marine hospital at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, eight thousand dollars. For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electrical telegraph, forty thousand dollars. For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. 66 To enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust and settle the accounts Census of Idaho. of D. S. Payne, for enumerating the inhabitants of the Territory of IdaVol. xii. p. 808. ho, under the direction of the governor of said Territory, as authorized by the act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “ An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho," the sum of eight thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Custom-house For building a custom-house at Portland, Maine, in addition to the sum at Portland, Me. heretofore appropriated by Congress, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, if he thinks it advisable, expend a sum, not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars, in the purchase of ground adjoining the site of the old custom-house on Fore street, now owned by the United States, for the purpose of enlarging the same, or the Secretary may exchange the lot now owned as aforesaid for a more eligible one, if the same can be procured; but no money shall be paid or agreed to be paid by the United States in consideration of such exchange, and no transfer, assignment, or conveyance of property by the United States shall be made upon such exchange, except a conveyance, on its behalf, by the Secretary of the Treasury, of the interest of the United States in the lot aforesaid and the building thereon. Saint Albans. Census of Ari zona. Portland. Providence. Revenue agent For building a custom-house at Saint Albans, in the State of Vermont, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of the census of Arizona Territory, taken in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to be audited and paid under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For securing the right of way and building a bridge across the canal to the marine hospital near Portland, Maine, three thousand dollars. For making alterations and repairs in the custom-house, court-house, and post-office building, at Providence, Rhode Island, three thousand dollars. For compensation of the revenue agent stationed at New York, in addiut New York. tion to the sum authorized by the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred 1864, ch. 173, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 224. and sixty-four, including one thousand dollars for the current fiscal year, two thousand dollars. Compilation of laws relating to revenue, &c. William Handy. John Hopley. For one thousand copies of a compilation of the laws of the United States relating to revenue, commerce, and navigation, now in course of preparation for the press at the Treasury Department, such sum as may be necessary therefor in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and not exceeding seven thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to William Handy, of the Treasury Department, for extra clerical services, such sum as may be found due, not exceeding five hundred dollars. For compensation to John Hopley, for services in indexing the national currency act, one hundred dollars. For additional compensation to the publishers of the Statutes at Large, Statutes at eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. Large. For refitting the rear basement rooms of the old Treasury building for office purposes, eleven thousand dollars. For the purchase of the property in Washington city, known as Ford's theatre, for the deposit and safe-keeping of documentary papers relating to the soldiers of the army of the United States, and of the museum of the medical and surgical department of the ariny, one hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the ninth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, and for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, appropriating thirty per centum of the cost of engraving the special dies for internal revenue stamps, not to exceed in amount twenty thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors, Butler and Carpenter, the said sum of twenty thousand dollars in full of all claims for indemnity. Ford's theatre. Indemnity to penter. Butler and Car1863, ch. 79, § 9. Vol. xii. p. 752. See 1867, ch. 168, § 5. Post, p. 470. Custom-house SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase for the United at Island Pond. States an appropriate building site at Island Pond, or at some point northerly of Island Pond and south of the Canadian boundary line, in the State of Vermont, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable building for the use of such officers of the customs as are or may be stationed at that place: Provided, That the cost of such purchase and erection shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; which amount is hereby appropriated for the purpose. Proviso. Library of Congress. 1864, SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four thousand dollars, appropriated by " An act making appropriations for the legislative, Ch. 147. executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending Vol. xiii. p. 148. June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-five," approved June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-five [four], "to enable the Joint Library Committee to purchase a complete file of selections from European periodicals, from eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-four, relating to the rebellion in the United States, to be deposited in the library," is hereby transferred to the fund for the purchase of books for the Library of Congress, to be expended one half for the purchase of law books and one half for the purchase of miscellaneous books for said library. district attorneys slave-trade. 1861, ch. 84. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United Additional States be, and hereby is, authorized to expend during the fiscal year end- compensation to ing the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, so much of and marshals for the appropriation of second March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as he services in supmay be deem expedient and proper, not exceeding in the whole ten thou- pression of the sand dollars, for compensation to United States marshals, district attorneys, and other persons employed in enforcing the laws for the suppres- Vol. xii. p. 219 sion of the African slave-trade, for any services they may render, and for which no allowance is otherwise provided by law; and also so much of said appropriation as may be necessary to pay the salaries of the judges and arbitrators appointed by him, pursuant to the act of Congress approved July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade," and for the expenses of the mixed courts of justice provided for by said treaty. Judges, arbitrators, and mixed courts. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the authority to sell the prop- Pennsylvania erty known as the Pennsylvania Bank building, in accordance with the Bank building acts approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty, section two, 1860, ch. 100, § 2. may be sold. Naval academy. H. A. Klopfer. Post-office, &c., land. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the naval academy for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand and sixty-four dollars. Το pay H. A. Klopfer for ten months' service, as a laborer in the office of the Attorney General, at forty dollars per month, four hundred dollars. For certain alterations to the post-office portion of the building in Portbuilding at Port- la, Maine, used for post-office, custom-house, and court-house, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the money hereby appropriated for claims due for the construction and furnishing the Baltimore courthouse, and for the payment of claims due for the repairs of the government warehouses and the construction wharves, Staten Island, New York, shall be paid for damages, and no payments whatever shall be made unless upon a full examination of the proper department of the government, and a certificate by the Attorney General that the said amounts to be paid are just, legal and proper. Additional pay of females, &c. 1864, ch. 147, § 3. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That such sum as may be required to pay the additional compensation provided by section three of "An act Vol. xiii. p. 160. making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, up to and including the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. Salaries of offi at Philadelphia, and assistant treasurers. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of cers of the mint April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, there shall be paid annually, instead of the yearly salaries at present authorized, to the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, four thousand five hundred dollars; to the Treasurer, three thousand five hundred dollars, and one thousand five hundred dollars for additional compensation as assistant treasurer of the United States; to the melter and refiner, three thousand dollars; to the assayer, three thousand dollars; to the assistant to the assayer, two thousand dollars; to the chief coiner, three thousand dollars; to the assistant to the chief coiner, two thousand dollars; to the engraver, three thousand dollars; to one clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; to two clerks, two thousand dollars each; to four clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars each; to the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, for salary as assistant treasurer of the United States, in addition to his salary as treasurer of said mint, one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, eight thousand dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, five thousand dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at Saint Louis, five thousand dollars; and the amount necessary to carry these provisions into effect for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby appropriated. APPROVED, April 7, 1866. April 7, 1866. Arms and am fence of inhabitants of Dakota Territory. CHAP. XXIX. -An Act to provide Arms and Ammunition for the Defence of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United munition for de- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue, upon the requisition of the governor of Dakota Territory, such amount of ordnance aud ordnance stores as may be necessary to arm the inhabitants of said Territory who may organize for defence against hostile Indians, not exceeding one thousand stand of small-arms and one hundred thousand rounds of ammunition, to be charged against the quota due, or to become due, to the Territory under the laws for arming and equipping the militia. APPROVED, April 7, 1866. |