Brought forward. Appropriations, &c.-Continued. accordance with the estimates of the Commissioners of said District, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That so much of the act "making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and for other purposes," approved June 20, 1878, which makes an appropriation for the expenses of the Reform School of the District of Columbia, shall not be considered as modifying or repealing the thirteenth section of the act entitled "An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia," approved May 3, 1876 PUBLIC PRINTING. For the public printing and binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, the amounts following, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, $180,000; for the Treasury Department, $50.000; for the War Department, $20,000; for the Interior Department, $40,000; for the PostOffice Department, $30,000; for the Library of Congress, $10,000; for the Supreme Court of the United States, $20,000; in all MISCELLANEOUS. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties paid by the trustees of Saint of Charleston To pay the heirs of A. B. Brown, formerly light-keeper at Barnegat, N. J., for services from January 1 to March 1, 1866. Smithsonian Institution: For the preservation of the specimens of the United States sur- To pay John A. Torrence the amount due him as receiver of public moneys at Harrison, $1.357,202 36 466 533 23 350,000 00 1,588 65 38.31 4, 000 00 458 95 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To enable the Clerk of the House to reimburse N. G. Ordway, late Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, the amount of sundry bills paid by him for the House of Representatives.. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay certain accounts properly chargeable to the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the House for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1876, 1877, and 1878, respectively. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the following-named persons, for services rendered in the Doorkeeper's department during the Forty-fourth Congress, the amounts specified, to wit: To Robert Coates, the sum of $210, for services rendered from August 15 to first day of December, 1876; to Charles Carter, J. Cook Nickens, James Hall, and Henry Hall, each the sum of $180, for services from the first day of September to the first day of December, 1876; in all To pay Charles J. Wiener for services as clerk to the Committee on Printing during the recess of Congress, in the year 1878, said committee being authorized by resolution of the House to sit during the recess, thirty days, at $6 per day. 1,305 58 1,500 00 930 00 180 00 SENATE. For horses and mail wagons. For furniture and repairs.. For packing-boxes For miscellaneous items, that is to say: For expenses of Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, in taking testimony concerning claim of James B. Eads; Committee on Agriculture, taking testimony concerning cattle diseases; Select Committee on claims of citizens against Nicaragua; Select Committee concerning removal of Chey enne Indians; compensation of Joseph Segar; Committee on the District of Columbia, inquiring as to plan of sewerage in the District; and sundry other expenses of the Senate That the sum of $10,000 be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be placed to the credit of the contingent fund of the Senate, to be applied toward defraying the expenses of such investigations and inquiries as have already been, or may hereafter be, directed by the Senate during the Forty-fifth Congress. For payment to II. C. Creary, for services as a page in the Senate from December 17, 1878, to March 31, 1879, at $2 50 per day 400 00 2.000 00 1,300 69 170 00 27,500 00 10, 000 00 For payment to C. H. West, for services as a page in the Senate from December 14, 1878, to March 31, 1879, at $2.50 per day. 262 50 For payment to Loid Harleston, as a special messenger on the floor of the Senate, from 270 00 To pay Howard French, as clerk in the Sergeant-at-Arms's office during the fiscal year 1879, To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Fillmore Beall, J. C. Robertson, and Daniel Brought forward.. Appropriations, &c.--Continued. That the employés of the Senate who have served during the present fiscal year shall be That Senators elected, whose term of office begins March 4, 1879, and whose credentials To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George P. Bradstreet for clerical services rendered the Committee of the Senate to inquire into matters touching the late Presi dential election in Louisiana, the sum of To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George A. Clarke, for his services as messenger in the office of official reporters of the Senate, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, the sum of For the payment of the following named persons for reporting testimony before committees of the House of Representatives at the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress (at times when the official stenographers were engaged with other committees), to wit: Joseph I. Gilbert, E. W. Grant, E. C. Bartlett, E. D. Easton, C. J. Hayes, and William F. Bouyuge To pay Henry G. Hays and Andrew Devine, official stenographers for committees of the House of Representatives, the difference between their compensation as fixed by law and actually received by them during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and in the months of July and August, 1876, $900 each To pay J. C. Kondruss for services as messenger to the official reporters of debates du ring the present session..... $2,226, 764 97 60 00 1,123 30 3,700 00 1,800 00 250 00 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Under letter of Postmaster-General, January 23, 1879: For compensation of postmasters for 1878 For transportation of the mails by railroads for 1878 and previous years For miscellaneous items, contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department, for 1879... For ordinary postage stamps, under article 8 of the Universal Postal Convention, for 1879. For preparation and publication of post-route maps, being for the year 1879 DEPARTMENT OF STATE. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. To pay consular salaries, as follows: To W. W. Randall, $105.14: J. F. Webb, $270.91 ; William Morey, 8473.84; R. Dawson, $14.50; C. S. Mattoon, $329.67; R. Dawson, $178 50; F. Newman, 8373.51; J. Fisher, for relief and protection of American seamen, $27.65; N. Creasey, for relief and protection of American seamen, $27.65; M. Vidal, awards under convention between United States and Peru, $1,025.06; John F. Delaplaine, salary as United States minister, $1,186.12; in all... Carried forward 241,921 37 166, 392 27 4,000 00 2,000 00 250 00 25,000 00 5,000 00 4, 012 55 2,682, 274 46 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Brought forward.. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. INTERNAL REVENUE. $2,682, 274 46 For redemption of internal revenue stamps For allowance on drawback, internal revenue.. For refunding taxes illegally collected.. For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers of internal revenue The unexpended balance, amounting to $40,000, of the appropriation of $150 000, made by 2.564 20 50 76 441 34 3.125 36 15, 003 61 TREASURY MISCELLANEOUS. For suppressing counterfeiting and frand.. To refund excess of duty paid on deposits by national banking associations. For collecting revenue from customs, for this amount certified by the Commissioner of To pay the amount found due the late surveyor of customs at Portland, Me., and certified For Marine Hospital service... For salaries of light-house keepers. For supplies of light-houses For expenses of buoyage, 88; repairs and preservation of public buildings, $222.59; furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $179.62; heating apparatus for public buildings, $28.50; in all.. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For salaries of district marshals.. For expenses of United States courts For contingent expenses, Department of Justice.. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. CIVIL. For expenses of the eighth census, as follows: To pay Tipton B. Collins, $146.71; David J. Reed, $79.92; William D. King, $201.02; T. F. Owen, $456.54; Sylvanus Walker, $189.67; in all For prevention of depredations on public timber For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of the land-offices.. For repayments for lands erroneously sold...... 46.50 1,093 08 26, 038 62 9,542 63 2,387 76 3.25 86.54 533 438 71 38 89 1, 505 19 22:00 1,073 6 306 40 7365 2,621 (0 For support and civilization of Indians in Central Superintendenøy, $486; of Teton Sioux, $239.72; of Sioux at Fort Peck Agency, $150; in all. For incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona, $164.85; in Montana, $24.65; in New 277 43 15.30 964 50 For collecting and subsisting roving bands of Kickapoos and other Indians on the borders of Texas and New Mexico... Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Brought forward For expenses of recruiting. For transportation of officers and their baggage. For Army transportation, supplies, and incidental expenses of the Army, the details of To pay William Allen, late sergeant Company E, First Oregon Mounted Volunteers in To pay William W. Ivory for one horse lost in the military service of the United States. $2,945, 139 06 97,497 40 115 00 175 00 NAVY DEPARTMENT. For indemnity to seamen for lost clothing For expenses of burial of officers and others of the United States steamer Huron. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. TRANSPORTATION OF THE MAILS. 720 00 412 77 1,356 80 To pay certain amounts due for carrying the mails, certified by the Sixth Auditor under RAILROADS. For carrying the mails between Saint Peter and New Elm, Minn., 1874 and 1875. For carrying the mails in 1872, 1873, and 1874 For carrying the mails between Hannibal and Naples, Mo., from January 1 to June 8, 1870. For carrying the mails between Lehigh Railroad Company's depot and the post-office at For increased pay, from July 1, 1874, to June 30, 1875 Also, for increased pay, from January 15, 1873, to June 30, 1874. For carrying the mails from May 15, 1874, to June 30, 1876. For carrying the mails from April 15, 1873, to June 30, 1876, from Junction City to Clay For carrying the mails from September 1, 1875, to June 30, 1876. For service from November 1, 1875, to June 30, 1876. For Sunday service from April 1 to April 22, 1876 ....... 99 00 410 22 1,000 00 540 00 66 84 85 90 7, 132 06 6,522 63 STAR TRANSPORTATION, For additional allowance for carrying the mails from April 5 to June 30, 1875, by reason For carrying the mails between Greenville Court-House and Highland Grove, S. C., from 4 89 For carrying the mails between Marshall and Kaufman, from January 1 to June 30, 1866. 98 45 29 32 For payment made to Elisha Willis for carrying the mails between Akron and New Buda, 18 70 For one month's extra pay on curtailment of service on route No. 8553, Texas, order of 11 66 For amount accrued on account of fiscal year 1875, under order of the Postmaster-Gen- 197 77 81 66 For carrying the mails on route numbered 23392, from August 15, 1875, to June 30, 1876.. 26 35 290 07 For carrying the mails between Tuskegee and Chebau, Ala., route numbered 6806, Ala- 350 00 For carrying the mails between Tuskegee and Chebau, Ala., route numbered 7015, Ala- 110 00 For carrying the mails five trips between Tullahoma and McMinnville, Tenn., route num. 25 00 For one month's extra pay by reason of the annulment of contract, route numbered Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Brought forward For carrying the mails on routes numbered 15006 and 15008, Oregon, from January 1 to For carrying the mails in Louisiana and Mississippi, during the years 1873 and 1874, bal ance on account.. For carrying the mails on routes numbered 8568, 8570, 8571, 8572, and 8574, Texas, during the second quarter of 1868 For carrying the mails on routes numbered 31176 and 31240, Texas, from April 1 to June 30, 1876 For an allowance of one month's extra pay on discontinuance of service from July 1, 1875, route numbered 27200, Iowa. For amount for one desk for the safe keeping of letters, December 27, 1873.. STEAMBOAT TRANSPORTATION. $3, 142, 581 53 200 00 1,257 33 661 19 383 06 27.75 10.00 For carrying the mails between Norfolk, Va., and New York, N. Y., from July 1, 1871, to June 30, 1872, route numbered 4725, Virginia.... 750 00 MAIL-MESSENGER SERVICE. For increase of mail-messenger service between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot and the post-office, both at Chicago, Ill., from December 28, 1874, to June 30, 1875..... For mail-messenger service from April 15 to June 30, and from July 1 to 15, 1872.. FOREIGN-MAIL TRANSPORTATION. For carrying the United States mails between San Francisco, New Zealand, Australia, Also, for carring the mails between San Francisco and Australia, from October 12, 1874, Total 1,226 08 282 50 2,755 14 5,002 73 5,195 61 2,904 23 3, 163, 297 15 By the act making appropriations 8 for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Court-house and post-office, Atlanta, Ga.: For fencing, grading, and approaches Custom-house and sub-treasury, Chicago, Ill.: For completion of building, of which sum Custom-house and post office, Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuation of building. Post-office and court-house, Philadelphia, Pa.: For continuation of building. Treasury building. Washington, D. C.: For annual repairs, and for retaining-wall and Repairs and preservation of public buildings: For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department... LIFE-SAVING STATIONS. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as follows: On the coasts of Carried forward 2,697, 000 00 |