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CHAP. 86.—An act to protect the public property, turf and grass of the Capitol
Grounds from injury.

April 29, 1876,

Use of Capitol

grounds.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Capitol police hereafter to prevent any portion of the Capitol grounds grounds as playand terraces from being used as play-grounds or otherwise, so far as may be necessary to protect the public property, turf and grass from destruction or injury.

Approved, April 29, 1876.

CHAP. 88.-An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

May 1, 1876.

Post, pp. 225, 363.

Deficiency appro

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not priation. otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for former years, and for other purposes, namely:-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For the following sums necessary for completing the service of the present fiscal year, namely:-For cartage, seven hundred and thirtyseven dollars and fifty cents.

For folding documents, including pay of folders and materials, twenty thousand dollars.

For furniture, and repairs of the same, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Cartage.

Folding docu

ments, etc. Furniture.

Miscellaneous

items.

Proviso.

Witnesses resid

For miscellaneous items, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That witnesses residing in the District of Columbia and not in the service of the government of said District or of the United States, who shall be summoned to give testimony before any committee of the House of Repre- ing in Dist. of Col. sentatives, shall not be allowed exceeding two dollars for each day's attendance before said committee.

Doorkeeper's em

For wages of certain messengers, folders, and laborers under the Doorkeeper of the House, eight hundred and fourteen dollars and forty ployés.

cents.

For amount due William M. Long for services under the Doorkeeper during the months of July and August, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty cents.

William M.Long.

Investigation of

sippi.

To defray the expenses of the investigation into the late elections in Mississippi, as authorized by a resolution of the Senate adopted March elections in Missisthirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, ten thousand dollars; and the disbursing officer of the Senate shall advance such parts of Advances to aud said sum, to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, as the chairman of report by Sergeantsaid committee shall in writing direct for the purposes aforesaid; and at-Arms of Senate. the Sergeant-at-Arms shall, as soon as may be, make a detailed report of the expenditures thereof, with proper vouchers, which, when so made, shall be received by said disbursing-officer and returned with his accounts to the proper officer of the Treasury Department.

SENATE.

For compensation of Senators for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighty three dollars and nineteen cents.

For the payment of mileage, for actual travel only, to Senators who took their seats at the session of the Senate convened on the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by proclamation of the President, and who were not members of the previous Congress, six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.

Compensation.

Mileage.

Labor.

For labor, eighteen thousand dollars; and one thousand dollars of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used to pay

Folding doen- the laborers employed in the Secretary's office.

ments. Horses. Furniture.

Advertising.

Consular salaries year 1872;

Year 1873;

Year 1875.

Contingent expeuses of consulates, year 1873;

Year 1875.

Edmund Dunne.

F.

Andrew W. Bra

For folding documents, one thousand four hundred dollars. For horses and wagons, five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For furniture, and repairs of the same, six thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising proposals for reporting congressional proceedings, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, thirty-six dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE:-To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treas ury, namely: For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and clerks, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and five dollars and ninety-four cents.

To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For salaries of consuls general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and clerks, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three; twentytwo dollars and fifty cents.

To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For salaries of consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, commercial agents, and clerks, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, forty-six thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-five cents.

To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous items, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and forty-one dollars and sixteen cents.

To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For stationery, book cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous items, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty-three cents.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA:-For amount due Edmund F. Dunne, late chief justice of the Territory of Arizona, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy four, two hundred and forty dollars and eleven cents.

TERRITORY OF COLORADO :-For amounts due Andrew W. Brazee zee, Amherst W. and Amherst W. Stone, associate judges, and John L. Rout, governor, Stone, John L. of the Territory of Colorado, for salary, as per settlement of their ac counts by the accounting-officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty three cents.

Rout.

Granville G. Ben

nett.

John Clark.

TERRITORY OF DAKOTA:-For amount due Granville G. Bennett, associate judge of the Territory of Dakota, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, sixty-six dollars and seventy cents.

TERRITORY OF IDAHO:-For amount due John Clark, associate judge

of the Territory of Idaho, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting-officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and fifty dollars and three cents.

TERRITORY OF UTAH :-For amount due David P. Lowe, late chief judge of the Territory of Utah, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and eight dollars and thirty three cents.

TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON:-For amount due S. C. Wingard, associate judge of the Territory of Washington, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy cents.

David P. Lowe.

S. C. Wingard.

Edward A.

TERRITORY OF WYOMING :-For amount due Edward A. Thomas, associate judge of the Territory of Wyoming, for salary from March Thomas. twentieth to April sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as per settlement of his account by the accounting-officers of the Treasury, being

a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents.

Thomas, Joseph M.

For amount due Joseph W. Fisher, chief judge, and Edward A. Joseph W. FishThomas and Joseph M. Cary, associate judges, of the Territory of Wyo- er, Edward A. ming, for salary, as per settlement of their accounts by the accounting Cary. officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and fiftysix cents. And hereafter payment of salaries of all officers of the Ter Salaries of terriritories of the United States appointed by the President shall com- torial officers, when mence only when the person appointed to any such office shall take the to commence. proper oath, and shall enter upon the duties of such office in such Terri- Oath, where adtory; and said oath shall hereafter be administered in the Territory in ministered.

which such office is held.

inci

secretary's office,

For legislative expenses and for incidental expenses of the secretary's Legislative Oxoffice, of Wyoming Territory, furniture, stationery, and so forth, being a penses and deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two thou- dental expenses of sand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents: Provided, Wyoming That the sum of one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars, appropriated by act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five for leg. islative expenses of said Wyoming Territory, having been actually appropriated for the current expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and expended accordingly, shall be so regarded by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.

George W

For amount due George W. French, secretary of Wyoming Territory, for salary from the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred French. and seventy-five, to April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty cents.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Edward Robin

To adjust the settled accounts of Edward Robinson, United States consul at Hamburg, being amounts found due on account of postage paid son. by him for the Treasury Department during the quarters ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and March thirty first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sev. enty-four, eighty-one cents, and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one dollar and nine cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized.

Bureau of En

To adjust the settled accounts of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, being amount found due said Bureau, for graving and Printcounting, trimming, sealing, and numbering national currency, involv. ing. ing no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five thousand and eleven dollars and fifty cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized.

ny.

Continental

For amount due Continental Bank-Note Company for printing naBank-Note Compa- tional currency, as per letter of the Comptroller of the Currency, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, twenty-two thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety four cents.

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For amount due American Bank-Note Company for printing national currency, as per letter of the Comptroller of the Currency, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy cents.

For amounts due Adams' Express Company for transportation of incomplete currency in April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as per certificate of the accounting officers of the Treasury and letter of the Comptroller of the Currency, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars and forty cents.

Furniture and carpets, Treasury Department: To adjust the settled account of the Treasury Department, being amount found due on account of labor and materials furnished during the mouth of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized.

For contingent expenses, namely: For telegraphing, repairing harness and mail-bag, rent, commission on sales, freightage, horse-shoeing, plumbing, and ice, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for which there is hereby re-appropriated from the unexpended balance remaining from the sum appropriated for the like purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and two dollars and eight cents.

Expenses of operating macerating-machine: To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, being amount found due said Bureau for expenses of running macerating-machine during September, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two hundred and fiftyseven dollars and eighty cents, a transfer entry is hereby authorized. For topographic and hydrographic survey of the South Pass and bar at the mouth of the Mississippi River, under act of March third eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand and one hundred dollars and twenty eight cents.

For fuel, light, and water, and miscellaneous items, required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC WORKS.

For repairs of the building corner of Seventeenth and F streets damaged by the fire of February twenty second eighteen hundred and seventy five, as per items set forth in Executive Document numbered one hundred and fifty-one, Forty-fourth Congress, first session, one thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty cents.

QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

For hire of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, offices, and of grounds for camps and summer-cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, being a defi ciency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty five cents.

COMMISSARY-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Subsistence sup

That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be. necessary, is hereby appropriated, and may be applied by plies. the Commissary-General of Subsistence prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to the purchase of subsistence-supplies intended for the posts supplied through the Upper Missouri, and for other distant posts, which amount shall be deducted from the estimates for subsistence of the Army for the next fiscal year; and this appropriation is hereby made available from the passage of this act.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

Iuspector of gas

For salary of inspector of gas and meters from August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and meters. and seventy-five, at two thousand dollars per annum, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents.

Assistant in

meters.

For salary of assistant inspector of gas and meters from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred spector of gas and and seventy-five, at one thousand dollars per annum, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

William F. Price.

For pay of William F. Price, messenger in the office of the surveyorgeneral of California, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ninety-one dollars and forty-eight cents. For rent of rooms for the use of the Pension Bureau and Bureau of Education, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred sion Bureau and and seventy-six, nine thousand dollars.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the compensation not exceeding eight dollars per day to each member of the said commission for the time actually employed, and necessary incidental expenses of the commission appointed June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to treat with the Sioux Indians for the relinquishment of the Black Hills country in Dakota Territory, twentyfive thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow compensation to members of such commission who are prohibited from receiving the same by the provisions of section one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

MISCELLANEOUS

For contingent expenses of the Department of Justice, namely, stationery, ice, and telegrams, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighty-one dollars and fifty two cents.

Rooms for PenBureau of Education.

Commission

to

treat with Sioux
of Black Hills.
for relinquishment

Proviso.

R. S., 1765, p.315.

Contingent expenses Depart

ment of Justice.

Suits against

For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury, or his agents, for the seizure of Secretary of Treascaptured or abandoned property, and for the examination of witnesses ury, etc. in claims against the United States pending in any department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, three thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents.

Propagation of food-fishes.

For continuing the introduction and propagation of useful food-fishes in the public waters of the United States during the present season, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For the purpose of paying the expenses of transportation, care, and custody, arranging and exhibiting, and safe return of articles belonging etc., of articles for to the United States to be presented and exhibited in the United States Centennial Exhibuilding at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, during the year

Transportation,

bition.

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