Ante, pp. 3, 34.

Post, pp. 211, 213,

214.

1875, ch. 130, 5, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in pursuance of an act of Congress 18 Stat., 400. approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy five, the following sums are hereby appropriated, namely: For the Interior Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the War Department, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; for the Smithsonian Institution, twenty one thousand dollars; for the United States Commission of Food-Fishes, five thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, fourteen thousand dol lars; the same to be disbursed by the board on behalf of the United States Executive Departments appointed in pursuance of the order of the President of January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventyfour: Provided, That for contingent expenses any surplus arising from appropriations made to either of said Departments by act of March third eighteen hundred and seventy five, is hereby authorized to be used for the purposes herein mentioned.

Proviso.

Subsist once of Apaches.

Exchange of sugar for beef or flour.

Expenses of

courts.

Expenses and

For subsistence of Apache Indians at the Southern Apache agency, New Mexico, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Indian agent located at said agency may, under instructions from the Commis sioner of Indian Affairs, exchange sugar belonging to said agency for beef or flour.

JUDICIAL.

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; and, also, for jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States, for the safe-keeping of prisoners, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, sixty five thousand dollars.

For the defraying of the expenses and fees of the United States marfees of United shal of the Territory of Utah, and of summoning jurors and witnesses, States marshal, of keeping and transporting prisoners, and caring for the penitentiary, six thousand dollars

Utab.

ted.

Balance of Army SEC. 2. That the sum of one million one hundred and sixty-five thoupay appropriation, sand dollars, remaining to the credit of the appropriation for pay of the 1874, re-appropria- Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby re-appropriated and made available from and after the passage of this act for the following purposes, namely: To pay the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for pay of the Army from June fifteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five; and the remainder of the first above-named sum shall be available to meet any deficiency for pay of the Army for the current fiscal year, but shall not be used until the appropriation for said lastmentioned year shall be fully exhausted.

Certain balances

carried to surplus

fund made available.

1874, ch. 328, § 5, 18 Stat., 110.

To pay internalofficers, etc., for 1873.

revenue

SEO. 3. That the following balances of appropriations, carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of the fifth section of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being required to complete the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, are hereby continued and rendered available for such purpose, namely:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

To pay to internal revenue collectors, assessors, and other internal-revenue officers their salaries, commissions, and expenses allowed by law, as have been ascertained and certified by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, and to pay miscellaneous expenses of carrying into effect the various provisions of the several acts providing for internal revenue, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hunPreventing and dred and seventy-three, twenty-five thousand dollars. To pay such detecting crimes claims for services rendered and expenses incurred in detecting and against internal bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the interrevenue, 1873. nal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for

information and detection of such violation, as has been allowed and certified by the proper officers of the Treasury Department, as provided by law, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, five thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Arrears of pay

To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for arrears of pay and allowances that may be due them on pay-rolls, final and allowances. accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and two dollars and thirty-seven cents.

Arrears of pay,

Subsistence.

Clothing.

To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for arrears of pay and allowances that may be due them on pay-rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten thousand dollars. To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for arrears of pay and allowances that may be due them on pay-rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-five thousand dollars. For amount required to pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the volunteer service, or their heirs and assigns, for arrears of pay that etc., to volunteers. may be certified to be due them by the accounting-officers of the Treas ury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, six hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents. For allow- Transportation ances to officers of the Army for transportation of themselves and their of officers, 1873. baggage when traveling on duty, certified to be due by the accountingofficers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and fifty three dollars and fifty cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for subsistencestores of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, eleven thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventeen cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for clothing of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, three hundred and five dollars and forty-five cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy one and prior years, forty-eight thousand and two dollars and two cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. For transportation of officers and their baggage, when traveling on duty, certified to be due by the accounting-officers of of officers, 1871. the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and fortytwo dollars and forty-eight cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for regular supplies of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fifty seven thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-six cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treas ury Department, for incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior penses, years, nine thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirtytwo cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, for incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred

Transportation.

Transportation

Regular supplies, Quarter in a ster's Department.

Incidental ex-
Quarter-

master's

ment.

Depart

Horses for cavalry and artillery.

Contingencies.

Medical and hospital supplies.

ice.

Hire of quarters. and seventy-two, ninety-seven dollars and sixty cents. For payment of claims and accounts settled by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers ou military duty, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, four thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and twelve cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-oficers of the Treasury Department, for purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, being for the serv ice of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, four thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. For coutingencies of the Army certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. For contingencies of the Army certified to be due by the accountingofficers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accountingofficers of the Treasury Department, for medical and hospital supplies and incidental expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for medical and hospital supplies and incidental expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred Recruiting serv and seventy-two, thirty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-four cents. For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ninetythree dollars.

Indian agents.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For payment of amounts certified to be due Indian agents by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, one thousand four hundred and forty eight dollars and eight cents. For payment of amount certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, one dollar and three cents. For payment of amount found due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department on settlement of the account of Major James A. James A. Hearn. Hearn, late Indian agent, on account of maintaining peace among and with the various tribes, bands, and parties of Indians, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five dollars and thirteen cents. For payment of amount due LindLindsay Apple say Applegate, late subagent of Indian affairs, per settlement of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, forty-two dollars and one

gato.

cent.

Approved, May 1, 1876.

CHAP. 89.—An act to provide for the separate entry of packages contained in one importation.

May 1, 1876.

Separate entry of packages con

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a separate entry may be made of one or more packages contained in an importation of packed tained in an impackages consigned to one importer or consignee, and concerning which portation in cerpacked packages, no invoice, or statement of contents or values, has been tain caɛes. received.

Every such entry shall contain a declaration of the whole number of parcels contained in such original packed package; and shall embrace all the goods wares, and merchandise imported in one vessel at one time for one and the same actual owner, or ultimate consignee.

SEC. 2. That the importer, consignee, or agent's oath prescribed by section twenty-eight hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes, is hereby modified for the purposes of this Act, so as to require the importer consignee or agent to declare therein that the entry contains an account of all the goods imported in the - whereof which oath so modi

is master, from

for account of

fied, shall in each case, be taken on the entry of one or more packages contained in an original package. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed to relieve the importer, consignee, or agent from producing the oath of the owner or ultimate consignee in every case, now required by law; or to provide that an importation may consist of less than the whole number of parcels contained in any packed package, or packed packages consigned in one vessel at one time, to one importer, consignee or agent.

Declaration.

Oath of importer, consignee, or agent, in cases of separate entry.

R. S. 2841, p. 552.

Post, p. 247.

SEC. 3. That all provisions of law inconsistent herewith are hereby Repeals. repealed.

Approved, May 1, 1876.

CHAP. 90.-An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform-School in the District of Columbia.

May 3, 1876.

Board of trustees.
Appoint ment,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the institution known as the Reform-School of the District of Columbia shall be in the charge of, and governed and managed by, a board of seven trustees, who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, upon the recommendation of the Attorney-General, each for the term of three years, but in such a manner that the terms of not more than three of them shall expire within any one or the same year; that one of the trustees shall be elected president of the board, whose duty shall be prescribed by the board. board.

term.

President of

Name of corporation.

Title of property

SEC. 2. That the board of trustees shall be a corporation by the name of the "Board of Trustees of the Reform-School of the District of Columbia," for the purpose of taking and holding, in trust for the United States property of every description which has been purchased, held by board. appropriated, or set apart for the use of the institution, or which may hereafter be purchased, appropriated, or set apart for its use, or given or bequeathed to it, or to the said board, for its use, with all power necessary to carry this purpose into effect, and to protect and preserve such property, including the land and buildings, fences, stock, fruit, crops, and trees of all kinds.

Superintendent

SEC. 3. That the board of trustees may appoint a superintendent, two or more teachers or assistants, and a matron whose salaries are fixed and employés. by law; they may also employ two or more master-mechanics, a farmer,

a gardner, and such other persons, as servants and laborers, as may be necessary, and fix their compensation, subject to the approval of the Attorney General.

SEC. 4. That the board of trustees shall appoint a treasurer, who shall, Treasurer.

Bond and duties. before entering upon the duties of his office, give a bond to the United States with two or more sureties, to be approved by the First Comptroller of the Treasury, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or a larger sum, at the option of the said Comptroller, conditioned that he shall faithfully account for all the money received by him as treasurer; and it shall be his duty to keep a clear and full record of his accounts as treasurer, and report an abstract of the same to the board of trustees once in every two months, and shall also make an annual report to the board of trustees.

Superintendent's

bond.

Residence of superintendent.

Powers and duties of superintend

ent and officers.

Charge of lands and property.

SEC. 5. That before entering upon the duties of his office, the superintendent shall give a bond to the board of trustees, with sureties, to be approved by the Attorney General of the United States, in the sum of three thousand dollars, conditioned that be shall faithfully account for all money received by him, and faithfully perform all the duties incumbent on him as superintendent of said Reform-School.

SEC. 6. That the superintendent shall reside at the institution constantly and that he, with such subordinate officers as may be appointed in accordance with the third section of this act, shall have the charge and custody of the boys; shall govern them in accordance with such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may prescribe in its by. laws; shall employ them in agricultural, mechanical or other labor; shall give them instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and such other studies aud in such arts and trades as the trustees may direct; and shall employ such methods of discipline as will, as far as possible, reform their characters, preserve their health, promote regular improvement in their studies and employments, and secure in them fixed habits of religion, morality, and industry.

SEC. 7. That the superintendent shall have charge of the lands, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock, provisions, and every other species of property pertaining to the institution, within the precincts thereof, under the board of trustees, including the farm in possession of the board where the school was first located; and he shall Books of account. keep in suitable books, regular and complete accounts of all his receipts aud expenditures, and of all the property intrusted to him, so as to show clearly the income and expenses of the institution; and he shall account, in such manner as the trustees may prescribe, for all the money received by him from the proceeds of the institution or otherwise; and Register of boys. he shall keep a register of the names and ages of all boys committed to the institution, with the dates of their admission and discharge, and such particulars of their history before and after leaving the institution as he can obtain.

Inspection of

books.

His books and all documents relating to the Reform-School shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of the trustees, who shall, once or more in every month, carefully examine his accounts, and the vouchers and documents connected therewith, and make a record of the result of such examination; and, once in every three months, the Inspection of in- institution shall be thoroughly examined in all its departments by three stitution, and re- or more of the trustees, and a report of such examination shall be made to the board.

port.

Commitment of

boys under sixteen years of age, by whom, and in what

cases.

SEC. 8. That whenever any boy under the age of sixteen years shall be brought before any court of the District of Columbia, or any Judge of such court, and shall be convicted of any crime or misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, other than imprisonment for life, such court or Judge, in lieu of sentencing him to imprisonment in the county jail or fining him, may commit him to the Reform-School, to remain until he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, unless sooner discharged by the board of trustees. And the Judges of the criminal and police courts of the District of Columbia shall have power to commit to the Reform-School, first any boy under sixteen years of age who may be liable to punishment by imprisonment under any existing law of the District of Columbia, or any law that may be enacted and in force in said District; second, any boy under sixteen years of age, with the con