and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents; fourteen laborers to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each, and eleven at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem each, nine thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents; one laborer to superintend quarters of cadet midshipmen and public grounds, at two dollars and twentyeight cents per diem, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and twentycents; four attendants at recitation-rooms, library, chapel, and offices, at twenty dollars per month each nine hundred and sixty dollars; twenty servants to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per mouth each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety cents. For pay of employees in the department of steam enginery, for machinists, boiler-makers, and others, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, for improvements and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars. For paving street on the north side of the academy grounds, according to stipulations of the contract with the city of Aunapolis, three thousand dollars. For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships, eighteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for the library, one thousand five hundred dollars. For stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and so forth, and for textbooks for use of instructors, two thousand dollars. For expenses of the board of visitors, two thousand six hundred dol lars. For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Gas, miscellane For purchase of gas and steam-machinery, steam pipe and fixtures, For stores in the department of steam-enginery, eight hundred dollars. MARINE CORPS. Stores. Materials for repairs. Pay of officers, etc. For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, and for pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and others of the corps, and for transportation of officers travelling without troops, and for payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, six hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars. And from and after the passage of this act, there shall be no appointments, except by promotion, to fill vacancies occur- cers limited. ring in the list of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps until the number of such officers shall have been reduced, by casualties or otherwise, to seventy-five. For provisions, ninety thousand dollars. For military stores, namely: For pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance-stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, five thousand dollars. For transportation of troops, and for expenses of recruiting, five thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, five thousand dollars. Number of off Provisions. Military stores, Transportation of troops. Barracks and reut of offices. Forage. Hire of quarters. penses. For forage for public horses and horses belonging to field and staff officers, five thousand dollars. For rent of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, sixteen thousand dollars. For contingencies, namely: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; labor; burial of deceased marines; stationery; telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent; barrack furniture; furniture for officers' quarters; bed-sacks; wrapping-paper; oil-cloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters' tools; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine-hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, bunks; repairs to public carry-all; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of hand carts and wheel barrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys, cookingstoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates; gravel for paradegrounds; repair of pumps; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars. Approved, June 30, 1876. July 1, 1876. Name of steamboat Paragon changed. CHAP. 160.-An act to change the name of the steam-boat Paragon, of Pittsburgh, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to change the name of the steamboat Paragon, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to that of E. O. Stanard, by which name said vessel shall hereafter be known. Approved, July 1, 1876. July 3, 1876. Right of CHAP. 162.-An act granting the right of way for a railroad and telegraph line to the Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company across Fort Walla Walla military reservation in Washington Territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United way States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way, not through Fort exceeding one hundred feet in width, through the lands of the Fort Walla Walla reservation granted. Walla Walla military reservation in Washington Territory, is hereby granted to the Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of said Territory, for the purpose of constructing a railroad and telegraph-line: Provided, That the Width, location, said right of way, and the width and location thereof through said lands, ap- and the regulations for operating said railroad within the limits of the proved. reservation so as to prevent all danger to public property, shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary of War prior to any entry on said lands, or the commencement of the construction of said works: Reversion of Provided, also, That whenever said rights of way shall cease to be used right. for the purposes aforesaid, the same shall revert to the United States. SEC. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act. etc., to be Right to alter reserved. Approved, July 3, 1876. July 3, 1876. CHAP. 163.—An act making a further appropriation for the erection of Government buildings in Dover, Delaware. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thou for building in Do- sand dollars, in addition to appropriations heretofore made for the erec tion of a post-office in Dover, Delaware, be, and the same is hereby, ver, Del. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, for the purpose of adding an additional story to the said post-office building now in the course of erection, to be used for United States court rooms and other Government offices. Approved, July 3, 1876. CHAP. 164.—An act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the joint stock company of the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. July 3, 1876. 1867, ch. 190. 14 Stat., 500. Young Men's Christian Associa Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act to incorporate the joint stock company of the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, namely: SEC 1. That the joint-stock company of the Young Men's Christian Association be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to borrow, on the tion may Lo.row security of the real estate now owned by it in square numbered four hun- money. dred and seven in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, not exceeding the sum of thirty-three thousand dollars, at a lawful rate of interest, for the purpose of paying off the debt now due from said jointstock company to the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. May securo loan SEC 2. That in order to secure the amount authorized to be borrowed by the preceding section, the said joint-stock company is hereby author. by deed of trust. ized to execute and deliver its note for the amount borrowed, under authority of this act, bearing such lawful rate of interest, and payable at such time, principal and interest, as may be agreed upon between it and the persons from whom it may borrow such money; and to secure the payment of such note and interest to convey said property to two trustees in fee-simple, with power in said trustees, or the survivor of them, to sell said property at public auction in case of default made in the payment of said note, or any installment of interest due thereon, upon such terms and after such notice by advertisement as the said trustees, or the survivor of them, may deem best for the interest of all parties concerned, and to convey the same to the purchaser in fee-simple. Terms of trust. Revenues of SEC 3. That the rents and revenues derived from said property shall be retained by the board of directors of said joint-stock company and property to be first used for payment applied to the payment of the indebtedness hereby authorized, and of debt. shall not be applied to the payment of interest on the capital stock of said corporation until said indebtedness is fully paid. SEC 4. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing said joint-stock company to encumber said real estate for any other purpose or in any other manner. Approved, July 3, 1876. CHAP. 165.-An act to repeal section two thousand three hundred and three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, making restrictions in the disposition of the public lands in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida, and for other purposes. Property not to be encumbered other wise. July 4, 1876. Post, p. 357. R. S., 2303, p. 424, repealed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two thousand three hundred and three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, con fining the disposal of the public lands in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida to the provisions of the homestead law, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That the Proviso. repeal of said section shall not have the effect to impair the right, complete or inchoate, of any homestead settler, and no land occupied by such settler at the time this act shall take effect, shall be subject to entry, pre-emption, or sale: And provided, That the public lands affected Public lands in by this act, shall be offered at public sale, as soon as practicable from SAMUEL S. COX. Received by the President June 22, 1876. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] July 5, 1876. claims for additional bounty extended. 1866, ch. 296, 14 Stat., 322. CHAP. 166.-Au act to extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which expired, by limitation, on January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time for filing States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and which expired by limitation on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be, and the same is hereby, revived and extended until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty; and that all claims for such bounty filed in the proper department after the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and before the passage of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to have been, filed in due time, and shall be considered and decided without refiling. Approved, July 5, 1876. July 5, 1876. amended. CHAP. 167.-An act to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United R. S., 1225. p. 215, States of America in Congress assembled, That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be so amended as to read, "But the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed thirty at any time," instead of twenty, as in said section provided. Approved, July 5, 1876. July 5, 1876. Preamble. 1872, ch. 141, 17 Stat., 85. 12 Stat., 1111. CHAP. 168.-An act providing for the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers, and for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale. Whereas, the Secretary of the Interior, in pursuance of an act approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, has caused to be appraised the lands heretofore owned by the Kansas tribe of Indians, in the State of Kansas, which by the terms of the treaty made by the United States and said Indians, and proclaimed November seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, were to be sold for the benefit of said Indians; which appraisement also includes all improvements on the same, and the value of said improvements; distinguishing between improvements made by members of said Indian tribe, the United States, and white settlers; and Whereas the appraisement thus made was so high that neither set flers nor purchasers were able to pay the same, and the said land has remained unsold from the passage of the act; Therefore, Bona-fide settlers When payable. Proviso, no waste Remainder of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each bona fide settler ou any of the trust lands embraced in said act, heretofore reported as such on Kansas Indian lands may make by the commissioners appointed to make said appraisement, and the payment for their rejected claimants as bona fide settlers, who were recommended as such lands. by Andrew C. Williams, acting under instructions to superintendent Hoag, from the Indian Office, dated October, twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be permitted to make payment of the appraised value of their lands to the local laud-office at Topeka, Kansas, under such rules as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may adopt, in six equal annual instalments; the first instalment payable on the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the remaining instalments payable annually from that time, and drawing interest at six per centum per annum until paid: Provided, That where there is timber on any of the lands to be sold under the provisions of this act, on timber-lands. the Secretary of the Interior shall require the purchaser to enter into bond, with approved security, that he shall cominit no waste on the tim ber, or otherwise on said land until the last payment is made. SEC. 2. That all the remainder of the trust-lands and of the undisposed portion of the diminished reserve shall be subject to entry at the local trust-lands subject to entry by actual land office at Topeka, Kansas, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and settlers. sixty acres, unless a legal subdivision of a section shall be fractional and found to contain a greater number of acres, only by act al settlers, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe. And the parties making such entries shall be required to make payment of the appraised value of the land entered and occupied by each, in the following manner: One sixth at the time that the entry is made, and the remainder in five equal annual payments, drawing interest at six per centum per annum, and the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold title until the last payment is made; and the Secretary of the Interior, where there is timber on the lands, shall, in addition, compel the purchaser to enter into bond, with approved security, to commit no waste by the destruction of timber or otherwise, bered. on the premises, until final payment has been made; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patents in fee simple to be issued to all parties who shall complete purchases under the provisions of this act: Provided, That if any person or persons applying to purchase land under the provisions of this act shall fail to make payment or to per form any other conditions required by the provisions of this act, or by payment. rules and regulations that may be prescribed in the execution hereof, within ninety days after such payment shall become due, or performance be required by the terms hereof, or by the rules and regulations which may be prescribed in the execution hereof, such person or persons shall forleit all rights under the provisions of this act, and all claim or right to reimbursement or compensation for previous action or payment by said person or persons under the provisions hereof; and the land proposed to be purchased by such person or persons shall again be subject to sale as though no action had been had in regard to the same. SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior shall inquire into the correctness of the appraisement of these lands; and if he be satisfied that they have been appraised at more than their present cash value, he may appoint a new commission of three persons to re-appraise the same; the per diem and expenses of which, at the rates heretofore paid to such commissioners, shall be deducted from the proceeds of said lands. How payment to be made. Boud to be taken where land is tim Failure to make Re-appraisement, when, etc. Expense of, dedacted. Testimony on SEC. 4. That in preparing or giving their testimony, all settlers or purchasers of land under the provisions of this act may have such part of settlers and testimony taken, after due and legal notice to the opposing party in purchasers, how interest, before any notary public or person qualified to administer an ed. oath, and may forward such testimony with their application to the land taken and forward |