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Rent of rooms, New Jersey ave

nue.

Fuel.

Fuel, light, etc., for buildings under Treasury Depart

ment.

Furniture, etc.

Heating, etc.

Pay of custodians, etc.

Vaults, safes, etc.

Photographing,

etc.

Land map.

Henry Cliff,

Charles S. Resing

er, and Charles E. Diemer.

For rent of fire-proof rooms in building number two hundred and five, New Jersey avenue, south, for the safe keeping and preservation of finished weights, measures, balances, and metric standards, one thousand dollars.

For fuel and lights, three hundred dollars.

For fuel, light, water, and miscellaneous items, required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, hatchets, hammers, and so forth, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, three hundred thousand dollars.

For furniture and repairs of furniture and carpets for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For heating, ventilating, and hoisting apparatus, and repairs of same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of custodians and janitors for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For vaults, safes, and locks, and repair of same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. For photographing, engraving, and printing plans for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, three thousand dollars. For photolithographing and printing the large connected land map of the United States and Territories two thousand five hundred dollars. That the sum of three hundred and two dollars and forty cents be and the same is hereby appropriated to Henry Cliff, Charles S. Resinger and Charles E. Diemer for services rendered as folders for the House of Representatives for the month of February eighteen hundred and seventy-four to be divided equally between them.

Investigation of For the expense of the investigation of the late election in Missiselection in Mississippi, three thousand five hundred dollars. sippi.

Agents at sealfisheries.

For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, one agent and three assistants, nine thousand four hundred and Assistant agents sixty five dollars: Provided, however, that the two assistant agents whose salaries as fixed by law at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each per annum, shall be discontinued from and after the first day of October eighteen hundred and seventy-six

discontinued.

Observation and report of storms.

Military telegraph lines.

1875, ch. 130, 18 Stat., 388.

1874, ch. 205, 18 Stat., 51.

UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

Signal-Office. For expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals, announcing probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life saving stations and light-honses; for instrument-shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river-reports; for books, periodicals, newspaper, and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, three hundred thousand dollars.

CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIR OF MILITARY TELE

GRAPH LINES.

For completing the construction, maintenance, and use of military telegraph lines on Indian and Mexican frontiers, and for the connection of military posts and stations, for the better protection of emmigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in the State of Texas, the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona and the Indian Territory, under the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, forty-five thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

For geographical surveys of the Territories west of the one hundredth meridian, twenty thousand dollars.

For preparing, engraving, and printing the cuts, charts, plates, and atlas sheets for geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, ten thousand dollars.

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steel.

Testing iron and 1875, ch. 130, § 4, 18 Stat., 399. Board to be dis

For completing experiments in testing iron, steel, and other metals as provided in section four of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five nineteen thousand three hundred and ninetysix dollars and ninety-eight cents. And the board for testing iron and steel provided for in said section shall be discontinued from and after continued. the expenditure of the amount herewith appropriated.

Collection and

ty, etc.

Collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors; For salaries of agents and clerks; rent of payment of bounoffice, fuel, lights, stationery, and similar necessaries; office-furniture and repairs; transportation of officers and agents; telegraphing and postage, the unexpended balances, or so much thereof as may be neces sary, of the appropriations for like purposes for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, respectively, are hereby continued and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven being fifty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and four cents.

For payment of costs and charges of State Penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of the United States military convicts confined in them, sixteen thousand dollars.

For publication of the official records of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, forty thousand dollars; to be paid to persons only who are not otherwise employed by the Government.

For completing the Medical and Surgical History of the war the unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the act of June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two and re-appropriated in the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four is hereby continued and rendered available and the Surgeon General is hereby authorized to continue on duty in his office the acting assistant Surgeons now employed on said History.

SUPPORT OF NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

State penitentiaries, etc.

Records of rebel

lion.

To whom paid.

Medical and Surgical History. 1872, ch. 352, 17 Stat., 338. 1874, ch. 455, 18 Stat., 224. Acting assistant surgeons tinued.

con

Current expen

For current expenses, including construction and repairs, namely, for Central branch, Eastern branch, Northwestern branch, Southern branch, ses of branches. and for out door relief and incidental expenses, three hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and fortyfour cents, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, amounting to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which is hereby continued and made available for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

To aid in the completion of the Soldiers Monument at the Central
Branch of the National Military Home two thousand dollars.
For the support of the Leavenworth Military Prison, at Leavenworth,
Kansas, sixty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and
fifteen cents.

Soldiers' monu-
ment, Central
Branch.
Military prison.

River banks at

For work necessary for the protection of the river banks at Fort Brown, Texas against the encroachments of the Rio Grande ten thousand dol. Fort Brown." lars or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the directions of the Secretary of War.

Rent of building,

nue and Fifteenth

For rent of building on southeast corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street, northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, from Pennsylvania aveSeptember first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, street. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, at one thousand dollars per month, ten thousand dollars; for rent of the same building from July first,

Repairing Armory building.

eighteen hundred and seventy-six to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, at one thousand dollars per month, twelve thousand dollars; in all twenty-two thousand dollars.

For repairing and fitting up the so-called Armory Building on the mall between Sixth and Seventh streets, and to enable the Smithsonian Institution to store therein and to take care of specimens of the extensive series of the ores of the precious metals, marbles, building stones, coals, and numerous objects of natural history now on exhibition in Philadelphia, including other objects of practical and economical value presented by various foreign governments to the National Museum, four thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the said sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the SmithDuty of watch- sonian Institution; and it shall hereafter be the duty of all watchmen or men and police- policemen employed in the grounds belonging to the United States to co-operate with the Metropolitan police in enforcing the rules and regu lations of the board of Metropolitan police made in relation to the public works and approved by said board.

Proviso.

men.

John Titus.

Hayden's sur

vey.

Powell's survey

Employés at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies.

Black Hills survey.

Walter P. Jen

ney, II. P. Tuttle, C. G. Newberry.

to

Commission appraise Cherokee lands.

To pay John Titus, late Chief Justice of Arizona Territory, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents, balance of salary due him.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For the continuation of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Professor F. V. Hayden, sixty-five thousand dollars.

For the completion of the geographical and geological survey of the Rocky Mountain region including ten thousand dollars for the prepaiation and publication of maps, charts and other illustrations necessary for the reports of said survey by J. W. Powell under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, thirty thousand dollars.

For payment of employees at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies Nebraska for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-six eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

Black Hills Survey: Fourteen thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the expenses of the Survey of the Black Hills country under Professor W. P. Jenney including the expenses incident to the preparation of the final report. And none of said money thus appropriated shall be used to reimburse the Indian funds heretofore used for the purposes of this survey; And it is further provided, That the accounting-officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to audit and settle the accounts of Walter P. Jenney, H. P. Tuttle, and C. G. Newberry, to the amount of eleven thousand dollars, the same being the sum drawn from the Sioux beneficial fund, in the same manner as if that sum had been appropri ated for this survey.

For this amount or so much thereof as may be required to pay the expenses of a commission, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to appraise certain Cherokee lands in the Indian Territory, in ac1872, ch. 233, § 5, cordance with the fifth section of the act making appropriations for the expenses of the Indian Department, approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, five thousand dollars.

17 Stat., 190.

To carry out the provisions of an act entitled "An act to authorize Seneca Nation the Seneca Nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Catleases. laraugus and Allegany reservations and to confirm existing leases" approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to pay for surveys as estimated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.

1875, ch. 90,

18 Stat., 330.

Surveys of pub lic lands, etc. Proviso.

SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.

For survey of the public lands and private land claims, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in such surveys as the public interest may require, under

the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, with the ap proval of the Secretary of the Interior, and at such rates as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, not exceeding the rate herein authorized: Provided, That no lands shall be surveyed under this appropriation, except, first, those adapted to agriculture without artificial irrigation ; second, irrigable lands, or such as can be redeemed and for which there is sufficient accessible water for the reclamation and cultivation of the same not otherwise utilized or claimed; third, timber-lands bearing timber of commercial value; fourth, coal-lands containing coal of commercial value; fifth exterior boundary of town sites; sixth, private land claims. The cost of such surveys shall not exceed ten dollars per mile for standard lines, and the starting point for said survey may be established by triangulation, seven dollars for townships, and six dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey of standard lines in heavily timbered land a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per mile.

For survey of private land claims, twenty-five thousand dollars. That an accurate account shall be kept by each surveyor general of the cost of surveying and platting every private land claim, to be reported to the General Land Office with the map of such claim; and that a patent shall not issue nor shall any copy of any such survey be furnished for any such private claim until the cost of survey and platting shall have been paid into the Treasury of the United States by the party or parties in interest in said grant or by any other party: And provided further, That before any land granted to any railroad company by the United States shall be conveyed to such company, or any persons entitled thereto under any of the acts incorporating or relating to said company, unless such company is exempted by law from the payment of such cost, there shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying, selecting, and conveying the same by the said company or persons in interest.

For completion of surveys of Pawnee reservation in Nebraska, and Otoe reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, the whole amount of the cost of such surveys to be re-imbursed to the Treasury out of the proceeds of the sale of such reservations respectively.

Proviso.

Cost of survey.
Starting points.

Surveys of private land claims. Accounts of cost.

Patent not issued until, etc.

Proviso.

Cost of surveying land grants.

Survey of Pawnee and Otoe reservations.

Land offices at

That the land offices at Chillicothe, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, Springfield, Illinois, and the office of the recorder of land titles of the State of Chilli co co the, InMissouri are hereby abolished, from and after the thirtieth day of Sep- Springfield, and dianapolis, and tember next and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to recorder of landtransfer to the States respectively aforesaid such of the transcripts, titles of Missouri documents, and records of the offices aforesaid as may not be required abolished. for use of the United States, and as the States respectively in which said offices are situated may desire to preserve; and the office of the surveyor-general of Kansas is hereby abolished from and after the thirtieth of September next.

PUBLIC LANDS.

For rent of office of the surveyor general of Louisiana, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Florida, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Minnesota, fuel, stationery, books, and other necessaries, fifteen hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Dakota, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, fifteen hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Colorado, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of New Mexico, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor general of California, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars.

Surveyor-general

of Kansas abolished.

Rent of offices of surveyors-general: Louisiana; Florida;

Minnesota;

Dakota;

Colorado;

New Mexico;

California;

Idaho;

Nevada;
Oregon;

Washington;

Nebraska and

Iowa;
Montana;

Utah;
Wyoming;

Arizona.

Registers and receivers.

Expenses of landoffices.

Depositing

moneys.

Suppressing depredations.

Aug. 1, 1876.

tinued.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Idaho Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nevada, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, fifteen hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, fifteen hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Montana Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Utah Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Wyoming Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Arizona Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other necessaries, one thousand five hundred dollars. EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS.

For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public money, at ninety-four land offices, three hundred and sixtyfive thousand four hundred and eighty three dollars and twenty one

cents.

For incidental expenses of the land-offices, forty thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public lands, thirteen thousand dollars.

To meet expenses of suppressing depredations upon timber on the public lands, five thousand dollars. Approved, July 31, 1876.

CHAP. 248.-An act to continue the provisions of an act entitled "An act to continue the provisions of an act entitled 'An act to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.""

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations for expenditures of States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of an act Government con- entitled "An act to continue the provisions of an act entitled 'An act to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government'" approved July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, be, and the same are hereby, extended and continued in full force and effect until and including the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Approved, August 1, 1876.

Ante, pp. 65,78,95.
Post, pp. 131, 168.

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CHAP. 249.-An act to continue the public printing.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congressional Printer is hereby authorized to continue the work required by law in advance of appropriations hereafter to be made; and this act shall continue in force until and including the tenth day of August eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

Approved, August 2, 1876.

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