Purchase of

books.

1874, ch. 455, 18 Stat., 226.

Court of Claims, salaries, etc.

For salary of the warden of the Jail in the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the purchase, by the librarian of Congress of new books of reference for the Supreme Court to be a part of the Library of Congress, to be purchased under the direction of the Chief-Justice two thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance of one thousand dollars appropriated by the act for sundry civil expenses for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, to enable the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to procure plans for the accommodation of the Library, is hereby re-appropriated and mad available for said purpose.

COURT OF CLAIMS. For salaries of five Judges of the Court of Claims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; the chief clerk, three thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; and messenger thereof; in all, twenty nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.

For stationery, books, fuel, labor, postage, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, two thousand dollars; for reporting the decis ions of the court, clerical hire, labor in preparing and superintending the printing of the eleventh Volume of the Reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.

Salaries, etc., At- OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:-For compensation of the torney-General's Attorney General, eight thousand dollars; solicitor-general, seven thousand dollars; three assistant attorneys general, at five thousand dollars each; one assistant attorney-general of the Post Office Department, four thousand dollars; solicitor of internal revenue, four thousand five hundred dollars; examiner of claims, three thousand five hundred dollars; law-clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; stenographic, clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one law clerk, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; additional for disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; five copyists; one telegraph-operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and two watchmen; in all, seventy-two thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For care and subsistence of horses and repairs of wagons and har ness, one thousand dollars.

For rent of the four floors of the building occupied by the Department of Justice, fourteen thousand dollars.

Office.

For nine circuit Judges, to reside in circuit, fifty-four thousand dollars. For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Solicitor of Treasury.

For salary of the marshal of the Supreme Court three thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the fifty two district Judges of the United States, one hundred and eighty two thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and the four associate Judges, twenty thousand five hun dred dollars.

For compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, nineteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the district marshals of the United States, twelve thousand one hundred dollars.

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY:-For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant solicitor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; on messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.

Reduction of

SEC. 2. That the reduction in the numerical force of the officers, clerical force, how clerks, and employees in the several executive departments made nec

carried into effect.

essary by the provisions of this act shall be carried into effect as fol

lows: the number so reduced shall be discharged on the tenth day of
October next, and the sum of money necessary for their compensation
to the said date is hereby appropriated. And the amounts of money
necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, for which no specific
appropriations are made, are hereby appropriated; and the amounts
heretofore appropriated for legislative, executive and judicial expenses
for this fiscal year, so far as the same were applicable to service which
by the provisions of this act is discontinued, or to excess of compensa-
tion which by this act is reduced, shall not be deducted from the aggre-
gate appropriations herein made for like purposes; and the sum of sixty
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby ap-
propriated for temporary clerical service in the several executive de-
partments, according to the exigencies of the public service, to be
apportioned by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the President is
authorized, during the present fiscal year, whenever the interests of the clerks.
public service shall require it, to transfer any clerk or employee from
one department to service in another department.

SEC. 6. That all executive officers or employees of the United States not appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Sen ate, are prohibited from requesting, giving to, or receiving from, any other officer or employee of the Government, any money or property or other thing of value for political purposes; and any such officer or employee. who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be at once discharged from the service of the United States; and he shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 7. That to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to provide for the sale of the buildings and grounds known as the Detroit Arsenal, at Dearbornville, in the State of Michigan, by appraising and and surveying the property and advertising its sale, one thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discre tion, postpone the time of sale to the time most advantageous to the United States.

SEC. 8. That for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a survey of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Sacramento, California, to be made in pursuance of the resolution of the House of Representatives passed the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, ten thousand dollars.

SEO. 9. That the Secrataries respectively of the Departments of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, and the Attorney-General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Postmaster General for the necessary amount of postage stamps for the use of their Depart

Objects not spec

ified.

What appropriations not to be de

ducted

SEC.3. That whenever, in the judgment of the head of any department, the duties assigned to a clerk of one class can be as well performed by a clerk of a lower class or by a female clerk, it shall be lawful for him to diminish the number of clerks of the higher grade and increase the number of the clerks of the lower grade within the limit of the total appropriation for such clerical service: Provided, That in making any reduction of force in any of the executive departments, the head of such department discharged soldiers shall retain those persons who may be equally qualified who have been and sailors. honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, and the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors.

Preference of

SECTION 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to in- Inquiry into cusstitute a careful scrutiny of the present condition and competence of toms-revenue the force employed in the collection of revenue from customs, with a view of reducing the number of the same.

force.

SEC. 5. That the executive officers of the Government are hereby pro- Employing hibited from employing any clerk, agent, engineer, draughtsman mes. clerks, etc., beyond senger watchman, laborer, or other employee, in any of the executive provisions by law. departments in the city of Washington, or elsewhere beyond provision made by law.

Temporary clerical service.

Transfer of

Transfer of duties to clerks of lower class.

Requesting, etc., contributions by officers of Government for political purposes.

To effect sale of

Detroit Arsenal. 1875, ch. 174, 18 Stat., 510.

Proviso.

Survey of Union Pacific and C ntral Pacific Railways. Post, p. 217.

Requisitions for postage stamps by Departments.

Aug. 15, 1876.

Post, p. 233.

Appropriations for consular and diplomatic service.

Envoys; plenipotentiaries.

Ministers resi

dent.

Guatemala, etc.

Hayti.

Liberia.

Chargés d'affaires.

Secretaries of le

gation.

Interpreters.

Contingent expenses.

ments not exceeding the amount stated in the estimates submitted to Congress; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriation for the service of the Post Office Department for the same fiscal year. Approved, August 15, 1876.

CHAP. 288.-An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes.

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 the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and China, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the Argentine Republic, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand and five hundred dollars.

For minister resident accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, to reside at the place that the Presi dent may select in either of the States named, ten thousand dollars.

For minister resident and consul-general to Hayti, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars.

For chargés d'affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad twenty thousand dollars.

For salaries of chargés d'affaires to Denmark, Greece, Switzerland, Portugal, and Paraguay and Uruguay, at five thousand dollars each, twenty five thousand dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary of the secretary of legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars.

For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain, France, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.

For the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also as interpreter) at China five thousand dollars.

For the salary of the interpreter to the legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars.

For the interpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hun dred dollars.

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all the missions abroad, seventy-five thousand dollars.

SCHEDULE B.

For the agent and consul-general at Cairo four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, each six thousand dollars, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, each five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars.

For the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For the consul-general at Kanagawa, Berlin, and Montreal each, four thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars.

For the consuls-general at Vienna, Frankfort, Rome, and Constantinople, each three thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars.

For the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg and Mexico, each two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars.

For the consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars.

For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks three hundred and thirty-three thousand two hundred dollars, namely:

CLASS I.

Hong Kong.

Honolulu.

Fowchow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chin - Kiang; Ningpo.

Callao.

Havre.

Matanzas.

PERU:

CLASS III.

GREAT BRITAIN :

Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara.

GREAT BRITAIN :—

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

Vera Cruz.

CLASS II.

CHINA:

Tripoli; Tunis; Tangiers.

Bangkok.

FRENCH DOMINIONS:

SPANISH DOMINIONS :

BARBARY STATES:-
:--

Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo.

Buenos Ayres.

JAPAN:

MEXICO:

SIAM :

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA :—

Panama; Colon, (Aspinwall.)

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC:

Consulates.

Class one.

Class two.

Class three.

Class four.

Class five.

Lisbon.

SPANISH DOMINIONS

Rotterdam;

Odessa.

Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden.

San Juan, (Porto-Rico.)

Trieste; Prague.

Basle; Zurich.

DANISH DOMINIONS:

CLASS V.

GREAT BRITAIN :

Cork; Dublin; Prescott; Port Sarnia; Saint John's (Canada East ;) Barbadoes; Fort Erie; Leeds; Dundee; Leith; Toronto; Hamilton; Halifax; Saint John's (New Brunswick ;) Kingston, (Jamaica;) Coaticook; Nassau; (New Providence ;) Cardiff; Port Louis, (Mauritius;) Bermuda; Quebec;

Pernambuco.

JAPAN:

GERMANY:

SPANISH DOMINIONS:—

DOMINION OF THE NETHERLANDS :

Acapulco; Matamoras.

PORTUGAL:

RUSSIA:

GERMANY:

Sonneborg; Naremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz: Leipsic.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY:—

SWITZERLAND:

MEXICO:

BRAZIL: