WYOMING. From Laramie City, via North Park and Hahn's Peak to White River Agency. From Fort Laramie, via Jenney's Stockade and Inyan Kara, to Deadwood. From Rawlins to Bennetts Ranche. From Fort Laramie, via Custer City, to Deadwood. From Green River City, via Brown's Park, Ashley's Fork, Uintah Indian Reservation, Ducheson River, South Fork, San Rafael River, and Castle Valley, to Salina Approved, March 3, 1877. Wyoming. CHAP. 104.-An act to provide for compensation to the owners of certain lands ceded by the United States to Great Britain in and by the treaty of Washington of July 9, 1842 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Whereas the United States in and by the treaty of Washington of July ninth eighteen hundred and forty two by adopting a conventional line, "from the monument at the source of the river Saint Croix, running north, following the exploring line run and marked by the surveyors of the two governments in the years eighteen hundred and seventeen and eighteen hundred and eighteen" instead of a true line did cede to the British crown a strip of land commencing at an angle at said monument and increasing to nearly one mile in width at the river Saint John, certain portions of which, amounting to ten thousand seven hundred and eighteen acres and one hundred and thirty seven square rods, had been granted to citizens of the United States by the States of Maine and Massachusetts while the same were in the lines of the United States, and for which the United States received compensation in equivalents and concessions from the British Crown and whereas the United States have made compensation to the States of Maine and Massachusetts for so much of said territory as was owned by them, respectively, and all citizens owning lands on the rest of said exploring-line, which vested in British subjects by operation of the treaty aforesaid under the act of July twelfth eighteen hundred and sixty two, and other acts, and have hitherto failed to make compensation to those citizens owning lands upon the strip and tract east of said exploring line, which passed either to British subjects or the British Crown by virtue of said exploring line being adopted as the treaty line between the two countries at that point, whereby said citizens became entitled to compensation for said lands so appropriated to public use: To the end, therefore, that compensation may now be made by the United States to the parties entitled thereto, March 3, 1877. Preamble. Quantity. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas Payment for ury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to the parties land transferred to Now Brunswick entitled thereto compensation for said land taken from the State of under treaty of Maine by said conventional line, and included in the province of New July 9, 1842. Brunswick, not exceeding ten thousand seven hundred and eighteen acres and one hundred and thirty-seven square rods appropriated by the United States as aforesaid, its value in money at the date of said appropriation, and also for all timber cut therefrom by British subjects Payment for timduring the suspension of jurisdiction by the respective governments ber. preceding said treaty: Provided, That the whole amount of compensation so made for said land and timber shall not exceed an average com- compensation. pensation of three dollars per acre, and that the same shall be distributed and applied in proportion to the relative value of said lands when Average rate of 344 in full. Payments to be appropriated and timber when taken. And provided further, That all payments made under this act shall be in full of all compensation due by the United States for the lands so appropriated and the timber so Testimony pre- taken. And provided further, That in determining the amount and value viously taken may of the land appropriated and the timber taken, and the amount of compensation to be made to any claimant, the Secretary of the Treasury may use any evidence heretofore taken in relation thereto by the Department of State or by the State of Maine and Massachusetts, and any and all official documents and correspondence pertaining thereto. be used. Appropriation. March 3, 1877. Appropriations. SECTION 2. That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the foregoing section into effect, thirty five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 105.-An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United penses. Printing, binding, and paper. Distribution of etc. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Court of Claims, and the Departments, and for the necessary materials, one million three hundred thousand dollars; and out of the sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the Congressional Printer to the amounts following namely: For printing and binding for the State Department, fifteen thousand appropriation for dollars; for the Treasury Department, one hundred and eighty thousand public printing, dollars; for the War Department, seventy two thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, thirty nine thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, nine thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, six thousand dollars; for the Post-Office, one hundred and five thousand dollars; for the Congressional Library, fifteen thousand dol lars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, ten thousand dollars; and for printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates of Congress, six hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars; and of the sums hereby appropriated for the several Departments, the courts, and for printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates of Congress, there shall only be used for the several purposes herein provided the sums specified, and the unexpended balances shall not be used for any other purposes; and there shall be taxed against Cost of records the losing party in each and every cause pending in the Supreme Court in Supreme Court of the United States or in the Court of Claims of the United States, the cost of printing the record in such case, which shall be collected, Claims. except when the judgment is against the United States, by the clerks of said courts respectively, and paid into the Treasury of the United States; but this shall only apply to records printed after the first of Only to be used as specified. and Court of October next. For printing the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and sev enty-six one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Franking of That all public documents already printed, or which have been ordered Distribution of to be printed by the present Congress, shall be distributed among Congress to memdocuments of this Senators in accordance with the usage of the Senate, and among the bers. Representatives and Delegates of the said Congress, and subject to their Ante, p. 336. respective orders until the first day of January next; and that such of these documents as cannot under existing laws be transmitted through the mails free of postage may be so transmitted, under the frank of same. such Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, until the first day of January next, subject to such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe; and all public documents which may be transmitted through the mails free of postage may be sent from the document and folding rooms of the two houses of Congress, free of postage, to such Senators, Representatives and Delegates, until the first day of January next. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. How sent. Expenses of life FOR LIFE-SAVING AND LIFE-BOAT STATIONS-For salaries of ten superintendents and one assistant superintendent of the life-saving sta- saying service. tions at the following points namely: On the coasts of Long Island and Rhode Island, one thousand five hundred dollars; and on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant to the superintendent on the coasts of Long Island and Rhode Island, five hundred dollars; for superintendents on the coast of Massachusetts, on the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, ou the coasts of Lakes Erie and Ontario, on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, and on the coast of Lake Michigan, and for superintendent for the houses of refuge on the coast of Florida, each one thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For one hundred and fifty keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, thirty thousand dollars. For five keepers of houses of refuge on the coast of Florida, two thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of crews of experienced surf-men, at such stations and for such periods as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and proper, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. For compensation to volunteers at life-boat stations, eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For fuel for one hundred and fifty-five stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for the same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders contingent expenses, including fr medals, stationery, advertising, a be included under any other head tions, and houses of refuge on the c sand dollars. the Treasury Department; and ice. Expenses of rev REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. For the pay of captain, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots and for rations for the same, and for pay of enne-cutter petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same, and for fuel for vessels, repairs and outfits for same, ship chandlery and engineers stores for same, traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, instruction of cadets, commutation of quarters, and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy four thousand eight hundred and ninety one dollars and ten cents. Berv Expenses of courts. R. S., Title xxvi. ch 7. Support of convicts. Violation of intercourse acts. Crimes against United States. Defense of suits abandoned prop JUDICIARY 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, and for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act of February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy one, relative to the right of citizens to vote, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, two million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, four thousand dollars. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, in allowing such increased fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals, and in defraying such other expenses, as may be necessary for this purpose, eight thousand dollars. For detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, twenty five thousand dollars. For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits for captured and against the Secretary of the Treasury or his agents for the seizure of captured or abandoned property, and for the examination of witnesses in claims against the United States pending in any Department, and for the defense of the United States in the Court of Claims twenty-five thousand dollars. erty. Summary report of disallowed claims. 1871, ch. 116, 16 Stat., 524. Reform School. Metropolitan Po fico. Authority To enable the Clerk of the House to have prepared for the Public Printer fifty copies of the "Summary Reports" of the Commissioners of Claims in cases reported to Congress as disallowed under the act of March third eighteen hundred and seventy one, of which twenty five copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the Senate and twenty-five copies for the use of the House, one thousand dollars. REFORM SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-For the superintendent, assistant superintendent, matron, two teachers, for medicines and physicians fees, gardner, farmer, baker, night watchman, seamstress, laborer, and laundress, and four female servants, and for fuel, clothing, and incidentals, ten thousand dollars. For improvements and repairs five thousand dollars, no part of which shall be expended in the purchase of land. METROPOLITAN POLICE.-For salaries and other necessary expenses of the metropolitan police for the District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That a like sum shall concurrently be paid to defray the expenses of the said metropolitan police force out of of the treasury of the District of Columbia. The duties devolved and the board extended to authority conferred upon the board of metropolitan police by law, for police purposes in said District, shall extend to and include all public squares or places; and said board is hereby authorized and required to make appropriate rules and regulations in relation thereto. public squares Interest on 3.65 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA That the Secretary of the Treasury shall reserve of any of the revbonds; how paid. enues of the District of Columbia not required for the actual current expenses of schools, the police, and fire department, a sum sufficient to meet the interest accruing on the three-sixty-five bonds of the District during the fiscal year begining July first, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, and apply the same to that purpose; and in case there shall not be a sufficient sum of said revenues in the Treasury of the United States at such time as said interest may be due, then the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay said inter est; and the same shall be re-imbursed to the Treasury of the United States from time to time as said revenues may be paid into said Treasury, until the full amount shall have been refunded. For the general purposes of the District of Columbia, to be expended General expenses. by the Commissioners of said District two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Advance for sup schools. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to advance to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia seventy-five port of public thousand dollars for support of the public schools of the District, to be available immediately; and said Commissioners shall refund the amount so advanced out of any revenues of the District for the current fiscal year not required for its actual expenses. For payment of judgments heretofore rendered in the Court of Claims in favor of the following-named persons, and for the amounts respect. ively following their names, to wit: Thomas W. Sweeney, seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents; Horatio Page, four thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty-two cents; Francis Cole, two hundred and eight dollars and twenty-five cents; John Campbell, one hundred and two dollars and forty-seven cents; Albert Gittings, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents; Edward M. Schaeffer, two hundred dollars; E. S. Houston, for the use of J. H. Bemis, four hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents; in all, six thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars and eleven cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT For casual repairs of the Interior Department building five thousand dollars GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.-For the support, clothing and medical and moral treatment of the insane of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and Revenue Cutter service, and of all persons who may have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; and one half of the expense of the indigent persons who may be hereafter admitted from the District of Columbia shall be paid from the treasury of said District Provided, That hereafter such indigent persons shall be admitted only upon order of the executive authority of the said District. For general repairs and improvements absolutely necessary for the buildings of the institution, five thousand dollars Judgments in Court of Claims. Thomas Ꮃ . Horatio Pago. Schaeffer. E. S. Houston. Repairs. M. Support insane of Army, Navy, etc. One-half of ex penses of indigent insane to be paid from treasury of District. Indigent insane; how admitted. Repairs of hospital building. Support of Cofor Deaf and Dumb. Credits for certain vouchers for COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.-For the sup port of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, the lumbia Institution maintenance of the beneficiaries of the United States, and five hundred dollars for the books and illustrative apparatus, forty eight thousand dollars. And the accounting-officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized, in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursing agent for the fuel. said institution, to give credit for voucher No five in the first quarter of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for vouchers Nos. forty one and fifty eight in the second quarter of the same year; said vouchers being receipts for moneys paid for fuel for the use of said institution, if the said accounting officers shall find that said vouchers were for expenditures made for the benefit of said institution For the completion of the work on the erection, furnishing and fitting Buildings and reup the buildings of the institution in accordance with plans heretofore pairs. submitted, and for repairs on buildings already completed sixty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty-two cents. COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING-IN ASYLUM.-For support of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying in Asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from paypatients, eighteen thousand dollars. Columbia Hospital for Women. |