James C. Bland ing. Surveyor-gener al, Dakota; incidental expenses. Surveyor-gener Surveying public lands in Dakota. Amount due James C Blanding deputy surveyor, for surveys executed under contract of February twenty-sixth eighteen hundred and seventy-four, with the surveyor-general of Dakota being a deficiency for the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-three cents. For rent of office pay of messenger, fuel, and other incidental expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, four hundred and fifty dollars. Office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rent of office al, Nebraska, Iowa; pay of messenger, fuel and incidentals, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two hundred dollars. incidental expen ses. Surveyor-general, New Mexico; clerks. Office of surveyor-general of New Mexico: For compensation of a translator of Spanish language, clerks, and draughtsman, being a defi ciency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand four hundred dollars. Office of surveyor-general of Nevada: For compensation of clerks and draughtsmen, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars. For rent of office, fuel and incidental expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, four hundred dollars. Survey of Indian reservations.-Arizona Territory: For the survey and subdivision of the Colorado River Indian reservation, by Chandler Robbins, designated by the late Secretary of the Interior, being for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars. Dakota Territory: For the survey of that part of the Sioux Indian reservation in the Peoria bottom lying east of the Missouri River, by T. B. Medary, designated by the late Secretary of the Interior, being for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand three hundred and ten dollars and forty-three cents. For the survey of the Devil's Lake Indian reservation, in Dakota Territory, by Charles H. Bates, desiguated by the late Secretary of the Interior, being for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighteen cents. Dakota Territory: For the survey of a part of the Sioux Indian reservation located on White River, west of the Missouri River, in Dakota Territory, by James W. Miller, designated by the late Secretary of the Interior, being for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eleven thousand six hundred and fifty nine dollars and seventy-five cents. Idaho Territory: For the survey of the Fort Hall Indian reservation, Idaho by D. P. Thompson, designated by the late Secretary of the Interior being for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five, four thousand five hundred and twenty-dollars and fifty cents. Oregon: For survey of the Malheur Indian reservation for the Snake and Pi-Ute Indians in Oregon by Thompson and Meldrum under their contract dated October twenty-fourth eighteen hundred and seventy-four being for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. Survey of Indian lands in North Carolina: For the survey of the lands of the Eastern Band of the Cherokees in North Carolina, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents. Nebraska: For amount due White and Hull for surveying the Otoe Indian reservation in the State of Nebraska, under contract of July third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two thousand and nineteen dollars and fifteen cents. INDIAN AFFAIRS. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be ex- Support of Indipended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the care ans at Fort Peck. and support of Indians at the Fort Peck agency, during the balance of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, fifty thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS. Expenses of For expenses of United States courts, to be disbursed by the Attorney-General, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and courts. seventy-six, as follows: Keeping prison For safe-keeping of prisoners at the penitentiaries at Auburn, New York, Albany, New York, and at the Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsyl- ers. vania, for the first and second quarters of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, five thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-five cents. Whisky and cotton cases, Credit Mobilier. Also for defraying expenses incurred in the prosecution of whisky and cotton cases and Credit Mobilier case, for payment of special counsel for the United States, and other expenses incident to the trial of said causes, sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars. To pay James St. C. Boal for two months' legal services as special James St. C. Boal. counsel for the United States, assisting the district attorney for the northern district of Illinois, from January twentieth to March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six four hundred dollars. To pay W. A. Britton, late United States marshal for the western district of Arkansas, amount found due him by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eight thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and seven cents; which is hereby reappropriated from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses of courts for the said fiscal year, and made available for said purpose. 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 offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, to be disbursed by the Attorney General, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and prior years, three hundred thousand dollars. W. A. Britton. Supreme Court, circuit and district To pay the United States judge for the eastern judicial district of Judge of castern Arkansas his actual expenses for holding two terms of court in the district, Arkansas. western district of that State, six hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits Defending suits. 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, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, fifteen thousand dollars. Costs in Milliken For the payment of the costs in the case of Milliken versus Spooner and others, tried and decided in the circuit court of the United States, vs. Spooner. in the State of Indiana, the sum of seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifteen cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. Patent-Office; printing, etc. Pension-Office; contingent expen ses. Rent of Wright's building; lease to be terminated. MISCELLANEOUS. For printing and binding for the Patent-Office by the Public Printer, forty-one thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Pension-Office, namely: For stationery, carpets, mats, furniture, awnings, and repairs of the same; for fuel, gas, engraving and retouching plates; for bounty-land warrants, printing and binding the same, engraving and printing pension-certificates, and for other necessary expenses of the office, five thousand dollars. For rent of building on the corner of Eighth and G streets, known as "Wright's building," nine thousand dollars, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to terminate said Future leases in lease on or before the thirtieth day of June next; and hereafter no contract shall be made for the rent of any building, or part of any building, to be used for the purposes of the Government in the District of Columbia, until an appropriation therefor shall have been made in terms by Congress, and that this clause be regarded as notice to all contractors or lessors of any such building or any part of building. District of Columbia. Postal cards. General Post-Office; roof, etc. Naval Solicitor. Collections in To enable the Postmaster-General to provide for the manufacture of postal cards, thirty-one thousand dollars. To repair the roof and make additions to the heating-apparatus of the General Post Office building, nine thousand two hundred and twelve dollars. For salary of the naval solicitor, from August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, three thousand and seventy-two dollars and five cents. For the National Museum in charge of the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum. For restoring to their proper place in the National Museum cases removed to the International Exhibition, and re-arranging the collections, and for expenses and preservation of the collections, and for receiving, packing, and transporting the objects presented to the United States at the Centennial by State and foreign governments, and for properly stor iug and preserving them until a proper disposition can be made of the same, twenty-five thousand dollars. Botanical den. Gar Monetary com For tubs, pots, packing-material, labels, seeds, envelopes, grading, repairing sewer, horse-hire, and manure for the Botanical Garden, one thousand dollars. To pay the expenses of the monetary commission provided for by the mission; expenses. joint resolution of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Clerks to committees. Folders. Horses. Furniture and repairs. Bes. Packing-boxes. SENATE. For clerks to committees and pages for the current fiscal year, five thousand dollars. For pay of folders, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. For furniture and repairs for the current fiscal year, four thousand six To defray the actual and necessary expenses of the Committee on Privileges and Privileges and Elections, and other expenses necessarily incurred in Elections; expen- making the investigations directed by Senate resolution of December fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in the several States named therein, the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said appropriation to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate. And the disbursing-officer of the Senate shall advance such parts of the sum above appropriated to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate as the chairman of said committee shall in writing direct, for the purposes aforesaid; and the Sergeant-at-Arms shall, as soon as practicable, make a detailed report of the expenditures thereof, with proper vouchers, which, when so made, shall be received by said disbursingofficers, and returned with his accounts to the proper officer of the Treasury Department. tion. For payment of the expenses of the investigation in regard to the Chinese immiimmigration of Chinese by the joint committee of the two houses on gration; investigathat subject, two thousand and twelve dollars and eighty-five cents; which sum shall be added to the contingent fund of the Senate and paid out on the certificate of the chairman of said committee on the part of the Senate. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the special police authorized by the concurrent resolution of January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, nine thousand nine hundred dollars; one half to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate, and the other half to be paid into the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. To pay the expenses of the Electoral Commission provided for by the act approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, entitled "An act to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon, for the term commencing March fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy seven," seven thousand dollars; said sum to be disbursed upon the certificate of the president of said commission: Provided, That any person employed by said commission may receive such compensation as may be allowed by said commission, in addition to any other compensation or salary he may be receiving as an officer of the Government. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Special police. Electoral Com mission; expenses. Proviso. Barclay's Digest. Future publica To pay for two thousand copies of Barclay's Digest, ordered by resolution of the House of March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventyone, two thousand dollars; and hereafter a Digest of the rules and practice of the House shall be prepared and published by the journal- tion of rules. clerk of the House, as the House shall from time to time direct; and for such additional services hereby required the journal clerk shall be paid the sum of one thousand dollars per annum. For miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars. For clerks to committees, four thousand five hundred and twentyseven dollars. For pages, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents. For folding documents, three thousand dollars. For stenographers to committees, seven hundred and eighty dollars; To pay William Tudge for services under the Postmaster of the House, from September first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, at the rate of six hundred dollars per session, three hundred and eight dollars and seventy cents. To pay H. T. Burrows for services as messenger of the House, from December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three hundred and one dollars and twenty-nine cents. Miscellaneous items. Clerks to com mittees. Pages. Folding docu ments. Stenographers. H. T. Burrows. Clerk of com To pay the clerk of the Select Committee investigating the Freed- mittee to investiman's Savings and Trust Company, from December fourth, eighteen gate Freedman's hundred and seventy-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and sev. Savings and Trust enty-seven, at six dollars per day, five hundred and forty-six dollars. Company. To pay T. C. Mays for services as clerk of the Committee on ExpendT. C. Mays. itures in the Treasury Department from December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two hundred and forty-six dollars. Regular supplies, To pay stenographers to committees for services performed during the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, as follows: To Eugene Davis, six hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents; to A. Johns, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents; to D. C. McEwen, three hundred and fifty-four dollars; to E. Z. Brailey, one hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-six cents; to James W. Tooley, eighty-seven dollars; to John H. White, one hundred and sixty-three dollars; to E. C. Bartlett, six dollars; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars and forty-one cents. To refund to John G. Thompson, Sergeant-at-Arms House of Representatives, the amount advanced by him to pay the necessary expenses of investigating committees ordered by the House of Representatives twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars, to be paid on vouchers approved by the Committee on Accounts. SEC. 2. 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 seventyfour and prior years, are hereby continued and rendered available for such purpose, namely: TREASURY DEPARTMENT. PAY OF CUSTODIANS AND JANITORS. For amount due Edward Hughes, deceased, for twenty-four days' services as janitor at the custom house building at Pensacola, Florida, during the month of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, thirty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents. WAR DEPARTMENT. PAY OF THE ARMY. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for pay, traveling, and general expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, seven dollars and sixty-eight cents. For payment of amount certified to be due Elizabeth A. Walker, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being the amount due her as the only heir of James P. Timley, deceased, a soldier of the Mexican war, thirty-four dollars and thirty cents. PROVIDING FOR THE COMFORT OF SICK AND DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of sick and discharged soldiers, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fifty-two dollars. REGULAR SUPPLIES, QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Quartermaster's of the Treasury Department for regular supplies of the Army, being Department. for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and ninety-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-two, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty cents. |