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-four, three hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifteen cents. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Incidental ex For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for incidental expenses of the Army, being penses. for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-nine cents. BARRACKS AND QUARTERS. Barracks and For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for rent or hire of quarters for troops and quarters. for officers on military duty, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and eight dollars and eighty cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, three hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-three cents. TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES. Transportation, For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for Army. the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and eighty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-two cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, sixtyone thousand four hundred and ninety-three dollars and four cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, fiftyfour thousand six hundred and two dollars and ninety-four cents. HORSES FOR CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Horses for cav of the Treasury Department for purchase of horses for the cavalry and alry and artillery. artillery, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and seventy-three dollars. CLOTHING OF THE ARMY. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers Clothing, Army. of the Treasury Department for clothing of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, four hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-seven cents. SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY. Subsistence, For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence-stores of the Army, being Army. for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, ten thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-six cents. Oregon and unteers. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence-stores of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ninety-six dollars. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence-stores of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence-stores of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eighty-five dollars and eighteen cents. TRANSPORTATION OF OFFICERS AND THEIR BAGGAGE. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of officers and their baggage when traveling on duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-four cents. RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE RAVAGES OF GRASSHOP- For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for expenses of relief of persons suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers, incurred prior to September first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty cents. SUPPORT OF BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for the support of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-five cents. SIGNAL-SERVICE. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for the Signal-Service of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, forty-two dollars. PAY, TRANSPORTATION, SERVICES, AND SUPPLIES OF OREGON AND For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Washington vol- of the Treasury Department for pay, transportation, services, and sup plies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, four hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-four cents. Geographical sur veys. MILITARY AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for expenses of military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi River, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ten dollars and fifty-six cents. COLLECTING, DRILLING, AND ORGANIZING VOLUNTEERS. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Organizing, etc., of the Treasury Department for collecting, drilling, and organizing vol- volunteers. unteers, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, ninety-five dollars and fifty-eight cents. MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Medical and hos of the Treasury Department for medical and hospital supplies and inci- pital supplies. dental expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and forty-six cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers for medical and hospital supplies, and incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventythree, eleven dollars and ten cents. CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY. Contingencies, For contingencies of the Army certified to be due by the accountingofficers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal Army. year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fourteen dollars and ten cents. EXPENSES OF RECRUITING. ice. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Recruiting servof the Treasury Department for expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty-eight dollars and forty cents. GENERAL EXPENSES. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers General expenses, of the Treasury Department for general expenses of the Army, being Army. for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six dollars and seventy-two cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers for the general expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two dollars and seventy-two cents. MILEAGE. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers Mileage, Army. of the Treasury Department for allowances to officers of the Army for transportation of themselves and their baggage when traveling on duty, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. SURVEYING PUBLIC LANDS. John Golds Surveying public lands in California: Amount due John Goldsworthy, deputy surveyor, for surveys executed under contract of October third, worthy eighteen hundred and seventy-three, with the surveyor-general of Cali fornia, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one thousand four hundred and seven dollars and fifteen cents. Surveying public lands in Oregon: Amount due Jeremiah M. Dick, Jeremiah M.Dick. deputy surveyor, for surveys executed under contract of July second, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, with the surveyor general of Oregon, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two thousand and ninety-four dollars and sixty-nine cents. 376 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. W. P. Callon. T. I. Galbraith. W. P. Callon. W. P. Callon. Herman Bendell. Charles Maltby. W. II. French. John S. Armstrong. J. T. Booth. Josephus Williams. W. II. French. INDIAN AFFAIRS. Pay of superintendents and agents: For payment of amount certified to be due W. P. Callon, late Indian agent, by the accouuting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, one hundred and seventyeight dollars and eighty-six cents. For payment of amount certified to be due T. I. Galbraith, late Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, twenty three hundred and ninety-one dollars and twentyfour cents. Pay of interpreters: For payment of amounts certified to be due W. P. Callon, late Indian agent, and W. II. French, junior, late acting Indian agent, by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventythree and prior years, two hundred dollars and sixty-three cents. Buildings at agencies and repairs: For payment of amounts certified to be due W. P. Callon, late Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, nine dollars and sixty-one cents. Contingencies of the Indian Department: For payment of amounts certified to be due W. P. Callon and Simcon Whiteley, late Indian agents, by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, ninety-six dollars and eighty cents. Incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona: For payment of amounts certified to be due Herman Bendell, late Indian superintendent, and Cornelius Brice, by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty-two cents. Incidental expenses of Indian service in California: For payment of amount certified to be due Charles Maltby, late Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, fifteen dollars and seventy-one cents. Incidental expenses of Indian service in Dakota: For payment of amount certified to be due W. H. French, junior, late acting Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, ninety-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. Incidental expenses of Indian service in New Mexico: For payment of amount certified to be due John S. Armstrong, late Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, two hundred and twenty dollars. Incidental expenses of Indian service in Oregon: For payment of amount certified to be due J. T. Booth, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, seventy two dollars and forty-four cents. Collecting and subsisting Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico: For payment of amount certified to be due Josephus Williams, late Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. Maintaining peace among and with the various tribes and bands of Indians: For payment of amount certified to be due W. II. French, junior, late acting Indian agent, by the accounting-officers of the Treas ury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hun. dred and seventy-one and prior years, sixteen dollars and forty-two cents. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 107.—An act to provide for the sale of desert lands in certain States and Territories March 3, 1877. Desert lands may Declaration. ter. Right to use wa Water on public Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age "who may be be purchased. entitled to become a citizen, and who has filed his declaration to become such" and upon payment of twenty five cents per acre-to file a decla ration under oath with the register and the receiver of the land district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, within the period of three years thereafter, Provided however that the right to the use of water by the person so conducting the same, on or to any tract of desert land of six hundred and forty acres shall depend upon bona fide prior appropriation: and such right shall not exceed the amount of water actually appropriated, and necessarily lands to be free. used for the purpose of irrigation and reclamation: and all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all, lakes, rivers and other sources of water supply upon the public lands and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining and manu facturing purposes subject to existing rights. Said declaration shall describe particularly said section of land if surveyed, and, if unsurveyed, shall describe the same as nearly as possible without a survey. At any time within the period of three years after filing said declaration, upon making satisfactory proof to the register and receiver of the reclama- tle. tion of said tract of land in the manner aforesaid, and upon the payment to the receiver of the additional sum of one dollar per acre for a tract of land not exceeding six hundred and forty acres to any one person, a patent for the same shall be issued to him. Provided, that no person shall be permitted to enter more than one tract of land and not to exceed six hundred and forty acres which shall be in compact form. SECTION 2. That all lands exclusive of timber lands and mineral lands Desert lands dewhich will not, without irrigation, produce some agricultural crop, fined. shall be deemed desert lands, within the meaning of this act, which fact shall be ascertained by proof of two or more credible witnesses under oath, whose affidavits shall be filed in the land office in which said tract of land may be situated Contents of declaration. Perfection of ti Limit to quanti ty of land purchas able. Localities in SECTION 3. That this act shall only apply to and take effect in the States of California, Oregon and Nevada, and the Territories of Wash- which act to apply. ington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming Arizona, New Mexico and Dakota, and the determination of what may be considered desert land shall be subject to the decision and regulation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 108.-An act in relation to the Hot Springs reservation in the State of March 3, 1877. 1870, ch. 126, 16 Stat., 149. Law for receiver of Hot Springs, Ark., repealed. Rights reserved. Be et enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section five of an act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, in relation to the Hot Springs reservation of Arkansas, as provides for the appointment of a receiver by the court, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be constued to affect the right of the United States to collect and receive rents already due. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the President of the United States Commissioners upon the passage of this act, to appoint three discreet, competent, and to lay out Hot disinterested persons, who shall constitute a board of commissioners, tion. Springs any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, who are hereby authorized reserva |