Public Law 44–88

That the following sums be, and

Deficiency appropriation.

they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for former years, and for other purposes, namely:—HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For the following sums necessary for completing the service of the

Cartage.

present fiscal year, namely:—For cartage, seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

For folding documents, including pay of folders and materials, twenty

Folding documents, etc.

thousand dollars.

For furniture, and repairs of the same, one thousand seven hundred

Furniture.

and fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous items, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That witnesses

Miscellaneons items.

Proviso.

Witnesses residing in Dist. of Col.

residing in the District of Columbia and not in the service of the government of said District or of the United States, who shall be summoned to give testimony before any committee of the House of Representatives, shall not be allowed exceeding two dollars for each day’s attendance before said committee.

For wages of certain messengers, folders, and laborers under the

Doorkeeper’s on employés.

Doorkeeper of the House, eight hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents.

For amount due William M. Long for services under the Doorkeeper

William M. Long.

during the months of July and August, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty cents.

To defray the expenses of the investigation into the late elections in

Investigation of elections in Mississippi.

Mississippi, as authorized by a resolution of the Senate adopted March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, ten thousand dollars; and the disbursing officer of the Senate shall advance such parts of said sum, to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, as the chairman of

Advances to and report by Sergeant-at-Arms of Senate.

said committee shall in writing direct for the purposes aforesaid; and the Sergeant-at-Arms shall, as soon as may be, make a detailed report of the expenditures thereof, with proper vouchers, which, when so made, shall be received by said disbursing-officer and returned with his accounts to the proper officer of the Treasury Department.

SENATE. For compensation of Senators for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighty three dollars and nineteen cents. For the payment of mileage, for actual travel only, to Senators who took their seats at the session of the Senate convened on the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by proclamation of the President, and who were not members of the previous Congress, six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars. For labor, eighteen thousand dollars; and one thousand dollars of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used to pay the laborers employed in the Secretary’s office. For folding documents, one thousand four hundred dollars. For horses and wagons, five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For furniture, and repairs of the same, six thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising proposals for reporting congressional proceedings, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, thirty-six dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Foreign intercourse:—To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and clerks, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and five dollars and ninety-four cents. To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and clerks, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three; twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice consuls, commercial agents, and clerks, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, forty-six thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-five cents. To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous items, being for the fiscal, year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and forty-one dollars and sixteen cents. To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For stationery, book cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous items, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty-three cents.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. territorial governments. Territory of Arizona:—For amount due Edmund F. Dunne, late chief justice of the Territory of Arizona, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy four, two hundred and forty dollars and eleven cents. Territory of Colorado:—For amounts due Andrew W. Brazee and Amherst W. Stone, associate judges, and John L. Rout, governor, of the Territory of Colorado, for salary, as per settlement of their accounts by the accounting-officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty three cents. Territory of Dakota:—For amount due Granville G. Bennett, associate judge of the Territory of Dakota, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, sixty-six dollars and seventy cents. Territory of Idaho:—For amount due John Clark, associate judge of the Territory of Idaho, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accouuting-officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and fifty dollars and three cents. Territory of Utah:—For amount due David P. Lowe, late chief judge of the Territory of Utah, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and eight dollars and thirty three cents. Territory of Washington:—For amount due S. C. Wingard, associate judge of the Territory of Washington, for salary, as per settlement of his account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy cents. Territory of Wyoming:—For amount due Edward A. Thomas, associate judge of the Territory of Wyoming, for salary from March twentieth to April sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as per settlement of his account by the accounting-officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents. For amount due Joseph W. Fisher, chief judge, and Edward A. Thomas and Joseph M. Cary, associate judges, of the Territory of Wyoming, for salary, as per settlement of their accounts by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-six cents. And hereafter payment of salaries of all officers of the Territories of the United States appointed by the President shall commence only when the person appointed to any such office shall take the proper oath, and shall enter upon the duties of such office in such Territory; and said oath shall hereafter be administered in the Territory in which such office is held. For legislative expenses and for incidental expenses of the secretary’s office, of Wyoming Territory, furniture, stationery, and so forth, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents: Provided, That the sum of one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars, appropriated by act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five for legislative expenses of said Wyoming Territory, having been actually appropriated for the current expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and expended accordingly, shall be so regarded by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department. For amount due George W. French, secretary of Wyoming Territory, for salary from the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty cents.

MISCELLANEOUS. To adjust the settled accounts of Edward Robinson, United States consul at Hamburg, being amounts found due on account of postage paid by him for the Treasury Department during the quarters ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and March thirty first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eighty-one cents, and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one dollar and nine cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized. To adjust the settled accounts of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, being amount found due said Bureau, for counting, trimming, sealing, and numbering national currency, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five thousand and eleven dollars and fifty cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized. For amount due Continental Bank-Note Company for printing national currency, as per letter of the Comptroller of the Currency, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, twenty-two thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety four cents. For amount due American Bank-Note Company for printing national currency, as per letter of the Comptroller of the Currency, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy cents. For amounts due Adams’ Express Company for transportation of incomplete currency in April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as per certificate of the accounting officers of the Treasury and letter of the Comptroller of the Currency, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars and forty cents. Furniture and carpets, Treasury Department: To adjust the settled account of the Treasury Department, being amount found due on account of labor and materials furnished during the month of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized. For contingent expenses, namely: For telegraphing, repairing harness and mail-bag, rent, commission on sales, freightage, horse-shoeing, plumbing, and ice, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for which there is hereby re-appropriated from the unexpended balance remaining from the sum appropriated for the like purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and two dollars and eight cents. Expenses of operating macerating-machine: To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, being amount found due said Bureau for expenses of running macerating-machine during September, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents, a transfer-entry is hereby authorized. For topographic and hydrographic survey of the South Pass and bar at the mouth of the Mississippi River, under act of March third eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand and one hundred dollars and twenty eight cents. For fuel, light, and water, and miscellaneous items, required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT. public works. For repairs of the building corner of Seventeenth and F streets damaged by the fire of February twenty second eighteen hundred and seventy five, as per items set forth in Executive Document numbered one hundred and fifty-one, Forty-fourth Congress, first session, one thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty cents. quartermaster-general’s office. For hire of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, offices, and of grounds for camps and summer-cantonments, and for temporary frontier-stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty five cents. commissary-general’s office. That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be. necessary, is hereby appropriated, and may be applied by the Commissary-General of Subsistence prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to the purchase of subsistence-supplies intended for the posts supplied through the Upper Missouri, and for other distant posts, which amount shall be deducted from the estimates for subsistence of the Army for the next fiscal year; and this appropriation is hereby made available from the passage of this act. Subsistence supplies.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. office of the secretary. For salary of inspector of gas and meters from August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, at two thousand dollars per annum, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents. For salary of assistant inspector of gas and meters from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy four, to June,thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, at one thousand dollars per annum, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of William F. Price, messenger in the office of the surveyor-general of California, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ninety-one dollars and forty-eight cents. For rent of rooms for the use of the Pension Bureau and Bureau of Education, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the compensation not exceeding eight dollars per day to each member of the said commission for the time actually employed, and necessary incidental expenses of the commission appointed June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to treat with the Sioux Indians for the relinquishment of the Black Hills country in Dakota Territory, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow compensation to members of such commission who are prohibited from receiving the same by the provisions of section one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

MISCELLANEOUS For contingent expenses of the Department of Justice, namely, stationery, ice, and telegrams, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighty-one dollars and fifty two cents. For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in 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, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five, three thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents. For continuing the introduction and propagation of useful food-fishes in the public waters of the United States during the present, season, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For the purpose of paying the expenses of transportation, care, and custody, arranging and exhibiting, and safe return of articles belonging to the United States to be presented and exhibited in the United States building at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in pursuance of an act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy five, the following sums are hereby appropriated, namely: For the Interior Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the War Department, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; for the Smithsonian Institution, twenty one thousand dollars; for the United States Commission of Food-Fishes, five thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, fourteen thousand dollars; the same to be disbursed by the board on behalf of the United States Executive Departments appointed in pursuance of the order of the President of January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: Provided, That for contingent expenses any surplus arising from appropriations made to either of said Departments by act of March third eighteen hundred and seventy five, is hereby authorized to be used for the purposes herein mentioned. For subsistence of Apache Indians at the Southern Apache agency, New Mexico, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Indian agent located at said agency may, under instructions from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exchange sugar belonging to said agency for beef or flour.

JUDICIAL. 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, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, sixty five thousand dollars. For the defraying of the expenses and fees of the United States marshal of the Territory of Utah, and of summoning jurors and witnesses, of keeping and transporting prisoners, and caring for the penitentiary, six thousand dollars

Sec. 2.

That the sum of one million one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, remaining to the credit of the appropriation for pay of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby re-appropriated and made available from and after the passage of this act for the following purposes, namely: To pay the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for pay of the Army from June fifteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five; and the remainder of the first above-named sum shall be available to meet any deficiency for pay of the Army for the current fiscal year, but shall not be used until the appropriation for said lastmentioned year shall be fully exhausted.

Sec. 3.

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 seventy-three and prior years, are hereby continued and rendered available for such purpose, namely:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. To pay to internal-revenue collectors, assessors, and other internal-revenue officers their salaries, commissions, and expenses allowed by law, as have been ascertained and certified by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, and to pay miscellaneous expenses of carrying into effect the various provisions of the several acts providing for internal revenue, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, twenty-five thousand dollars. To pay such claims for services rendered and expenses incurred in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation, as has been allowed and certified by the proper officers of the Treasury Department, as provided by law, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, five thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT. To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for arrears of pay and allowances that may be due them on pay-rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, sixty seven thousand four hundred and two dollars and thirty-seven cents. To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for arrears of pay and allowances that may be due them on pay-rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten thousand dollars. To pay claims of officers and-enlisted men of the Regular Army for arrears of pay and allowances that may be due them on pay-rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-five thousand dollars. For amount required to pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the volunteer service, or their heirs and assigns, for arrears of pay that may be certified to be due them by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, six hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents. For allowances to officers of the Army for transportation of themselves and their baggage when traveling on duty, certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and fifty three dollars and fifty 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-one and prior years, eleven thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventeen cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers 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, three hundred and five dollars and forty-five 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 one and prior years, forty-eight thousand and two dollars and 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-two, two thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. For transportation of officers and their baggage, when traveling on duty, certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and forty-two dollars and forty-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-one and prior years, fifty seven thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-six cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for incidental expenses of the Army, being, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, nine thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-two cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, for incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ninety-seven dollars and sixty cents. For payment of claims and accounts settled by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, and so forth, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, four thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and twelve cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, tor purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, four thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. For contingencies of the Army certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. For contingencies of the Army certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seven ty-three, seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for medical and hospital supplies and incidental 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 eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for medical and hospital supplies and incidental expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, thirty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-four cents. For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ninety-three dollars.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For payment of amounts certified to be due 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, one thousand four hundred and forty eight dollars and eight cents. For payment of amount certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, one dollar and three cents. For payment of amount found due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department on settlement of the account of Major James A. Hearn, late Indian agent, on account of maintaining peace among and with the various tribes, bands, and parties of Indians, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five dollars and thirteen cents. For payment of amount due Lindsay Applegate, late subagent of Indian affairs, per settlement of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years, forty-two dollars and one cent.