Public Law 46–38

That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money bi the Treasury not otherwise appropri- FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cn. 38, 39. 1880.

rent, contingent expenses.

ated, to be available during the current fiscal year, the sum of forty-eight thousand dollars for the employment of additional clerks in the Pension Office, but the salaries of said clerks shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars per month; also for rent of additional office room for the Pension Office, the sum of four thousand nine hundred dollars, and for contingent expenses of the office, nine thousand dollars, making in all, sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars.

Surgeon-general’s Office, additional clerks.

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint seventy additional clerks, forty for the office of the Surgeon-General, at a salary of eighty-three and one-third dollars per month each, and thirty

Office of Adjutant-General, additional clerks.

Furniture insurgeon-General’s office.

clerks for the office of the Adjutant-General, at a salary of one hundred dollars per month each; and purchase furniture for the use of said clerks in the office of the Surgeon-General at a cost not exceeding one thousand dollars j and that said clerks shall be exclusively engaged in preparing and making reports to expedite the settlement of pension applications

Appropriation.

called for by the Commissioner of Pensions, and the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the use of the War Department for said purposes, which shall be available immediately for the purposes of the current fiscal year.

That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand eight

Additiona1 clerks for office of Second Auditor.

hundred dollars for the employment of twelve additional clerks in the office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, at a salary not exceeding one hundred dollars per month, for the remainder of this current fiscal year, to be available immediately, which clerks shall be employed exclusively in matters relating to pensions.