§ 155. Disposal of miscellaneous revenues from Indian reservations, etc.

Footnotes

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Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1883

   Pub. L. 47–141 § 2 · 22 Stat. 582

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 155

   Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 141, § 2, 22 Stat. 590

   Source evidence

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   Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 141, § 2, 22 Stat. 590

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for eighteen hundred Deficiencies for 1882 and prior years, etc. and eighty-two and prior years, and for other purposes, namely: STATE DEPARTMENT. To reimburse the disbursing clerk, Department of State, for expenditures made by him on account of fuel, eight hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty cents, and miscellaneous items, five hundred and twenty eight dollars and thirty-one cents, being on account of the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-one cents. foreign intercourse. To meet expenses incurred by W. H. Edwards, late consul-general to Saint Petersburg, during the illness of the minister of the United States to Russia, in the month of March, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, two hundred and twenty six dollars. To pay drafts drawn on the Secretary of State by consular officers on account of contingent expenses of United States consulates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, nine hundred and sixty nine dollars and eighteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of contingent expenses of United States consulates, being deficiencies, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, sixteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and nineteen cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of annual expenses of Cape Spartel light, coast of Morocco, being deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, fifteen dollars. COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of the judgments of the Court of Claims, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars: Provided, That no judgment shall be paid until the right of appeal has expired. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. mints and assay offices. To pay amount due the Philadelphia Sun and Item for advertising, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, sixteen dollars. For subscription to Charlotte Observer, from January first to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, four dollars. internal revenue. For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, six thousand and seventy four dollars and sixty-nine cents. life-saving stations. Compensation of one superintendent of life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-seven cents. miscellaneous objects. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers to National Capital Telephone Company being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, forty five dollars and seventy cents To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, miscellaneous items, eighteen hundred and eighty two,” the sum of two hundred and twenty nine dollars and seventy three cents, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, freight, telegrams, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty two” for the amounts found due by the accounting officers. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for carpets in Treasury building, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, eleven dollars and ninety cents. For transportation of United States notes in redemption of mutilated United States notes, due to Adams Express Company, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, nine hundred and seventy one dollars. For the payment of liabilities contracted in the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, and prior fiscal years, for the propagation of food-fishes, three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to William F Rogers, late colonel Twenty first Regiment New York Infantry Volunteers, the amount of Treasury draft numbered nine thousand and seventy, of September twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty four, issued on Treasury warrant numbered fourteen hundred and sixty three, in payment of a horse lost in the military service and paid by the United States depository at Baltimore on a forged indorsement, as appears by the affidavit of said William F. Rogers and papers on file in the Treasury Department, two hundred dollars. To refund to R. T. Aycock, master of the schooner George W. Thomas, so much of a fine incurred under section forty three hundred and twenty five Revised Statutes, and remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, but erroneously covered into the Treasury, forty five dollars. To refund to James W. Bell, master of the sloop Theodosia. E. Bell, a fine incurred under section forty three hundred and thirty four Revised Statutes, and remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, but erroneously covered into the Treasury, twenty dollars. To refund to William Robinson, master of the schooner Dreadnaught, a fine incurred under section thirty one hundred and twenty five Revised Statutes, and remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, but erroneously covered into the Treasury, twenty dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the Treasurer of the United States, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and fifty five dollars and eighty five cents, to reimburse the said Treasurer for an amount appearing on his books as a deficiency, and known as the deficiency of December fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy six. To enable the accounting officers of the Treasury to effect a settlement of the account of Daniel H. Chambers as internal-revenue stamp agent at Emory Court House, Texas, against whom a judgment was obtained in the United States district court for the western district of Texas, on the twenty seventh of April, eighteen hundred and seventy four, for two hundred and ninety six dollars and fifty cents principal, and sixty one dollars and fourteen cents intrest and costs, which said stuns were collected and erroneously covered into the Treasury on account of the Post Office Department, authority is hereby granted them to make the necessary entries without involving the expenditure of any money from the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to pass to the credit of Herbert A. Gill the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for services performed in connection with the National Museum during the second and third quarters of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty one; and to S. C. Brown sixty dollars, for services performed in connection with the United States Pish Commission, during the third quarter of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty one. To pay to Michael Conlan and Edmund Brockenborough two hundred and forty two dollars and sixty one cents each, being the amount withheld from their salaries as messengers in the office of the National Board of Health from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty one, to August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty two, four hundred and eighty five dollars and twenty two cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT. naval establishment. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of contingent, Marine Corps, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, two hundred and eighty eight dollars and forty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of contingent, Marine Corps, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, three hundred and twenty dollars and five cents. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of transportation and recruiting Marine Corps, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, thirty six dollars To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of contingent, Bureau of Navigation, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, one hundred and thirty dollars and seventy two cents. For disbursements made by Lieutenant John W. Danenhower and Chief Engineer George W. Melville, on account of transportation and subsistence of themselves and a portion of the survivors of the Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette, in their journey from the Lena delta to the United States; and for expenses of the court of inquiry convened for investigating the circumstances of the loss of that vessel, under authority of the joint resolution of Congress approved August eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, twelve thousand five hundred and four dollars and sixty four cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to allow to Assistant Naval Constructors R Gatewood and Francis. T. Bowles pay equal to sea pay while at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. That from the fifty thousand dollars appropriated for the current year for the care and preservation of such navy yards or stations as might be closed, not exceeding thirty nine thousand dollars, may be used for maintenance at any or all of the navy yards. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For photolithographing or otherwise producing illustrations for the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and seventy, six thousand dollars. general land office. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the employees in the General Land Office who rendered voluntary services without compensation during the period from July first to August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, one thousand nine hundred and ninety three dollars and ninety eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. public lands service. For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of surveying the public lands: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, two thousand five hundred and two dollars and thirty five cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty two, one thousand one hundred and three dollars and nineteen cents. To pay Ithamar C. Whipple the amount due him as receiver of public moneys at Cheyenne, Wyoming, the same being to his credit on the books of the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty two cents. indian affairs. Amount found due certain railroad companies for transportation in connection with the purchase of Indian supplies during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, being a deficiency for that year, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty cents. Amount due Dominick Corcoran, per certificate numbered sixty-four hundred and seventy-nine, of Second Comptroller, dated July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for value of lands and improvements thereon in the “Muckleshoot Prairie,” taken for use of Indians, April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, three hundred and twenty dollars. For the survey and appraisement of certain lands adjacent to the town of Pendleton, in the State of Oregon, belonging to the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (in addition to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by section six of said act), two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said sum to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of said lands. For the survey and appraisement of a part of the reservation of the Omaha tribe of Indians in the State of Nebraska, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said sum to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of said lands. The proceeds of all pasturage and sales of timber, coal, or other product of any Indian reservation, except those of the five civilized tribes, and not the result of the labor of any member of such tribe, shall be covered into the Treasury for the benefit of such tribe under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe; and the Secretary shall report his action in detail to Congress at its next session. POSTAL SERVICE. For inland transportation by railroad routes, payable from the postal revenues of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, twenty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty nine cents. For mail-messenger service, payable from the postal revenues of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents. For advertising, payable from the postal revenues of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, twenty-five dollars and twenty cents. For clerk-hire, payable from the postal revenues of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and four dollars and fifty cents. For route agents, payable from the postal revenues of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five thousand and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-two cents. For advertising, payable from the postal revenues for eighteen hundred and eighty-two, four hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-two cents. For stationery, payable from the postal revenues for eighteen hundred and eighty-two, six thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-eight cents. For furniture for post-offices, payable from the postal revenues for eighteen hundred and eighty-two, seven hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-four cents. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. For coroners jurors’ fees in inquest cases prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, ninety-six dollars. For work on streets and avenues for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand five hundred dollars. To meet deficiencies on account of the several items of appropriations for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, four thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. The Commissioners of the District are hereby authorized to use a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents of any unexpended balances of the sums appropriated for school purposes by the act making appropriations for deficiencies approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, in making necessary repairs and improvements on the Amidon, Bannaker, and Analostan school buildings, and said sum is hereby re appropriated for those purposes: Provided, That the twelve hundred dollars appropriated by the act approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty two, “for rent of rooms to accommodate the schools until the Jefferson building is completed,” may be expended for said purpose at any time during the present fiscal year. And said Commissioners are further authorized to apply the sum of seven hundred dollars of the amount appropriated for rent of station houses for the current fiscal year to the purchase of necessary furniture for the station houses authorized by act approved April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two: Provided further, That one half of the foregoing sums for the government of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the said District. JUDICIAL. For payment of special deputy marshals for services at the Congressional elections in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars. SENATE. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the three riding pages of the Senate for services from the fifth day of March to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eight hundred and eighty live dollars. That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and allow an account, amounting to eight hundred and seventy-six dollars, paid by the Acting Secretary of the Senate on the twelfth of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to William Lucas and Thomas S. Hickman, under the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government, and for other purposes, approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. To pay necessary expenses of the Senate for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, namely: For salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others, one thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty cents; for clerks to committees and pages, nine thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars; for furniture and repairs of furniture, one thousand two hundred dollars; for miscellaneous items, four thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred dollars and twenty cents. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Edward N. Atherton the balance of salary due him by law for discharging the duties of a messenger of the Senate from April first, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, to May fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, seven hundred and twenty dollars; said sum to be in full of all claims for said services. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to H. B. Little page compensation as messenger from August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, seven hundred and ninety one dollars and eighty cents. That the portion of the Joint Committee of Congress upon the Library on the part of the Senate remaining in office as Senators shall during the recess of Congress exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred by law upon the Joint Committee of Congress upon the Library. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For this amount to pay salaries and mileage of members and Delegates for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, eleven thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-three cents. To pay Hon John C. Cook, two hundred and fifty dollars, for newspaper and stationery allowance for the Forty-seventh Congress. For additional compensation to the assistant journal clerk, six hundred dollars. To pay to the parties named below the amounts set opposite their names, in full of expenses incurred by them, respectively, in contested-election cases in the Forty-seventh Congress, namely: To J. Floyd King, five hundred dollars; D. Wyatt Aiken, seven hundred and eight dollars and sixty-five cents; M. E. Cutts, one thousand dollars; J. C. Cook, one thousand dollars; Gustavus Sessinghaus, two thousand dollars; R. Graham Frost, two thousand dollars; Edward W. Robertson, seven hundred dollars; A. A. Mabson, five hundred dollars; John W. Jones, eight hundred dollars; Charles M. Shelley, three hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand five hundred and eight dollars and sixty-five cents. To pay honorable Jesse J. Yates, as a member of the Forty-sixth Congress, his mileage and stationery account for the first regular session of that Congress, two hundred and forty-five dollars. To pay honorable Horatio Bisbee, junior, as a member of the Forty-sixth Congress, his mileage and stationery account for the first regular session of that Congress, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay the representatives of honorable J. T. Updegraff, deceased, balance of salary and for mileage due him as a member of the Forty-seventh Congress, one thousand and thirty-two dollars and seventy-four cents. Payment to William Lucas and Thomas 8. Hickman, allowed in account of Acting Secretary of Senate. To enable the Architect of the Capitol to construct partitions and shelving for storing surplus books of the Library of Congress in the crypt at the east side, two thousand dollars. For altering and increasing the mail boxes, and for necessary repairs in the post office of the House of Representatives, to be expended tinder the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the following claims which have been examined and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: To W. H. Barbour, three hundred and twenty dollars; to Henry H. Neal, three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents; to Wilbur F. Kellogg, two hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventeen cents; to P. V. Degraw, forty-eight dollars; to Francis A. Baird, three hundred and fifty dollars; to L. B. Cook, three hundred dollars; to William Mallory, two hundred and thirty two dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. To pay W. W. Lester, for services rendered as a messenger while receiving the pay of a laborer, one hundred dollars. To pay John S. Kenyon, difference between pay received by him and that of reading clerk, while so acting, for two months and fifteen days, two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay Henry A. Dawson, for services as messenger under the postmaster from December fourth to fourteenth, inclusive, thirty-five dollars and fifty cents. To pay R. R. Ripley four hundred dollars as extra compensation for his services as assistant clerk to the Committee on Ways and Means. To pay J. B. Holloway, additional, for services as assistant clerk to the Committee on War-Claims, four hundred dollars. To pay E. L. Brown, for services as enrolling clerk during the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, two hundred and forty dollars. To pay N. A. Faller, difference between amount received by him as cashier, under the Sergeant-at Arms, from July first to August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and his salary as fixed by the act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, ninety dollars and forty-nine cents. To pay to Henry G. Hayes, for special report of testimony before the House Committee of Foreign Affairs at the First session of the Forty-seventh Congress as per account approved and certified, one hundred and sixty-two dollars. To pay Frank Gault, for services as assistant to the journal clerk from December first to thirteenth, inclusive, seventy-eight dollars. To pay Henry H. Smith for services rendered and to be rendered in compiling and indexing all questions of order decided in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on general appropriation and revenue bills, under the resolution of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty two, five hundred dollars. And to pay D, F. Murphey Official Reporter of the Senate for extra services and for clerk hire paid out by him, one thousand dollars for the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress. To reimburse Robert J. Stevens for sundry items paid for on account of Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, during Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, sixty dollars. To reimburse John G. Doren, late index clerk of the House, for money necessarily expended by him for assistance in indexing the printed matter of the House during the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, eight hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-five cents. That there be printed and bound, for the use of the House, the usual number of copies of the digest of contested-election cases, together with an index of the same, to be prepared by the clerk of the Committee on Elections for winch and for the necessary preparation and superintendence connected therewith there shall be paid said clerk the sum of one thousand dollars, and not more than live hundred dollars shall be paid before said work is completed To pay Charles Carter for cleaning extra room of Committee on appropriations sixty dollars. To pay Charles EI. Evans five hundred dollars for services rendered the Committee on Ways and Means in preparing statistical information and for other services called for by that committee during the present Congress; also to pay Henry Dunlap the like sum of five hundred dollars for like services rendered the Committee on Ways and Means, the same to be immediately available. To pay W. B. Green for clerical work in completing the records of the Committee on accounts a sum equal to one months pay one hundred and eighty dollars.

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