The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-08-11

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted That
there be appropriated, out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated a
sum sufficient to enable the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay for printing four hundred and
City copies of the estimates of appropriations
for the service of the fiscal year one thous-
and eight hundred and fifty-three, at the rate
pad by him for the printing ofthc Treasury De
partment by contract, under the provisions OF
the seventeenth section of the act of the TWEEN
ty-sixth August, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-two.
SEC. 3. AMI be il further cadcted That no
part oftho appropriations herein made for the
benefit of any tribe or part of tribe of In
dins shall be paid to any attorney or agent
ofsuch tribe or part of a tribe but shall, in
every case, be paid directly to the Indians
themselves, to whom it shall be due, or to the
tribe or part ola tribe, per capita, unless the
| imperous interest ofthc Indians shall require
| the payment to be made collectively. Nor
shall the Executive branch of the Govern
mcnt hereafter recognise any contract be-
tween any tribe or part of II tribe and any at
torney or agent, for the prosecution of any
claim against the Government under this act.
SEC. 4. AMI be IL FURTHER enacted, That no
estimate or appropriation of money, in any bill
making appropriations, shall authorize the
| pay lltni VI stiiN tillONallCts vi
compensation, in any form whatever beyond
the amount prescribed by law, in any case,
unless there shall first be n specific direction
for such extra payment, designating the off
GERS to whom such extra payment shall be
made
SEC. 5. AMI be il further enacted, That the
! Commissioner of Public Buildings be and he
is hereby authorized to apply any unexpen-
dcd portion of the money appropriated by
the act of Congress entitled, "An act making
appropriation to meet the expenses iLcarred
! in consequence ofthc late flrcat the Capitol,
/ approved January thirteenth, eighteen hun
dred and iiily-two, to the payment ofeXpcuscs
necessarily incurred in repairing the damage
/ lately done by fire in the Office Of the clerk OF
the Supreme Court and in making other re-
pairs about the Capitol
SIC 6. mt lie ii further cnaricl, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized to purchase for the United States
II suitable piece of ground at central point
in the city of San Francisco, California, as a
site for the erection of the custonl-house here
toforc authorized to be built Pr0ridcd, That
said site or ground may be obtained with good
! and sufficient title to the United States in cx-
change for such reasonable portion of the
Government reserve in that city as the said
Secretary shall deem just and equitable, or
| Tor sum IN llcu inercol not exceeding forty
thousand dollars. and to enable the Secretary
| of the Treasury to carry into effect this pro-
vision, the sum of forty thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated Pr0rided, That if the
said Secretary shall fail to obtain such ground
on satisfactory terms, then the said sum,
or such portion there of as may be
necessary, may be expended in providing
the proper foundations for said custom house
on the site heretofore selected for the purpose
LINN BOYD,
Speaker Of The Honsc Of Representatives..
WILLIAM II. KING,
President NJ The Senate pro temPore.
Approved July 81, 1882.
WILLARD FILLMORE.