The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-15
ed, July 16, 1869.
CHAP. CLXXXII.

CHAP. CLXXXII.
An Act making supplemental Appropriations for
sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for
the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-three and for the Year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty two,
and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums
be, aud the same are hereby, appropriated for the
objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year
ending the thirtieth OF June, eli. hteen hundred
and siXty-three viz:
For mileage ond per diem compensation to
witnesses, nd other incidental expenses of the
High Court of Impeachment In the case of West
II. Humphreys, Judge of the District Court OF
the United States for the State of Tennessee, ten
thousand dollars.
For laborers employed about the Hall of Rep
rescntatives, one thousand dollars.
For repairing custom-house and post office at
Bangor, Maine, six thousand dollars.
For salary of clerk to committee public
lands authorized by resolution of the House of
Representatives of May twenty-scventh, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two eighteen hundred dollars,
and salary to commence with the date of said
resolution, and the sum herein mentioned shall
be the amount of his salary annually
For painting iron fence around Lafayette Square,
and in front of the Presidents House, one thou
sand dollars.
>'ro enable the President to carry out the act of
Congress for the emancipation of the slaves in
the District of Columbia, and to colOniZe those to
be made free by the prob. BILE passage of confis-
repaid to the treasury out of contscated proper
ty, to be used at the discretion of the President
in securing the right of colonization of said per-
sons made free, and in payment OF the necessary
expenses of their removal.
For clerk hire in the consolidated land office at
Des Moines, Iowa, to be disb9rsed by the register
the thirty first day of December, eighteen hun
drcd and sixtyone to the thirtieth of June, eigh
teen hundred and siXty-three, one thousand six
hundred and thirty eight dollars.
For the pay OF q commissioner and incidental
expenses, undo. the Act for the codification and
revision of the laws of the District of Columbia "
approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, the sum OF three thousand dollars
And so much of the above recited act as autho-
riZes the appointment of more than one commits
siOner be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That the ap-
preparations heretofore made for furnishing the
Department of State with Howards Reports OF
the Supreme Court of the United States, be ap-
piled to Reports of the Supreme Court of the
United States, under whatsoever name published.
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That the
salary of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
shall be the same as the Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy to commence with the present fiscal year.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the fol-
lowing sums be, and the same are hereby, appro-
priated for the objects hereinafter expressed for
the year ending thirtieth OF June, eighteen hum
dred and sixty-two, viz:
For coal and firemen to warm the Library OF
Congress. on account of deficiency, for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, and tor the present fiscal year, twelve
hundred dollars.
For the fund OIL the faJent O1nce, nIty tnOu-
sand eight hundred and ifty-fve dollars and for
ty-nine cents, to supply deficiency existing un-
der the act of March second eighteen hundred
and sixty one, entitled, An act in addition to an
act to promote the progress of the useful arts y
Provided, That the fourteenth section of said act
be- and the sam is hereby, repealed
To supply deficiencies il the appropriation for
rent of Surveyor-Generals Office in California,
fuel, books, stationery, and pay OF messenger,
two thousand dollars.
For service on such of the routes authorized by
the 'sAct establishing additional post routes" as
in the opinion of the Post Office apartment may
be necessary, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses in carrying into effect the treaty
with Great Britain for the suppression of the
slave trade the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
pr so much thereof as may be necessary.
Sec. B. And be it further enacted, That the
office of clerk in charge of unfinished surveys in
the General Land office, un er act of twenty sec
ond january, thousand eight hundred and
ffty-three be, and the same is hereby, abolished,
and the duties thereof shall be transferred to the
principal draughtsman of the General Land Office,
or such other clerk the commissioner OF said
office may designate.
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That the sum
of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated, out
of any more in the trea= ury not otherwise appro-
priated, for the purchase of artificial limbs for
soldiers and seamen disabled in the service of the
United States, to be expended under the direction
of the Surgeon-General.
Approved, July 16, 1862.