The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-09
M LAY 9, 1867.
Official.

For salary of the clerk to the Committee ON
Appropriations, from the date of his appoint
ment to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, twenty eight hundred and ninety
eight dollars.
TO pay the expenses incurred under the reso-
luton OF the Senate directing the hydration of
the atmosphere of the Senate chamber, the sum
of seven thousand five hundred dollars is hereby
appropriated and added to the contingent fund
of the Senate.
SEC. g. A7ad be it further enacted, That section
ten of an act entitled IAN act making appropria-
tions for sundry civil expenses of the govern
ment for the year ending June thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty eight and for other pur
poses," passed at the second session of the
thirty ninth Congress, shall not be construed to
allow greater compensation for the putlica-
tions of the laws passed by Congress and execu-
tive proclamations and treaties in the papers of
the District of Columbia than is provided by law
for such publication in other papers. And the
newspapers in the ten rebelious States named in
section seven of Gan act making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses of the government for
the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty eight, and for other purposes"
which have been or may be designated in pur-
suance OF the provisions OF said section for the
publication of the public laws and treaties of the
United States, shall publish the public laws and
treaties of the Thirty ninth Congress, authentic
copies of which it shall be the duty of the Secre
tary of State to furnish practicable,
after receiving notice of such designation; and
there is hereby appropriated out of the treasury
from any moneys not otherwise appropriated,
That the accounts therefor shall be settled in
the usual manner, and the compensation shall
not exceed the rate fixed in section seven afore-
said.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted That so
much of section seven of an act entitled can act
making appropriations for sundry civil expenses
of the government for the year ending June thr
ty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and for 9th
er purposes" approved March second, eighteen
hundred and sixty y-seyen, relates to the publ
cation of the treaties and laws of the United
States, be and the same is hereby extended to the
States not therein designated, and to the terrific
ries; and that it shall be the duty of the Secre-
tary of State, upon receiving notice of the desig
nation of newspapers under the act aforesaid and
this section, promptly to furnish to such news
papers authentic copies of the treaties and laws
of the United States to be published as aforesaid
Popided, That it shall ne lawful to print the laws
and treaties of the United States, as aforesaid in
three newspapers in Louisiana And prorided
further, That the rates fixed by previous laws
shall not be hereby increased.
Sec. 4. Amd be it further enacted, That the
following sums be, and the same hereby ap-
propriatcd out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated for the objects herein
after expressed, for the fiscal year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven, namely:
For stationery for the House of Representa-
tives, nine Thousand dollars.
For newspapers, ten thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dol
lars.
SEC 5. And be it further enacted, That there
be, and hereby is appriated, out of any money in
1.-The treasury not otherwise appropriated, for sa-
p laries of the Commissioner of Education and his
ciarks, twelve thousand four hundred dollars for
the period of three months ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
sixty-cight.
For furnishing offices and for stationery, six
thousand dollars.
For the repair of Long Bridge, District of Co
lumbia, to be expended under the direction of
the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted That the
following be and the same hereby ap-
proprated out OF any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary
of the Interior to pay the expenses incurred by
certain Indian delegations in visiting Washing
ton city for the purpose of negotiating treaties
and in their return home, to wit:
For the Sioux of Lake Traverse, ten thousand
dollars.
For the Sioux of the Upper Missouri, fifteen
thousand dollars
For the tribes residing in the State of Kansas,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For the Chippewas of the Mississippi, six thou
sand dollars.
And all laws allowing the President, the Secre-
tary of the Interior, or the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs to enter into treaties with any In
dian tribes are hereby repealed, and no expense
shall hereafter be incurred in negotiating trea-
ty with any Indian tribe until an appropriation
authorizing such expense shall be first made by
law.
SEC. 7. And be 1t further enacted, That the
several sums of money heretofore appropriated to
be expended under the direction of the Commits
sioner of Public Buildings be transferred to and
may be expended under the direction of the Chief
Engineer of the army, or such officer of the En-
gineer Corps as be may direct.
Approved, March 92 1867.
[PUBLIC-No 16.
AN ACT to establish port of delivery at Ches-
ter, Pennsylvania.
Be enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
Se"tutiUes Of the United States Of america in Con-
gress assembled, That Chester in the district OF
Philadelphia, shall be appointed who shall reside
at said port of delivery and receive salary of
five hundred dollars per annum.