, 1869-01-01
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session ofhs Fortieth Con-
gress.
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[coSrNuED FROM rHE YoURrH PACE.
For facilitating communication between the
Atlantic aud Pacific States by electrical teles
graph, Ito supply deficiency for the fiscal year
ending June thirieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, } forty thousand dollars.
cossrRUoTIoS BRANCH OF rHE TREASURY DEPART-
MESr.
For constructing the custom. house at Port
land, Maine, fifty thousand dollars.
For constructing the courthouse at Portland
Maine, fifty thousand dollars.
For constructing appraisers stores at Phila>
delphia, twenty Eve thousand dollars.
For remodellng the marine hos pital at Chelsea,
Massachusetts,, forty-6ve THOUSAND dollars. 81
To complete the building used for courthouse
aud post Office at Springfield, Illinois, thirty
| thousand dollars.
For constructing the United States court
house and post Office at Madison, Wisconsin,
| fifty thousapd dollars.
For the work on the public building now be-
log erected at Cairo, Illinois, to be used as a
post office, custom house, and United States
eourt-house, ten thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs of the roof and alterna>
tons In the building used for a custom-h house
ana post ofhce, in Chicago, Illinois, twenty
thousand dollars.
To meet outstanding liabilities and complete
the repairs to the custom-bouse building at New
| York city, forty Eve thousand dollars.
To repair or replace corrugated galvanized
iron roofs Of buildings under the control of the
Treasury Department thirty thousand dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
For rent, fuel, lights and miscellaneous items
in the Office of the Paymaster General, eleven
thousand dollars.
For the repair, preservation, extension, and
completion of certain public works on rivers and
harbors, 10 be expended under the direction of
the Secretary Of War, one million Eve hundred
thousand dollars: ProUided, That said expeudiS
lures shall not be applied to any works not
mentioned in the bill % making appropriations
for repairs, preservation, and completion of Ger,
tain public works, and for other purposes"
which passed the House of Representatives June
:hirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty eight.
One hundred thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, TO be expended un
der the direction of the Secretary of War in the
removal of the wreck of the iron steamship
" Scotland now on the bar outside of Sandy
Hook, near the entrance to the harbor of New
! York Prorided, That the Secretary of War
shall, after notice given in one or more news
papers in the cities of Philadelphia, New York,
and Boston, receive sealed proposals for the re-
moval of said wreck, and make contract for the
same with the lowest bidder therefor Said con.
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| herein appropriated
For the removal of a sunken rock in the chan
mel Of the harbor at the port of New York, if
teen hundred and thirty dollars.
SOLDIERS BoUxrIrs. at
To facilitate the payment of soldiers bounties
under act OF July twenty eighth, eighteen huns
dred and sixty,six, as follows
For fuel and gas, seten hundred dollars.
For carpeting, two thousand dollars
For fitting house, cases, and so FORTH FIVE
hundred dollars.
! For rent, twelve hundred dollars.
! For fifty chairs, three hundred dollars
For one messenger, three laboIers, and two
night watchmen, four thousand six hundred
dollars.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.
I To meet a deficiency in the cost of completing
certain portions of the Washington aqueduct,
comprising the Potomac dam, repairs of tempor-
ary dam, gate.bouse at Great Falls, and the con-
Meeting conduit at the receiving reservoir,
| twenty-seven thousand FIVE hundred dollars
ProUided, That the sum shall be in full of all
claims against the government for work done of
or damages incurred on the Washington aque educt
For salary of assistant engineer, superintend.
ence, and repairs, for the year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty,pine.
! twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended
under the immediate direction of the officer
detailed to act as Superintendent of Public
Buildings and Grounds.
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL.
For the erection of bridge TO connect Rock
Island arsenal with the city of Rock Island Hin,
ois, one hundred thousand dollars SAID bridge to
be constructed and completed for the sum hereby
appropriated.
To enable the Secretary Of State to pay the
costs of Interpretation at the consulate at Bankok
in Siam, from the first of July, eighteen hundred
and sixty>seven, to the thrtieth of June. eiph
teen hundred and sixty,une, one thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of War to meet the
expenses OF defending suits brought against
parties for executing the orders of government
during the late rebellion, fifty thousand dollars,
or SO mach thereof as may be necessary.
To supply deficiency for reporting and
printing the proceedings of the Senate in the
Daily Globe, fifteen thousand dollars.
To repay to the judiciary fund the sum of five
thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and
thirty eight cents, being amounts expended by
order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States 10 carrying into effect the
provisions OF an act, approved March second
| eighteen hundred ard sixty seven, entitled "Ap
act to establish a uniform system of baukruptcv
throughout the United States"
To reappropriate an unexpended balance of
an appropriation made by act approved August
| nth, eighteen hundred and fifty four TO refund
to the State of California expenses incurred in
suppressing Indian hostilities," said balance
having apsed and been covered into the treasury
on the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and
sixty-three, ten thousand one hundred and
eighty three dollars and sixty-three cents
Propided, That nothing shall be paid except
subject TO existing provisions of law and upou
the finding and certificate of the Third Auditor
that the same is actually due.
| For the payment TO the Territory of Colorado
for the services Of the first regiment of the Col
orado mounted militia, called into the service of
the United States on the requsiton of Colonel
Thomas Moonlight and for the services of any
other militia forces of the said Territory which
were employed in the service of the United
States, on the call of the governor Of the Terri,
tory, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty
four, the sum of ihy>fve thousand two hundred
and thirtyseight dollars and eighty-four cents.
being the amount found to be justly due and
recommended to be allowed on the account as
presented by Thomas VI. Vincent, assistant adj
jutant general, in his letter to 2he Secretary of
| War, dated Washington, October thirty>6rst.
eighteen hundred and sixty seven Porided,
That said amount shall be taken and deemed TO