The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-08-31
Official.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

-+. Official.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session Of the Forty First
CONGRESS.
IPuBLIC-No. 1888.
An Act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the government for the year end
ing June thirty, eighteen hundred ard seventy
one, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF America
in Congress assembled, That the following
sums be- and the same are hereby, appropriated,
for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the ifs
cal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-one, viz:
SUPERVISING INSPECTORS OF STEAM VESSELS.
For carrying out the provisions OF the acts of
the thirtleth August, eighteen hundred and fifty
two for the better protection of the lives OF pas
sepgers on vessels propelled In whole or in part
nv steam, and of the acts amendatory thereof,
the following sums, viz:
For salaries of fifty-nine local inspectors OF
steam vessels, and clerk in local offices at New
York and New Orleans, fifty-six thousand three
hundred dollars.
For ten supervising inspectors OF steam ves-
sells, nine at two thousand dollars each and one
at two thousand five hundred dollars, twenty
thousand five hundred dollars.
For special agent of the department, two thou
sand one hundre and ninety dollars.
For contingent expenses, viz: Travelling ex-
penses of ten supervising inspectors, at not to
exceed eight hundred dollars in any one year
each, eight thousand dollars.
For travelling expenses of fifty-ninc local in
| spectors, fifteen thousand dollars.
For travelling expenses OF the special agent OF
| the department, one thousand four hundred dol
| lars.
For expenses of the meeting OF the board of
Supervising inspectors, including travel and nee
| essary Incidental expenses and printing OF man
| ual and report, four thousand dollars. ..-
| For stationery, furniture for offices, and re-
pairs of same, transportation of instruments,
| iuel, lights, aud miscellaneous items, ten thous-
and dollars. .
Lie-saving stations. For salaries of two SUI
perintendents OF the life-saving stations on tue
coast OF Long Island and New Jersey, at one
thousand five hundred dollars each, three thous-
and dollars.
For fifty.tour keepers of stations, at two hun
bred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred
| dollars.
The sum Of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby
tecting human life from shipwreck as heretofore
established by life-boats and other means on tht
coast of Massachusetts, IT, be expended by th'
Humane Society Of the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts, under the direction and control o
the Secretary of the Treasury.
For pay of six experienced sulfmen to NAL
each at the boa:r at alternate liie-saving stations
on the New Jersy coast, commencing at the tirs
station from Sandy Hook. from December iii
| teenth to March fifteenth, to be appointed by til
i q rty oil mar t,.,
thousand and eighty dollars.
| For contingent e3Xpesns OF life-saving sta
tions on the coast of the United States, ten thou
sand dollars.
| REvENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. -..
For pay of officers and pilots, four hundre
and eight thousandsix hundred dollars.
For rations for officers and pilots, twenty
eight thousand four hundred and seventy-nin
dollars.
For pay of petty officers and crew, three hun
dred and eighty thousand eight hundred an
fifty dollars.
For rations for petty officers and crew, on
, hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundrc
, | and sixty-one dollars.
For fuel, one hundred and fifty thousand do
|, lars
.. For repairs and outfits, one hundred and fit
I thous and dollars.
Forsupplies of ship chaudlcry, seventy thou:
+. | and dollars.
. For travelling expenses, ten thousand do
!. lars.
= LOANS AND TREASURY NOTES.
t For paper, engraving, printing, express cha
ges, and other expenses of making and issuir
" the national currency, seventy-fve thousar
) dollars.
e For expenses in detecting and bringing
= trial and punishment persons engaged in cOu
tcrfeiting treasury notes, bonds, and other sec
. rites of the United States, as well as the coli
> OF the United States, and other frauds upon II
: government, one hundred and twenty-five tho
is sand dollars.
e PUBLIC LANDS.
s For rent of Office of surveyor general of Lou
II lana, fuel, books, stationery, and other incide
tai expenses, one thousand dollars.
For rent of office Of surveyor general of Flor
7, da, fuel, books stationery, and other incident
IT expenses, one thousand dollars.
n For rent of Office of surveyor general of "
nesota, fuel, books, stationery, and other inc
dental expenses, two thousand two hundred de-
: | lars.
For rent OF office OF surveyor general of Oak
|, ia, fuel, books, stationery, and other incident
e exnenses, two thousand dollars.
~ For rent of office of surveyor general of X:
Il sas, fuel books, stationery. and other incident
9. expenses, two thousand dollars.
For Office rent OF surveyor general of Colorad
fuel, books, stationery, and incidental EXPENSE
two thousand dollars.
q For rent OF office of surveyor general of Ne
Mexico, fuel, books, stationery, and other inc
dental expenses one thousand two hundred do
s lars.
/ For rent of Office of surveyor general of Cal
!, | fornia and Arizona, fuel, book, stationery, al
other incidental expenses, four thousand dc
lars.
For rent of office of surveyor general OF Idai
| fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental {!
, | penses, two thousand dollars.
, For rent OF Office of surveyor general of New
1 Aa fUrn1 trAt- cNats- -
: expenses, four thousand dollars.
i For rent of office OF surveyor general of Or
Q gon, fuel, books, stationery, and other ncide
f tai expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent OF office of surveyor general of Was
ington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, al
!, other incidental expenses, two thousand dc
| lars.
v For rent OF Office of surveyor general Of n
braska, and Iowa, fuel, books, stationery, al
other incidental expenses, two thousand dollar
For rent of office OF surveyor general of Mo
tana Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and 9th
It incidental expenses, three thousand dollars.
n For rent of office of surveyor general Of 4
4 Territory loft Utah, fuel, books, stationery al
other incidental expenses, two thousand dollar
EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE
e FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS.
% For salaries and commissions OF register
land offices and receivers of public moneys
" sixty-six land offices, three hundred and fl
n thousand six hundred dollars.
For incidental expenses OF the land ofict
y twenty thousand six hundred dollars.
7. For salaries, commissions, and incidental e
e penses of four additional land offices created
d the acts OF May eleven and twenty-seven, Gig
a teen hundred and seventy, twenty-seven tho
sand five hundred dollars: Provided, That t
land office at LIE Grand, in the State of Orego
J. shall be allowed its incidental expenses, COZ
lie mencing with its organization.
s. METROPOLITAN POLICE.
!, For salaries and other necessary expenses
le the Metropolitan Police for the District of G.
" lumbIa, two hundred and eleven thousand al
J. fifty dollars: Provided, That u further SUI
"a amounting to one hundred and five thousal
~ five hundred and twenty-five dollars, shall
le paid to deiray the expenses of the said Metr
politan Police force by the cities Of Washingtt
10 and Georgetown, and the county OF WashingtC
(beyond the limits of said cities,) in the DistIi
of Columbia, in the proportion corresponds
to the number OF privates allotted severally
q said precincts; and the corporate authorities
y said cities, and the levy court OF said count
# are hereby authorized and required to levy
n special tax, not exceeding onethird of one p
: centum, to be appropriated and expended +
Is said purposes only, for the services OF the sc
y year ending juno thirty, eighteen hundred al
n seventy-one.
5, GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
5 For the support, clothing, medical, and NOR
treatment OF the insane OF the army and nav
S revenue-cutter and volunteer service, who M,
). | have become insane since their entry into Il
:, service of the United States, and of the indige
insane OF the District of Columbia in the Go
crnment Hospital for the Insane, Including liz
hundred dollars for books, stationery, and inc
!, dental expenses, ninety thousand five hundrt
J.. dollars.
: For the erection, heating, lighting, furnishil
y and fitting up an extension OF the hospital #
the accommodation of one hundred patients
t the three upper stories, and to contain separa
i | tailors, and shnnmakprs, shnns and lndriI