New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-01
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
First Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 40. ]


GENERAL NATURE-No. 46,l
AN ACT making appropriations Tor sundry
civil expenses of the government lot the
fiscal year ending june thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy two, and Tor 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 fiscal year ending the
| tbirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-two, viz: -.
STATE DEPARTMENT. rig
For defraying the expenses of defending
claims under the convention with Mexico OF
July four, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, to be expended under the direction
of the Attorney General, twenty thousand
dollars. .I.-.r
For the compensation and expenses OF the
commission for determining the pending
questions between Great Britain and the
United States, twenty five thousand dollars.
For the compensation and expenses of a
commission for determining the questions
pending between the United States and
Spain, growing out of the acts of the Span
ish officials in and about Cuba. fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For the increase in the expenses of the
diplomatic and consular officers of the
United States in Paris, caused by a state of
war; and also for compensation for eXtraOr-
binary services performed by such officers
during the war; and also for the additional
expense caused to the legations and consul
ates of the United States in Madrid, Paris,
Berlin and London by reason OF the war;
and by reason of the protection assumed
by the United States of persons, legations
and consulates of other powers in Paris,
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars in
all, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
to be expended under the direction of the
Secretary of State, on the approval of the
President, and on vouchers to be filed in the
Treasury Department, and a statement
thereof to be reported to Congress by the
Secrets of State.
To defray the expenses incurred by the
United States legation in Paris, in protect
ing the subjects of the North German Con-
federation in France during the war be-
tween France and Prussia, including extra
compensation to the secretaries, messenger,
and use of carriage of said legation, tour
thousand dollars; and the foregoing appro-
priations are hereby made available imme-
diately upon the passage of this act.
SUPERVISING INSPECTORS OF STEAM VESSELS.
For carrying out the provisions of the act
of thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, for the better protection of the
lives of passengers on vessels propelled in
whole or in part by 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 officers
at New York and New Orleans, tifty-eight
thousand two hundred dollars.
For ten supervising inspectors of steam
vessels, nine at two thousand dollars each,
and one at two thousand five hundred dol
lars, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
For special agent of the department, two
thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
For contingent expenses, viz: Travelling
expenses of ten supervising inspectors, at
not to exceed eight hundred dollars in any
one year each, eight thousand dollars.
For travelling expenses of fifty nine local
inspectors, fifteen thousand dollars.
For travelling expenses of the special
agent of the department, one thousand four
hundred dollars.
For expenses of the meeting of the board
of supervising inspectors, including travel
and necessary incidental expenses, and
printing of manual and report, four thou
sand dollars.
niture for offices and repairs thereof; instru-
ments, repairs, transportation, and storing
thereof; office rent, ianitors, and fuel; print
ing and binding certificates of license for
pilots and engineers, and miscellaneous
items, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For life-saving stations: Salaries of two
superintendents of the life-saving stations
on tie coast of Long Island and New Jer-
sew, at one thousand five hundred dollars
For fifty-five keepers of stations, at two
hundred dollars each, eleven thousand dol
lars.
For pay of six experienced surfmen to
man each of the boats at alternate life-sav-
ing stations on the New Jersey coast, COM
mencing at the first station from Sandy
Hook, from December fifteenth to March
fifteenth, to be appointed by the keepers
thereof, at forty dollars per month, ten
thousand and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of life-savlng
stations on the coast of the United States,
ten thousand dollars.
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
For pay of officers, viz: Thirty-five cap
tains, one hundred and two lieutenants and
fifty-one engineers, three hundred and if
teen thousand three hundred dollars.
For rations for officers, twenty thousand
and thirty-nine dollars.
For pay of crews, viz Eight hundred and
seventy eight petty officers. seamen, cooks,
stewards and boys, three hundred thousand
five hundred and twenty dollars.
For rations for crews, including liquor
equivalent, one hundred and twenty-one
thousand seven hundred and seventynine
dollars and ten cents.
For fuel for twenty four steam vessels,
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For repairs and outfits of thirty two yes
sells, one hundred thousand dollars.
For ship chandlery for the same, forty
thousand dollars
For the travelling expenses of the officers
travelling on duty under orders from the
Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars
For temporary employment OF pilots
heretofore permanently employed, and com
pensation included in estimates Tor pay OF
officers, ten thousand dollars.
For communication of quarters for officers
on shore duty, ten thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses: For payment of ex
penses incurred in the transaction of the
business of the two boards of examiners
engineer board at Baltimore, Maryland,
and that for the line officers at Washington
District of Columbia); also, for that OF the
special commission, for rent OF offices, in
Guiding quarters for examining surgeon, and
for miscellaneous expenses, exclusive OF
clerk hire or compensation for service Of
any kind except consulting engineer EN-
ployed to supervise construction of engines
five thousand dollars.
MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE.
For supplying deficiency in the fund fol
| the relief of sick and disabled seamen. one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
LOANS AND TREASURY NOTES.
For paper, engraving, printing, express
| charges, and other expenses of making ant
issuing the national currency, seventyf five
| thousand dollars.
For expenses in detecting and bringing t.