Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-20
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session OF the Forty first
81 Congress.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.l
[GEEERALN ATuRE-No. AL
IConcluded

H#F lConctudedl -
AN ACT making appropriations to supply def
ciencies in the appropriations for the service
s-of the Governments for the fiscal years ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy
and june thirty, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-one, and for former years, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted 6y the Senate and House of Re
presentatires of the United States of america
in Conoress assembled, That the following sums
are SO much thereof as may be- necessary, be,
and the same are hereby appropriated for the
objects hereinafter expressed, namely; q
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation
to pay salaries and wages for the month of
June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and out
standing bills due June thirty, eighteen han-
dred and seventy, three thousand FIVE hundred
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation
for support of the hospital for the current
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
seventy lone, twenty-five thousand dollars.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Is
The following sums are hereby appropriated
for the service of the Post Office Department
out of any moneys in the treasury arising from
thelrevenues of said Department:
For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, ffty-fyc
thousand dollars: Propided, That hereafter the
lettings of mail contracts in Maryland and Vir-
ginia shall be published in one newspaper
For additional p Of nine temporary labor.
ers, two fremen and one Waterman, at one
hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand
four hundred and forty dollars > Prorided, That
their entire pay for the year ending juno thir- ]
ty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. is there
by not increased Saboye seven hundred and
twenty dollars each per annum.
For eight temporary clerks for two months,
ut enc hundred dollars per month, one thousand
six hundred dollars. cY ,.s1cIc9 ,siiG, az
For temporary clerks, to be employed as
occasion NAV re0uire ten thousand dollars =
For preparation of the Post Office Directory
for eighteen hundred and seventy, twelve hun
dred dollars. - ks W kesSA IS
And so much of the arst section of the act
| approved July twelve, eighteen hundred and
seventy, as states the the total sum OF the APP
preparations, for compensation of the Postmas-
ter General asst stants, superintende chiefs
of division, chief clerks, clerks, messengers,
| assistants, folders, firemen, watchmen, and la
borers, is hereby connected, and, in lieu of the
sum there stated, declared to be three hundred
and fifty -four thousand eight hundred dollars,
which is the true total sum of the specific APP
preparations for the above recited purposes,
more fully set forth in said act, and shall be SO
construed. 7o
the Post Office Department for tho fiscal year
ending June thirty. eighteen hundred and sew
| enty lone, payable out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated four mil,
| lion six hundred and eighty-fve. thousand and
| thirty-two dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary; Provided That no part of the
| money hereby appropriated shall be applied TO
the payment of what is known as the Chorpen-
| ming claim.
| WAR DEPARTMENT. &
For the purchase of horses for the cavalry
| and artillery and Indian scouts, two hundred
| thousand dollars.
| Fer thepurchase and manufacture of cloth
| ing for the army, and for camp and garrison
equipage, two hundred thousand dollars.
1 For contingencies of the army, to enable the
Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts
of discussing officers for expenditures already
| lawfully made, q transfer Of other balances on
the books ofthe treasury to this account is here
by authorized to the amount of one hundred
| and fifty thousand dollars
| To pay fees OF attorneys-at-law employed by
| the War Department. expenses of suits incur
! red previous to act of June Twenty-Five eighteen
hundred and seventy, creating Department of
Justice: the costs and charges of State peniten-
tiaries;0 the care and maintenance of United
States military convicts confined in them; the
pay of detectives and scouts and for compen-
| sation of provost marshals employed by the
\ Secretary of War in eighteen bundled and six
ty-tWo the appropriation for the fiscal year
eighteen hundred and sixty nine and eighteen
hundred and seventy having been exhausted,
twenty-five thousand dollars. ~ .iss
For the purchase Of msaieal and hospital
supplies, pay OF private physicians employed in
emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, ex-
pense of purVeying depots, of medical examin-
ing boards, and other incidental expenses of the
medical department, one hundred thousand
To pay the costs and charges of State peni-
tentiaries for. the care, clothing, maintenance
and medical attendance and like necessaries OF
United States military convicts confined therein
thirty thousand dollars.
For repairing and putting new roof on Tho
cadet quarters at West Point, recently destroyed
by Are, forty thousand dollars, or 20 much
thereof as may be necessary. an
PAFMAsTRER GENERALS DEPARTMENT
Pay of the army For pay to officers, min,
hundred and eight thousand three hundred ant
thirty three dollars and thirty-three cents.
Mileage: For allowance paid to officers of tn
. army while travelling on duty without troops
two hundred thousand dollars iilAf-i Al =
Clothing to.discharged soldiers For paynen
to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn
81 nine hundred and nine thousand four handre
!. and eighty-three dollars and twenty cents. -
1 oiqUARTERMAsTER GENERAL s DEPARTMENT.
For extra pay to soldiers employed under d
!, rection of the aQuartermaster department i
= ithe erection of barracks, quarters, storehouse
and hospitals in the construction of roads an
other constant labor for periods of not less tina
II ten days, including those employed as clerks
"A division and department headquarters; expense
| Of expresses to and from the frontier posts an