The Portland daily press., 1871-05-19

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MONEYS in the treasury arising rom tbe oue o, any
said Departments. - Venues OIL
For mail-locks, keys, and stamps. flty-svs .no,
sand dollars; for advertising, twenty thos s1nd do
lars: PrOUided, That hereafter the letting Of mai
contracts in Mar land and Virginia shall be publsh
ed IN one newspaper Ony.
For addu uonal pay OF nine Temporary laborers
Two hremeD, and one watclman, at one hundred
anu anu twenty dollars each one thousand our bundred
anu iorty dollars: Proyided That their entire pay
Ior ihe year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
ana seVenty-ohe Is I'll ereby not decreased above
seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum.
for eight temporary clerks iOr m jnths, az one
mum dollars per month, one thousand six hun
For temporary clerks. to be employed as occasion
may require, ten th9uslnd dollars.
80, rnr preparation OF tue Post Office Directory for
lars. ''' '"eNe huh'ieu uoi-
And so much OF the first section OF ths act an
proved July twelve, eighteen hundred and sevsntpy
as states the total sum OF the onnro,rio,i
compensa ion Of the Postmaster Cfneroi ossip,,'s ~
superintendents, chiefs OF division. ehiet clerks,
messengers, assistants, loldeis, ftemen watebmen'
and abOrers is hereby con aected and, in lien of lie
there stated, declared to be three hundred and
fifty -four thousand eight hundred dollars which ia
the true total sum OF OF the specific appropriations
tor the above reced purposes, more fully forth
in said act, and shall be construed.
10 supply deficiencies in the revenue OF the Post
Cffice Department Tor the fi.ca year ending June
thirty eighteen hundred and seventy one, four nil
hon hundred and eighty We thousand and thirty
two dollars, or 50 much hereot may he necessary:
PrOUdded, That 10 part OF the money hereby appro-
priated shalt be applied to the payment OF what is
WAR DEPARTMENT.
For the purchase OF horses for the cavalry and ar
tiilery and Indian scouts, two hundred thousand
dollars.
For the purchase and manufacture of clothing for
the army and tor camp aud garrison equipage, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, to enable the
secretary OF the Treasury to settle the accounts of
disburslng soffeers for expenditures already law
iu'iy maae, transfer OF other balances on the
books OF the treasury to this account is hereby au
thorzed 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. ed preyi-
Gus to act OF June twenty-t@o, eighteen hundred
and seventy, creating Department Of Justice; the
costs and charg OF State penitentaries; the cave
and maintenance of United states mill ary conycts
confined in them; the paw Of detectives and scouts;
and lor conversation OF provost marshals employed
by the Secretary OF War in eighteen hundred and
sxty-two the appropriation tor the fiscal year Qh-
teen hundred and sxty-nine and eighteen hundred
and seventy having been exhausted, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies,
pay OF private ph hysIcians employed in emergencies
hire OF ospital attendants, expense of puryeyng
depots, OF medical examining boards, aud other in
eiiental expenses OF the Medical Department, one
hundred thousand dollars.
To pay the costs and charges OF State penilentia-
ries tor the care cloi hing, tenance and med-
military tonvicts confined therein, thirty thoueand
dollars.
For repairing ard putting new root on the cadet
quarters at West Point, recently destroyed by fire,
forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary
PAYMAsTER GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
Pay OF the army: For pay to officers nine hun-
dred and eight thousand three hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty three cents.
Mileage: For ALLOW ance paid to officers of the
army while travelling on duty without troops, two
hundred thousand dollars.
.Cloihiug to discharged soldiers For payment to
dred and four thousand four hundred and eighty
three dollars and twenty cents.
QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
For extra pay to soldiers employed under the di-
rectlon OF the Quartermaster's Department in the
erec tion OF barracks. quarters storehouses and hos
pitals in the construction of roads and other
slant labor for periods OF not less than ten days in
Guiding those empoye as clerks at division de-
partment headquarters; expenses of expresses to
and from the frontier posts ana armies in the field;
oil escorts TO paymasters and other disbursng Off
GERS aud to trains where military escorts cannot be
furnished; expenses OF the interment OF officers
killed in action or who die when duty in the field
or at posts on the onter or other places where
dered by the Secretary of War, and OF non-com-
missioned officers and soldiers; authorized office
turnituie hire OF laborers in the Quarter eImasters
Department. including the hire OF interpreters,
spies. and guides for the army; com pensltion 60
clerks officers of the Quartermlsters department;
compensation of forage and wagon mas ers; for the
apprehension, securing, and delivery OF deserters,
aud the expenses incident to their pursuit. and for
the following expenses required Tor the several regi-
mens OF cavalry The batteries o, light artillery aud
such companies OF infantry may be mount ed name
ly, the purchase OF travelling lorges backsmths and
sh0e1ng tools, hO Sc and mu Shoes and nails ron,
and steel for shoeiDg, hire OF veterinary surgeons,
medicines .or horses and mules, picket ropes, and
Tor shoeing the horses OF the corps above named;
also, generally the proper anc ahorized expenses
for the movement and operations OF the army
not expressly assigned TO any other department,
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For hire OF quarters for officers m litary duty;
hire OF quaI tor troops, OF storehouses fI the
safe keeping OF military stores, and OF grounds Tor
summer canionments; construction OF temporary
huts, hospitals and stables and for repairing public
build ngs at established posts, three hundred thou
sand dollars.
Fer the contingent expenses OF the office of the
Quartermaster General, two thousand five hundred
dol ars.
signal Office Observation and report of storms:
For expenses OF the manufacture. purchase, or
pair OF meteorological and oiher necessary instIu-
ments; for telegraphing reports; tor expenses OF
storm-signals announcing probable approach and
force of storms tor instrument shelters; Tor hire
and expense OF offices maintained tor public use ia
cities ports receiving rep0r,s for maps buet Tins
he displayed in chambers OF commerce and board
of-trade rooms; for books and stationery and for
incidental expenses not otherwise provided for
twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars: Pro-
ptGed That no part OF this appropI itiOn shall be
expended Tor telegraphing at creator rates than
those which are or may be ixed by the Postmaster
chapter two hundred and thirty of the statutes oi
eighteen hundred and sixty y-six.
CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE ARMY.
For annual repairs OF the Presidents house, three
| four cents.
| For reiurnishing the Presidents house, eleven
| thousand iour hundred and sixty-our dollars and
| eighty -nine cents.
To make up the def, iency in appropriation fol
Capitol police Tor the fiscal year ending June thirty
eighteen hundred and seyenty-one, eleven thousand
l five hundred and iorty-tour dollars, follows: Fo
one captain, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars
for two heutenants, at three hundred dollars each
| six hundred dollars; for twenty-five privates To
| twelve mouths, at tnree hundred and eigh y.tou
dollars each per annum. nine thousand six hnndfe
| dollars; tor three priyates tor eleven months, a
| three hundred ana eighty tour dollars each per an
| mum, one thousand and fity-six dollars
BUREAU OF FREEDMEN. REFUGEES, AND ABAN
| DoNED LANDS.
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| Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, at Washington
District OF Columbia, Gve thousand dollars.
For medicine, medical supplies and rations, TWEEN
ty-five thousand dollars.
| For clothing. two thousand five hundred dollar
For collecting and payment of bounty anu othe
claims 10 coloIed soldiers, Sailors marines thei
| heirs. forty thousand dollars.
For rent OF building, (outside OF the District
| Columbla,) four thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery and printing five thousand dollar;
For mileage and transportation of officers an
| agents, iour thousand dollars.
| For telegrarhiDg and postage, one thousand dol
| lars.
For unfulflled contracts for the erection and re
dollars.
| NAVY DEPARTMENT..
Bureau of Provisions and othing: For provis
ions for the officers. seamen, and marines OF the ma
Wy, five hundred thousand dollars.
Mar ne Corps: For clothing Tor non-commssi6ne
officers musicians, and p ivates the marine cotp
fifty thousand dollars; for fuel, ten thousand dollar
| TERRI TORY OF WASHINGTON
| That there be, and hereby is, appropriated 10
| amount 10 pay expenses OF legislative assembly
| Washington Territory, per diem aud mileage
| members, pay OF officers and printing for the SCI
| sion commencing October, eighteen hundred an
sixiy-nine, nine thousand one hundred and twenty
nine dollars and ninety-one cents, much ther,
| OF as may be necessary.
For deficiency in appropriation to pay the salar
OF governor secretary, and judges OF the Territ0I
OF Dakota Tor the year ending june thirty, eightee
| hundred and seventy, seventeen hundred dollars
so much oil the same as shall be necessary for tn
, | purpose.
S For the payment during the fiscal year endiI
| June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy y-on
granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors
, | the war OF eighteen hundred and twelve, and u
. widows OF deceased soldiers and sailors, two hui
dred and forty thousand doliars PFoUided, That Il
provisions OF the act OF Congress entitled IAN act
| define the duties of pension agents, to prescr
their m amer OF paying pensions, and tor other pu
| poses," approved July eight, eighteen hundred al
seventy, shall be- and the same is hereby declare
to be applicable to all pensions granted by virtue
| the said act approved February fourteen, eightet
| hundred and seventy-One.
| SEC. 9. That there be, and hereby Is, appropr
ated out of any money in the treasury not othe
| wise appropriated the sun. o. two million sew,
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the expcns
, | of collecting the revenue from customs tor ca,
halt year from and after the thirtieth day OF Jun
| eighteen hundred and seventy, aud, in additi,
| thereto, such sums as may be received during 81
hslt-year from fines, penalties and torieitures Co
| nected with the customs. and IRON fees paid in
treasury by customs officers and from storag
carriage DIR yage labor, and services; and the res
: luton "making appropriations tor the expenses
collecting the revenue from customs, appo'et VI
three, eighteen hundred and sixfy-six Is nerepy
/. | pealed.
Speaker Of the House Of Representative
, SCHUYLER COLFAN,
Vice- President Of the United States and Preside
A | Of the Senate.
| Approved, March 8, 1871,
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