Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-18
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty frs,
go Congress.
fPIIRIISHEn RY- ATTHARITY

lGENERAL NATORE-NO. IL.
AN ACT making appropriations to supply def
ciencies in the appropriations for the service
of the Government 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 1T enacted By the Senate and House of Re-
personalities Of the United States of America
IN Conq7.ess assembled That the following sums
and the same are hereby, appropriated for the
objects hereinafter expressed. namely:
s.Ffr SENATE.
To pay an additional assistant engineer au-
thorized by the Senate at the rate of one thou
sand four hundred and forty dollars per annum,
commencing on the first day of December
eighteen hundred and seventy, fer the fiscal year
ending the thirtieth day of June. eighteen hum
bred and seventy-one, eight hundred and forty
dollars.
For steam-pum for the heating and ventiat-
ing apparatus of the Senate, under the direction
of the Sergeant-at-a arms, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of heating and ventilating APP
paratus, one Thousand dollars.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
For carriage, one thousand dollars.
For laborers, one thousand six hundred dol
lars.
For furniture, and repairs Thereof two thou
sand dollars.
For fuel, two thousand dollars.
/ For paying teller in the Office of the Sergeant
alarms, one thousand two hundred and twenty
dollars. Pr
For the miscellaneous item of the contingent
fund of the House, ten thousand dollars.
For the following sums due under resolutions
of the House passed during the first session of
the Thirty-ninth Congress, namely: To the late
assistant doOrkeeper, eight hundred and forty
dollars; to the superintendent of the document
Office, eight hundred and forty dollars; and to
E. Spieer, late superintendent of the folding
room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; to
John ]. McElhone, VIM, Hincks, W. Blair
Lord, d. Wolfe Brown, Theodore F. Andrews,
and William Henry Burr, reporters for the
Congressional Globe during the first session OF
the Thirty-ninth Congress- seven hundred dol
lars each; in all, six thousand four hundred
dollars, additional compensation for the Thirty
ninth Congress.
For compensation of the tally-clerk of the
House CT Representatives, from the first day OF
February eighteen hundred and seventy, to the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-one, six hundred and twelve dollars, the same
making his compensation equal to that of his
predecessor, Or. u. Sherman,) and as fixed in
the legislative bill for himself
To pay Rives and Baily for the reporting and
publication of the debates and proceedings OF
the Forty-frst Congress, under the joint resolu-
and sixty-nine, and contract of April fourteen,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, so far as may
have been provided for by law, one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars or SO much thereof
as may be necessary.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS UNDER TREAS
b9,,.s4slr. URY DEPARTMENT.
For continuing the work on the building for
post Office and courthouse in New York city,
to be applied only to finishing the foundations
up to and including the sill course, and receiv-
ing and setting the granite of the first story
above that course, and subject to no other limi-
tationss or restrictions, five hundred thousand
dollars: ne ils-1, y,e.- It. f.f- ~ .f-,,, r,E
For the building for post Office and sub-treas-
| ury In Boston, the unexpended balance OF ap-
preparation remaining on the thirtieth June,
eighteen hundred seventy, appropriated fol
purchase of site of the same, which was covered
into the treasury by the provisions of section
five of the act of july. twelve, eighteen hun
dred and seventy, is, with the sum approprlat-
ed by the act of July fifteen, eighteen hundred
and seventy, hereby reappropriated and made
available, together with the sum of sixty-four
| thousand two hundred and seventy eight dol
lars and seventy-fve cents, to enable the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury to pay the award for the
| necessary land condemned under authority o.
| the State of Massachusetts for the purposes o.
/! said building for purchase of title in passage.
| way, eight thousand dollars; and for expense:
of legal proceedings, four. thousand dollars, OF
| so much tn ereof as may be necessary, subject
| to no other restriction except that the cost o.
| said building shall not exceed, in the ultimate
total under all appropriations, one million five
| hundred thousand dollars.
! For completing the courthouse building al
Madison, Wisconsin, thirty -four thousand and
| eighty-two dollars and seventy-four cents.
! For completing the courthouse building al
Portland, Maine, fifty-six thousand eight hun
dred and sixteen dollars and sixty-four cents
/ For completing the work on the building fol
appraisers store in Philadelphia, ffty-sever
thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, THAI
said building shall also be used for bonded
/ warehouse.
| Forsrepair of the custom house building a
Sandusky, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.
! For desks, tables, chairs, cases, shelving TO
i fle-rooms, boxes and repairs of furniture il
Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of public build
Lings, fifty thousand dollars. 49, -.EEY
4 For furniture and repairs of furniture to-
public buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars
Tor carpets, oil-cloths mating rugs, chair
covers, and cush ions, repairs and putting dow
| of carpets, and other necessary miscellaneou
! items of the same kind for the Treasury De
partment, ten thousand dollars. }tf~
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
| .saxfvs -s-f MISCELLANEOUS.
| For cou1uensation of twelve watchmen an