Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-12

ports of the Court of Claims, to be paid or
| the order of the court, one thousand dol
| lars. r.s.1 g-L. g. ..tff-r, girl gol --..-. ri
To pay judgments of the Court of Claims
| four hundred thousand dollars: Provided
That no part of this sum shall be paid
upon any Judgment rendered in favor Of
George Chorpenning growing out of any
service rendered in carrying the mail.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Office of the Attorney General.-Fol
compensation of the Attorney General
eight thousand dollars; Solicitor General,
seven thousand five hundred dollars; three
Assistant Attorneys General, at five thou-
sand dollars each solicitor of internal
revenue, five thousand dollars naval So
lieitor and judge advocate general, three
thousand five hundred dollars examiner
of claims, three thousand five hundred
dollars law clerk, two thousand five hun
dred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand
two hundred dollars; stenographic clerk,
two thousand dollars one, clerk, two
thousand dollars seven clerks of class
four; additional for disbursing clerk, two
hundred dollars two clerks of class three,
one clerk of class two, one clerk of class
one, one messenger, two assistant messen-
gers, and two Watchmen !; in all, seventy
three thousand seven hundred and sixty
dollars. ,r.r..; ... .-,-.f. arr. ~ -a--e,-r-
Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury
For compensation of the Solicitor of the
Treasury, three thousand five hundred
dollars; assistant solicitor, three thousand
dollars chief clerk, two thousand dollars;
one clerk Of class four, three clerks of class
three, three clerks of class two, one clerk
of class one, one messenger, and one la
borer; in all, twenty-five thousand and
sixty dollars. lid a.- 4rrr ...
For contingent expenses of the Depart
ment of Justice, viz Fuel, labor, station
cry, and miscellaneous items, fifteen thou
sand dollars for rent of building, fifteen
thousand dollars; for furniture and law
books, six thousand dollars.
COMMISSIONERS TO CoDIFY THE LAWS OF
THE UNITED STATES.
For compensation of three commission
ers to codify the laws of the United States,
fifteen thousand dollars. ea-. -.r5t.. .-5
For incidental and contingent expenses
for clerk hire, stationery, and miscellane.
Gus items, three thousand dollars.
United States and British Claims Com
mission.-For the compensation and ex-
penses Of the United States and British
claims commission, forty-nine thousand
one hundred and sixty dollars.
> To enable the President of the United
States to perfect and put in force such
rules regulating the civil service as may,
from time to time, be adopted by him,
twenty-five thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. That after the thirtieth day of
June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
it shall be the duty of each head of an ex-
ecutive department of 1.-The government,
and of all other public officers who have
heretofore had printing and binding done
of hn Prin for
the use of their respective Departments OF
public offices, to include in their annual
estimates for appropriations for the next
fiscal year such sum or sums as may to
them seem necessary for printing and
binding to be executed under the direction
of the Congressional Printer III. ..-
SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the
Congressional Printer, when Congress
shall have made an appropriation for any
Department or public office, to be expend-
ed " for printing and binding to be exc
cuted under the direction of the Congress
sional Printer to cause an account to be
opened with each of said Departments or
public offices, on which he shall charge
for all printing and binding ordered by
the heads of said Departments or public
offices, in accordance with the schedule of
prices established in accordance with law,
and it shall not be lawful for him to cause
to be executed any printing or binding the
value whereof exceed the amount appro-
priated for such purpose. And the Con-
gressional Printer is hereby authorized to
employ clerk of class two to have charge
of said accounts and that he make de-
tailed report of each account with Depart
ments or public offices to Congress in his
annual report. -. 10 r'.- .--- ra...
Sec. 4. That all acts and parts of acts
prescribing and limiting the number of
congressional documents to be printed for
the use of any head of Department or
public Office are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. That all proceeds of sales of old
material, condemned stores, supplies, or
other public property of any kind, shall
hereafter be deposited and covered into
the treasury as miscellaneous receipts, on
account of proceeds of government prop
erty," and shall not be withdrawn or APP
piled except in consequence of subse-
quent appropriation made by law and a
detailed statement of all such proceeds of
sales shall be included in the appendix to
the book of estimates. But this section
shall not be held to repeal the existing
authority of in relation to marine hospit-
ais, revenue cutters, the clothing fund of
the navy, or the sale of commissary stores
to the officers of the army. And it shall
be the duty of the Register of the Treas
ury to furnish to the proper accounting
officers copies of all warrants covering
such proceeds, where the same may be
necessary in the settlement of accounts in
their respective offices. lad
SEC. 6. That the public grounds sur
rounding the Capitol shall be enlarged
according to the plan approved by the
Committees on Public Buildings of the
Senate and House of Representatives, re-
spectiyely, which plan is hereby directed
to be deposited in the custody of the Sec
rotary of the Interior) by extension be
tween First street east and First street
west, in the following manner: north
wardly to the south side of Nerth B street,
and southwardly to the north side of South
B street, including, in addition to SO much
of the reservations, avenues, and streets
as. are necessary for such extension, the
two squares designated on the plan of the
city of Washington as numbers six hun
dred and eighty-seven and six hundred
and lightweight, respectively. .. I'D
SEC. Z. That it shall be the duty of the
Secretary of the Interior to purchase,