The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-28
OFFICIAL,
y Az OF TIRE UNITED STATES PASSED
j lfAT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE
FORTY-SECUND CONGRESS.

Y hW y OF TIRE UNITED STATES PASSED
ilaA AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE
FORTY-SECUND CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATuRE-No. 7O.1
AN ACT making appropriations to supply de
licences in the appropriations Tor The service
of the government for the fiscal year ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy.
two, and for former years, and for other pur-
poses.
[Contnuod.
for the use any patent for the manner of or
material for doing the same.
Ordnance and ordnance stores: For purchase
OF ordnance and ordnance stores, TO continue the
armament of certain southern forts, one hun
dred thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining national
military cemeteries, fifty thousand dollars;
and the appropriations for collecting, drill
ing, and organizing volunteers, heretofore
considered as permanent appropriations,
are hereby continued and made available
Tor the service of he present fiscal year only,
far rs the same may b. necessary To pay the
usual clerical service heretofore paid out of said
appropriations in the War Department
MISCELLANEOUS.
For payment OF any balance due, or to he found
dine, during the present fiscal year, to any State,
for costs, charges, and expenses contemplated
and provided for in and by the act approved July
twenty-seyenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
Icing an act to indemnify certain States for ex-
lerses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping,
and transporting troops for the defense of the
United States during the late rebellion, one mil
lion dollars.
SIGNAL OFFICE, : Observation and report Of
storms For manufacture purchase, or repair
of meteor illogical and other necessary instru-
ments; for teiegraphing reports for expenses
of storm signals, announcing probable APPROACH
and force of storms; for Observation-Disclosures
for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices main
1ained Tor public uses in cities or posts receiving
reports; for maps, bulletins, and so forth, 10 be
displayed in chambers of commerce and board
of trade rooIns and for distribution; for books
and stationery; and for Incidental expenses not
otherwise provided for, si1ty-one thousand and
fifty dollars: Prooided; That no part of this ap-
nf NTNpio
several departments of the government shall be
paid to any Geographic company which shall ne
glect or refuse TO transmit Geographic communi-
cations between said departments, their officers,
agents, or employees, under the provisions OF the
second section of chapter two hundred and thir-
" Of the statutes of the United States for TIE
year eighteen hundred and sixty-sx, and ut rates
of compensation therefor to be established by the
Postmaster General.
To furnish transportation to insane volunteer
soldier at any time entitled TO be admitted into
the government hospital at Washington,
thousand dollars
For expenses of the board of visitors at the
Military Academy at West Point, two thousand
dollars.
Public buildings and grounds in and around
Washington, under the Chief of Engineers of the
War department: For repairs and improve
ments, viz: For survey and map in accordance
with the provisions of the joint resolution of July
fourteenth eighteen hundred and seventy, one
thousand five hundred dollars.
For grading and paving circle nj the intersec-
ton of Vermont and Massachusetts avenues for
hundred and seventy, and June thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy -one, five thousand sew
en- hundred and eighty nine dollars and eighty
Two cents.
For stationery for the office, one hundred and
twenty-four dollars and thirty-two cents
For repairs on the Executive Mansion, ten
thousand, three hundred and furty-fiye dollars.
For additional compensation to the assistant
door-keeper at the Executive Mansion, for the
fiscal year ending June thirteth, eighteen hun
dred and seyeniy-two, three hundred and sixty
dollars.
For the Executive avenue and adjacent grounds,
recently inclosed, for grading, paving and other
wise completing the work during the fiscal years
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and six
ty-nne, and June Lhirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy, twenty five thousand two hundred and
nineteen dollars aid twenty-five cents.
Contingencies of the army prior to July first,
eighteen hundred and seventy For fees of attor-
neys at law employed by the War Department;
expenses OF suits incurred previous to act OF June
tweuty-seeond, eighteen hundred and seventy,
creating the Department of Justice; the costs
and charges of State penitentiaries for the care
and maintenance of United States military con-
Niets confined in them the pay of detectives and
scouts and for compensation of proyost-mar-
shals employed by the SecetnrTy of War in
eighteen hundred and sixty Two, fifty thousand
dollars.
Freedmsn's hospital and asylum To reim-
burse the Commissary department for supplies
furnished the freedmen's bureau prior TO June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-one,
lhirty-tour thousand dollars.
Military conyicts at State penitentiaries: For
payment of costs and charges of State peniten-
laries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and
medical attendance OF United States military
cOnyicts confined in them, ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary Of War to pay for ad-
ditional clerical services heretofore employed by
him in the investigation and settlement Of ac-
counts for abandoned and captured property,
one thousand dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.
Marin eCorps For rent ofquarters for ollegfs,
where there are no Iuslic quarters one thousand
five hundred and thirty nine dollars and thirteen