New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-16

Second session Of the FOrty-First
Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 20.
An act making appropriations to supply de-
ficiencies in the appropriations for the
service of the government for the fiscal
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-twO, and for former
years, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled That the
following sums, or so much thereof as may
be necessary be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated for the service of the year
ending June tbirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-twO, and for the period and
purposes hereinafter expressed, namely:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
For carriage for the House Of Representa-
tiVes, three thousand dollars; and cOnstruc-
tive carriage shall not hereafter be paid for
but all articles delivered on the trip shall
be paid for as one load And for def
cheney in the appropriation for folding
documents, including pay of folders and
material therefor, thirty thousand dollars.
To nav the official reporters Of the Globe
in each house the amount which the Con
trOller Of the Treasury may find severally
due them for services during the sessions of
the Forty-seCOnd Congress, under the
eighteenth section Of the act entitled "An
act making appropriations for sundTy civil
expenses Of the government for the year
ending June thirteth, eighteen hundred
and siXty-seven, and for other purposes
approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-siE.
That the Speaker is hereby authorized to
employ a clerk at a salary of eighteen hun
dred dollars per annum, and no appoint
ment on the doorkeeper's rolls shall be
made to take the place Of the person hither-
TO detailed as clerk to the Speaker, and
from March first to the close of this fiscal
year, six hundred dollars are hereby apprO-
priated for his salary.
SENATE.
That the payment of mileage of Senators
for actual attendance at the session Of the
Senate convened on the tenth day of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy-One, by proc
lamation of the President, is hereby author
lied.
For miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand
dOlle.rs.
Cor labor, seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
For furniture, three thousand six hundred
dollars.
For expenses of heating and veItilating
apparatus for fiscal year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
four hundred dollars.
For compensation Of John G.. KnOwltOn,
for service as messenger in the Senate dur
ing the month of April eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine, one hundred and twenty
dollars.
To pay Rives and Bailey for complete
sets Of the Congressional Globe and appen-
dix, furnished to Senators who had not
previously received them, under the act Of
July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty
four three thousand and five dollars.
For CLERKS to committees, pages, horses,
M Ia ON ND Il
CAPITOL POLICE.
For captain of the police, two hundred
and eighty-eight dollars for two lieutenants,
at three hundred dollars each; and twenty
eight privates, at three hundred and eighty
four dollars each; in all, eleven thousand
six hundred and forty dollars.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
For contingent expenses OF the Library
Of Congress, rendered necessary by the
copyright business of said library, five hun
bred dollars. To enable the disbursing
agent of the Joint Committee on the Ii
brary to balance sundry fractional
Overdrafts in the following funds; For
the fiscal years of eighteen hundred and
seventy-One and eighteen Kindred and
seventy-tWO, two hundred and tlty-s6Ven
dollars and eight cents, the same to be
placed to the credit of the funds named
in the amount specified to each. Fund for
purchase of books twelve dollars and
ninety-eght cents; fund for purchase of
law books, twenty-five dollars and seventy
nine cents; fund for purchase of periOdi- |
Gals, two dollars and sixty-five cents; fund |
for exchange of public documents, six dol |
lars and seventy cents; fund for repairs, |
etc, of buildings in botanic garden, sew |
enty-tiye dollars and seventeen cents; fund |
for improving botanic garden, one hundred |
and twenty-five dollars: fund for contingent !
~ f,rlt nd
seventy-nine cents.
To pay Rives and Bailey for the reporting
and publication of the debates and pro-
Ceedings of the FOTty-hr Congress, under
the joint resolution approved March three,
eighteen hundred and siXty-nine, and con-
tract of April fourteenth, eighteen hun
bred and sixty nine, so far as may have
been provided for by law, two thousand
seven hundred and seventy-siX dollars and
uinety-eight cents, or so much thereof as
may be necessary.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
For extra clerk hire necessitated by I'M
Usual labor in preparing for the session Of
al TIE tribunal of arbitration at Geneva,
I've thousand dollars.
For publishing the laws of the third SEES
sion of the FOrty-first Congress and of the
first session Of the FOrty-secOnd Congress
in pamphlet form, i've thousand dollars.
For publishing the laws of the first ses-
sion Of the Fcrty-frst Congress in news
papers, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For publishing the laws of the second
session of the Forty-hrst Congress in news
papers. six thousand one hundred and
twelve dollars.
Foreign TNtercOtWSe,-FOr salaries of en-
vOys extraordinary and ministers plenipo.
Tertiary, and ministers resident, for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-One, fOrty-twO thou
sand dollars; and for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-two, fifty thousand dollars; and in
settling the accounts Of John p, Hale, late
minister to Spain, the accounting officers
Of the treasury shall allow him salary to
the first Of January, eighteen hundred and
seventy, at which time his health was so far
restored as to be able to travel, and the sum
necessary to pay the same is hereby APP
And the Secretary of State is
hereby authorized to allow the payment of !
such sums as the President shall approve to
consuls of the United States at Algiers,
Boulogne, Lyons, Marseilles, Nantes, Nice I
ana Rheims as compensation for extraor-
binary services during the late war in Eu-
rope; provided, that the total sum so ex-
pended shall not exceed the uneypended
balance of the amount apDrODriat H. ii NV a.