New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-22
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and direction
To pay five laborers in the old part of the
, Capitol, and i've watehfnen in reservation
two, twenty per eentum on their pay fol
the years ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and sixty nine, and june thfrtieth
eighteen hundred and seventy, as author
lied by the eighteenth section of the act of
July twenty-eighth. eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, two thousand eight hundred and
eighty dollars, or so much as may be
necessary.
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND
ABANDONED LANDS.
For collection and payment of bounty.
prize-money, and other. legitimate claims OF
colored soldiers and sailors, viz: For sala-
ries of agents and clerks; rent of office,
fuel, and lights; stationery and printing;
Office furniture and repairs mileage and
transportation of officers and agents; tele-
graphing and postage, one hundred thou
sand dollars; provided that the Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
shall be discontinued from and after June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, and that all agents, clerks, and other
employees then on duty shall be discharged,
except such as may be retained by the Sec
rotary of War for the purposes of this pro-
viso; and all acts and parts of acts pertain
| ing to the collection and payment of bOun-
ties, or other moneys due to colored soldiers,
sailors, and Marines or their heirs, shall re-
| main in force until otherwise ordered by
Congress, the same to be carried into effect
by the Secretary of War; who may employ
such clerical force as may be necessary for
| the purpose.
For the support Of Freedmen's Hospital
and Asylum at Washington, District of
Columbia, viz Pay of medical officers and
| attendants; medicines, medical supplies and
| rations; clothing; rent Of hospital buildings,
J fuel and lights; repairs and transportation,
seventy-tour thousand dollars; provided,
| that no part of said appropriation shall
| be used in the support Of or to pay any of
the aforesaid expenses on account of any
persons hereafter to be admitted to said
| hospital and asylum, unless persons removed
| thither from some other government hos
| Bital; provided, that after June thiftieth,
| eighteen hundred and seventystwO, the
Freedmen's Hospital in the District of Co
lumbia shall, until otherwise ordered by
| Congress, be continued under the supervi-
| sion and control Of the Secretary Of War,
| who shall make all estimates, and pass all
accounts, and be accountable to the treas.
| uTy of the United States for al expendi-
| lures.
SIGNAL OFFICE.
For manufacture, purchase or repair OF
| meteorological and other necessary instru-
ments; for telegraphing reports; for ex-
|
| able approach and force of storms through
| out the United States, for the benefit of
| commerce and agriculture; for instrument
| shelters; for hire, furniture and expenses of
! offices maintained for public use IN cities or
| posts receiving reports; for maps and bull
| letins to be displayed in chambers of COM
| MERGE and boards of trade rooms; for books
and stationery; and for incidental expenses
not otherwise provided for, two hundred
| and fifty thousand dollars; provided, that
| the Secretary of War be and he hereby is
authorized and required to provide, in the
! system of observations and reports in
| charge of the chief signal officer of the
| army, for such stations, reports and sig
| nails as may be found necessary for the
| benefit Of agriculture and commercial in
| terests; and provided, that no part of this
| appropriation, nor of any appropriation for
! the several departments of the government,
| shall be paid to any Geographic com
| pany which shall neglect or refuse to
| transmit telegraphic Communications be-
tween said departments, their officers,
| agents or employees, under the provisions of
| the second section of chapter two hundred
| and thirty OF the statutes of the United
| States for the year eighteen hundred ana
| sixty-six, and at rates Of compensation
| therefor to be established by the Postmaster
| Generals provided also, that whenever any
| telegraph company shall have filed its writ
| eral, of the restrictions and obligations
| required by the act approved July twenty
| fourth, eighteen hundred and siXty-six, en-
| titled Gan act to aid IN the construction of
| telegraph lines, and to secure to the gov
ernment the use Of the same, for postal,
| military, and other purposes if such COM
pany, it's agents, or employees shall hereafter
| refuse or neglect to transmit any such tele-
graphic communications as are provided for
by the aforesaid act, or by the joint resOlu-
| ton approved the ninth day Of February,
eighteen hundred and seventy, "to author
IBe the Secretary of War to provide for
taking meteorological observations at the
military stations and other points of the in
terror of the continent, and for giving notice
on the Northern lakes and seab0ard of the
approach and force of storms" such tele-
graphic company shall forfeit and pay to
the United States not less than one hun
bred and not exceeding one thousand dol
lars for each refusal or neglect aforesaid, to
be recovered by an action or actions at law,
in any district court of the United States.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
To provide for the payment under exist
ing laws for horses and other property lost
or destroyed in the military service of the
United States, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
Secret service fund: To enable the Secre-
tarv of the Treasury to settle the accounts
of discussing officers for expenditures al
ready made in pursuance of law, which will
not involve any actual expenditure, but
merely transfer on the books of the treas
ury, fifty thousand dollars.
To provide for the payment to Benn Pit
man for transcript of his photographic
copy of the record and proceedings of the
court Of inquiry in relation to the conduct
of General D. G. Buell., while in command
of the army in Kentucky and Tennessee,
the sum Of twelve hundred dollars.
Military cOnvicts at State penitentiaries:
For payment of costs and charges of State
penitentiaries for the care, clothing, main
tenance and medical attendance of United,
States military conyiets confined in them.
sixty-tive thousand dollars
Refunding to States expenses incurred in
raising volunteers: To indemnify the States
for expenses incurred by them in enrolling
equipping, and Transporting troops for the
defense Of the United States during the late
instruction, five hundred thousand dol
lars.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay
the expenses incurred, on the part of the
United States, in the arbitration had be-
tween the United States and the Green Bay
and Mississippi Canal Company, thirteen
thousand seven hundred and thirteen dol |
lars and ninety-seven cents.
Toprovide for the erection OF headstones
upon the graves of soldiers IN the national
cemeteries, the sum of two hundred thou |
sand dollars,
For the establishment of an astronomical
base, and continuance of military and geo
graphical surveys and explorations west of
fine one hundredth meridian of longitude