Smyrna times., 1873-03-12
E..aws OF ahe Sniied States.

fContiuned from first paReI
plovees under the provisions OF the second section
of chapter two hundred and thirty of the Statutes
of the United States Tor the year eighteen hundred
and sixty SIX and at rates eff compensation therefor
to be established by the Postmaster General: Pro-
vided also. That whenever any telegraph company
shall have filed its written acceptance with the
Postmaster General of the restrictions and obiga-
tioRs required by the act approved July twenty
fourth, eighteen hundred and six y-sx, entitled IAN
act TO AID IN the construction OF telegraph lines and
TO secure the government the of the same, for
postal, military, and other purposes i' such COM
pany, it's agents. employees shall hereafter refuse
or neglect To transmit any such. telepraghic
munlcaiiOns provided for by The aforesaid act,
or bv the Joint resolution approved the ninth day of
Feb-n2rv, eighteen hundred and seventy, "to
authsizs the Secretary Of War to provide for taking
meteorolog zeal observations at the military stations
and other prints of the interior of the continent and
for giving nsiice on the northernak and seaboard
of the approach and force of storms" such tele-
graphic company shall forfeit and pay to the United
States not less than hundred and not exceeding
one thousand dollars for each refusal neglect
aforesaid to be recovered by action actions at
law, in any district court of the United States.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
To provide for the payment under existing laws
for horses and other propety lost destroyed the
military service of the United States, one hundred
Thousand dollars.
Sectet service fund: To enable the Secretary Of
tho Tteasutyto settle the accounts of disbursng
officers for expenditures already made in pursuance
of law. which will nat involve any actual expendi,
ture but merely transfer the books of the trea-
sury, fifty thousand dollars.
To provide for the payment to Benn Pitman for
transcript Of his photographic copy of the record
and proceeding Of the Of inquiry in relation to
the conduct of General d. C. Buell.. while in com
m,nd of the army in Kentucky and Tennessee, the
sum Of twelve hundred dollars.
Military convicts at State penitentaries: For
payment OF costs and charges Of State penitentares
Cor the care, clothing, maintenance. and medical
attendance of United States military convicts con-
insd in them, sixty five thousand dollars.
Refundng to States expenses incurred in raising
vodnteers To indemnify the States for expenses
incurred by them in enrolling, eqnpping and trans
porting troops for the deeRce of the United States
during the late insurrection five hundred thousand
dollars.
To senabIe the Secretary OF War to paw the ex-
penses incurred, the part OF the United States. in
the arbitration had between the United States and
the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company,
thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars
and ninety. seven cents.
To provide for the erection Of hcadstones upon
the graves of soldiers in the national cemeteries the
sum If two hundred thousand dollars.
For the establishment OF astronomical base
and continuance Of military, and geographical sur
veys aud explnr tiOns west of the one hundredlh
meridian Of longitude under the direction of the
Secretary Of War, seven,y-fve thousand dollars.
For the pnrehase and preparation Of instruments
for a proper observation uf the transit of Venus
which is predicted 10 the eighth of Decem
ber, eighteen hundred aud seventy four, fifty thous
aud dollars, to be expended under the direction Of a
commission. 10 be composed of the Superintendent
and two of the professors Of mathematics of the
navy attached to the Naval Observatory the Presi
dent Of the National Academy Of Sciences. and the
Superintendent of the Coist Survey: Proviied
That no contracts or engagements shall be made
for such Instruments TO an amount exceeding th,
sum hereby appropriated.
For pedestal tor the equestrian statue of Genera
Winfield Scott, authorized by act Of July fifteenth
eighteen hundred and seventy, forty-two thousan,
dollars.
For ex enses Of the United States commissioner
TO the International Penitentiarv Congress at Lon
don in eighteen hundred and seventy two five thou
sand dollars.
For expenses Of the United States commissioner
to the International Statistical Congress at Sair
Petersburg, five thousand dollars
To enable The Secretary Of the Interior to provd
law library for the Territory nf Colorado tw
thousand five hundred dollars, said library to !
selected by the chief justice Of said Territory.
For preparing and printing a series Of maps, M
exceeding twenty in number, TO illustrate graphical
the quarto vo of the ninth census, twenty .6y
thousand dollars.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.