The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-16
PAY DEPARTMENT,

PAY DEPARTMENT..
General expenses Of Paymaster-G Gen
erals office
For postage on letters and packages, and
kilograms received and sent by officers o.
the army on public business; the addition.
al compensation of judge-advocates, recor.
ders, members, and witnesses, while or
court-snartial service, and the travelling .ex.
p,nses of paymasters' clerks, for fiscal
year eighteen hundred and seventy-two
six thousand dollars.
For postage on letters and packages r..
ceived and sent by officers Of the army on
public service cost of kilograms; compen.
sation of citizen witnesses attending upon
courts-marshal, military commissions,
courts of inquiry, and travelling expenses
of paymasters' clerks, for fiscal year
eighteen hundred and seyenty-three, seven
ty-five thousand dollars.
Mileage, Pavmaster-G Office :
For allowances made to officers OF
the army for Transportation of
themselves ane their baggage when
travelling on duty without troops, escort,
or supplies, for fiscal year eighteen hum
bred and seyenty-three seventy-five thou
sand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay
certain indebtedness incurred by the officer
in charge of public buildings and grounds
in the city of Washington during the fiscal
year ending june thirtieth, eighteen hun
bred and seventy, in furnishing the
Executive Mansion one thousand four hun-
dred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-six
cents and the officer in charge Of the
public buildings and grounds shall have the
rank, pay, and emoument Of colonel.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay
W. H. Shirley, for additional clerical SER
vices, heretofore employed by him in the
investigation and settlement of accounts
for abandoned and captured property, one
thousand dollars.
SIGNAL SERVICE.
| Observation and report of storms: For
expenses of the manufacture, purchase, or
repair of meteorological and other neces-
sary instruments for telegraphing reports
Tor expenses of storm-signals, announcing
the probable approach and force OF storms;
for Observation-Disclosures for hire, furniture,
and expenses of offices maintained for
public use, in cities or posts receiving re-
ports for maps, bulletins, and so forth, to
be displayed in chambers of commerce and
boards of trade rooms, and distribution to
agricultural, scientific, and other associa-
tions; for books and stationery and for
incidental expenses not otherwise provided
for, for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, lightweight thousand
dollars. s
MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPART
=. MENT.
To enable the Secretary Of the Treasury
to settle the accounts of disbursing officers
for expenditures already made in pur-
suance of law, which will not involve any
actual expenditure, a transfer on the books
of the treasury of two hundred and seven
ty-five thousand dollars is hereby au-
thorized.
To pay bills for medical attendance and
medicines furnished by citizens to officers
and men on detached service, such bills rot
having been presented until after the close
of the fiscal year, eight thousand dollars.
For payment of costs and charges of
State penitentaries for the care, clothing,
maintenance, and medical attendance Of |
United States military convicts confined in |
them, five thousand dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For deficiency in the appropriation for
clothing for the marine corps, ten thou |
sand dollars.
For deficiency in the appropriation for
contingencies in the marine corps. ten |
thousand dollars.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
For clerks, copyists, messengers, and |
laborers in the office of the Secretary, eight !
thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses: For expenses of |
packing and distributing official documents,
for fiscal year eGding june thirtieth, eigh- |
teen hundred and seyenty-three, two thou
sand dollars.
For the expenses of preparing, engraving,
and printing fifty maps for the Statistical
Atlas Of the United States, based on the
results of the ninth census, to be compiled
by Francis A. Walker, and to be published
in an edition of three thousand copies.
thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation of Francis A. Walker:
late Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for
extra services and labor performed by him
while such commissioner, in finishing the
report of the census, fifteen hundred
dollars. =.
PUBLIC LANDS.
For office of surveyor-general of Idaho,
for fiscal year ending june thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-one, ten dollars
and eightv-seven cents.
For ONCE OF Suryeyor-general of Oregon:
For clerks in his Office, for fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy, one hundred and sixty-one
dollars and ninety-one cents.
Surveyor-general of Washington Terrific
ry: For clerks in his office, for fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy. sixty-eight dollars and nine
ty-four cents.
For surveyor-general of California: Fer
rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and
other incidental expenses, for fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, four hundred and eighty
dollars and four cents.
For recorder of liabilities in Missouri,
for fiscal years ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
sevcnty-three, one thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Neva-
da, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars
per mile for standard, twelve dollars for
township, and ten dollars for section lines,
four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and
lightweight cents.
For surveying the public lands in Mon
tana, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars
per mile for standard, twelve dol
lars for township, and ten dollars
for section lines, one thousand and eight
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