Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-02

as an amendment. And the words ANY per-
son" In section four Of the act of May thirty
first eighteen hundred and seventy, shall be
held TO include any officer or other person
having powers or duties of an official char
acter under this net or the act TO which this
Is nm amt ndment: Provided That nothing
in this section shall be so construed as TO au-
thOrize the appointment Of any marshals or
deputy marshals in addition to those hereto
fore authorized by law: Aud provided fur
ther, That the supervisors herein provided
for shall have no power or authority to make
arrests or to perform other duties than to be
in the immediate presence of the officers
holding the election, and to witness all their
proceedings, including the counting of the
votes and the making OF n return thereof.
And so much of said sum herein appropriated
rs may be necessary for said supplemental
and amendatory provisions is hereby appro-
priated from and after the passage OF this
act.
For tho support and maintenance of con-
yicts transferred from the District Of Column
bia, ten thousand dollars.
For the compensation of special counsel
and other legal services, and for incidental
expenses in taking testimony, fees of wit
nesses aud Of commissioners in relation to
claims before the mixed American and Brit
ish claims commission, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For defrayipg the expenses of defending
o
fourth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, to be expended under the direction of
the Attorney General, ten thousand dollars.
For payment ofthe necessary expenses, in
Cured in defending suits against the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. or his agent, for the
seizure of captured or abandoned property;
and for the examination ofwitnesses in claims
against the United States pending in any De-
partment; and for the defence of the United
States in the Court Of Claims, to be expended
under the direction of tho Attorney General
thirty thousand dollars. no part of which shall
be paid to attorneys or counsellors Mt law For
professional services, for appearing and as
ssting In the trial of causes in the Supreme.
circuit, or district courts ofthe United States,
or Court of C' inns; and that the Attorney
General make report to Congress mt the end
of the fiscal year of the manner ofthe expend-
itllre of this fund, and to whom and for what
purposes paid.
For this sum, or so much thereof us may
be necessary, to be expended under the d.
rection of the Attorney General in the detec-
ton and prosecution of crimes against the
| United States, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses to be incurred in the prose-
| cutiOn and collection Of claims due the Unit
ed States, to be disbursed under the direction
of the Attorney General, twenty-five thou
| sand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
collect captured and abandoned property of
the United States, and to collect, procure,
and preserve all vouchers, papers, records,
and evidence and to take testimony rs to
claims against the United States, to be paid
only upon certificate ofthe commissioners of
claims, one hundred and fifty thousand dol
| lars.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For continuing the collection of statistics
Of mines and mining, to be LAID before Con-
gress, to be expended under the direction of
the Secretary of the Treasury fifteen thou
| sand dollars.
For the continuation of tho geological sur
vey of the Territories of the United States by
Professor +. V. Hayden, under the direction
of the Secretary Of the Interior, during the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, seventy-iivo thou
sand dollars.
For completing the survey of the Colorado
of the West and its tributaries by Professor
J. w. Powell, under the direction of the
Smithsonian Institution, twenty thousand
dollars.
For continuing the inquiry into the causes
ofthe decrease OF the food-fishes of the coast
and the lakes of the United States, five thou
| sand dollars.
For the introduction OF shad into the wa
ters of the Pacific States, the Gulf States, and
OF the Mississippi valley, and of salmon, white
fish, and other food-fishes, into the waters of
Ine 10 WHICH I0cy are DGSI
adapted fifteen thousand dollars, to be ex-
pended under the direction of the United
States commissioner Of fish and fishereries.
To enable the Superinte of the Coast
Survey to cause astronomical observation To
be made ut one of the highest points on the
line OF the Pacific railroad, two thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay Thomas Donaldson Balance due him for
services rs constructing superintendent oil
the penitentiary building at Boise city, Idaho
two hundred and forty dollars and fifteen
cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
repay to &. NJ. Lockwood, late mail contract
or, the amount OF fine paid on order of tho
Postmaster General, but afterwards RENTED
by that officer, four hundred and seventy
seven dollars and fifty-six cents.
For contingent expenses of the Office ofthC
Secretary Of the Territory of Wyoming, one
thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary Of the Interior t
pay only the reasonable expenses heretofore
incurred for paving roadway and curbinE
and paving sidewalks in front of the proper
ty of the United States in the District of Co
lumbia, one hundred and nnety.two thou
sand six hundred and twenty dollars, or $,
much therol us may DO necessary; and nj
railroads are hereby prohibited on the stree
and X street fronts OF Farragut, Scott, and
Franklin squares; and no further street rail
roads shall be laid down in the city of Wash
ington without the consent of Congress.
To pay the board of public works OF the
District of Columbia the proportion of the
cost properly payable by the United State
government for the filling of the canal from
J Seventh street west To Seventeenth stree
west, and of the cost of the intercepting sew
er along the canal adjoining the property o
the United States government, said work be
ing under the direction of the board of pub
lie works, siXty-eight thousand three hun
, bred and siXty-five dollars or so much there
of rs may be necessary: Provided, That III
I payments made under this and the preceding
appropriation shall be made only to voucher,
approved by the officer in charge of the pub
! lie buildings and grounds of tho District
and no portion ofthe money herewith appro
priated shall be used by the board of pnblit
works for any other purpose whatever thai
tho purpose that is named in the said two
! last paragraphs. And the land made by the
} filling up of the said canal is hereby declared
to be the property OF the United States
And the said appropriations shall not b.
= construed to create or imply any obligation
! on the part of the United States, in any re
spect whatever In future.
! For payment of the messengers of tho 70
, spective States for conveying to the seat o
! government the votes of the electors of said
I States for President and Vice-President o
the United States twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
4 For construction of revenue vessels in nc
! cordance with recommendation of the spe
, cial commission, approved by the Secretar,
,, of the Treasury, two hundred thousand dol
| lars.
For furniture and repairs of tho same TO
, public buildings under the control OF tn
{ Treasury Department, one hundred and iif
2 ty thousand dollars.
! For fuel, lights, and water, and miscellane
! Gus items for public buildings under the con
+, troll of the Treasury Department two hun
I bred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
i For heating apparatus for public building
} under the control of the Treasury Depart
ment, seyenty-fiye thousand dollars.
For vaults, safes, and locks, for publ
, buildings under the control of the Treasur
nana ant ono hundrad hausand dollars