Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-08

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For the, support of Freedmen's
Hospital and Asylum at Washington,
District of Columbia, viz: Pay of medical Off
plies. and rations; clothing rent of hospital
buildings, fuel and lights; repairs and rlnspor
tation, seventy four thousand dollars: Proti
ded, 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 hospital Provided.
That after june thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy two, the Freedmen's Hospital in the
| District of Columbia shall, until otherwise Or
dered, by Congress, be continued under the
supervision and control of the Secretary of War,
who shall make all estimates, and pass all ac-
counts and be accountable to the Treasury of
the United States for all expenditures. .
HE aSIGNAL-OFFICE. ...1
For manufacture, purchase, or repair of
meteorological and other necessary instru-
ments; for telegraphing reports for ex-
penses Of storm-signalS announcing prob.
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 use in cities or
posts receiving reports; for maps and bull
letins, to be displayed in chambers of COM
merce and boards -of-trade room for books
and stationery; and for incidental ex-
penses not otherwise provided for, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars Pro-
Uided, That the Secretaty of War be, and
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, re-
ports, and signals as may be found necessa-
co. l,ak ar Of
mercial interests : And arouidcd, That
no part of this appropriation, nor of any
appropriation for the several Departments
of the government, shall be paid to any
Geographic company which shall neglect
or refuse to transmit Geographic commu-
nications between said Departments, their
officers, agents, or employees, under the
provisions of the second section of chap
ter two hundred and thirty of the Statutes
of the United States for the year eighteen
hundred and siXty-siX, and at rates of
compensation therefor to be established by
the Postmaster General: Provided also,
That whenever any telegraph company
shall have filed its written acceptance
with the Postmaster General, of the re-
strictions and obligations required by the
act approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, entitled Gan act To
aid in the construction of telegraph lines,
and to secure to the government the use of
the same, for postal, military, and other
purposes" if such company its agents or
employees shall hereafter refuse or neg-
lect to transmit any such telegraphic CONS
munications as are provided for by the
joint resolution approved the ninth day of
February, eighteen hundred and seventy,
''tO authorize the Secretary of War to pro-
vide for taking meteorological observations
at the military stations and other points
of the interior of the continent, and for
giving notice OH the northern lakes and
seaboard of the approach and force of
storms" such telegraphic company shall
forfeit and pay to the United States not
less than Que hundred and not exceeding
one thousand dollars for each refusal or
neglect aforesaid to be recovered by an ac-
ton or actions at law, in any district court
of the United States.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
To provide for the payment under ex-
listing laws for horses and other property
lost or destroyed in the military service of
the United States, one hundred thousand
dollars. a-
Secret-service fund: To enable the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury to settle the accounts
of Gisbursing officers for expenditures al
ready made in pursuance of law, which
will not involve any actual expenditure,
but merely a transfer on the books of the
treasury, fifty thousand dollars.
To provide for the payment to Benin 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 penitentia-
ries: For payment of costs and charges of
State penitehtiarie for the care, clothing,