Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


For photographing. engraving and printing
plans Of public buildings under control of the
Treasury Department. five thousand dollars.
| For pay of custodians and janitors of public
| buildings, under the control OF the Treasury De-
partment, one hundred and twenty-five thou.
sand dollars.
| For repairs and preservation of all public
| buildings under the control of the Treasury De-
| partment, two hundred thousand dollars
| To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay to the city of Charlestown. Massachusetts,,
| the expense incurred by said city In curbing
and paving the sidewalks and streets adjacent
| to the navy yard, one thousand six hundred
| dollars.
To pay Charles W. Seaton for the relinquish.
ment of all claim against the United States for
| the use at the ninth or any subsequent census;
| of his invention of taliylng machine, Tor
which letters prtent were allowed by the
United States Patent Office, February seven
teenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two, IF
| teen thousand dollars.
| SUPERVISING INSPECTORS on STEAM VESSELS.
For carrying out the provisions of the act for
| the better protection Of the lives of passengers
| on vessels propelled in whole or In part by
steam and of the acts amendatory thel eof, the
| following sums viz ..r.f 10. y
For salaries of steamboat inspectors: Pay
| ment of salaries of supervising inspector gen
eral, supervising inspectors, local inspectors.
assistant inspectors, and clerks. one hundred
Contingent expenses of steamboat inspection
service: Expenses of instruments, stationery,
meetings of board of supervising inspectors,
mileage of supervising inspectors, at one thou
sand dollars each, anc other miscelaneous ex-
penses, ninety one thousand dollars. :.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay under existing laws contractors for carrying
the mails for services rendered prior to July
first eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, thirteen
| thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars.
To ,orI p ~.
supervising inspector of steamboats,, from
March third, eighteen hundred and seventy
one, to May twenty-second, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, four hundred and twenty ght
dollars and ffty-seven cents. ...o-.
For loss and expense involved in the recoln-
age of gold coins in the treasury. which are be-
low standard weight, under such regulations as
the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To defray, under the direction of the Secre-
ing and re-issuing the minor coinage of the
| United States, twenty thousand dollars, pursu-
ant to the act of March third, eighteen hum
| dred and seventy one, as much OF the same as
| may be necessary to be available for expenses
incurred during the present fiscal year.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay
to the officers and crew of the United States
steamer Kearsarge, for the destruction of the
rebel cruiser Alabama, under the provisions of
an act entitled IAN act for the relief of the Of
4
| Kearsarge," approved April seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hun
dred and sixty thousand seven hundred and
seventy two dollars and sixty two cents.
That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be
appropriated for the purpose of constructing a
pneumatic tube, operated by hollow spheres or
otherwise, from the Capitol, along North Capt.
| toll street, to the Government Printing Office,
for the transmission of books, packages, etc, to
be expended under the direction of the Secre-
| tory Of fbo Tpfo fha fnh o dopn
under the supervision of the architect of the
Capitol extension.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to re-
| imburse the funeral expenses of the late AID
miral David 6. Farragut, two thousand dollars,
to be paid to his widow.
PUBLIC WORKS. trs 81
lUNDER THE TREASURY DEPART
MENT.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Treasury building, Washington, District o.
Columbia For annual repairs and improve
ments, fifteen thousand dollars; for improve
ments and repairs of heating apparatus, nine
thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the construction oil
the building for custom house at Charleston,
South Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars
| For continuation of the construction of the
building for post Office and court house al
Columbia, South Carolina, fifty thousand dol
lars. .-.r.
For paving grading, and fencing the ap.
proaches to the building for a custom house at
Machias, Maine. two thousand dollars.
For continuation of the construction of the
building for a custom house at New Orleans
Louisiana, three hundred thousand dollars.
For continuation of the construction OF. the
building for post Office and court house al
/ Omaha, Nebraska, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For continuation of the construction OF the
building for the Department of State, Wash: