The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-22

cal supplies, and rations; clothing; rent of hospital
buildings, fuel and lights; repairs and transporta-
tion seyenty-four thousand dollars: Propided, That
no part OF sad appropriation shall be used in the sup
port OF or to pay any of the aforesaid expenses on ac
count OF any persons hereafter to be admitted to said
hospital and asylum, unless persons removed thther
from some other government hospstal: Procded,
mat after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, the Freedmens Hospital in the District
gress be continued under the supervision and control
OF the Secretary of War, who shall make all estimates
and pass all accounts and be accountable the treas
ury OF the CDied States for all expenditures.
sIGNAL-0FFIcE.
For manufacture, purchase, or repair of metcoro-
logical and other necessary instruments; for tele
graphing reports for expenses of storm-sgnals an
nouncing probable approach and force of storms
throughout the United States for the benefit of
erce and agriculture; for Observation-Disclosures for
nTe furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for
pubic use in cities posts receiving reports for
maps and bulletins, to be displayed in chambers of
staonery and for incidental expenses NOT otherwise
PROVIDED 1oT two hundred and fifty thousand dollars:
by is authorized and required to nrovjde in tha
TEN Of observations and reports in charge Of the chief
and signals as may b. found necessary far tho ba,
of agriculture and commercial interests And 1,ro
uded That part of this appropriation nor of any
appropriation for the several Departments of the gov
ernment, shall be paid to any Geographic company
which shall neglect refuse to transmit Geographic
communications between said Departments their
officers agents. employees, under the provisions OF
the second section OF chapter two hundred and thirty
of the Statutes of the United States for the year egh
teen hundred and sxty-six and at rates of compen-
sation therefor to be established by the Postmaster
General: Procded also That whenever any tele
graph company shall have filed its written acceptance
with the Postmaster General Of the restrictions and
Obligations required by the act approved July twenty
fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-sx entitled San
act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and
TO secure to the government the Of the same, for
postal military, and other purposes if such COM
pany Its agents, or employees shall hereafter refuse
or neglect TO transmit any such telegraphc cOmmuni
cations as are provided for by the aforesaid act or by
the joint resolution approved the ninth day of Feb
ruary, eighteen hundred and seventy, 'to authorize
the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteoro
logical observations at the military stations and other
notice the northern lakes and seaboard of the APP
proach and force of storms" such teeg aphic COM
pany shall foafet and pay to the United States not
and dollars for each refusal neglect aforesaid to
be recovered by an 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 property lost destroyed in the
military service Of the United States one hundred
thousand dollars.
Secret-servce fund: To edable the Secretary of the
Treasury to settle the accounts of discussing officers
Tor expenditures already made in pursuance of law
Whlcn Will not involve any actual expenditure, but
merely transfer on the books Of the treasury, fifty
To provide for the payment to Benn Ptman 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 penitentiaries: For pay
the care clothing, maintenance, and medical attend
ance Of United States military convicts confined in
them, sixty-fve thousand dollars.
Returning to States expenses incurred in raising
volunteers: 10 indemnify the States for expenses
incurred by them in enrolling, equipping and trans
porting troops for the defense Of the United States
| dollars
| 10 enable the Secretary of War to pay the ex
N he of no TT,nita
the arbitration had between the United States and
the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company thir-
teen thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars
| and niney-seven cents.
To provide for the erection of headstones upon the
graves OF soldiers Ill the national cemeteries, the
| ftwo hundred thousand dollars.
For the establishment of an astronomical base and
continuance OF military and geographical surveys and
longitude under the direction of the Secretary
seventy-ffve thousand dollars.
9 Dor the purchase and preparation of instruments
1or proper observation OF the transit of Venus which
predicted to occur on the eighth of December eig-
teen hundred and seventy-tour, fifty thousand dol
lars to be expended under the direction of commits
sion, to be composed Of the Superintendent and two
OF the professors of mathematics navy attached
to the Naval Observatory, the President of the Ma
tonal ACADEMY OF Sciences, and the Superintendent
oI1ne Coast Survey: ProUided, hat contracts or
engagements shall be made for such instruments to
ated
For pedestal for the equestrian statue of General
Winfield Scott, authorized by act of July fifteenth
| dollars.
For expenses of the United States commissioners to
| the International Pententiary Congress at London
| dollars. '-'' "F'''''
For expenses of the United States commissioners to
the International Statistical Congress at Saint Peters
| burg, five thousand dollars
To enable the Secretary Of the Interior to provide
law library for tie Territory of Colorado, two
thousand five hundred dollars said library to be Sc
| lected by the chief justice of said Territory.
| For preparing and printing a series Of maps not
| IN
the quarto volumes of the ninth census, twenty-five
| thousand dollars.
| UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
| NAvY-YARDs.
| Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For re-
pairs of all kinds, se7enty-ve thousand dollars; for
repairs of floating DOCKS eighty thousand dollars; for
permanent improvements namely, for bridge con-
nectng Seayeys island, four thousand dollars in ALL
| dollars.
For constructing and testing experimental breech-
| loading boat-howitzers, ten thousand dollnrs.
Navy-yard Boston, Massachusetts: For repairs of
| all kinds, seventy-fve thousand dollars.
| Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For repairs of
| all kinds, one hundred thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For re-
| pairs oil all kinds, forty thousand dollars.
Navy-yard Washington District Of Columbia:
For repairs of all kinds seventy-ve thousand dol
| lars
Maynard, Norfolk, Virginia: For repairs of all
| kinds, one hundred thousand dollars.
Maynard, Pensacola, Florida: Tor repairs of all
Kinds, twenty-five thousand dollars.
NaVy-yard, Mare island California: For repairs
OF al kinds seyenty.hve Thousand dollars; for re-
pairs or floating docks one hundred thousand dol
lars; for permanent improvements namely for com
mencing dry-dock, two hundred thousand dollars;
continuing quay-wall and wharves. thirty-thousand
dollars; con inuatloon of rai-tracks, five thousand
lars w
Naval station at League island, Pennsylvania: For
repairs and maintenance of embankments and for
dredging, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
For naval station at New London, Connecticut:
For building wharf grading, for building store-h9use
ad Tor care and for preservation Of property twenty
all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars.
Emergencies at naval stations: For emergencies
lars. "" WI
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AG RICUL-
TURE.