Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-08
TIL E DAILY CHRONICLE.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
Second Congress.
PUBLISHED By AUTHORITY
NATURE-No. SOL

GENERAL NATURE-No. SCI
An Act making appropriations to supply defl-
ciences in the appropriations for the service
of the government for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, and for other purposes.
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
CONTINUED
For the building for the pententiary in wy
oming Territory, being amount OF denciency
in the proceeds of internal revenue set apart Ior
this purpose, for the fiscal veal. ending June
thrtieth eighteen hundred and seventy one,
thirteen thousand one hundred and ninety SIX
dollars and seventy seven cents.
EXTENSION OF CAPITOL GROUNDS.
Squares six hundred and eighty seven and SIX
hundred and eighty eight.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to
purchase from the owners thereof all the re-
manning real estate and improvements thereon
in square numbered six hundred and eighty
eight. in the city of Washington, necessary TO
be taken to complete the purchase OF said
square, and of square numbered six hundred
and eighty seven, in said city, authorized by
sections six, SEVEN eight, nine, ten and eleven
of an act entitled "An act making appropria-
tions for the legislative executive and judicial
expenses of the government for the year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, the sum
of two hundred and eighty four thousand one
hundred and ninety nine dollars and fifteen
cents is hereby appropriated: Provided, That
such real estate and improvements shall bepur-
chased at the prices fixed in the report of the
commissioners appointed by the supreme court
of the District of Columbia to appraise the val
ue of such property, made to said court on the
twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and sew.
enty two, and confirmed by said court on the
sixteenth day of October, in said year Provid-
ed further That the Secretary of the Interior is
hereby authorized to sell at public auction such
materials in the buildings in said squares, num-
bered six hundred and eighty seven and six
hundred and eighty eight, as are not necessary
for the public works in this District; and for
the proceeds of such sales shall be paid, by the
Secretary of the Interior, all actual and neces-
sary charges for advertising, auctioneer's fees,
extra clerical labor, services of commissioners
Tor appralslng the property aforesaid, and such
other expenses as may have been incident to,
and occasloned by, the appralsement and pur>
chase of the real estate and improvements in the
squares hereinbefore named, and the sales OF
the materiasin the buildings thereon; the re-
mainder of such proceeds, after payment of all
such charges and expenses, to be applied to
the improv ements and extension of the Capitol
grounds. TtG H..t '.- nE.
For an elevator in the Senate wing of the
Capitol ten thousand dollars, or so much there.
of as may be necessary, to be expended under
the direction of the Architect of the Capitol
Extension.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to de-
fray the expenses incurred in executing the
provisions Of the eighth section of the act ap-
proved June twenty fifth, eighteen hundred
and sixty, entitled IAN act making appropria-
ton Tor sundry civil expenses of the govern
eminent for the year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen Hundred and sixty one;" being for the
examination of titles, surveys, plats and ap-
praISnmpDt forn1inn tho hacS of tho hos q
by the United States of squares numbered six
hundred and eighty seven and six hundred and
and eighty eight in the city of Washington,
District of Columbia, the sum of seven thou
sand dollars, or so much thereofas is necessary,
is hereby approved.
MISCELLANEOUS
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to
sign patents of the public lands for the Press
dent for the months of June, July, August and
September, eighteen hundred and seventy two,
five hundred dollars
To pay Alexander Lynch for services rem
dered by him as clerk of the select committee
TO inquire into matters connected with the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Credit
Mobilier, appointed pursuant to House resolu-
ton of January sixth, eighteen hundred and
Seventy three, four hundred dollars.
To,pay John G. Merritt for services as mes
senger Of the Senate. from July first, eighteen
teen hundred and seventy three, as authorized
by resolution of the Senate passed Jnne tenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy two, fourteen
hundred and forty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay
John w. Wright for rent of building, under
lease dated May twentieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy, thirteen thousand five hundred
dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Interior
to pay, John w. Wright for buildings, under
lease dated June second, eighteen hundred and
seventy, two thousand six hundred dollars and
to pay John w. Wright and Thomas Lewis for
rent of buildings, under lease dated June Sec
ond, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thou.
sand five hundred dollars, making the total
sum of seventy thousand six hunred dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Pensions to
employ certain temporary clerks in his office
for the remainder of the current fiscal year,
twelve thousand eight hundred and sixty nine
dollars
For this amount, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for the construction of wagon
road, by which supplies may be transported
from point on the Northern Pacific railway
in the State of Minnesota, known as Red Lake
Crossing, to the Red Lake branch of the agen-
cy for the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi.
five thousand dollars.
-'i INDIAN BUREAU.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized and directed to transfer from the
proceeds of sale of the Usage Indian lands in
section of the act of Congress approved July
fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy, the
sum of one million six hundred and fifty thou
sand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to pay for lands purchased
by the Osages from the Cherokees, and to place
the same on the books of his Department to the
credit of the Cherokee Indians, the same shall
bear interest at the rate of five yer cent, in &C
eordnnce with the act of Congress approved
June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy two,
entitled An act to confirm to the Great and
Little Usage Indians reservation in the Indian
Territory" and the acts of Congress and trea-
ties therein mentioned and referred to, when
ever the amount to be so transferred shall be
certified to the said Secretary of the Treasury
by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided,
That nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as in any manner changing the provis-
| ions of section four of the act making appro-
priations for the current and contingent expen-
ses of the Indian department. and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes
for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
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