The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-06

walls of said building; introducing water and erect
ing water-tank forty feet high, and means to force
water into it, reservoir in sase of fire; erecting
apparatus to manufacture gas for the use of the
bnidjngs: grading down the old Fort Lincoln, (the
Site selected for the school; making road in front
of and around the buildings, ana settng OUT orna-
mental trees, fifteen thousand dollars.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
For expenses of the commission appointed under
act approved March nineteenth, eighteen nunure9
and seyenty-two, for the purpose OF surveying anu
United States and the possessions of Great Britain,
from the Lake of the Woods to the summit Of the
sand dollars and this amount shall he available from
the passage of this act.
Amy unsxpended balance of the appropriations
maue py the act approved December twenty-first,
eighteen hundred ard seventy-one for tbe eYnenses
that may De incurred under articles one to nine of
the treaty with Great Britain concluded MAY eighth
eighteen hundred and seventy -one OF SO much there
OF as may be necessary, may be expended under the
direction OF the Secretary of State with the approval
of the President of the United States to enable the
President to fulfill the stipulations contained in the
twentieth, twenty-second, twenty third, twenty
fourth, and twenty-th articles of the said tIeaty IN
relation to the creation of commissioners and pro
ceedngs before the same, and to the appointment of
agents.
For photographic press and necessary materials,
not to exceed one thousand dollars and for litho-
graphic pressman and laborers not to exceed two
thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.
That the compensation of Henry Douglass, en-
ployed under the Doorkeeper Of the House, be fixed
at two dollars and fifty cents per diem, and sui-
Gent to pay the same until the next fiscal year il
hereby appropriated out of any money i'll the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated.
To enable the President of the United States TO
perfect and put in force such rules regulating the
civil service as may from time to time BIO adopted by
him, there is hereby reapproprated any balance Of
the appropriation for the same object for the current
fiscal year remaining unexpended at the close of said
fiscal year.
That section one of an act entitled dan act to ex-
tend the laws of the United States relating to Gus
toms, commerce, and navigation over the territory
coded to the United States by Russia, to establish
collectiondistrict therein and for other purposes
approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eght, be so amended to read as follows:
"That the laws of the United States relating to Gus
toms, commerce, and navigation, and sections twenty
and twentyone of AN act to regulate trade and in
with Indian tribes and to preserve peace
on the frontiers approved Jund thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and thrty-four, be, and the same here
by extendee to and over all the mainland islands,
and waters of the territory coded to the Untec States
by the Emperor of Russia. by treaty concluded at
Washington on the twentieth day of March, ammo
Domini eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, so far as
the same may be applicable thereto"
j. G. BLAINE,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Yice- President of the United States and Precedent
of the Senate.
Approved, March 8, 1878.