National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-28

eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ninety
SIGNAL 0ifice: For expenses of the observa-
ton and report of storms by telegraph and sig-
nails. for tho manufacture, purchase or repair
of meteorological and other necessary lnstru-
meuts: for telegraphing reports; ior expenses
| of storm -siguals announcing probable approach
on5 Sorce Of storms; for Observation-Disclosures;
for hire. furniture and expenses of offices, main
tanned for public use in cities or ports receiving
reDorts. for river-reports; for maps and bulle-
Ans, TO be displayed in chambers of commerce
and boards Of trade rooms, and for distribu-
ton: for books aud stationery; and for Incl
dental expenses not otherwise provided for,
being deficiency for the fiscal year ending
June thirtfeth, eighteen hundred and seventy
four, forty-fVe thousand dollars. .-
To pay Benn Pitman balance due him for
transcnbing photographic notes Of the testi-
mony and proceedings of the court of inquiry
into the operations of the Army under the com
mand of Major General D. G. Buell., in Ken
lucky and Tennessee, during the winter and
spring Of eighteen hundred and sixty-two and
eighteen hundred and sixty three, nine hundred
and ninety dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation Of the two commissioners
appointed from civil life on the military-prison
board, under the second section Of "An act to
provide for the establishment of q military
prison, and for its government" approved
three, while actually on duty, four hundred and
sixty dollars for travelling expenses of said
commissioners and Of the Secretary of War un-
der said act, one thousand five hundred dollars:
PrOUided, That the duties OF said commission
ers shall cease after the expiration of the cur
rent fiscal year. -.'.. -.
-..-~ INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
INDIAN OFFICE.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may
| be necessary, for the subsistence and ciTil.za-
ton Of the Arickarees, eros Ventres aud Man.
dams, to be expended in goods and provisions
| and other articles, as the President may de-
termine, for agricultural and mechanical pur-
suits, and for the pay of employees, up to June
thirHeth, eighteen hundred and seVenty-four,
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, to subsist the Navajo Indians, IN
accordance with the estimate of L. Z. Dudley,
| superintendent of Indian affairs, up to June
| thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four,
| twenty-five thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, 10 pay for the services and ex-
penses Of five Indian inspectors, being the diff
| ference between the sum required, thirty thou
| sand dollars, and the amount appropriated
February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
| seventy-three, twelve thousand four hundred
dollars, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
under direction of the President, to the Flat
head Indians removed from the Bitter Root
Valley to the Jocko reservation, in the Terri
tory of Montana, in accordance With the second
section of the act entitled IAN act to provide
for the removal of the Flathead and other In
dams from the Bitter Root Valley in the Terri.
tory of Montana" approved June ffth, eight.
cen hundred and seYenty-two, five thousand
dollars: Provided, That said sum shall be paid
only TO those Indians of said tribe who shall
have settled upon the Jocko reservation.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for the removal and subsistence,
up to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy
four, Of the KickRpoo Indians who have been
removed from the borders OF Mexico ard Texas
to the Indian Territory, said amount to be eX-
pended under the direction of the Secretary OF
the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For army pensions and expenses thereof
under the various acts of Congress, three hun
dred thousand dollars, And there is hereby
appropriated q sun sufficient to make the COM
pensation of the clerk Of the House Committee
on Invalid Pensions equal to two thousand one
| hundred and sixty dollars per aunum for the
1 FortY-third Congress, aud no longer.
For this amount, to be expeGded under the
direction Of the Secretary Of the Interior, in
| subssting the Sioux Indians at the Red Cloud
and MILESTONE agencies up 20 the first of July
next, two hundred thousand dollars.
FOR this amount, or so much Thereon as may
be necessary, 10 meet the deficiency ID the ap-
| preparation for the fiscal year ending June
| thiTtieth, eighteen hundred and sevcnty-four,
to subsist aud properly care for the Apache
and other Indians, In Arizona and New Mex
co, who have been or may be collected on re-
servations IN New Mexico and Arizona: Pro-
Vidsd, That this appropriation shall be expended
only in behalf of those Indians who 60 on and
remain upon said reservations and refr. in
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sand dollars. ......-.'
Ito be eontiRued.)