Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-10-15


tract the amount to be paid under which shall
not exceed forty-thousand dollars.
To enable the Joint Committee on the Lii
brary to purchase such works of art for srna-
menting the Capitol as may be ordered and
approved, ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Librarian of CongIess TO en-
P1oY two assistants, in connection with the
work of the copyright department, and in
preparing a complete index of subjects to the
documents and debates of Congress, at one
thousand six hundred dollars each, three thou
sand two hundred dollars. And the Libra1i
an is hereby charged with the work of pre-
pairing such an index, under the supervision
of the Joint Committee on the Library; and
he is hereby authorized and required to COM
plete the two sets of congressional documents
required by existing laws to be deposited in
the Library of Congress, and which were par
TALLY destroyed by fire; and to this end he
may. make requisition upon the Secretaryof the
Interior, II charge of the reserve of public
documents; and such volumes as cannot be
supplied by the Interior Department may be
transferred to the Library of Congress from
the documents in charge of the Secretary of
the State, and of the Clerk of the House of
Representatives, the Librarian of Congress
giving a receipt therefor
For the necessary repairs of the telegraph
line connecting the Capitol and the Executive
Departments, one thousand dollars.
For salary of stenographer to the Secretary
dollars.
That of the unexpended balance of the ap-
pronriation made for the office of the Treasury
of the United States for the fiscal year ending
with June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seyenty-four, twenty thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be required. fer the pay
ment of salaries of such additional temporary
clerks, messengers and laborers as tie Secre-
tapY of the Treasury may find necessary for
the work of that office, may be used for the
purpose aforesaid, in the fiscal year ending
with June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-fve, and for temporary clerks in the
Treasury Department, forty thousand dollars !:
PTocided, That no part of these amounts shall
be expended for payment of additional com
pensation to clerks or employees; and so much
may be necessary to enable the Secretary
of the Treasury to carry into effect the joint
resolution for the relief of certain clerks and
employees of the United States approved
June twenty y-seaond, eighteen hundred and
seventy -four, is hereby appropriated.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to
collect, procure, preserve, and arrange for use
all vouchers, papers, records, and evidence
and to take testimony as to claims against
the United States to be paid only upon the
certificate of the Commissioners of claims, the
sum of twenty thousand dollars of the uneX-
pended balance of the appropriation made by
act of March third, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three. is hereby re-appropriated
10 enable the secretary OF Gne treasury ~
pay the proprietors of the New Y ork Tribune
for advertising in said journal, the sum ot
eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ten
cents, or so much thereofas may be necessary
to be paid upons the audit of the proper ae'
counting officers Of the Treasury.
For payment of the expense of editing The
revised statutes, preparing the same for pub
lication, and distributing the same, and fol
| editing the annual statutes, under the direc
| tion lof the Secretary of State. twenty thou
sand dollars, or so much thereof as shall b.
necessary.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy t.
| complete the observations of the transit o
| Venus, in December, eighteen hundred ant
seventy -four, and to return the parties of ob
seryation to the United States, twenty-fv
thousand dollars, to be expended as provided
| by the act making appropriations for sundr!
civil expenses for the fiscal year ending Jun
thirtieth eighteen hundred seventy four, ap
] proved March third, eighteen hundred an
seventY-three.
For collecting information respecting tn
condition and Importance of the fur-trade i
the Territory of Alaska, as provided by &C
of April twenty-second. eighteen hundre
and se7eaty.four, ten thousand dollars, for th
fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-foU
i an&-eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to b
Z expended under the direction of the Secretar
of the Treasury.
For the District of Columbia the sum of on
million three hundred thousand dollars, to
expended by the commissioners of said Dis
triet, and applied as follows: First, to til
payment of interest on the funded debt of sal
District, due July first, eighteen hundred an
seventy-four; secondly, for the payment {
officers, employees and laborers of the Dis
trict, whether of the District proper or of tt
board of public works; thirdly, for the pa,
. ment of any Indebtedness for which the sur
ties of the District are pledged, and the r.
9 maipder to the current expenses of said Di
J | tict. The money herein appropriated shall
drawn from the Treasury from time to time
the same may be needed, and only upon d
Il tailed statements of amounts to be paid al
= the persons to whom or on what account pa
able, to which statements shall be append
the certificate of such commissioners that tn
d have carefully examined such accounts, al
IL that they believe them to be just and due
the respective claimants thereof, copies of sa
= statements together with a report of all
: ceipts and disbursements of said District go
ernment, shall be transmitted by them to t
7r President, to be by him transmitted to Co
d gress at the beginning of its next sessio
u PT0Uided, That all sums due any party e
s. ceeding one hundred dollars shall be paid on
Or by checks on the Treasury issued directly
the party to whom the same is due: And pl
l. vided further, that the sum of sevanty-f
y thousand dollars of said sum hereby app
= priated shall be used for the payment of t
SO workingmen employed public improv
l. ments on the streets and excavations of Was
ne ington, under the board of public works
the District of Columbia, or the contractors
he the same; and the commissioners are here
ne authorized and ordered to retain, from t
t. several contractors who are indebted to
ne workingmen, an1 whose accounts have
er been settled by the board Of public works t
10 several sums due the workingmen; all t
d above sums, except so much thereof as NAV
IS, paid for interest, aforesaid, to be conside
and adjusted hereafter part of the pro
l. l. IL
ny States towards the expenses of the governm
,er of the District of Columbia.
OF For the payment of G. H. Evans, for
en- vices under the direction of the Committee
No Ways and Means of the Forty-second CC
zee gress, five hundred dollars.
For the payment of NJ. A. Clancy for s
Tor vices as stenographer in taking testimony.
er, the matter of the impeachment of Rich
ed Busted, district Judge of the district of 4
no bama, the sum of five hundred and TWEEN
les five dollars.
ty For expenses of the Joint Select Commit
, to inquire into the affairs of the Dis tic
ne Columbia, the sum of six thousand dollars
nd so much thereof may be necessary to
,he available immediately
eX- The sum of thirty-two thousand two h
r. dred and twenty dollars is hereby approl
nd ated to defray the expenses of the board
ou- health of the District of Columbia, for san
ars ~ purposes, for the fiscal year ending j
as first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,
the the commissioners of the District of Col
nin bia oe. and they are hereby, directed to
ot7 propriate the same amount, namely: thin
led two thousand two hundred and twenty
or; lars, from the funds of the District of Col
'eoI bia not otherwise appropriated, for the S
nal purpose.
hce That the sum of one thousand dollar
, hereby appropriated for the salary of the {
las ernment telegraph operators at the Cap
A during the recess of Congress, five hundre
rc5 the same to be paid by the Secretary of
lna Senate for salary of operator of the Senate
me- five hundred dollars to be paid by the Cler
the House of Representatives, for the salar
ars' the operator of the House.
m m DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOI
= of PUBLIC LANDS.
ess, For rent of office ofsurveyor general of
,lan isiana, fuel, books, stationery, and Other
un- cidental expenses ,one thousand eight hun
any dollars.
for For rent of Office of surveyor genera
reh Florida, fuel books stationery and {