The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-09-10

any measures that may be the most effectual I
enforce any right or claim which the Unite
States have to this money, or any part of til
same, now involved in the bankruptcy OF Her
ny D. Cooke, or of Jay Cooke and Company.
To complete the grading and erection
stone wall around the Columbia Hospital, eigf
: thousand five hundred dollars.
T. For defraying the expenses OF the Board g
Health for the District of Columbia, for the fis
cal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hund
red and seventy four, thirty-one thousand tiv
hundred and seventy dollars.
To enable the Secretary Of the Interior t.
pay Livingston and Schram amount due then
runder their contract for building penitentiar
and an addition thereto in Wyoming Territory
forty dollars.
I For completion of the work of the geological
and geographical survey Of the Territories o.
the United States by Professor F. V. Hayden
during the fiscal year ending June thirtietf
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to be ex.
pended under the direction of the Secretary O
the Interior, twenty thousand dollars.
For the current expenses OF the Government
| Hospital for the insane in the District of Co
lumbia, being deficiency for the service OF
the fiscal year, eleven thousand three hundred
and sixty-six dollars. 9a
| For the Columbian Institution for the Dea-
and Dumb in the District OF Columbia, to ena
BILE the trustees of the institution to pay the
amount yet due IN the purchase OF the estate
known as Kendall Green, ten thousand six
hundred and ninety seven dollars and forty-siz
cents, to be expended under the direction oil
the Secretary of the Interior. "t
| For repairing and fir fishing in athorough anG
| complete manner the bronze statue Of Jeffer.
son, placing the same in the National Statuary
| Hall, and procuring a suitable marble base and
| pedestal therefor, ten hundred and thirteen
| dollars. w
| To pay Capt. James L. Fisk, Of Montana
Territory, the amount due to him on settlement
of his accounts as officer in charge of overland
enigrant expedition, seven thousand eight
| hundred and sixty two dollars and thirty seven
| cents.
| For foundation and pedestal for the bronze
statue of the late General John A. Rawlins,
| authorized by act Of Congress, approved April
| tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy two,
three thousand dollars. The Secretary of War
is authorized to place the same in Rawlins
Square, or such other reservation in the city OF
| Washington as he may select.
| POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT..
| To enable the Postmaster-General to offer a
reward for the apprehension OF the parties
! concerned in the late mail robberies i'll Missou-
ri, five thousand dollars; and for the same pur-
| pose in the matter OF the late mail robberies in
| Texas, three thousand dollars.
| For expense incurred in alterations and I'M
| provements made necessarily the change Of
grade ON Eighth street, in order to provide an
entrance for the mail wagons to the court yard
of the General Post Office, five thousand six
| hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty
three cents; and to pay expenses caused by the
change OF grade OF all the streets surrounding
the Post Office Department building, six
hundred and eighty dollars.
| For amount due special agents Of the Depart
ment, being Il deficiency for the fiscal year end
ing June thrtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-tw6, two thousand one hundred and one
dollars and eighty-seven cents.
| To pay the superintendent Of free delivery
in the Post-Office Department the difference
between the salary as fourth class clerk,
and the salary allowed by law, seven hundred
! dollars.
! For rent of house numbered nine hundred
and fifteen, E street, northwest, for further
accommodation Of the clerical force Of the De-
] partment, from June sixth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three to June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred al d sevent y-four, four thousand four
hundred and lightweight dollars and eighty
six cents; and hereafter no contract shall be
made for the rent of any building, or part of
any building, in Washington, not now in use
by the government, to be used for the purposes
OF the government until an appropriation there
for shall have been made initerms by Congress.
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ton for wrapping paper, provided for in the act
! making appropriations for the service of the
! Post Office Department, for the year ending
June thirteth, eighteen hundred and seventy
four, is hereby made available for the purchase
OF wrapping paper and Irvine.
For purchase of official postage stamps, and
stamped envelopes, to supply deficiency OF
last quarter of the current fiscal year, one hum
dred and eighty thousand dollars.
| For advertising, twenty thousand dollars.
| JUDICIAL.
| For defraying the expenses Of the Supreme
| Court and circuit and district courts Of the
| United States, including the District of Colum-
bia; and also for jurors and witnesses. and eX-
penses of suits i'll which the United States are
| concerned; of prosecutions for offenses COM
nitted against the United States; for the safe
keeping of prisoners, and for defraying the ex-
penses which may be incurred in the enforce
ment of the act approved February twenty
eighth eighteen hundred and seyenty-one, en-
| titled IAN act to amend an act approved May
| thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled An act to enforce the rights of citizens
| of the United States to vote in the several
| States Of the Union, and for other purposes. -
or the acts amendatory thereof or supplement-
airy thereto, being deficiency for the fiscal
| year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, twenty thousand dollars; and for
the same purpose, being deficiency for the fis-
cal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
and seventy three, three hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars.
| TO pay the salary of the assistant attorney
general Of the Post Office Department for the
months OF May and June, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, being deficiency for the
| fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hum
| dred and seventy-three, six hundred and sew
| enty dollars and thirty-ttree cents.
| For salaries of United States district Judges,
| to pay audited and certified accounts, being q
| deficiency for the fiscal year ending June tIlir-
| ty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dol
lars. g H.a
For salaries of United States district attor-
neys, to pay amount due L. G. Rockwell, late
attorney to the district Of Colorado Territory,
thirty-five dollars and seventy -one cents !; and
to pay William McMichael. attorney for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania, amt due him,
| thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents, said sums
| being deficiencies for the fiscal year ending
| June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy
| three. 9f
| For salaries of the United States district mar
shals, to pay Church Hove, marshal OF the dis
trict of Wyoming. amount due him, thirty
three dollars and ffty-two cents, being de-
ficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirty,
| eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
| 10 pay the salary of the late Judge of the
eastern district of Wisconsin. retired under the
fifth section OF the act Of April tenth. eighteen
hundred and siNty-nine, from January first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four to June
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