The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-09-10
STAUNTON VIRGINIA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER TO- 1874

e borer during the Forty-tirst Congress as ALLOW
, ed by resolution of the Senate of March thru
eighteen hundred and seventy -three. three hur
9 dred and seventy-six dollars and forty cents.
:. 10 pay Rev. E. D. Owen for services us ac
: ing chaplin OF the Senate. seventy-five dollars
FOR clerks TO committees and pages, twent,
one thousand and sixty -five dollars and ninety
seven cents.
For labor. thirteen thousand dollars.
: For furniture and repairs, four thousand do
lars.
For coal for the heating and ventilating ar
parat,,s for the fiscal year eighteen hundre
and seventy-four. five hundred dollars.
For mileage of Senators who took their seat
after the passage of the act approved Janlar
twentieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-four
one thousand one hundred and tifty-fiye dol
lars and twenty cents,
For reporting the proceedings and debates O
the Senate for the remainder Of the Forty
third Congress, not alrehdy paid for, forty-tw,
thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars
! i'll lieu OF all compensation otherwise provided
for.
/ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
To enable the Clerk OF the House to paw the
| salaries OF nine messengers for the mouth Of
March, eighteen hundred and scventy-three. as
per resolution of the House of February TWEEN,
1 ty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy,
| three, one thousand one hundred and seven
teen dollars and eighty cents.
! To supply a deficiency in the appropriation
for clerks to commit ees of the House at Rep
resentatives during the present fiscal year, the
sum of two thousand dollars of which amount
the sum Of seventy-five dollars shall be paid to
A. f. Childs for services in aiding to complete
| papers OF report, number one hundred and
! thirty nine. Id.
| To pay the five official reporters of the pro-
ceedings and debates OF the House, for the re-
mainder of the Forty-third Congress, twenty
four thousand eight hundred and fifteen dol
| lars; and hereafter the pay OF the official re-
porters of the proceeding and debates of each
| House shall be fifty thousand dollars for each
| Congress; and the pay Of official reporters of
committees OF the House shall be five thousand
dollars each per annual, and this shall be in
| lieu OF all other compensation for such servi-
ces in reporting the proceedings of each and
all OF said committees
For compensation for clerical services rend-
cred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil
Service from January first, six hundred dol
lars; and for messenger to Committee on War
Claims from January first, two hundred and
fifty dollars. a-
For fuel for the House of Representatives
for the current fiscal year, two thousand FIVE
hundred dollars. s'
To pay four watchmen of the Capitol police
| 1OlCC 4lOtl OdHutIJ AlSt " OuiJ 1uOtA CIS uLCSl
hundred and seventy-four, and no longer, the
sum of one thousand nine hundred aud nine
ty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents is hereby
appropriated. tfG
That the unexpended balance Of the appro-
priation made i'll the act approved March third,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled
can act making appropriations for sundry civ
il expenses OF the Government for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, and for other purposes for
altering and rettting the hall OF the House of
Representatives for accommodation Of the in
creased number of members, be, and hereby
is, transferred to the appropriation for the gen
eral care and repairs of the Capitol building,
to be used for the improvement and repairs OF
the same, under the Architect of the Capitol.
Botanic Garden: For continuing improve
ments and buildings at the Botanic Garden,
three thousand dollars.
Capitol Grounds For improving Capitol
Grounds, and for sewers and street-lghts for
same, twenty thousand dollars: Provided,
That so much Of said sum as is necessary shall
be expended by the Architect of the Capitol in
forthwith removing from the Capitol Grounds
the engine-building south Of the Capitol.
For the purchase of the original lot member
ed one. square numbered six hundred and eigl-
ty-three. in the city of Washington, containing
about fifteen thousand superficial feet with the
improvements thereon, for site for !: fire-en-
CINE house, eighteen thousand dollars.
Reform School: 10 reimburse the fund of
the Reform School in the District OF Columbia
for work done and material furnished in the
erection and furnishing Of the building and
grounds for the same, thirty-one thousand sew.
ell hundred and seventy-tWO dollars and twen~
ty-nine cents; and the Acknowledgement is
hereby directed to take such measures as shall.
be most 'effeotual to enforce any right or claim
which the United States have to this amount Of
money Or any part thereof, now involved in
bankruptcy of Henry D. Cooke or a4 Jay
Cooke and Company, the same having been in
the hands OF said Henry D. Cooke, as treasur-
er of said Reform School, at the time of his
bankruptcy, and being the moneys belonging
to the United States, and to inquire into this
loss of the public moneys, and ascertain who
is responsible therefor, and institute such pros
ecntions as public Justice may require, and that
he report his proceeding therein 70 Congress in
his next annual report
Approved, June %, 1874.