The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-04

flee, thirty five thousand nine hundred and ffty-sx
dollars.
For the erection furnishing and fitting up of an
extension of the west detached buildings for pa
tents, twelve thousand dollars.
INSTITUTION FOR TIE DEAF AND DUMB.
For the support of the institution, including sal
aries and incidental expenses, the maintenance OF
the benefciaries of the United States, and five hum
dred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus,
forty -eight thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the erection, and fit
ting up the buildings of the institution in accord
ance with the plans heretofore submitted to Congress,
twenty-nine thousand dollars.
G yLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING-IN
ASYLUM AND CHARITIES.
For the support of the Columbia Hospital for
Women and LyiEg-in Asylum, over and above the
probable amount which will be received from pay
patients, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For care support, and medical treatment oil sew
enty-fve transient paupers, medical and surgical
patients. in some proper medical institution in the
city of Washington, under contract 10 be formed
with such institution, fifteen thousand dollars, OF so
much thereof as may be necessary, under the direc
ton of the Secretary OF War,
For the Soldiers and SailoY Orphans Home,
Washington City, District of Columbia, to be eX-
pended under the direction of the Secretary of the
interior, twelve thousand dollars: Prooided, That
hereafter no child children shall be admitted into
said home except the destitute orphans of soldiers
and sailors who have died in the late behalf
of the union of these states as provided for in sec
ton three of the act entitled can to incorporate
the National Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home"
approved July twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and
sxty-six And prOuided further, That no child shall
main in said home after having attained the age OF
sixteen years.
For the Women's Christian Association of the
District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars;
to be expended for the sole purpose OF erecting
building on the ground owned by said association in
said District upon and in strict conformity with plan
for said building which shall be prepared by the arch
iect OF the Capitol extension; and it shall not tor
building and furnishing. exceed the said sum of
twenty thousand dollars; and no money shall be
paid under this until unit the Secretary Of
a good security for It's execution has been entered
into for the erection and furnishing of said building
at a sum not exceeding the amount hereby
apps 3priated; and all payments for the cree
ton and furnishing Of said building shall
shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury di-
vided (and this appropriation is upon the express
conditOn,) That none of the money hereby appro-
prated shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasu
~ until said association shall le with the recorder
of deeds in the District of Columbia, declaration
executed and acknowledged in the manner in which
deeds required by law to be executed for record
in the District of Columbia, that said building,
and the lands which it is erected forever shall be
held in trust by said association, without NOR gage
or security in the nature OF mortgage Ior the sole
Cf date December thirteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy; and the filing of said declaration shall be
regarded as notice to all persons who shall purchase
said property or take any security thereon s.
To aid in the support of the Children's Hospital,
Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand
For the Little Sisters of the Poor, of Washington
City to liquidate debt the building and to COM
plete said building, twenty-five thousand dollars
That all moneys hereafter appropriated for the aid
use support, beueft OF any charitable, Industrial
or other association, institution, or corporation
shall be placed to the credit Of the proper fiscal
officer of such association, institution or corpora
ton by warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury,
on the books of the Treasurer of the United States
or of an assistant treasurer designated deposary
of the United States other than national bank.
and shall be paid out only the checks OF such fiscal
officer drawn payable to the order OF the person to
whom payment is to be made, for services materials
or any other purpose and stating in writing thereon
the specific object or purpose to which the avalls
thereof are to be applied Provided, That when pay
ments are to be made under twenty dollars, such lis
cal officer may check in his own name, but shall
state in writing the check that the avais thereof
are to be applied to the payment OF small claims,
and shall furnish, to the Treasurer, assistant treas
urer or designated depostary on whom the check is
drawn, certified list of such claims, which list
shall set forth the amount and nature OF each claim
and the name of each claimant.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
For preservation of the collections of the survey
ing and exploring expeditions Of the government,
twenty thousand dollars; and for fitting up and COM
government collections thousand dollars; in all,
thirty thousand dollars. rtr. .
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
For continuing the survey Of the ATLANTIC and
Gulf coasts of the United States and Lake Cham
plain, including compensation of civilians engaged
in the work and pay and rations Of engineers for the
steamers In the coast survey, tnree
seyenty-five thousand dollars. .
For continuing the survey of the western coast OF
the United States including compensation OF civil
ans and pay and rations OF engineers OF steamers
thousand dollars: Provided, That no part OF this
sum shall be expended in the prosecution OF surveys
beyond the northern line of Warrington Territory
after December thirty-frst, eighteen hundred and
seventy-fOur.
For extending the triangulation of the coast
survey SO as to form a geodedic connection be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United
States and assisting in the STATE surveys, including
compensation of civilians engaged in the work, fifty
thousand dollars.
For repairs and maintenance of the complement
of vessels used in the coast survey foryone thou
sand dollars. -
use on the Cult coast seventy-six thousand dollars.
For continuing the publication of the observations
made in the progress of coast survey including COM
pensation of civilians engaged in the work. the pub
iication to be made at the government printing
office, nine thousand dollars.
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For salaries of nine hundred and thirty light
assistants, five hundred and sixty-fye thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses in reiitting
and improving lighthouses and buildings connected
Herewith, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars:
Provided That the Secretary of the Treasury shall
have power to order the sale at auction, after due
public notice. of any real estate or other property
pertainipp to the Lighthouse establishment, no
longer required for light house purposes; the pro.
ceeds of such sales after the payment thererom OF
the expenses of making the same, to be deposited
and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous re-
ceipts, as now provided by law in in like cases.
For fas and Pace
OIL wcks glass, chimneys, chamois-sklns spirits OF
SOAP paints and other az nor
mating apparatus and machinery, and OF gaugng;
testing transportation, delivery of oil, fuel, and
other supplies for lighthouse and fog-signals, and
and eighty thousand dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and
other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars
For seamens wages, rations, repairs salaries sup
plies and incidental expenses OF twenty-five llght,
ships and seven relief light vessels, two hundred
and seventeen thousand seven hundred ana thlrty-
two dollars and fifty cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing,
reftting, and improving fog-signals and buildings
connected Herewith, fifty thousand dollars,
For expenses cleaning. painting repairing
renewr and supplying losses of buoys, spindes, and
day-beacons and for chains snkeF Gc,a ana similar
LIGHTHOUSES, FoG-sIGNALs AND BEAcoNs.
For building lighthouse and fog signal at Avery's
Rock, Machias Bay, Maine Tor vicinity fifteen thou
For a lighthouse and fog-signal at Egg Rock,
Frenchman's Bay, Maine Cor vicinity, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For keepers dwelling at Monhegan light-station,
Maine, five thousand dollars.
For re-establishing the lighthouse at Indian
Island, Rockport Harbor Maine, nine thousand dol
lars.
For lighthouse at Portland breakwater, Maine
six thousand dollars.
For rebuilding dwelling and tower and erecting
fog-signal at Longpoint, Provincetown, Massachu-
sets, thirteen thousand dollars.
For fogsignals on light-shps at entrance to Vine
yard Sound, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars,
For enlarging foundation of lighthouse and add
ing a dwelling for keepers at Bullocks Point Shoal,
Providence River, Rhode Island, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For protection of site and erection of keeoer's
dwell ing at Fuers Rock and Sassafras Point, Prov
idence River, Rhode Island, five thousand dollars
For general repairs at StOningt0n Harbor, Con-
necticut. one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the landing dock at Little Gull
Island New York five thousand dollars.
For general repairs at Saybrook, Connecticut, one
thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing construction OF lighthouse at
Southwest Ledge New Haven Harbor light-station,
Connecticut fifty thousand dollars.
For comp citing the lighthouse at Strattord POINT
Shoals, Long Island Sound, New York, fifty thou
sand dollars = ~ 2 ~ y T. s-lz-&a@ ~ Z
For additional protection of screw-pile lighthouse
in Bridgeport Ha Dor, Connecticut five thousand
five hundred dollars. 8 Al Ef
For protection OF the lighthouse site at Lloyds
Uarbor, New York, two thousand dollars.
For building Jay beacon on the Stepping stones,
Long Island Sound, New York, six thousand doliars
and the lighthouse on or near the end OF HarI
Island, Long Island Sound, New York, authorized
by the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-two may be placed anywhere in the near vlcm-
ity of Hart Island that the Lighthouse Board may
decide on.
For general repairs at the lightstation Highlands
of Neyersink New Jersey, thousand five hundred
dollars: Provided, That whenever it may become
necessary in the adjustment of bOundary-nes or IN
the opening or changing of necessary roadways
affecting lands belonging to the United States ana
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