[Calendar No., 892.]

48TH CONGRESS,
1ST SESSION.

H. R. 7380.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

JUNE 24, 1884.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

JULY 1, 1884.

Reported by Mr. ALLISON with amendments, viz: Omit the parts struck through and insert the parts printed in italics.

AN ACT

Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes.

1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled

3. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fisca

4. priated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fisca

5. year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five

6. namely:

7. UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

8. For expenses of the international conference for fixing

9. a common zero of longitude and standard of time reck

10. oning, including cost of printing and translations, to eighteen

11. pended under the direction of the Secretary of State, reap-

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12 eight thousand dollars; and the President is hereby authorized
13 to appoint two delegates to represent the United States at said
14 international conference, in addition to the number authorized
15 by the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and
16 eighty-three eighty-two, and who shall serve without com-
17 pensation.

18 That the President of the United States be, and is
19 hereby, authorized to appoint a scientific commission which may,
20 in the name of the United States Government, conduct a na-
21 tional conference of electricians in Philadelphia in the autumn
22 of eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

23 That said commission may invite scientific men, na-
24 tive and foreign, to participate in the conference, and may,
25 in general, determine the scope and character of its work.
26 The commission may also conduct such special investiga-
27 tions, both at and subsequent to the International Electrical
28 Exhibition, as may conduce to the progress of electrical science
29 in this country, and may prepare and submit reports of the
30 results of the conference and investigations.

31 That the sum of five ten thousand dollars be appro-
32 priated to meet the expenses of the commission in conduct-
33 ing the conference and investigations, and to meet the
34 expenses of preparing reports of the same: Provided, That
35 a whole amount of the expense incurred by said commission
36 not exceed the said sum of five ten thousand dollars;

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37 and the members of said commission shall not receive any
38 compensation for services.

39 To enable the Secretary of State to pay expenses
40 already incurred for the Siamese embassy, two thousand
41 five hundred dollars.

42 For payment, under the final award made by the late
43 French and American Claims Commission against the
44 United States, of the claims of French citizens against this
45 Government, under the treaty of January fifteenth, eighteen
46 hundred and eighty, between this country and France, six
47 hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred and sixty-six
48 dollars and thirty-five cents.

49 To enable the Secretary of State to obtain dies of
50 the obverse and reverse of the seal of the United States, and
51 the appliances necessary for making impressions from and
52 for the preservation of the same, one thousand dollars.

53 To enable the Secretary of State to appoint from
54 time to time, for such period as is absolutely necessary,
55 medical inspectors to be attached to the United States con-
56 sulates in countries where yellow fever, cholera, or plague
57 exists in epidemic form, ten thousand dollars.

58 That the sum of five hundred and fifty-nine dollars
59 and eleven cents of the unexpended balance of the appro-
60 priation for contingent expenses foreign missions, eighteen
61 hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, reap-

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62 *propriated and made available to pay the widow of General*

63 *Judson Kilpatrick, late United States minister to Chili, the*

64 *amount found due him on the settlement of his accounts for*

65 *contingent expenses of the legation of the United States in*

66 *Chili in eighteen hundred and eighty-two.*

67 *That the work of the commission shall be completed*

68 *within three years after the passage of this act; and any bal-*

69 *ance remaining unexpended at the expiration of that time*

70 *shall be covered into the United States Treasury.*

71 *UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.*

72 *PUBLIC BUILDINGS.*

73 *For post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Maryland:*

74 *For continuation of building, one hundred and fifty thou-

75 *sand dollars.*

76 *For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts:*

77 *For completion of building and additional vaults, fifty thousand*

78 *dollars.*

79 *For custom-house and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio:*

80 *For continuation completion of building, one three*

81 *hundred thousand dollars.*

82 *For court-house and post-office at Charleston, West*

83 *Virginia: For fencing, pump, tank, and connections for*

84 *water supply, and for sewer, four thousand seven hundred*

85 *dollars.*

86 *For custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina: For*

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87 *building one stone wharf in front of custom-house, thirty-*

88 *five thousand dollars.*

89 *For custom-house at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion*

90 *of building, fifteen thousand dollars.*

91 *For court-house and post-office at Columbus, Ohio: For*

92 *continuation of building, fifty one hundred thousand dol-

93 *lars.*

94 *For court-house and post-office at Danville, Virginia:*

95 *For approaches, sidewalks, iron fence, and for retaining-wall*

96 *in rear of building, ten thousand three hundred dollars, of*

97 *which sum not less than one thousand seven hundred dollars,*

98 *or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to*

99 *building a substantial stone wall in the rear of the lot upon*

100 *which said building stands.*

101 *For court-house and post-office at Denver, Colorado:*

102 *For continuation, fifty seventy-five thousand dollars.*

103 *For court-house and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa:*

104 *For completion of extension and remodeling interior, fifty*

105 *thousand dollars.*

106 *For custom-house and post-office at Dubuque, Iowa:*

107 *For purchasing lot immediately north of the custom-house*

108 *lot, Dubuque, Iowa, five thousand dollars: Provided, That*

109 *no part of the purchase-money shall be paid until the Attorney-*

110 *General of the United States shall be satisfied that there is a*

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111 good title to said premises in the United States, free from all incumbrance.

113 For court-house and post-office at Fort Wayne, Indiana: For continuation of building, forty thousand dollars.

114 For court-house and post-office at Galveston, Texas: For continuation of building, twenty-five thirty thousand dollars.

118 For court-house and post-office at Harrisonburg, Virginia: For completion of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.

121 For court-house and post-office at Jackson, Mississippi: For completion of building and approaches, fifteen thousand dollars.

124 For custom-house and post-office at Kansas City, Missouri: For completion of building and approaches, fifty thousand dollars.

127 For marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For completion of sea-wall to protect marine-hospital property, one thousand dollars.

130 For court-house and post-office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuation, fifty-five thousand dollars.

132 For court-house and post-office at Lynchburg, Virginia: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.

135 For custom-house, court-house, and post-office at Memphis, Tennessee:

136 For completion of building and approaches, fifty thousand dollars; and for the construction of a supporting wall for the custom-house lot at the city of Memphis, Tennessee, where the same has been cut away along the river front thereof by certain railway companies, fifty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed to bring suit for damages against said railway companies, if in his judgment a recovery can be had against them.

146 For post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: For extension of site and continuation, seventy thousand dollars.

148 For court-house and post-office at Montgomery, Alabama: For completion of building and approaches and inclosing grounds with an iron fence, five thousand dollars.

151 For custom house at New Orleans, Louisiana: For plumbing, including sewerage, and for completion of repairs, twenty-five forty-seven thousand dollars.

154 Court-house and post-office at New York City: That the sum of sixteen thousand one hundred and four dollars and forty-two cents, being unexpended balances of appropriations made from time to time for alterations and repairs, including approaches, to the court-house and post-office building at New York City, and for remedying defective ventilation, supplying new elevators, and repairing old

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161 elevators, is hereby made available for such work of altera-
tions and repairs as may be needed for the building proper
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163 and for the heating apparatus and elevators therein.

164 For court-house and post-office at New Haven,
165 Connecticut: For extension and repairs of building, fifty-
166 thousand dollars. -

167 For public building at Norfolk, Virginia: For
168 introducing heating apparatus and improving grounds,
169 fifteen thousand dollars.

170 For court-house and post-office at Paducah, Kentucky:
171 For iron fence and gates, two thousand dollars.

172 For post-office and court-house at Peoria, Illinois:
173 For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars.

174 And the act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred
175 and eighty-two, authorizing the construction of a building at
176 Poughkeepsie, New York, is so amended as to require an
177 open space of not less than thirty-five feet in lieu of fifty
178 feet on the west and north sides of said building.

179 For post-office and court-house at Quincy, Illinois: For
180 continuation of building, forty thousand dollars.

181 For post-office at Scranton, Pennsylvania: For com-
182 pletion of building, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dol-
lars.

184 For post-office at Saint Joseph, Missouri: For continu-
185 ation of building, forty thousand dollars.

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186 For the new custom-house at Saint Louis: For
187 paving streets adjacent to the building, nine thousand
188 nine hundred dollars.

189 For post-office and court-house at Syracuse, New York:
190 For continuation of building, fifty seventy-five thousand
dollars; stone used in the construction of said building to be
191 procured from quarries in the State of New York: Pro-
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193 vided, That the stone can there be procured as cheaply as
194 elsewhere, all things being equal.

195 For custom-house and court-house at Toledo, Ohio:
196 For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars.

197 For court-house and post-office at Topeka, Kansas: For
198 approaches, fencing, and grading, ten thousand dollars.

199 For court-house and post-office at Utica, New York:
200 For outstanding bills for completion of building, seven hun-
dred and nineteen dollars and seventeen cents.

202 For court-house and post-office at Williamsport, Penn-
203 sylvania: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand
dollars.

205 For Treasury building at Washington, District of Co-
lumbia: Annual repairs to Treasury building, fifteen thou-
207 sand dollars.

208 For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Re-
pairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, post-

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210 offices, and other public buildings, including marine hospitals

211 under control of Treasury Department, one hundred and

212 fifty-seventy-five thousand dollars.

213 For repairs and preservation of marine hospitals,
214 twenty-five thousand dollars.

215 To erect the unfinished portion of the United States

216 penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, and to com-

217 complete the same in accordance with the original plans, fifteen

218 thousand dollars: Provided, That the work shall be carried

219 on under the direction and general supervision of the gov-

220 error of the Territory of Montana.

221 For the repair of the United States mint building
222 at Denver, Colorado, twenty thousand dollars.

223 For hydraulic passenger elevator for building at
224 corner of Seventeenth and F streets, known as Wonder's
225 Building, six thousand five hundred dollars.

226 To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ
227 a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine
228 into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings,
229 including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thou-
230 sand dollars; and for necessary expenses, not exceeding three
231 thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars.

232 LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG-SIGNALS.

233 That the Erie Land Light-House, discontinued by the

234 Light-House Board, be, and the same is hereby, re-established

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235 on the site where it stood when discontinued: Provided,

236 That the same can be obtained for that purpose at a cost not

237 exceeding four thousand dollars. That the Light-House

238 Board is authorized and required, immediately after the

239 passage of this act, to purchase, upon the terms herein pre-

240 scribed, from the owner or owners thereof, the site of the

241 original Land Light-House, for the re-establishment and

242 maintenance of the Land Light-House herein authorized; and

243 for the purpose aforesaid, and for the re-establishment of

244 said light, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as

245 may be necessary, to be used and expended by the Light-

246 House Board, under the supervision of the Secretary of the

247 Treasury.

248 Hyannis Light-Station, Massachusetts: For establishing

249 a small beacon to range with the main light at Hyannis,

250 of Massachusetts, the lease of the site for the purpose being

251 hereby authorized, three hundred and fifty dollars.

252 Saybrook Beacon-Light, Connecticut: For complet-

253 ing the erection of a beacon-light on the end of the west

254 jetty-wall at Saybrook, Connecticut, eighteen thousand

255 dollars.

256 For the purpose of erecting a light-house on the

257 north end of Conanicut Island, Narragansett Bay, Rhode

258 Island, eighteen thousand dollars.

259 Hell Gate electric lights, New York: For duplicating

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260 the apparatus and machinery necessary for the production
261 of electric light in the tower at Hallet's Point, near Hell
262 Gate, New York, eight thousand dollars.

263 For lease of ground for electric light at Hell Gate,
264 four hundred dollars; and the Light-House Board is hereby
265 authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treas-
266 ury, to lease such parcel of land as is required for the estab-
267 lishment of said electric light at Hell Gate.

268 For the establishment of lights on Hudson River,
269 five thousand dollars.

270 For the establishment of lights on Cape Fear River,
271 five thousand dollars.

272 For the establishment of lights on Saint John's River,
273 Florida, ten thousand dollars.

274 Lights, Lake Champlain: For the establishment of lights
275 on Watch Point, and to guide through the channel between
276 North and South Hero Islands, Lake Champlain, one thou-
277 sand dollars.

278 Cape Charles Light-Station, Virginia: For protecting
279 the site of Cape Charles Light-Station, entrance to Chesa-
280 peake Bay, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.

281 Croatan Light-Station, North Carolina: For re-
282 moving the Croatan Light-House to a point where it will be
283 of more value to navigators, fifteen thousand dollars.

284 For removal of the Cape Henlopen Beacon to the Dela-

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285 ware Breakwater, and for the establishment of a small light
286 at each end of the latter, twenty-five thousand dollars.

287 For the establishment of a light on Ludlam's Island,
288 New Jersey, five thousand dollars.

289 Depot in the fifth district, Virginia: For establishing a
290 buoy and supply-depot at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, in
291 place of the one now at Portsmouth, Virginia, ten thousand
dollars.
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293 Mosquito Inlet Light-Station, Florida: For continuing
294 the light-house at Mosquito Inlet, Florida, fifteen sev-
295 enty thousand dollars.

296 Rebecca Shoal Light-Station, Florida: For completing
297 the erection of a light-house on Rebecca Shoal, Florida Reefs,
298 Florida, fifteen twenty thousand dollars.

299 Sand Island Light-Station, Alabama: For protecting
300 the site or commencing the rebuilding of the light-house at
301 Sand Island, Alabama, ten thousand dollars.

302 Northwest Seal Rock Light-Station, California: For con-
303 tinuing the construction of a light-house on the Northwest Seal
304 Rock, off Point Saint George, California, thirty seventy-
305 five thousand dollars.

306 Gray's Harbor, Washington, Territory: For the
307 establishment of a light at the entrance of Gray's Harbor,
308 Washington Territory, fifteen thousand five hundred dol-
lars.
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310 For commencing the construction of a light-house at or
311 near Port Sanilac, Lake Huron, Michigan, ten thousand dol-
lars; and said light-house shall not cost, when completed,
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313 exceeding twenty thousand dollars.

314 Steam-tender for the Pacific coast: For building a
315 steam-tender for service on the Pacific coast, eighty-eight
316 thousand five hundred dollars.

317 For maintenance of lighted buoys: For the mainte-
318 nance of lighted buoys now in use, five thousand dollars.

319 That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Light-House
320 Board to apply the money appropriated, other than for
321 surveys, as far as can be without detriment to the interests
322 of the Government, by contract.

323 LIFE-SAVING STATIONS.

324 For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving su-
tions as follows: On the coasts of Maine and New Hamp-
shire one, and on the coast of Massachusetts one, at one thou-
sand five hundred dollars each; on the coasts of Rhode Island
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328 and Long Island, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;
329 of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island
330 and Long Island, who shall reside on the mainland of the
331 State of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.

332 For salary of one superintendent on the coast of New
333 Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

334 For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Dela-

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335 ware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand five
336 hundred dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Car-
lina, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars.

338 For salary of one superintendent for life-saving stations
339 and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina,
340 Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars;
341 of one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat
342 stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five
343 hundred dollars; and of one the coasts of Lakes Ontario
344 and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

345 For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and
346 life-boat stations: One on the coasts of Lakes Huron and
347 Superior, one on the coast of Lake Michigan, and one
348 on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon, and Cali-
fornia, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each.

349 For salaries of two hundred and sixteen keepers of life-
saving and life-boat stations and of houses of refuge, one
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352 hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars.

353 For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-
saving and life-boat stations, during the period of actual
354
355 employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and
356 life-boat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered
357 upon any occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to ex-
358
359 exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of
the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for

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360 drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge;
361 repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of
362 same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for
363 shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses
364 of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for
365 carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of
366 the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
367 two, and contingent expenses, including freight, storage,
368 repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising,
369 and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any
370 other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United
371 States, six hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars.

372 For establishing new life-saving stations and life-boat
373 stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States,
374 fifty thousand dollars.

REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.

375 For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay
376 of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed,
377 and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, sea-
378 men, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and
379 for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and
380 outfits for the same; ship-chandlery and engineers' stores for
381 the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty
382 under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of
383 cadets; commutation of quarters; contingent expenses, in-

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385 cluding wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, sur-
386 veys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be
387 included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy-five
388 thousand dollars; and hereafter revenue cutters shall be used
389 exclusively for the public service, and in no way for private
390 purposes.

391 For rebuilding the revenue steamer Richard Rush, in-
392 cluding a new hull, boiler, and outfits, but retaining the
393 present engines, eighty thousand dollars; and a sum not ex-
394 ceeding ten thousand dollars to be obtained from sale of the
395 old hull and materials: Provided, That the same shall be
396 sold only after due appraisement and advertisement, and at
397 a price not less than the appraised value. The Secretary of
398 the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to advertise
399 for bids for the rebuilding of the Richard Rush, (and for the
400 construction of the steam light-house tender herein provided
401 for), according to the plans and specifications, which shall be
402 open for inspection by persons proposing to contract. Ad-
403 vertisement shall be made for a period of not less than one
404 month. The bids shall be opened and the contract or con-
405 tracts let. The Secretary of the Treasury may reject all
406 bids; but in the event of acceptance of any bid, the lowest
407 and best bidder shall have the contract or contracts awarded
408 to him.

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ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

409 For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, and
410 for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of
411 workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing,
412 and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of
413 engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities
414 of the United States and national-bank notes, the pay for
415 such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, at
416 rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work; and
417 for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds,
418 and other securities of the United States and national-bank
419 notes; for materials other than distinctive paper required in
420 the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of en-
421 gravers' tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and
422 repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating
423 machines for the destruction of the United States notes,
424 bonds, and other obligations of the United States authorized
425 to be destroyed, four hundred and seventy-five *five hundred*
426 and *fifteen* thousand seven hundred dollars; and from said
427 sum work may be executed by the Bureau of Engraving
428 and Printing for the following purposes, namely:

429 For engraving, printing, and finishing United States
430 notes, gold and silver certificates, registered bonds for trans-
431 fers, and other securities, three hundred and sixty-five thou-
432 sand dollars.
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434 For engraving (except face-plates), printing, and
435 finishing circulating notes for national banking associations,
436 one hundred and ten *fifty* thousand dollars.

437 For engraving, printing, and finishing certificates of
438 letters patent, seven hundred dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

439 For supplies of light-houses: For supplying the light-houses, beacon-lights, and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses; and the Light-House Board is hereby authorized to lease, for the sum of one dollar per annum, a wharf for the landing of supplies near the Currituck Beach Light-House, North Carolina, three hundred and fifty *seventy-five* thousand dollars.

450 For repairs of light-houses: For repairs and incidental
451 expenses of light-houses and stations, including the two
452 lights at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, which shall remain as they
453 are until Congress shall otherwise direct, and including the
454 restoration of Portland Head Light to its former height
455 and power, which is hereby directed; for rebuilding, renova-
456 vating, and improving the same, and buildings connected
457 with the light-houses and their supports.
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459 therewith; for the establishing and repairing of pier-head
460 lights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating
461 apparatus and machinery, three hundred and ten thousand
dollars.
462

463 For salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries,
464 fuel, rations, rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar
465 incidental expenses of one thousand and fifteen light-keepers
466 and fog-signals keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thou-
467 sand dollars.

468 For expenses of light-vessels: For seamen's wages,
469 rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of
470 thirty light-ships, two hundred and thirty *forty* thousand
dollars.
471

472 For expenses of buoyage: For expenses of raising,
473 cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, and supplying losses
474 of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for the maintenance
475 of whistling-buoys and bell-buoys, and for chains, sinkers,
476 and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five
477 *forty-five* thousand dollars.

478 For expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, renew-
479 ing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings
480 connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental ex-
penses of the same, *thirty-five* *sixty* thousand dollars.
481

482 For inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and
483 inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including

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484 rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand
dollars.
485

486 For lighting and buoyage of rivers: For maintenance of
487 post lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri,
488 Hudson, and Cape Fear Rivers, and at the mouth of Red
489 River, Louisiana, the Light-House Board being hereby au-
490 thorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and
491 beacons as are used to point out changeable channels, and
492 which in consequence cannot be made permanent, one hund-
493 *ninety-eight* *seventy-five* thousand dollars.

494 For survey of light-house sites: For examination and
495 survey of sites for proposed light-houses, and preparing plans
496 for proposed structures, five *ten* thousand dollars.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

497 For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the
498 survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United
499 States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide-
500 water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature
501 and current observations along the coasts and throughout
502 the Gulf Stream and *Japan Stream* flowing off the said
503 coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the
504 preparation of the Coast Pilot; a magnetic map of
505 North America, and the compilation of data for a
506 general map of the United States; and including
507 compensation not otherwise appropriated for of per-

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509 sons employed on the field-work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and including allowance for subsistence to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, not exceeding one dollar per day, as allowed by act of Congress approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and also including the repairs, outfit, and equipment of vessels used in the Survey, to be expended under the following heads:

518 FOR PARTY EXPENSES:

519 For continuing the survey of the unsurveyed portions of the coast of Maine eastward from Chandler's River toward Quoddy Head, six thousand five hundred nine thousand dollars.

523 For examination of reported dangers and changes on the eastern coast and Vineyard Sound, one two thousand five hundred dollars.

526 For continuing resurvey of Long Island Sound, ten thousand five hundred fifteen thousand dollars.

528 For completing resurvey of Delaware Bay, including current observations, six nine thousand dollars.

530 For continuing examination of changes and resurveys on the sea-coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight two thousand one hundred dollars.

533 For survey of estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, including

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534 Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, and of sounds and tide-water
535 passages in North and South Carolina not heretofore surveyed, one thousand two hundred two thousand dollars.

536 For continuing the survey of the sounds on the eastern coast of Florida, including the Saint John's River, two thousand five hundred four thousand dollars.

538 For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from San Carlos entrance southward, and from Bayport southward, and hydrography of same, four six thousand dollars.

540 For examining the changes in Mobile Bay, and surveying around the Chandeleur Islands and the waters on the east coast of Louisiana, one thousand four two thousand five hundred dollars.

542 For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana from Bayou La Fourche westward and between Vermillion Bay and Merenteau Pass, including hydrography on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, five six thousand five hundred dollars.

544 For making the requisite verification of the work and for re-examinations of entrances on the coast of Texas, one thousand eight two thousand five hundred dollars.

546 To make off-shore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, six seven thousand dollars.

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559 For continuing the researches in physical hydrography
560 relating to harbors and bars, three thousand six hundred dollars.

562 For determinations of geographical positions (longitude party), two three thousand dollars.

564 To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta
toward Mobile, two thousand five hundred dollars.

566 For continuing an exact line of levels from the Gulf to
567 the transcontinental line of levels between the Atlantic and
568 Pacific Oceans, one two thousand dollars.

569 To continue tide observations on the Atlantic and Gulf
570 coasts, and researches relating thereto, two three thousand
dollars.

572 To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and
573 Gulf coasts, five hundred dollars.

574 To continue gravity experiments, three thousand
575 five hundred dollars.

576 To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to
577 make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two
578 thousand five hundred dollars.

579 For continuing the compilation of data for a
general map of the United States, two thousand dollars.

581 For continuing the survey of the coast of California,
582 namely:

583 For topography from San Luis Capistrano toward San

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584 Diego, from Point Piedras Blancas to Cape San Martin, and
585 supplementary surveys near San Francisco, five-thousand
586 five-hundred eight thousand dollars.

587 For primary triangulation from San Luis Obispo north-
588 ward, from Santa Clara southward, and from Trinidad north-
589 ward, including a line of precise levels from Saucelito to the
590 transcontinental line of levels, eleven sixteen thousand
dollars.

591 For hydrography off the same coast, five seven
592 thousand dollars.

594 For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon,
595 namely: Survey from Umpquah River southward, and in-
596 including such river mouths as may be specially called for,
597 and off-shore hydrography, and the survey of Columbia
598 River and Willamette River to the head of ship navigation,
599 seven ten thousand dollars.

600 For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington
601 Territory, namely: For continuing the triangulation, topog-
602 raphy, and hydrography of Fuca Strait, of the estuaries of
603 Puget Sound, and of Possession Sound, nine fourteen thou-
604 sand dollars.

605 For expenses of the transfer of the steamer Patterson
606 from New York to San Francisco, five thousand one hundred
607 and fifty dollars.

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608 For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska;

609 the preparation for and making hydrographic surveys in the

610 same, three-thousand-five *four thousand eight hundred* and

611 fifty dollars.

612 For miscellaneous work and contingencies of all kinds,

613 including traveling expenses of officers and men of the

614 Navy on duty, not specified in the above, and for any

615 special surveys that may be required by the Light-House

616 Board or other proper authority, one-thousand-four-hundred

617 *two thousand* dollars.

618 For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast,

619 two thousand four hundred dollars.

620 For magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, two

621 thousand dollars.

622 For traveling expenses of the Superintendent and his

623 party on duty of inspection, eight *one thousand two hundred* dollars.

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625 For objects not hereinbefore named that may be

626 deemed urgent, one thousand *five hundred* dollars.

627 And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall

628 be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects

629 named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and eighteen

630 *thousand sixty-four thousand eight hundred* dollars.

631 For furnishing points for State surveys, sixteen

632 thousand dollars.

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633 Transcontinental geodetic work:

634 For transcontinental geodetic work, including line of

635 leveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, twenty

636 thousand dollars.

637 PAY OF FIELD OFFICERS:

638 For pay of the Superintendent, six thousand dollars.

639 For pay of six assistants, at rates between three thou-

640 sand dollars and four thousand dollars per annum, twenty

641 thousand eight hundred dollars.

642 For pay of nineteen assistants, at rates between two

643 thousand dollars and three thousand dollars per annum, forty-

644 three thousand dollars.

645 For pay of twenty-one assistants, at rates between one

646 thousand five hundred dollars and two thousand dollars per

647 annum, thirty-six thousand dollars.

648 For pay of nine subassistants, at rates between one

649 thousand one hundred dollars and one thousand four hundred

650 dollars per annum, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty

651 dollars.

652 For pay of nine aids, at rates between seven hundred

653 and twenty dollars and nine hundred dollars per annum,

654 seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; total pay in

655 field, one hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred

656 and seventy dollars.

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657 PAY OF OFFICE FORCE:

658 In office of Superintendent, five persons, from seven
659 hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand eight hundred
660 dollars per annum, six thousand and fifty dollars.

661 In office of disbursing agent, three persons, from one
662 thousand four hundred dollars to three thousand dollars per
663 annum, six thousand two hundred dollars.

664 In office of hydrographic inspector, five persons, from
665 six hundred and forty dollars per annum to two thousand
dollars per annum, five thousand nine hundred and forty
666 dollars.

668 In office of the Coast Pilot, three persons, from seven
669 hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand five hundred
dollars per annum, three thousand four two hundred and
670 twenty dollars.

672 In office of the assistant in charge, nine persons, from
673 six hundred dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars
674 per annum, nine thousand three hundred dollars.

675 In computing division, seven persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to one thousand eight hundred and
676 fifty dollars per annum, nine thousand five hundred dollars.

678 In division of tides, four persons, from seven hundred and twenty dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, four thousand six hundred dollars.

681 In drawing division, twelve persons, from five hundred

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682 dollars to two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

683 In engraving division, twenty-six persons, from six hundred dollars to two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, thirty-seven thousand dollars.

684 In miscellaneous division, eighteen persons, from three hundred and thirteen dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

689 In instrument shop, eight persons, from seven hundred and thirty dollars to two thousand dollars per annum, nine thousand three hundred dollars.

693 In San Francisco suboffice, three persons, from eight hundred and forty dollars to one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, three thousand five hundred and forty dollars; total pay in office, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.

698 RENT OF OFFICE BUILDINGS:

699 For rent of buildings for offices, work-rooms, and work-shops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

700 For rent of fire-proof building numbered two hundred and five New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safe-keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; of instruments, engraved plates,

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707 and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars.

709 OFFICE EXPENSES:

710 For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument-shop for reconstruction and repairs, and for books, maps, and charts, including subscriptions, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.

714 For materials for the drawing division and for chart mounting, including drawing-paper; for copper plates, chart-paper, printer's ink; copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping; engravers' and printers' supplies; materials for carpenter's shop; for extra engraving, including map of the United States, and the necessary copper plates therefor; and for photolithographing charts for immediate use, seventeen thousand one hundred dollars.

722 For stationery for the office and field parties; transportation of instruments, supplies, and so forth; office wagon; fuel; gas; telegrams; ice; washing; extra labor; office furniture and repairs; and for allowances to the assistants in charge of office details, in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

729 For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office, sent on special duty in the service of the office,

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732 two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; total general expenses of office, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.

734 PUBLISHING OBSERVATIONS:

735 For continuing the publication of observations and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, six thousand dollars.

740 For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including new boilers for the steamer Hassler, forty-two thousand dollars.

744 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

745 For paper and stamps for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, four hundred and ten fifty thousand dollars; the engraving and printing of said stamps to be done in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That the cost of doing it there shall not hereafter exceed what it shall be found after an advertisement for proposals it would cost to have it done else-where.

755 For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or con-

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757 niving at the same, including payments for information and
detection of such violations, fifty thousand dollars; and the
758 Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed
759 statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has
760 expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all mis-
761 cellaneous expenditures in the Division Bureau of Internal
762 Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act.
763

764 For contingent expenses under the requirements of
765 section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised
766 Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping,
767 transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for
768 transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the
769 United States, fifty-five thousand dollars;--and hereafter
770 contracts for the transportation of all-moneys,--ballion,--coin;
771 notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States; and
772 paper, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder therefor;
773 after due legal advertisement.

774 For freight on bullion and coin: For freight on bullion
775 and coin between the mints and assay-offices, fifteen
776 twenty thousand dollars.

777 For expenses of the national currency: For paper, ex-
778 press charges, and other expenses, twenty thousand dollars.

779 For the distinctive paper for United States securities:
780 For paper, including mill expenses, transportation, examina-
781 tion, counting, and delivery, thirty-five thousand dollars.

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782 For transportation of silver coin: For transportation of
783 silver coin as required by law, twenty thousand dollars.

784 Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinage of
785 gold and silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under
786 the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thou-
787 sand dollars.

788 For the repair of the United States mint building at
789 Denver, Colorado, ten thousand dollars.

790 That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury
791 Department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to
792 examine the claim of the State of Massachusetts for expenses
793 incurred and paid, at the request of the President and
794 Secretary of State, during the war, in protecting the harbors
795 and strengthening the fortifications on the coast, now on file
796 with the Third Auditor, and to audit the same, under
797 the act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and
798 sixty-one (twelfth Statutes at Large, page two hundred
799 and seventy six, and report the amount found due to Con-
800 gress.

801 UNDER THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES.

802 For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduc-
803 tion by the United States Fish Commission into, and to
804 increase in, the waters of the United States of useful food-
805 fishes, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and
806 for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of the

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807 food-fishes of the United States, including salaries or com-
808 pensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and
809 twenty-five thousand dollars; and ten per centum of the
810 amounts appropriated for the service of the United States
811 Fish Commission shall be available interchangeably for ex-
812 penditure on the objects named.

813 For expenses of the office of the United States Fish
814 Commission: For rent of rooms and other necessary office
815 expenses in the city of Washington, one thousand five hun-
816 dred three hundred and eighty dollars.

817 For the maintenance of fish-ponds: For the main-
818 tenance of the United States fish-ponds in Wash-
819 ington and elsewhere, and the distribution of carp and
820 other young fish, including salaries or compensation of all
821 necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars.

822 For the maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance
823 of the vessels of the United States Fish Commission, in-
824 cluding salaries or compensation of all necessary employees,
825 for storage and wharfage, and for the boats, apparatus, and
826 machinery required for use therewith, forty-five thousand
dollars.

828 For the completion of the car for the distribution of
carp and other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the
829 United States, authorized by act approved March third,
830 eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and its equipment, three
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832 thousand four thousand five hundred dollars; and the sum
833 of five thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by the act
834 approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for
835 the construction of a car for the distribution of carp and
836 other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United
837 States, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made
838 available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-
839 five.

840 For completion of the necessary constructions at
841 Wood's Holl Harbor, Massachusetts, and their equipment,
842 for the propagation of and investigation in regard to useful
843 sea-fishes and other marine animals, fifteen twenty-five
844 thousand dollars.

845 For the inquiry of food-fishes: For collecting statistics
846 of the sea-coast and lake fisheries of the United States,
847 especially those covered by the Washington treaty of
848 eighteen hundred and seventy-one, including salaries and
849 compensation of all necessary employees, three thousand
850 five hundred dollars.

851 For illustrations for the report on food-fishes: For
852 preparation of illustrations for the report of the United
853 States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand
dollars.

CURRENT EXPENSES PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

855 For pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay
856 of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal
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858 services in connection with all public buildings under control
859 of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Colum-
860 bia, three hundred *and sixty* thousand dollars.

861 For heating apparatus for public buildings, including
862 new buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating appa-
863 ratus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, in
864 cluding marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury De-
865 partment, one hundred and twenty-five *fifty* thousand
dollars.

867 For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings,
868 including new buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks,
869 and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under
870 control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dol-
lars.

871 For plans for public buildings: For books, photo-
872 graphic materials, and in duplicating plans required for all
873 public buildings under control of the Treasury Department,
874 two thousand five hundred dollars.

875 For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For
876 fuel, lights, water, and miscellaneous items required by the
877 janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, fur-
878 niture, and heating-apparatus, exclusive of personal services,
879 for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under the
880 control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new build-
881 ings, five hundred thousand dollars.

882 For furniture and repairs of furniture, including carpets,
883 for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury De-
884 partment, including marine hospitals, and for furniture, car-
885 pets, chandeliers, and gas-fixtures for six new buildings,
886 namely: Buffalo, New York; Frankfort, Kentucky; Jack-
887 son, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio;
888 Memphis, Tennessee, three hundred thousand dollars. And
889 all furniture now owned by the United States in other build-
890 ings in said cities, respectively, shall be used as far as prac-
891 ticable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation
892 plans for furniture or not.

893 For shore protection of the marine hospital near
894 Chicago, Illinois, eight thousand dollars.
895 SUPPRESSING COUNTERFEITING AND SIMILAR FELONIES.
896 For the expenses of detecting and bringing to trial
897 and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury
898 notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities
899 of the United States, as well as the coins of the United
900 States, and other felonies committed against the laws
901 of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws,
902 and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dol-
lars.

903 COMPENSATION IN LIEU OF MOIETIES.
904 For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain
cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty-five thousand
dollars.

905 For furniture and repairs of furniture, including carpets,
906 including marine hospitals, and for furniture, car-
907 pets, chandeliers, and gas-fixtures for six new buildings,
908 namely: Buffalo, New York; Frankfort, Kentucky; Jack-
909 son, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio;
910 Memphis, Tennessee, three hundred thousand dollars. And
911 all furniture now owned by the United States in other build-
912 ings in said cities, respectively, shall be used as far as prac-
913 ticable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation
914 plans for furniture or not.

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ALASKAN SEAL-FISHERIES.

909

910

911

For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows:

912

For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

913

914

For one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.

915

916

For two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.

917

918

919

920

921

For necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars.

922

923

924

925

926

927

For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the protection of the interests of the Government on the seal-islands and the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty-five thousand dollars.

928

LANDS AND OTHER PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES.

929

930

931

For custody, care, protection, and sale of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars.

932

LIBRARY OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

933

934

935

For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars.

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936

937

938

939

940

To meet such expenses as may be necessary to be incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five thousand dollars.

941

942

943

That all laws or parts of laws authorizing the appointment of a National Board of Health be, and the same are hereby repealed.

944

945

For pay and expenses of the members of the National Board of Health, ten thousand dollars;

946

947

For the investigation of questions affecting the public health, eight thousand dollars;

948

949

950

For rent, fuel, postage, telegraphing, printing, and all other miscellaneous expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars;

951

952

953

For clerks and messenger, four thousand five hundred dollars; amounting in all to twenty-five thousand dollars.

954

955

956

957

958

959

960

961

962

The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic, to use the unexpended balance of appropriation made by act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and maintaining quarantine at points of danger.

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963 United States quarantine buildings, Marine Hospital
964 Service: Gulf quarantine: For building wharf, ten thousand
dollars.

965 To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to establish
966 and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper
967 shelter for and care of neat cattle imported, at such
968 ports as he may deem necessary, ten fifty thousand dol-
lars.

971 For amount necessary to pay direct-tax purchasers the
972 amount paid by said purchasers for real estate sold under
973 the direct-tax laws, and from which they have been evicted
974 by judgment of a United States court, two thousand four
975 hundred and fourteen dollars.

976 UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AT THE
977 WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL AND COTTON CENTENNIAL EX-
978 POSITION AT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

979 To enable the several Executive Departments, the De-
980 partment of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution to
981 participate in the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial
982 Exposition to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, under act
983 of Congress of February tenth, eighteen hundred and
984 eighty-three, as follows: For the War Department, eighty
985 thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, sixty thou-
986 sand dollars; for the State Department, ten twenty thousand
dollars; for the Treasury Department, ten fifteen thousand dol-
lars; for the Interior Department (not including the Bureau of

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989 Education), one hundred and twenty-five fifty thousand dollars;
990 for the Bureau of Education, Interior Department, forty
991 thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, ten
992 thousand dollars; for the Department of Agriculture, forty
993 thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, three
994 thousand dollars; for the Smithsonian Institution (including
995 the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fish-
996 eries), one hundred thousand dollars; for necessary
997 incidental expenses of administration by the board, includ-
998 ing office-rent, fuel, gas, stationery, telegrams, and express-
999 age, twenty-two thousand dollars; in all, five hundred thou-
1000 sand dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the Board
1001 on United States Executive Departments appointed under
1002 executive order of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
1003 four; and no expenses of any kind beyond the amounts herein
1004 provided for shall be incurred by any of the said Departments,
1005 or any officer thereof on account of said exposition.

UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

1006 For navy-yard, New York: For dredging, thirty thou-
1007
1008 sand dollars.

1009 For repairing the dry-dock at the Brooklyn, New
1010 York, Navy Yard, one hundred and forty thousand nine
1011 hundred and fifty-four dollars.

1012 To enable the Secretary of the Navy to continue
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1013 the improvement of the cob-dock at the navy yard,

1014 Brooklyn, New York, the unexpended balance of the ap-

1015 propriation made by act of March third, eighteen hundred

1016 and eighty-three (twenty-second Statutes, page six hundred

1017 and twenty), amounting to forty-seven thousand three

1018 hundred and sixty-two dollars, is hereby reappropriated

1019 and made available for expenditures during the fiscal year

1020 ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

1021 Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Continuation of

1022 stone dry-dock, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

1023 For the erection of a new derrick at the Mare

1024 Island Navy Yard, forty thousand dollars.

1025 For Coasters' Harbor Island, Rhode Island:

1026 For completion of wharf, dredging, heating apparatus,

1027 water supply for drill-hall and training-ships, repairs to old

1028 building and main causeway, and for lighting thorough-

1029 fares, houses, and vessels at Coasters' Harbor Island, forty-

1030 one thousand dollars.

1031 For incidental expenses of conducting a post-grad-

1032 uate school for naval officers, five thousand dollars.

1033 For the publication of information from abroad

1034 Bureau of Navigation, five thousand dollars.

1035 For altering and refitting one of the Government

1036 buildings at the Norfolk Navy Yard as a barrack for

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1037 marines stationed there, twelve thousand three hundred and

1038 fifty dollars.

1039 For completing the repairs to the superintendent's

1040 house at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, five thousand

1041 dollars.

1042 To pay the owners of the schooner Druid in full

1043 satisfaction of their claim for loss and damage to said ves-

1044 sel and cargo resulting from collision with the United States

1045 s'emer Powhatan, on the fifteenth day of October, eighteen

1046 hundred and eighty-three, off the coast of Halifax, eleven

1047 thousand-two hundred and one dollars and forty-three

1048 cents.

1049 For mileage of officers of the Navy, being for pay-

1050 ment of accounts audited and allowed by the accounting

1051 officers of the Treasury, twenty-nine thousand three hundred

1052 and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.

1053 For navy-yards and stations, one hundred and

1054 twenty-five fifty thousand dollars.

1055 Naval Observatory.

1056 To enable the President to appoint a scientific com-

1057 mission, composed of scientific men, to inquire into the

1058 organization, work, expenses; and reconstruction of the

1059 Naval Observatory, and to report to Congress the best

1060 system for its future management, seven-hundred dollars;

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1061 to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the

1062 Navy.

1063 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

1064 To complete the improvement of the Hot Springs

1065 Creek, in the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, seventy-five

1066 thousand dollars.

1067 BUREAU OF LABOR.

1068 For salary of Commissioner of Labor, three thousand

1069 dollars; salary of chief clerk, two thousand dollars; rent of

1070 rooms for use of Bureau, and for fuel, lihgt, and stationery,

1071 three thousand dollars; and for other necessary expenses of

1072 said Bureau, to be expended under the direction of the Sec-

1073 retary of the Interior, and as provided by law, seventeen

1074 thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars.

1075 PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

1076 For completing the reconstruction of the south and

1077 east wings of the building occupied by the Department of

1078 the Interior, by completing the work on the south wing

1079 and main portico on F street ready for occupancy, ninety-

1080 one thousand dollars.

1081 For repairing the heating apparatus of the south wing,

1082 two thousand dollars.

1083 For construction of coal-vaults on the north front

1084 of the building, and the replacing of flagging ruined by

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1085 the debris from fire of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,

1086 seven thousand five hundred dollars.

1087 For rebuilding of furnaces in the east wing, and putting

1088 them in serviceable and safe condition, one thousand dollars.

1089 For casual repairs of the Interior Department building:

1090 For casual repairs of the Department building, five thousand

1091 seven hundred and eighty dollars.

1092 For the Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol,

1093 and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechan-

1094 ics and workmen and fresco-painter, forty thousand dollars.

1095 For improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the

1096 work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and

1097 for care of the grounds, including the pay to land-

1098 scape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gar-

1099 deners, and workmen, fifty-two thousand dollars.

1100 For constructing terraces north and south of the

1101 Capitol, sections marked A and M, as shown on printed

1102 plan accompanying the letter of the Secretary of the Treas-

1103 ury (Executive Document Number Nine, first session Forty-

1104 eighth Congress), one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars,

1105 including wages of mechanics and laborers: Provided,

1106 That the work under this appropriation shall be confined

1107 to the north and south fronts of the Capitol building, and

1108 shall not extend westward beyond the line of the west fronts

1109 of the Senate and House wings of the Capitol.

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1110 For lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden and Senate and House stables: For gas, electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for gas or electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty thousand dollars.

1116 Enlarging court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For work on terrace, water-closets in upper story, iron window guards, and for painting roof, and for general repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1120 For paving sidewalk on south and east fronts of National Museum building, one thousand dollars.

1122 New Pension Building: For completion of the new Pension Building, as per estimate contained in Senate Executive Document Number One Hundred and Eighty-eight, present session, two hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents.

1127 PUBLIC LANDS.

1128 Office of the surveyor-general of Arizona:

1129 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Arizona: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1133 Office of the surveyor-general of California:

1134 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

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1135 general of California: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars.

1138 Office of the surveyor-general of Colorado:

1139 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Colorado: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1143 Office of the surveyor-general of Dakota:

1144 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota and Dakota: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.

1148 Office of the surveyor-general of Florida:

1149 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Florida: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.

1153 Office of surveyor-general of Idaho:

1154 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-general of Idaho: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1158 Office of the surveyor-general of Louisiana:

1159 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

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1160 general of Louisiana: For fuel, books, stationery, messen-

1161 ger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.

1162 Office of the surveyor-general of Montana:

1163 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1164 general of Montana: For rent of office for the surveyor-

1165 general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and

1166 other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.

1167 Office of the surveyor-general of Nevada:

1168 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1169 general of Nevada: For rent of office for the surveyor-gen-

1170 eral, fuel, books, stationery, purchase of safe, pay of mes-

1171 senger, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars

1172 Office of the surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa:

1173 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1174 general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rent of office for the

1175 surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other inci-

1176 dental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1177 Office of the surveyor-general of New Mexico:

1178 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1179 general of New Mexico: For rent of office for the surveyor-

1180 general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other

1181 incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1182 Office of the surveyor-general of Oregon:

1183 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1184 general of Oregon: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of mes-

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1185 senger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five

1186 hundred dollars.

1187 Office of the surveyor-general of Utah:

1188 For contingent expenses of the office of surveyor-

1189 general of Utah: For rent of office for the surveyor-general,

1190 pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other inci-

1191 dental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1192 Office of the surveyor-general of Washington:

1193 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1194 general of Washington: For rent of office for the surveyor-

1195 general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other

1196 incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dol-

1197 lars.

1198 Office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming:

1199 For contingent expenses of the office of the surveyor-

1200 general of Wyoming: For rent of office for the surveyor-

1201 general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other

1202 incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1203 EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM

1204 SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS.

1205 For sa aries and commissions of registers of land-offices

1206 and receivers of public moneys at district land-offices, at

1207 not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred

1208 thousand dollars.

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1209 For incidental expenses of the several land-offices,
1210 one-hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.

1211 For expenses of depositing money received from the
1212 sale of public lands, twelve fifteen thousand dollars.

1213 To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public
1214 lands, seventy-five thousand dollars.

1215 For the protection of public lands from illegal and
1216 fraudulent entry or appropriation, seventy-five thousand
1217 dollars.

1218 For expenses of agents employed in adjusting for
1219 swamp lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, fifteen
1220 twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and
1221 others employed under the three preceding paragraphs,
1222 while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem in lieu
1223 of subsistence at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the
1224 Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for
1225 actual necessary expenses for transportation.

1226 To enable the Commissioner of the General Land
1227 Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official
1228 plats of surveys now on file, and other plats constituting a
1229 part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local
1230 land-officers with the same, twenty thousand dollars.

1231 To enable the Commissioner of the General
1232 Land Office to prepare and publish a new map of the
1233 United States, five thousand dollars.

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SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.

1234

1235 For surveying the public lands, three-hundred
1236 four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at rates
1237 not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for stand-
1238 and meander miles, seven dollars for town-
1239 ship, and five dollars for section lines, except that the
1240 Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for
1241 the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heav-
1242 ily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense under-
1243 growth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for
1244 standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars
1245 for section lines; or where, for any cause not provided for
1246 by law, in Oregon or Washington Territory, he is unable
1247 to get the necessary surveys made at the rates aforesaid, he
1248 may allow a sum, not exceeding twelve dollars per linear
1249 mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township lines, and six
dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated
1250 not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof may be expended
1251 for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several
1252 surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work
1253 in the field and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imper-
1254 fect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting
1255 mineral deposits, coal-fields, and timber districts, and for the
1256 making of such other surveys or examinations as may be
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1258 required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence
1259 in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States.

1260 For such resurveys of the public lands as, in the dis-
1261 cretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
1262 may be considered necessary, ten thousand dollars.

1263 For establishing initial monuments of a permanent
1264 character to govern mineral survey, in order to secure accu-
1265 racy in survey of mineral claims, and to connect the mon-
1266 uments with each other and with the public lands, five
1267 thousand dollars.

1268 For survey of confirmed and preliminary survey of
1269 unconfirmed private land-claims in Arizona, at a rate not
1270 exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and office ex-
1271 penses, eight thousand dollars.

1272 For survey of confirmed and preliminary survey of un-
1273 confirmed private land-claims in New Mexico, at a rate not
1274 exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and office ex-
1275 penses, eight thousand dollars.

1276 For survey of confirmed private land-claims in Cali-
1277 fornia, at the rates prescribed by law, including office ex-
1278 penses incidental to the service, five thousand dollars.

1279 For survey of private land-claims in Louisiana, at the
1280 rates prescribed by law, five thousand dollars.

1281 For purchase of iron monuments, cost of transporta-
1282 tion to the offices of surveyors-general, and storage, to mark

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1283 the lines of public surveys passing over public lands devoid
1284 of timber and stone, five thousand dollars.

1285 For the protection and improvement of the Yellow-
1286 stone National Park: For every purpose and object neces-
1287 sary for the protection, preservation, and improvement o
1288 the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of
1289 superintendent and employees, forty thousand dollars, two
1290 thousand dollars of said amount to be paid annually to a
1291 superintendent of said park, and not exceeding nine hundred
1292 dollars annually to each of ten assistants, all of whom shall
1293 be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and reside
1294 continuously in the park, and whose duty it shall be. to
1295 protect the game, timber, and objects of interest therein;
1296 the-balance-of-the-sum-appropriated-to: Provided, That of
1297 the foregoing sum twenty-seven thousand dollars shall be
1298 expended in the construction and improvement of suitable
1299 roads and bridges within said park, under the supervision
1300 and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secre-
1301 tary of War for that purpose.

1302 INDIAN AFFAIRS.

1303 For this amount, to pay the Creek Nation of Indians
1304 for one hundred and fifty-one thousand eight hundred and
1305 seventy and forty-eight hundredths acres of land, being the
1306 amount taken by the United States in excess of the esti-
1307 mate made in the third article of the treaty with said In-

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1308 dians proclaimed August eleventh, eighteen hundred and

1309 sixty-six, at thirty cents per acre, with interest thereon at

1310 five per centum per annum from the date of the proclama-

1311 tion of said treaty, eighty-six thousand three hundred and

1312 thirteen dollars and four cents.

1313 For this amount, or so much thereof as may be

1314 necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to appoint

1315 and pay the expenses of a commission of three persons to

1316 examine and report what changes should be made in the

1317 boundary-lines of Indian reservations and the location of

1318 Indian agencies in Northern Montana, and to confer with

1319 the Crows in reference to a reduction of their reservation,

1320 and also to report, upon examination, what changes are

1321 necessary in the location of the Rosebud, Lower Brule,

1322 and Cheyenne River Agencies, in Dakota Territory, ten

1323 thousand dollars.

1324 To pay amount found due N. C. Smith, as per

1325 certificate of Second Comptroller numbered eighteen hundred and forty-eight, dated June ninth, eighteen hundred

1326 and eighty-four, under appropriation made by the act of

1327 August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for

1328 "payment of indebtedness incurred by Silas H. Sweetland,"

1329 one hundred dollars.

1330

1331 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

1332 For the United States Geological Survey: For the

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1333 Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands,

1334 and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and to continue

1335 the preparation of a geological map of the United States;
1336 for furnishing points for State surveys; and to continue

1337 the collection of statistics of mines and mining,

1338 including the pay of temporary employees in the field and

1339 office, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary

1340 of the Interior, four hundred three hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars. And the scientific employees of

1341 the Geological Survey shall be selected by the Director
1342 of the Interior exclusively for their qualifications

1343 as professional experts.

1344

1345 For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological

1346 Survey: For salary of five geologists, at four thousand dollars each;

1347

1348 For salary of two geologists, at three thousand dollars each;

1349

1350 For salary of one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars;

1351

1352 For salary of two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each;

1353

1354 For salary of two geologists, at two thousand dollars each;

1355

1356 For salary of one paleontologist, four thousand dollars;

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1358 For salary of one paleontologist, two thousand dollars;

1359 For salary of one chemist, three thousand dollars;

1360 For salary of one chemist, two thousand dollars;

1361 For salary of one chief geographer, two thousand
1362 seven hundred dollars:

1363 For salary of three geographers, at two thousand five
1364 hundred dollars each;

1365 For salary of one general assistant, three thousand
dollars:

1367 For salary of three topographers, at two thousand
dollars each; in all, sixty-seven *sixty-four* thousand seven
1368
1369 hundred dollars.

1370 TENTH CENSUS.

1371 For the work of taking the tenth census, and closing
1372 the Bureau on November first June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four eighty-five, including the salary of the
1373 Superintendent and of all clerks and other employees, ten
1374
1375 seventy-five thousand dollars.

1376 And in addition to the number of printed copies
1377 of the reports of the tenth census authorized by the act en-
titled "An act to provide for the publication of the tenth
census," approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and
1378
1379 eighty-two, there shall be printed twenty-five thousand
copies of the Compendium of the Tenth Census, of which
1380
1381 eight thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate,
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1383 sixteen thousand copies for the use of the House, and one
1384 thousand copies for the use of the Department of the In-
terior; and there shall also be printed and separately
1385 bound in paper covers an edition of each of the
1386 following-named monograph reports, the number of copies
1387 of each edition to be as follows, namely: Of the re-
ports on the seal-islands of Alaska, on ship-building,
1388
1389 on the cereals, on the manufacture of glass, on the resources
1390 of Alaska, on tobacco culture, on the factory system, on
1391 wages paid in manufacturing industries, three thousand
copies each; of the reports on the newspapers and publishing
1392
1393 interests, on silk manufacture, on chemical products and salt,
1394 on flour-milling, on meat production, on the production of
1395 petroleum, on the manufacture of coke, on the manufacture of
1396 tobacco, on the manufacture of shop-tools, two thousand five
1397 hundred copies each; of the report on cotton culture in the
1398 United States, including reports on cotton fiber and cotton-
seed oil, three thousand copies; of the report on cotton
culture in Louisiana, in Mississippi, in Tennessee and
1399
1400 Kentucky, in Missouri, in Arkansas, in Texas, in Ala-
1401 bama, in Georgia, in North Carolina, in South Car-
1402 lina, in Virginia, in California, and in the Indian
1403 Territory, two thousand copies each: Provided, That of
1404 the above-named separate editions one-fourth shall be for

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