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1407 the use of the Senate, one-half for the use of the House,
1408 and one-fourth for the use of the Census Office: Provided
1409 also, That the copies of the Compendium and mono-
1410 graph reports herein provided for shall be distributed
1411 through the Interior Department, according to the provis-
1412 ions of existing law: Provided further, That the changes
1413 or corrections necessitated by errata in former editions of
1414 the reports herein referred to shall first be made by the
1415 Superintendent of Census; and the sum of sixty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray
1416 the expenses of printing and binding the publications herein
1417 provided for, shall be paid out of the appropriation made
1418 by the act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-
1419 two, entitled "An act to provide for the publication of the
tenth census."
1420
1421

1422 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

1423 GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

1424 For current expenses of the Government Hospital for
1425 the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the
1426 Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the
1427 Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Serv-
1428 ice, and those committed from the National Homes for
1429 Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and persons charged with or
1430 convicted of crimes against the United States, and of
1431 all persons who have become insane since their entry

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1432 into the military or naval service of the United States,
1433 and who are indigent, two hundred and eight thousand three
1434 hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand dollars of
1435 this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the
1436 removal of patients to their friends.

1437 And in addition to the persons now entitled to admis-
sion to the Government Hospital for the Insane, any
1438 inmate of the Soldiers' Home who is now or may here-
1439 after become insane shall, upon an order of the president
1440 of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, be
1441 admitted to said hospital and treated therein; and if any
1442 inmate so admitted from said home is or thereafter
1443 becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child,
1444 nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for
1445 support, his arrears of pension and his pension-money
1446 accruing during the period he shall remain in said
1447 hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital,
1448 and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution
1449 for the general uses thereof; and the expenses of maintain-
1450 ing any such person shall be paid from the Soldiers' Home
1451 fund.
1452

1453 For the buildings and grounds of the Government
1454 Hospital for the Insane, as follows:

1455 For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand
dollars.
1456

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1457 For building one wooden cottage at the cemetery,
1458 eight hundred dollars.

1459 To continue the work of protection from fire, five
1460 thousand dollars.

1461 For building and to complete a barn for stock and the
1462 storage of farm products, three five thousand dollars.

1463 COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

1464 For current expenses of the Columbia Institution for
1465 the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, includ-
1466 ing salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illus-
1467 trative apparatus, for general repairs, and improvements,
1468 fifty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than
1469 twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended
1470 for salaries and wages.

1471 For the improvement and inclosure of the grounds,
1472 and repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars.

1473 HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

1474 For maintenance of the Howard University: To be used
1475 in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors,
1476 and teachers, and other regular employees of the university,
1477 a portion of which will be paid from donations and other
1478 sources, fifteen eighteen thousand five hundred dollars;
1479 one-thousand--dollars--of-which--shall-be-paid-to-the-in-
1480 structor-of-logic, history, and English literature.

1481 For general repairs, five thousand dollars.

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1482 For increase of library and of philosophical and
1483 chemical apparatus, three thousand five hundred dollars.

1484 FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM.

1485 For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, Washing-
1486 ton, District of Columbia, as follows:

1487 For subsistence, twenty-four twenty-two thousand
dollars; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-
1488 chief, two assistant surgeons, engineer, clerk, matron, nurses,
1489 laundresses and cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers,
1490 thirteen fourteen thousand dollars, of which sum
1491 three thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid as salary
1492 to the surgeon-in-chief; for rent of hospital buildings and
1493 grounds, four thousand dollars; for fuel and light, clothing,
1494 bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical sup-
1495 plies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary
1496 expenses, nine eleven thousand dollars; in all, fifty-
1497 fifty-one thousand dollars.

1498 For building four bath-rooms and water-closets,
1499 relaying floors, and repairing porches, one thousand five
1500 hundred dollars; the same to be paid from any unexpended
1501 balances of appropriations for the said hospital for the
1502 fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

1503 NATIONAL MUSEUM.

1504 For the preservation of collections of the National Mu-

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1506 seum: For the preservation and exhibition and increase of
1507 the collections received from the surveying and exploring
1508 expeditions of the Government, and other sources, including
1509 salaries or compensation of all necessary employees,
1510 ninety-one *ninety-five* thousand dollars. And the Di-
1511 rector of the National Museum is hereby directed to report
1512 annually to Congress the progress of the museum during
1513 the year and its present condition.

1514 For transfer and arrangement of the collections of the
1515 American Institute of Mining Engineers, presented to the
1516 Government, including expenses already incurred, ten thou-
1517 sand dollars.

1518 For the preservation of collections of the National
1519 Museum in the Armory Building: For care of the Armory
1520 Building and grounds and expense of watching, preserva-
1521 tion, and storage of the duplicate collections of the Govern-
1522 ment and of the property of the United States Fish Commis-
1523 sion contained therein, including salaries or compensation of
154 all necessary employees, two thousand five hundred dollars.

1525 For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For
cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of
1526 the collections of the United States National Museum, and
1527 for salaries or compensation of all necessary employees,
1528 forty *fifty* thousand dollars.

1530 For heating and lighting the National Museum: For

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1531 expense of heating, lighting, and telephonic and electrical
1532 service for the new museum building, six thousand dol-
1533 lars.

1534 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

1535 For finishing, heating, gas-fitting, plumbing, and com-
1536 pletely furnishing the eastern portion of the Smithsonian
1537 Institution, and for finishing the fourth and fifth stories,
1538 *including liabilities already incurred*, fifteen thousand
dollars.

1540 For North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches
1541 among the American Indians, under the direction of the
1542 Secretary to the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries
1543 and compensation of all necessary employees, forty thou-
1545 sand dollars.

1546 UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

1547 ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

1548 For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as
1549 follows:

1550 For completing shop H, an iron-finishing shop, for the
1551 *armory*, fifty-five thousand dollars.

1552 For *armory-shop K*, an iron-finishing shop, fifty thou-
1553 sand dollars.

1554 For completing storehouse numbered four, fifty-four
1555 thousand dollars.

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1556 For machinery and shop-fixtures, ten thousand dollars.

1557 For general care, preservation, and improvement; for
1558 building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-
1559 power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent
1560 buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building
1561 fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad,
1562 ten twenty-six thousand dollars.

1563 For completion of the improvement of the water-pool
1564 above the dam, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

1565 To further deepen the water-power canal at Rock
1566 Island Arsenal, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dol-
1567 lars: Provided, That before said sum shall be expended
1568 the Moline Water-Power Company shall bind itself, upon
1569 the expenditure thereof for the purpose aforesaid, to re-
1570 lease and discharge the United States from all further
1571 liability or obligation under the contra t between said com-
1572 pany and the Secretary of War of August twenty-eighth,
1573 eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

1574 For the Rock Island bridge as follows:

1575 For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge,
1576 and expenses of maintaining and operating the draw, nine
1577 thousand dollars.

1578 For protecting the Rock Island bridge by means of
1579 sheer-booms, two hundred and fifty dollars.

1580 For Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California:

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1581 For permanent repairs of post and fences, four thousand
1582 and fifty-five dollars.

1583 For Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

1584 For connecting outlet of brick sewer in the vicinity

1585 officers quarters with Frankford Creek, one thousand dollars.

1586 For wood-working machinery, one thousand six hundred
1587 dred dollars.

1588 For one rectilineal lens and outfit for photographing
1589 drawings three hundred dollars.

1590 For new slate roof on niter storehouse, one thousand

1591 eight hundred dollars.

1592 For the San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas:

1593 For completing the two-story storehouse, ten thousand one

1594 hundred and fifty dollars.

1595 For completing one set of officers' quarters, and sheds

1596 to the same, three thousand dollars.

1597 For Piccatiny Powder Depot, Dover, New Jersey, forty
1598 thousand dollars.

1599 For the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey:

1600 For expenses of repairs and alteration of buildings at Sandy

1601 Hook; purchase and repairs of machinery, steam-engines,

1602 shafting and belting, and all other permanent repairs and

1603 improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars.

1604 For building for storage purposes at the proving-ground,

1605 two thousand five hundred dollars.

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1606 For the Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts:
1607 For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and ma-
1608 chinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand
1609 dollars.

1610 For repairs of arsenals: For repairs of arsenals, and to
1611 meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or
1612 other contingencies during the year may render necessary,
1 13 thirty thousand dollars.

1614 For erecting a new wall and underpinning part of old
1615 wall of south side of United States arsenal on Gray's Ferry
1616 road, at Philadelphia, twenty thousand dollars.

1617 That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed
1618 to sell at public auction, after due advertisement, and at
1619 prices not less than those fixed by a board of appraisers
1620 in each case, the following arsenals, to wit: Allegheny
1621 Arsenal, Pennsylvania; Augusta Arsenal, Georgia; Indian-
1622 apolis Arsenal, Indiana; Kennebec Arsenal, Maine; and
1623 Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts; and the money so re-
1624 received, after paying necessary expenses, to be covered into
1625 the Treasury.

1626 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

1627 For the preparation of a site and the erection of a
1628 pedestal for a statue of the late President James A. Gar-
1629 field, thirty thousand dollars; said site to be selected
1630 by and said pedestal to be erected under the supervision of

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1631 the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Commit-
1632 tee on the Library, and the chairman of the Garfield Monu-
1633 mental Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cum-
1634 berland.

1635 To defray the expenses attending the unveiling of the
1636 statue of the late Rear-Admiral Du Pont, to be erected in
1637 Du Pont Circle, in the city of Washington, District of Co-
1638 lumbia, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
1639 required, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary
1640 of War.

1641 For the improvement and care of public grounds, as
1642 follows:

1643 For improving, care, and maintenance of grounds south
1644 of the Executive Mansion, three ten thousand dollars.

1645 For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two
1646 thousand dollars.

1647 For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue,
1648 between Fourth and Sixth streets east, two thousand dollars.

1649 For improving reservation on North Carolina avenue
1650 between Second and Third streets east, two thousand dollars.

1651 For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand
1652 dollars.

1653 For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand
1654 dollars.

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1655 For care and improvement of reservation numbered three
1656 (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars.

1657 For continuing improvement of reservation numbered
1658 seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, twenty
1659 thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be
1660 expended upon other than property belonging to the United
1661 States.

1662 For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred
1663 dollars.

1664 For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars.

1665 For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts,
1666 two thousand dollars.

1667 For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.

1668 For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars.

1669 For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock
1670 for nursery, three thousand dollars.

1671 For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars.

1672 For flower-pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one
1673 thousand dollars.

1674 For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the
1675 public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1676 For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars.

1677 For improving, care, and maintenance of various reser-
1678 vations, five *fifteen* thousand dollars.

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1679 For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smith-
1680 sonian Grounds, five thousand dollars.

1681 For improvement of Washington Circle, two thousand
1682 dollars.

1683 For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows:

1684 For care and repair of *and furnishing* the Ex-
1685 ecutive Mansion, ten *fifteen* thousand dollars.

1686 For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses,
1687 two thousand five hundred dollars.

1688 For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four
1689 thousand dollars.

1690 For lighting the Executive Mansion and public
1691 grounds: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, plumb-
1692 ers, gas-fitting and plumbing, purchase and erection of lamps
1693 and lamp-posts, purchase of matches, and for repairs of all
1694 kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen's lodges,
1695 and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand dol-
1696 lars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected
1697 with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more
1698 than twenty-two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, in-
1699 cluding lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps,
1700 under any expenditure provided for in this act; and author-
1701 ity is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material
1702 for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum
1703 hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.

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1704 For repair of water-pipes and fire-plugs: For repairing

1705 and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean

1706 them, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing

1707 the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive

1708 Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy

1709 Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.

1710 For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Depart-

1711 ments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair

1712 of the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

1713 For the building for the State, War, and Navy Depart-

1714 ments: For continuing the construction of the building walls

1715 of the several stories of the west and center wings, preparation

1716 of cut granite for the upper stories of the same, and for

1717 each and every purpose connected with the construction of

1718 the building, including the rent of necessary office-rooms,

1719 three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

1720 MILITARY POSTS.

1721 For the construction of buildings at and the enlarge

1722 ment of military-posts at San Antonio, Fort D. A. Rus-

1723 sell, Fort Niobrara, Atlanta (Georgia), Fort Snelling, and at

1724 such other military posts as in the judgment of the Secre-

1725 tary of War may be necessary, two hundred and fifty

1726 thousand dollars.

1727 For the addition of two stories to the public build-

1728 ing for a quartermaster and commissary depot in process

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1729 of construction at Saint Paul, Minnesota, to be used as

1730 offices for officers of the Department of Dakota, thirty

1731 thousand dollars

1732 SIGNAL SERVICE.

1733 To be expended by the Secretary of War:

1734 For the observation and report of storms: For ex-

1735 penses of the meteorological observation and report of

1736 storms by telegraph and signal, or otherwise announcing the

1737 probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of

1738 commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for

1739 manufacture, purchase, and repair of instruments, five

1740 thousand five hundred dollars; for telegraphing reports, one

1741 hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars; for expenses of storm,

1742 cautionary, off-shore, and other signals on the sea

1743 and lake coasts of the United States, announcing the

1744 probable approach and force of storms, ten thousand

1745 dollars; for cotton-belt reports, seven thousand dollars;

1746 for continuing the connections of stations at life-saving

1747 stations and light-houses, including services of operators, re-

1748 pair-men, materials, and general service connected therewith,

1749 five fifteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, that

1750 such connections, in the opinion of the Superintendent of

1751 the Life-Saving Service and the Light-House Board, shall be

1752 deemed necessary; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of

1753 instrument-shelters, two thousand dollars; for rent, hire of

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1754 civilian employees, furniture, and other expenses of offices
1755 maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving re-
1756 ports, outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty
1757 thousand dollars; for river and flood reports, ten thousand
1758 dollars; maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of
1759 commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution,
1760 twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-
1761 one fifty-one thousand dollars: Provided, That the work of
1762 no other Department, Bureau, or Commission authorized by
1763 law shall be duplicated by this Bureau.

1764 For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines,
1765 thirty-four twenty-four thousand dollars.

1766 For the establishment of signal stations upon the
1767 island of Nantucket, and of submarine telegraphic com-
1768 munication from such stations to the mainland, forty
1769 thousand dollars, to be expended *w* der the direction of the
1770 Secretary of War.

1771 Pav: For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen
1772 second lieutenants, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars;
1773 for longevity pay to officers, to be paid with current monthly
1774 pay, four thousand dollars; for pay of one hundred and
1775 fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and
1776 twenty privates, including payment due on discharge, two
1777 hundred thousand dollars; one commissary-sergeant, four
1778 hundred and eight dollars, and one hospital-steward, three

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1779 hundred and sixty dollars, to be detailed from the Army:
1780 for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders,
1781 five thousand dollars; cost of telegrams in regard to dis-
1782 charged men, two hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of con-
1783 tract surgeon, one thousand two hundred dollars; for com-
1784 mutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where
1785 there are no public quarters, eight thousand two hundred and
1786 eight dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-five thousand one
1787 hundred and fifty-eight nine hundred and twenty-six
dollars. And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his
1788 discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not
1789 to exceed six eight commissioned officers, exclusive of the
1790 second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law,
1791 and of the three officers serving in the Arctic Seas.
1792

1793 Subsistence: For the subsistence of Signal Service en-
listed men, and for commutation of rations of Signal Service
1794 enlisted men, including nine thousand and ninety dollars
1795 and ninety cents for subsistence stores, authorized articles
1796 for sales to officers and enlisted men and company
1797 messes, as allowed by paragraph twenty-one hundred and
1798 ninety-nine, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and
1799 eighty-one, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
1800

1801 Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for
1802 officers and enlisted men at Fort Myer, Virginia, and for

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<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1803</td>
      <td>various offices at Fort Myer, Virginia, and on the</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1804</td>
      <td>United States military-telegraph lines, six thousand</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1805</td>
      <td>two hundred dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1806</td>
      <td>and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at nine dol-</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1807</td>
      <td>lars each per month, twenty-three thousand seven hun-</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1808</td>
      <td>dred and sixty dollars; commutation of fuel for two hun-</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1809</td>
      <td>dred and forty-three enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1810</td>
      <td>eight dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand three</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1811</td>
      <td>hundred and twenty-eight dollars; forage for twenty-five</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1812</td>
      <td>mules and six eight horses, three thousand one three</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1813</td>
      <td>hundred dollars; straw for thirty-one thirty-three ani-</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1814</td>
      <td>mals, at seven dollars each per annum, as allowed by</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1815</td>
      <td>paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Army Regu-</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1816</td>
      <td>lations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1817</td>
      <td>seventeen thirty-one dollars; straw for forty enlisted</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1818</td>
      <td>men at post of Fort Myer, Virginia, and for hospital at</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1819</td>
      <td>that post, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1820</td>
      <td>ninety-six, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1821</td>
      <td>eighty-one, forty-six dollars and eight cents; stationery,</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1822</td>
      <td>one hundred dollars; stoves and repairs to heating appa-</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1823</td>
      <td>ratus, six hundred dollars; lights, three hundred dollars;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1824</td>
      <td>in all, fifty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-one</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1825</td>
      <td>eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and eight cents.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1826</td>
      <td>Incidental expenses: Office furniture for post of Fort</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1827</td>
      <td>Myer, Virginia, one hundred dollars; horse and mule shoes,</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

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<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1828</td>
      <td>five hundred dollars; blacksmiths' and miscellaneous tools,</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1829</td>
      <td>four hundred dollars; veterinary supplies, three hundred</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1830</td>
      <td>dollars; fire apparatus and disinfectants, two hundred</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1831</td>
      <td>dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1832</td>
      <td>For interment of officers and men, two hundred</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1833</td>
      <td>dollars.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1834</td>
      <td>For apprehension of deserters, one hundred and</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1835</td>
      <td>twenty dollars.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1836</td>
      <td>Transportation: For transportation of material and</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1837</td>
      <td>funds, twenty-five thousand dollars; for transportation of men,</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1838</td>
      <td>eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1839</td>
      <td>means of transportation, namely, four horses and</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1840</td>
      <td>five mules, at not exceeding two hundred dollars each,</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1841</td>
      <td>one thousand eight hundred dollars; one set six mule</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1842</td>
      <td>harness, eighty-five dollars; one set four-mule ambulance</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1843</td>
      <td>harness, forty-five dollars; for leather, iron, and timbers for</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1844</td>
      <td>repairs to means of transportation, five hundred dollars;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1845</td>
      <td>in all, thirty-five thousand-five thirty-six thousand</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1846</td>
      <td>three hundred and five dollars.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1847</td>
      <td>Barracks and quarters: For commutation of quarters</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1848</td>
      <td>to enlisted men of the Signal Corps, eighty-four thousand</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1849</td>
      <td>one hundred and eight dollars; work and supplies at Fort</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1850</td>
      <td>Myer, Virginia, one thousand five hundred dollars; work</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1851</td>
      <td>and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, on hospital account,</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

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1852 three hundred dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand nine
1853 hundred and eight dollars.

1854 Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For six wall-
tents, complete, at nineteen dollars and thirty cents each, and
1855 for other articles to replace those worn out in service, four
1856 hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents; clothing issues
1857 in kind, say complete outfits for one hundred and twelve
1858 men of the Signal Corps, at an average of forty-three dol-
lars and seventy-five cents per man per annum, four thou-
1859 sand nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hun-
1860 dred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents.

1863 Medical department: For medical attendance
1864 and medicines for officers and enlisted men of
1865 the Signal Corps, five thousand dollars; medical attend-
1866 ance and medicines for officers doing duty in connection
1867 with the Signal Service, one hundred dollars; medical and
1868 hospital supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, seven hundred dol-
lars; medicines furnished to officers and enlisted men from
1869 purveying depots and Army dispensaries, one thousand dol-
lars; materials for repairs of hospitals at Fort Myer, Vir-
1870 ginia, two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars.

1872 And there shall not be expended from any moneys
1873 appropriated by the act entitled "An act making appropri-
1874 tions for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending
1875 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for
1876

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1877 other purposes," any money for the support of the Signal
1878 Service or Corps, except the pay and allowances of
1879 such commissioned officers as the Secretary of War may
detail for service in that corps, and except the appropriation
1880 of five thousand dollars therein contained for expenses of the
1881 Signal Service of the Army, and excepting also the pay and
1882 allowances of fourteen enlisted men detailed from the line of the
1883 Army serving with Lieutenant Greely in the Arctic regions.
1884

1885 That a joint commission, consisting of three Senators,
to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three
1886 members of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker of
1887 the House of Representatives, shall consider the present
1888 organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey,
1889 Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydrographic Office of
1890 the Navy Department, with the view to secure greater
1891 efficiency and economy of administration of the public
1892 service in said Bureaus; and said joint commission shall re-
1893 port to their respective Houses on the first or before
1894 the third Monday in December, eighteen hundred and
1895 eighty-four, their conclusions, by bill or report.

1896 NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

1897 For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improv-
ing national cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars.

1898 For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay

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1901 of seventy-three superintendents of national cemeteries,
1902 sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

1903 For grading, sodding, and erecting a suitable monument, with headstones, and for curbing or fence for the
cemetery lot at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, occupied by the
1905 bodies of soldiers dying in the service, three thousand dollars.
1907 Iars.

1908 For completing the Macadam road from Fort Scott,
1909 Kansas, to the national cemetery near said city, ten thousand dollars.
1910

1911 To transfer the remains of forty-six soldiers buried at
1912 Fort Churchill to the cemetery at Carson City, Nevada,
1913 one thousand dollars.

1914 To purchase additional grounds at or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a national cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars.
1915
1916

1917 For purchase of additional land for the Cyprus
1918 Hills National Cemetery, near Brooklyn, New York,
1919 fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.

1920 For the completion of the road from Chattanooga to
1921 the national cemetery near that city, two thousand five
1922 hundred dollars: Provided, That said work shall be first
1923 advertised and let to the lowest bidder; and no part of this
1924 sum shall be expended for anything except for labor and
1925 material on said road.

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1926 For the construction and completion of a macadamized road from Springfield, Missouri, to the national
cemetery near that city, ten twenty thousand dollars;
1928 and none of said money shall be expended until contracts
1929 shall be made for the completion of said road for the sum
1930 hereby appropriated.
1931

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
1932

1933 For publication of maps for use of the War Department, five thousand dollars.
1934

1935 Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For
1936 printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, electro-
1937 typing copper-plates for chart-printing, three thousand
dollars.
1938

1939 For the Mississippi River Commission, as follows:

1940 For salaries and traveling expenses of the Mississippi
1941 River Commission, and for salaries and traveling expenses
1942 of assistant engineers under them, and for office expenses
and contingencies, seventy-five thousand dollars.
1943

1944 For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution's three hundred dollars.
1945
1946
1947

1948 For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers: For the care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients,
1949
1950

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1951 in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made
1952 with the Providence Hospital by such institution as the
1953 Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thou-
1954 sand dollars

1955 For artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and
1956 appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation,
1957 to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War,
1958 one hundred thousand dollars.

1959 For appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing
1960 surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or
1961 naval service of the United States, and not entitled to arti-
1962 ficial limbs, two thousand dollars.

1963 For the publication of the official records of the war of
1964 the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, as
1965 follows:

1966 For continuing the publication of the official records,
1967 and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary
1968 of War, of a compilation of the official records, Union and
1969 Confederate, of the war of the rebellion, so far as the same
1970 may be ready for publication during the fiscal year, to be
distributed as required by act of March third, eighteen hundred
1971
1972 and eighty-three, thirty-six thousand dollars.

1973 For the expenses of military convicts: For payment
1974 of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care,
1975 clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United

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1976 States military convicts confined in them, ten thousand
dollars.

1978 For the replacement of a bridge across the Republican
1979 River, near Fort Riley, Kansas, under direction of the Sec-
1980 retary of War, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
1981 may be necessary; and the Treasurer of the United States
1982 is hereby authorized and directed to reserve and retain out
1983 of any moneys due or that may become due from the Gov-
1984 ernment of the United States to the State of Kansas a
1985 sum equal to the amount expended for the replacement of
1986 said bridge in accordance with the action of the legislation
1987 of Kansas approved November sixth, eighteen hundred
1988 and eighty-three.

1989 For payment of the expenses of a board of three
1990 officers of the Army to be detailed to assist the Secretary
1991 of War in examining and reporting upon the claims of the
1992 States and Territories named in the act of June twenty-
1993 seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, while on said duty,
1994 including clerk-hire and hotel, traveling, and such other neces-
sary expenses as may be approved by the Secretary of War,
1995 twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
1996 may be necessary: Provided, That said officers shall, before
1997 proceeding to the discharge of said duties, be sworn that
1998 they will carefully examine said claims, and that they will,
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2000 to the best of their ability, make a just, true, and impartial
2001 statement thereof, as required by said act.

2002 Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal
2003 heirs: For payment of amounts of bounty to volunteer
2004 soldiers who served in the war of the rebellion, and their
2005 widows and their legal heirs, which may be certified to be
due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department,
2006 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2007

2008 Bounty under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen
2009 hundred and sixty-six: For payment of amounts of ad-
ditional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eight-
een hundred and sixty-six, which may be certified to be
due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department,
2012 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2013

2014 Pay of two and three year volunteers: For pay-
ment of amounts to two and three year volunteers who
served in the war of the rebellion which may be certificated to
be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Depart-
ment, one hundred thousand dollars.
2017

2019 Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas: For supplying the bath house, main building, and
2020 annex with hot and cold mineral waters, eight thousand
dollars.
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2021 UNITED STATES MILITARY PRISON AT FORT LEAVEN-
WORTH.
2024

2025 For the support of the military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, as follows:

2027 For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters, and two
2028 watchmen, twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.

2029 For subsistence for prisoners while being transferred
2030 under guard, one hundred dollars.

2031 For oil, wicking, and for lamps, lanterns, and chim-
2032 neys for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand
2033 seven hundred and thirty dollars.

2034 For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard
labor, five hundred and forty dollars.
2035

2036 For prisoners' iron bunks, bed-sacks, hay, and blankets,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars.
2037

2038 For stationery and blank-books for offices of governor,
2039 adjutant, quartermaster; stamped envelopes and letter-paper
2040 for use of prisoners; and for books, periodicals, and news-
papers for prison library, nine hundred and fifty dollars.
2041

2042 For hard wood, or its equivalent in coal, for making
2043 steam, heating, and cooking, and for rubber hose, belting,
2044 oil, cotton waste, steam-pipes, and fixtures, twelve thou-
sand seven hundred dollars.
2045

2046 For tools and material in shops, laundry, stables, and

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2047 for police purposes; repair of harness and wagons; disinfectants; horse medicines, five thousand dollars.

2049 For stoves and stove-pipe in buildings not heated by steam, two hundred dollars.

2051 For bricks for cisterns and walks, and for coping-stone to complete prison-wall, five hundred dollars.

2053 For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, and articles required in the care and treatment of the sick;
2054 hospital repairs, furniture, one thousand seven hundred and
2055 fifty dollars.

2057 For expenses for pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars.

2059 For donations of five dollars each for prisoners on discharge, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

2061 For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred and
2062 dollars.

2063 For grain and hay for horses and mules, used exclusively at the prison, three thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-seven cents.

2066 For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month; one clerk, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents per month; one clerk, at one hundred dollars per month; six foremen of twenty-seven mechanics, at one hundred dollars per month each; two night-watchmen and five teamsters, at thirty dollars per

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2072 month each; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and nine teen dollars and ninety-two cents.

2074 For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison-
2075 guard, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy cents.

2076 For construction and repair of prison buildings and
2077 officers' and guards' quarters, three thousand dollars.

2078 For material for clothing for prisoners, fifteen thou-
2079 sand four hundred dollars.

2080 For the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia:
2081 To provide for text-books, drawing materials, models, and
2082 material necessary in the science of engineering and artillery,
2083 stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for use of the school,
2084 five thousand dollars.

2085 For the construction of a fire-proof building for headquarters and library at the Artillery School, Fortress Monroe, Virginia, as per plans submitted to Congress December sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and printed in Senate Executive Document Number Two. Forty-sixth Congress, third session, thirty thousand dollars.

2091 NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

2092 For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers as follows: For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio, five hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars;

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2097 For addition to hospital at the Central Branch,
2098 at Dayton, Ohio, sixty-three thousand three hundred and
2099 fifty dollars;

2100 For current expenses, including construction and re-
2101 pairs, at the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wiscon-
2102 sin, one hundred and twenty-four thousand two hundred
2103 and seventy-eight dollars;

2104 For current expenses, including construction and re-
2105 pairs, at the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine, one hundred
2106 and forty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two
dollars;
2107

2108 For current expenses, including construction and re-
2109 pairs, at the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia, one
2110 hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and thirty-
2111 seven dollars;

2112 For clothing and bedding for six thousand eight hun-
2113 dred and seventy-seven members of the Home, one hun-
2114 dred and seventy-five thousand dollars;

2115 For Southern Branch, to build and complete new hos-
pital, eighty-seven one hundred and twenty-five thou-
2116 sand dollars;
2117

2118 For out-door relief and incidental expenses, fifteen
2119 thousand dollars; in all, one million two hundred and
2120 ninety-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-four four
2121 hundred thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars.

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2122 For the collection and payment of bounty, prize-money,
2123 and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors: For payment
2124 of agents; rent of offices; stationery, office-furniture, and
2125 repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents;
2126 telegraphing, postage, and post-office money-orders, two
2127 thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

2128 **UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.**

2129 For rent of an additional building or additional
2130 rooms for the use of the money-order office of the Post-
2131 Office Department, and of the money-order division of the
2132 auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department,
2133 one thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
2134 may be necessary.

2135 For gas, four hundred dollars; stoves, four hundred
dollars; and for furniture for money-order office,
2136 five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand three hundred
2137 dollars.
2138

2139 To enable the Postmaster-General to carry out
2140 the provisions of the law passed at the present session
2141 allowing fifteen days' leave of absence with pay to letter-
2142 carriers, fifty thousand dollars.

2143 **ELECTORIAL MESSENGERS.**

2144 Conveying votes of electors for President and Vice-
2145 President: For the payment of the messengers of the re-
2146 respective States for conveying to the seat of Government

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2147 the votes of the electors of said States for President and
2148 Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-
2149 five cents for every mile of the estimated distance, by the
2150 most usual road traveled, from the place of meeting of the
electors to the seat of Government of the United States,
2152 computed for the one distance only, nine thousand dollars.

2153 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

2154 For the construction of an addition to the building
2155 known as the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in the
city of Washington, District of Columbia, twenty-five thou-
2156 sand dollars.
2157 For repairs to the police-court building,
2158 District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars;
one-half of said sum to be paid out of any money in the
2159 Treasury of the United States, and the other half to be
2160 paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
2161

2162 To pay to the Church Orphanage Association of Saint
2163 John's Church for the erection of a building for the use of
2164 said orphanage, of Washington, District of Columbia, six
2165 thousand dollars.

2166 That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury
2167 Department are hereby directed to allow and pay, out of any
2168 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each
2169 of such persons, or their legal representatives, who were
2170 officers, clerks, and employees of the metropolitan police
2171 force of the District of Columbia on the twenty-eighth of

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2172 February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, a sum equal
2173 to twenty per centum on the salary of such persons as fixed
2174 by law, for the time stated in said resolution of the twenty-
2175 eighth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

2176 That the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars appropriated for the Boundary street intercepting sewer by the act
2177 approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, is
2178 hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for
2179 work done and to be done under the contracts heretofore
2180 made for its expenditure, or such future contracts as shall
2181 be made therefor.
2182

2183 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

2184 Reform School, District of Columbia: For one school-bell in tower of main building, one hundred and fifty dollars; necessary repairs to main building, including painting
2185 outside and inside, one thousand two hundred dollars; in
2186 all, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
2187

2189 For repairs to the court-house at Washington, District
2190 of Columbia: For annual repairs to the court-house in the
city of Washington, District of Columbia, per estimate of the
2191 Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars.
2192

2193 MISCELLANEOUS.

2194 For the expenses of Territorial courts in Utah
2195 Territory: For defraying the contingent expenses of the
courts, including fees of the United States district attorney
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2197 and his assistants; the fees and per diems of the United
2198 States commissioners and clerks of the court; and the fees,
2199 per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States
2200 marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of
2201 summoning jurors, subpœnaing witnesses; of arresting,
2202 guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feed-
2203 ing guards; and of supplying and caring for the peni-
2204 tentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of
2205 the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and
2206 certified, twenty-six thousand dollars.

2207 For defending suits in claims against the United
2208 States: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in
2209 the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence
2210 in the matter of claims against the United States and the
2211 District of Columbia pending in any Department, and for
2212 necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court
2213 of Claims, including the pay of one assistant, at a salary of
2214 three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction
2215 of the Attorney-General, ten sixteen thousand dollars.

2216 For the prosecution and collection of claims: For ex-
2217 penses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of
2218 claims due the United States, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars.

2220 For punishing violations of the intercourse acts and
2221 frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the inter-

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2222 course acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the In-
dian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-
2223 General in allowing such fees and compensation to wit-
2224 nesses, jurors, marshals, and agents, and in collecting
2225 evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be
2226 necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
2227

2228 For the prosecution of crimes: For the detection and
2229 prosecution of crimes against the United States, prelimin-
2230 ary to indictment, and for the investigation of official acts,
2231 records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including
2232 the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys,
2233 clerks of the United States courts, and United States com-
2234 missioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General,
2235 and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these
2236 officers, without exception, shall be open to the examina-
2237 tion of his duly authorized agents, twenty-five fifty
2238 thousand dollars.

2239 For compiling and printing two hundred copies
2240 of the compilation of laws applicable to the duties of the
governor, attorney, judges, clerk, marshals, and commis-
sioners for the district of Alaska, provided for by section
2241
2242 of the act approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred
2243 and eighty-four, five hundred dollars.
2244

2245 To defray the actual and necessary traveling
2246 expenses of the officers to be appointed for the civil district

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2247 of Alaska from their homes to their stations in Alaska, at
2248 three hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars.
2249 lars.

2250 To pay the amount of final judgment rendered
2251 in the suit of Hallett Kilbourne against John G. Thompson,
2252 former Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives,
2253 twenty thousand dollars.

2254 To pay the costs of court in said case, one hundred and
2255 forty-three dollars and seventeen cents.

2256 To pay Shellabarger and Wilson counsel-fees in said
case, two thousand dollars.

2258 JUDICIAL.

2259 UNITED STATES COURTS.

2260 For expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court, the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; of the jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution for offenses committed against the United States; for the safe-keeping of prisoners; for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, namely, those stated in the following itemized list:

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2271 For salaries of United States marshals, two hundred
2272 and nineteen thousand dollars.

2273 For salaries of marshals' clerks and chief deputies,
2274 one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

2275 For expenses of marshals, namely, for transportation
2276 to attend courts, postage on process, and for fees and expenses of deputies, and of sheriffs and constables acting
2277 as deputies as provided by law, and for pay of special
deputy marshals under title twenty-six of the Revised
2278 Statutes, three hundred thousand dollars.

2281 For payment of salaries of United States district attorneys and their assistants, and for transportation of the district attorneys to attend courts, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

2282 For compensation of special assistant attorneys or
2283 counsel employed under authority of law, twenty-five
2284 thousand dollars.

2285 For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars; Provided, That the clerk of the Supreme Court of
2289 the United States shall, on the first day of January next,
2290 or within thirty days thereafter, and annually thereafter,
2291 make to the Secretary of the Treasury a return of all
costs collected by him in cases disposed of at the preceding
2292 term or terms of said Supreme Court; and, after deducting his compensation as provided by law, and the incidental
dollars.

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2296 expenses of his office, including clerk-hire, said expenses to
2297 be certified by the Chief Justice or a justice of said court,
2298 shall pay any surplus that may remain into the Treasury
2299 of the United States at the time of making said return.

2300 For fees of United States commissioners and justices
2301 of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one
2302 hundred thousand dollars.

2303 For fees of jurors, four hundred thousand dollars.

2304 For fees of witnesses, five hundred thousand dollars.

2305 For support of United States prisoners, including nec-
2306 essary clothing and medical aid, three hundred thousand
dollars.
2307

2308 For rent of United States court-rooms, fifty thousand
dollars.
2309

2310 For pay of bailiffs, criers, and for janitors, watchmen,
2311 and interpreters, experts, and stenographers whose employ-
ment is authorized by the Attorney-General; expenses of dis-
2312 trict judges who may be sent out of their districts to hold a
court; furnishing and collecting evidence where the United
2313 States is a party in interest; meals for jurors, when ordered
2314 by the court; compensation for jury commissioners, five dol-
lars for each day actually and necessarily employed, not ex-
2315 ceding three days for any one term of the court; and other
2316 miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and twenty-five thou-
2317 sand dollars.
2318
2319
2320

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2321 For the support of convicts: For support, maintenance,
2322 and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of
2323 Columbia, and for the necessary traveling expenses incident
to the collection of criminal statistics, to be expended under
2324 the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dol-
lars.
2325
2326

2327 For providing a uniform system of bookkeeping for
court officials, to be expended under direction of the Attor-
ney-General, ten thousand dollars.
2328
2329

2330 See--2. That United States marshals shall here-
after receive annually for their services the following sal-
aries, payable monthly: Southern district of New York, six
dollars; Northern New York, Massachusetts, East-
ern Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Southern Ohio, and
California, five thousand dollars each; Maryland, Western
Pennsylvania, Eastern Missouri, Kentucky, Northern Ohio,
Northern and Southern Illinois, Eastern Louisiana, Kansas;
and Western Texas, four thousand dollars each; New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, Nevada, Southern
Florida, Connecticut, Northern Mississippi, and Southern Mis-
sissippi, two thousand dollars each; and all other marshals
shall be paid a salary of three thousand dollars a year.
2331
2332
2333
2334
2335
2336
2337
2338
2339
2340
2341
2342

2343 All-money-collected-by-m marshals-on-process-in
2344 behalf of the United States; and all costs for fees and expenses
2345 of marshals taxed against parties other than the United States,

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2594 ascertained-at-the-Treasury-Department-upon-quarterly
2595 returns to the First Auditor of all fees earned during each
2596 quarter, to be made under oath and approved by the court;
2597 and upon failure to make said quarterly and semi-annual
2598 reports within thirty days thereafter, the clerk shall be sum-
2599 mainly removed by the judge; upon the request of the At-
2600 attorney General.

2601 See: 10. That the judges of the circuit and district
2602 courts of the United States and the judges of the Terri-
2603 torial courts shall divide each district into commission-
2604 ers' districts, consisting of one or more counties or parishes,
2605 and they shall appoint one or more United States commis-
2606 sioners in each commissioner's district, as may be required
2607 for the efficient and economical execution of the laws. - Such
2608 commissioners shall have jurisdiction only of such offenses as
2609 are committed in their respective districts; except in cases of
2610 change of venue or where no qualified commissioner resides
2611 in the commissioner's district where the offense was commit-
2612 ted, who is in the district and physically able to perform his
duties; and except also in cases of offenses against the postal
2613 laws of the United States, in which the jurisdiction shall
2614 remain as now provided by law.

2615 United States commissioners shall receive for their
2616 services such fees as are now allowed by law, except that in
2617 all criminal cases heard by them they shall only be allowed

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2619 one-dollar for issuing process to arrest and one dollar for a
2620 recognizance or bond for court, including affidavits of justi-
2621 fication of sureties and acknowledgments; and for all other
2622 writs and processes issued, for all oaths administered, for
docketing, hearing, and trying the same; and for all services
2623 performed the sum of five dollars, and no more, for each case;
2624 but where two or more charges not requiring separate trials
2625 are preferred against any person at the same time, the commis-
2626 sioner shall be allowed only for a fee in one case. - In prelimi-
2627 nary examinations, where there is probably cause of guilt, the
2628 commissioner shall bind over the accused, if he shall give the
2629 bail required; to appear for trial before the court in his
district which may be held nearest the place where the
2630 offense was committed having jurisdiction thereof; and if
2631 he cannot give the required bail, the commissioner shall
2632 commit him for trial to the nearest jail where such prison-
2633 ers can be safely and economically kept, and shall in both
2634 eases transmit all the papers in the case to the clerk of the
2635 United States court having jurisdiction thereof, to be held
2636 in said district nearest the place where the offense was con-
2637 mitted, at which court grand juries are impaneled; and the
2638 clerk shall notify the district attorney thereof; but any ac-
2639 eused person who may be committed in default of bail may,
2640 upon the order of the judge, on the application of the re-
2641 eused, be removed to and tried at that place in the judicial
2642 upon the order of the judge, on the application of the re-
2643 eused, be removed to and tried at that place in the judicial

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2694 any process, warrant, attachment, or other writ, inclu-
2695 writs of subpœna in civil or criminal cases, the actual amount
2696 paid for transportation on all public conveyances, and no more;
2697 the account to be stated as in case of transporting criminals;
2698 and for each mile actually traveled to serve any such process
2699 as aforesaid where there is no public conveyance, ten cents
2700 per mile-going and returning.

2701 For all travel required of them by law on any public
2702 conveyance they shall be allowed, in all States and Territo-
2703 the actual amount paid, as herein provided, and no
2704 more; and for every mile actually traveled where there is
2705 no public conveyance, ten cents per mile each way.

2706 All allowances for travel by public conveyance and
2707 meals are not to be construed as compensation, but as reim-
2708 bursement for actual and necessary expenditures in the dis-
2709 charge of official duties; and all transportation provided for in
2710 this act shall be computed by the nearest practicable route.

2711 All allowances for mileage and transportation on
2712 public conveyances in excess of the amount actually paid are
2713 hereby declared illegal; and no credit shall be allowed to any
2714 of the disbursing officers of the United States for payments or
2715 allowances in violation of the provisions of this act.—An affi-
2716 affidavit that the account is just and true in all respects, and that
2717 the expenses charged therein were actually and necessarily
2718 incurred, must accompany each bill.—In all cases the account

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2719 must contain the items of expenditure.—The Attorney-
2720 General shall prescribe forms, rules, and regulations for
2721 presenting all accounts of court officials, to all of which
2722 forms shall be attached the oaths taken and subscribed.

2723 See.—12.—That hereafter jurors and witnesses in
2724 all of the States and Territories shall receive their actual
2725 and necessary expenditures for transportation when using
2726 any public conveyance, in lieu of mileage, but not exceed-
2727 ing the usual fares; and when there are no public convey-
2728 ances they shall receive the mileage now allowed by law
2729 for travel to and from court; and witnesses shall receive
2730 one dollar and a half a day, and jurors shall receive two
2731 dollars a day during actual attendance at any court or
2732 courts, and for the time necessarily occupied in going to
2733 and returning from the same.

## MISCELLANEOUS.

2734 To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York
2735 Transportation Company for labor and money expended in
2736 removing obstructions and dredging and improving the
2737 bars and piers in the Connecticut River below Hartford, in
2738 eighteen hundred and eighty-two and eighteen hundred
2739 and eighty-three, under the advice and by the recommen-
2740 dation of the United States engineer officers in charge, six
2741 thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-
2742 two cents.
2743

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2744 To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York
2745 Transportation Company for money expended in main-
ing a temporary light on the breakwater at the mouth of
2746 the Connecticut River from February first, eighteen hundred
2747 and seventy-nine, to February first, eighteen hundred and
2748 eighty-four, while the work was in progress, and under an
2749 arrangement with the United States engineer officers in
2750 charge of the work, the same to be paid from the unex-
2751 pended appropriation for the erection of a Government
2752 light there, made in eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and
2753 to be immediately available, two thousand one hundred and
2754 twenty-four dollars.
2755

2756

SENATE.

2757 To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to
2758 Mrs. Mary Ross, widow of James Ross, deceased, late an
2759 employee of the Senate, the sum of fifty-one dollars, due
2760 him for services rendered in the folding-room of the Sen-
2761 ate.

2762 To reimburse Benjamin Durfee for money ad-
vanced by him and to compensate him for labor bestowed
2763 in the compilation of the tariff statistics of the United
2764 States (Senate Report Number Twelve, Forty-eighth Con-
2765 congress, first session), in pursuance of Senate resolution of
2766 March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two thou-
2767 sand five hundred dollars.
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2769 To enable the Joint Committee on Public Printing to
2770 complete the preparation, proof-reading, and indexing of
2771 the classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of Gov-
2772 ernment publications, and of publications of public interest
2773 purchased by the United States for use or distribution, four-
2774 thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
2775 be necessary for the final completion of the work, which
2776 may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any
2777 officer or employee of the United States.
2778

2778

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

2779 For six hundred copies of volume two of Lewis Heyl's
2780 work entitled "United States Duties on Imports," edition
2781 of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand five
2782 hundred dollars; one copy for each Senator, Representative,
2783 and Delegate, and the residue for the use of the Committee
2784 on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and
2785 Means of the House of Representatives.
2786

2786

To pay J. C. Courts for clerical services rendered to
2787 the House members of the joint commission to consider
2788 the question of the salaries of the officers and employees of
2789 the House and Senate, authorized by the act of March
2790 third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, three hundred
2791 dollars.
2792

2792

To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the
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2793 Clerk of the House to pay to the officers and employees
2794 of the Senate and House of Representatives born on
2795 the annual and session rolls on the thirtieth day of J.
2796 eighteen hundred and eighty-four, including the office
2797 reporters of the two Houses and the Capitol police, one
2798 month's extra pay, at the compensation then paid them by
2799 law, which sum shall be immediately available.

2800 That all officers and employees of the Senate and
2801 House, including the Capitol police, who were em-
2802 employed on the third day of December, eighteen hundred
2803 and eighty-three, and who have ceased, or who shall
2804 prior to the fifteenth first day of February May,
2805 eighteen hundred and eighty four, cease ceased to
2806 be so employed, shall be paid a sum equal to one
2807 month's pay at the rate they were severally receiving
2808 on the third day of December, eighteen hundred
2809 and eighty-three; and an amount sufficient for this purpose
2810 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury
2811 not otherwise appropriated, and the same to be immediately
2812 available: Provided, That but one month's allowance
2813 shall be paid in any case, and the same shall not be paid
2814 to any person who shall receive one month's extra pay
2815 under the preceding paragraph.

2816 To pay Charles H. Evans, Treasury clerk, for services

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2817 rendered on request of Ways and Means Committee,
2818 one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty cents.

2819 To pay W. B. Green one hundred and eighty dollars,
2820 for services as clerk to the subcommittee on accounts from
2821 January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to
2822 January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in-
2823 inclusive.

2824 To pay Charles Carter for cleaning extra room of the
2825 House Committee on Appropriations, sixty dollars.

2826 To pay J. B. Fay for services rendered in the Library
2827 of Congress in classifying, cataloguing, and placing in rooms
2828 prepared for them in the Library of Congress the collection
2829 of bound volumes of newspapers turned over from the State
2830 and War Departments, three hundred and thirteen dollars
2831 and forty-four cents.

2832 To pay Frederick W. Steigelman, being the difference
2833 between his salary and that of a messenger at one thousand
2834 two hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen
2835 hundred and eighty-three, to February first, eighteen hun-
2836 dred and eighty-four, one hundred and sixteen dollars and
2837 sixty-five cents.

2838 For the assistant to the person preparing the
2839 general index to the Journals of Congress, authorized
2840 under the resolution of May twenty-second, eighteen hundred
2841 and eighty-two, two thousand dollars.

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PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

<table><tr><td>2842</td><td>For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congress</td></tr><tr><td>2843</td><td>Record, and for lithographing, maping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the</td></tr><tr><td>2844</td><td>Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million five hundred dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated</td></tr><tr><td>2845</td><td>printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>2857</td><td>For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, one million one-hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred dollars; for the State Department, twelve thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, two thousand three hundred thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and thirty-six seventy-five thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General's Office); for the Navy Department, forty</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>2867</td><td>seventy thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, three hundred and four eighty thousand dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tracts for the General Land Office); for the Department of</td></tr><tr><td>2868</td><td>books for the General Land Office); for the Department of Justice, eight ten thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, one-hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, sixteen</td></tr><tr><td>2869</td><td>two hundred dollars; for the Agricultural Department, sixteen twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court</td></tr><tr><td>2870</td><td>of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, eight</td></tr><tr><td>2871</td><td>one thousand and five hundred dollars; for the Court of Claims, six thousand four hundred</td></tr><tr><td>2872</td><td>one thousand and five hundred dollars; and for the Library of Congress, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. And no more</td></tr><tr><td>2873</td><td>than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated</td></tr><tr><td>2874</td><td>than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year,</td></tr><tr><td>2875</td><td>and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in</td></tr><tr><td>2876</td><td>either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that,</td></tr><tr><td>2877</td><td>in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the un-<br>expended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.</td></tr><tr><td>2878</td><td>be expended.</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>2881</td><td>be expended.</td></tr><tr><td>2882</td><td>That it shall not be lawful for the head of any Executive Department or of any Bureau, branch, or office of the Government to cause to be printed, nor shall the Public Printer print, any document or matter of any character whatever</td></tr><tr><td>2883</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2884</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2885</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2886</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2887</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2888</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2889</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2890</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2891</td><td></td></tr></table>

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13 To the President of the United States, one-copy

14 To the Library of Congress, three-copies;

15 To the library of the Senate, six-copies;

16 To the library of the House of Representatives, six-copies

17 To each of the Executive Departments, one-copy;

18 To the Public Printing Office, one-copy;

19 To the Smithsonian Institution, one-copy.

1 See. 6. That of the public journals of the Senate and of

2 the House of Representatives the regular number shall be

3 printed and distributed.

1 See. 7. That there shall be printed of the following documents,

2 namely, the documents accompanying the annual

3 reports of the Executive Departments, papers relating to foreign affairs accompanying the annual message of the President,

4 the Executive Departments, papers relating to foreign affairs

5 reports of the Executive Departments, papers relating to foreign affairs accompanying the annual message of the President, the Report on Commercial Relations, and the Report on

6 Commerce and Navigation, two-thousand copies, in addition

7 to the usual number; six hundred of which shall be for the

8 use of the Senate and one thousand four hundred for the use

9 of the House of Representatives.

1 See. 8. That of the abridgment of messages and documents there shall be printed and bound five thousand copies;

2 two thousand for the use of the Senate and three thousand

3 for the use of the House of Representatives.

4 for the use of the House of Representatives.

1 See. 9. That the Public Printer shall print and deliver

2 of the daily edition of the Congressional Record.

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3 To the President of the United States, three-copies;

4 To the Vice President, two copies;

5 To each of the order of each Senator, forty copies;

6 To each of the order of each Representative and Delegate,

7 gate, twenty-four copies; said copies to be of the daily or

8 bound edition, as each Senator, Representative, or Delegate

9 receiving the same may elect;

10 To the Secretary of the Senate, for the use of his office,

11 five copies;

12 To the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, for the use of his

13 office, one-copy, and one-copy for delivery to each committee-

14 room of the Senate;

15 To the official reporter of the Senate, seven copies;

16 To the Clerk of the House, for the use of his office, five

17 copies;

18 To the Postmaster of the House, one-copy;

19 To the Sergeant-at-Arms, one-copy;

20 To the Doorkeeper, for his own use, one-copy, and one

21 copy for delivery to each committee room of the House;

22 To the official reporters of the House, seven copies;

23 To the Library of Congress, two copies;

24 To the Chief Justice and to each of the associate justices

25 of the Supreme Court of the United States, the clerk and

26 marshal of the court, one-copy each;

27 To the National Home for Disabled Soldiers at Dayton;

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4 To the President of the United States, two copies;

5 To the Secretary of the Senate, for the use of his office;

6 five-copies;

7 To the document room of the Senate, for the use of

8 Senate, two hundred and thirty copies of all Senate bills and

9 resolutions, and one hundred copies of those of the House;

10 To the Clerk of the House, for the use of his office, five

11 copies;

12 To the document room of the House of Representatives,

13 for the use of the House, six hundred and eighty copies of

14 all House bills and resolutions, and three hundred and fifty

15 copies of those of the Senate;

16 And at the close of each session the Public Printer shall

17 deliver to the Congressional Library and to the libraries of

18 the Senate and House of Representatives, each, two complete

19 sets;

20 And to the document rooms of the Senate and House of

21 Representatives, each, one complete set of all bills and reso-

22 lutions of such sessions, bound in sheep, for permanent preser-

23 vation:

24 Provided, however, That hereafter no bills or resolutions

25 of a private nature, relating to pensions, reliefs, disabilities,

26 patents, claims, and desertions, shall be printed except upon a

27 favorable report of a committee of Congress;

28 And provided further, That when a bill passes one

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29 House as reported, the same shall not be reprinted in the

30 other House, except by its order.

1 See 13. That all acts, joint resolutions, and concurrent

2 resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this act are

3 hereby repealed.

1 SEC. 2. That the Joint Committee on Public Printing

2 is hereby instructed to examine into the numbers printed of

3 the various documents, reports, bills, and other papers pub-

4 lished by order of Congress, or of either House thereof, and

5 of the Congressional Record, and to report a bill, in December

6 next, making such reductions in the numbers and cost of

7 printing, and such changes and reductions in the distri-

8 bution of said publications, as they may deem expedient, with a

9 report giving their reasons therefor; and that the said committee

10 is also instructed to investigate the printing and binding for the

11 Executive Departments, executed at the Government Printing

12 Office and at the branch printing offices and binderies in the

13 various Departments, and report a bill, in December next, mak-

14 ing such reductions in expense and imposing such checks as they

15 may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons there-

16 for; and said committee is further instructed to make any

17 other investigations calculated in their opinion to reduce the

18 cost of the public printing, and report the result thereof; and

19 the said committee is hereby authorized to summon and to

20 examine experts and witnesses, and to call upon the heads of

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21 Executive Departments and the Public Printer for such

22 information regarding the preceding matters as they may

23 desire; and any expenses necessarily incurred in making

24 the investigations aforesaid shall be defrayed equally from

25 the contingent funds of the two Houses of Congress.

Passed the House of Representatives June 23, 1884.

Attest: JNO. B. CLARK, JR., Clerk.

[CALENDAR NO. 892]

45TH CONGRESS,
1ST SESSION.

H. R. 7380.

AN ACT

Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses
of the Government for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1885, and for other purposes.

1884—JUNE 24.—Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
JULY 1.—Reported with an endment.