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only in payment for the expenses of that year. And a full report of the receipts and expenditures in connection with the said telegraph-lines shall be made quarterly to the Secretary of War through the Chief Signal Officer. And the Chief Signal Officer shall have the charge and control of said lines of telegraph in the construction, repair, and opera. tion of the same. And so much of this appropriation as may be necessary, not to exceed thirty thousand dollars in all, shall be used in constructing a telegraph-line from Fort Marcy to Fort Bayard, in NewMexico, and from Fort Bayard to Camp Grant, in Arizona.

NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES.

Report.

Chief Signal Offi

cer to have control.

Telegraph-line from Fort Marcy to Fort Bayard and Camp Grant.

For continuation of the survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Continuing surone hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

For geographical surveys of the Territories west of the one hundredth meridian, forty thousand dollars.

vey.

Geographical sur

veys of Territories. Plates and atlas

For engraving and printing the plates and atlas sheets accompanying the reports of the geographical surveys west of the one hundredth sheets. meridian, twenty thousand dollars.

To pay John M. Burns, contestee, expenses in contested election case of Burns vs. Young, tenth district of Kentucky, two thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-five cents.

To pay Andrew Sloan, contestant, expenses, case of Sloan vs Rawls, first district of Georgia, two thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and ten cents.

To pay Benjamin F. Martin, contestant, expenses, case of Martin vs Hagans, second district of West Virginia, nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty-five cents

To pay John J. Davis, contestee, expenses, case of Wilson vs Davis, first district of West Virginia, one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents.

Contested elec-
tion cases.
John M. Burns.
Andrew Sloan.

Benjamin F. Mar

tin.

John J. Davis.

To pay Benjamin Wilson contestant, expenses case of Wilson vs Benjamin Wilson. Davis, first district of West Virginia, one thousand and fifteen dollars and ninety-one cents.

To pay J M. Hagans, contestee, expenses, case of Martin vs Hagans, second district of West Virginia, nine hundred dollars.

To pay M. L. Bell contestant, expenses, case of Bell vs Snyder, second district of Arkansas, three thousand dollars.

To pay O. P. Snyder, contestee, expenses, case of Bell vs Snyder, second district of Arkansas, three thousand dollars.

To pay Thomas M. Gunter, contestant, expenses, case of Gunter vs Wilshire, third district of Arkansas three thousand dollars

To pay John D. Young, contestee, expenses, case of Burns vs Young, tenth district of Kentucky, one thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars.

To pay L. C. Gause, contestant, expenses, case of Gause vs Hodges, first district of Arkansas, three thousand dollars.

To pay Asa Hodges, contestee, expenses, case of Gause vs Hodges, first district of Arkansas, three thousand dollars.

To pay C. Y. Thomas, contestant, expenses, case of Thomas vs Davis, fifth district of Virginia, seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventeen cents

Provided, That no sitting member who shall be unseated before the expiration of Congress shall be entitled to the benefit of this appropriation.

That so much of section thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes as requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives to omit from the payroll of Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress those holders of legal certificates whose election he may be notified will be contested be, and the same is hereby repealed.

J. M. Hagans.

M. L. Bell.

O. P. Snyder.

Thomas M. Gun

ter.

John D. Young.

L. C. Gause.

Asa Hodges.

C. Y. Thomas.

Proviso.

R. S., 38, p. 6, repealed in part.

Bounty, prizemoney, &c., of col

ored soldiers and sailors.

Bounties to sailors and marines.

Official record's

lion.

For collection and payment of bounty, prize money and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors; salaries of agents and clerks; rent of office; fuel, lights, stationery, and similar necessaries; office furniture and repairs; transportation of officers and agents, telegraphing and postage, seventy five thousand dollars.

For the payment of bounties to sailors and marines under existing laws, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the publication of the official records of the war of of war of the rebel- the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, fifty thousand dollars; which shall be available from and after the passage of this act; and where extra services are performed after office hours, and in addition to other regular duties by the clerks employed upon Extra compensa- this work, they shall be paid such reasonable extra compensation therefor as the Secretary of War may determine.

tion to clerks.

Military convicts

tiaries.

For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, in State peniten- clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts, confined in them, forty thousand dollars: and the unexAppropriation pended balance of the appropriation made by act of June tenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to provide for the erection of headstones upon the graves of soldiers in national cemeteries is hereby continued and rendered available for its original purposes.

for headstones continued.

1872, c. 415, v. 17,

p. 367.

Bryant and Rog

ers.

Commissioner to

attend international penitentiary Res. No. 3, post, 524.

congress at Rome,

War indemnity to States.

Dakota volunteers.

17.

That the sum of six hundred dollars be appropriated to compensate Messrs. Bryant and Rogers, architects, for plans and specifications for a military prison prepared and furnished to the United States commissioners on said prison at their request to enable them to complete a report ordered by the War Department in reference to the construction and cost of said military prison.

That the sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary be and is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the commissioner appointed by the President under a joint resolution ap proved February sixteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-five to attend the international penitentiary congress to be held next year at Rome.

To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling equipping and transporting troops for the defense of the United States during the late insurrection, and for arms and munitions of war taken for said purposes by the United States from States not in insurrection, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay the claims of the Dakota volunteer forces, as examined and reported upon by Inspector-General James A. Hardie, United States Army, under the special act of Con1874, c. 32, ante., gress for that purpose, approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the sum of thirty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and thirty and one-half cents be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury shall further examine, pass upon, and approve said claims in the same manner as was provided for the adjustment of the Montana war-claims under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

Proviso.

Military prison, To alter three stone buildings to fit them for the purpose of a military Fort Leavenworth. prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and to build a suitable wall around the building, one hundred thousand dollars; Provided, That the amount herein appropriated shall be so expended as to complete the work

Proviso.

Volunteers of That there is hereby re-appropriated, for the payment of volunteers of Washington and Washington and Oregon Territories, who were engaged in the suppresOregon Territories. sion of Indian hostilities therein in the years eighteen hundred and

fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and for the payment of claims for services, supplies, and transportation incurred in the maintenance of said volunteers, and for horses, and other property lost or destroyed in said service, as provided for by the act of Congress, 1861, c.70, v. 12, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled, "An P. 198.

act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred by the Territories of

Oregon and Washington in the suppression of Indian hostilities therein in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six", the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

For completing south wing of the State, War, and Navy DepartState, War, and ments, under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifty thousand Navy Departments. dollars; and for continuing work on the east wing of the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, seven hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay George W. Seibert for grading George W. Seistreets and side-walks in front of the United States arsenal grounds in bert. the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars; and to pay Michael Faust for grading and gravelling the same, and in the vicinity thereto, one thousand and fourteen dollars and ninety-nine

cents.

For the completion of the military road from the city of Santa Fé to Ferdinandez de Taos, in the Territory of New Mexico, six thousand, six hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty cents, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, which is hereby continued and made available, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

Michael Faust.

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Forts in Texas.

1873, c. 296, v. 614.

The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the purchase of the following sites for forts in the State of Texas, in accordance with the resolutions and recommendations of the board of officers appointed under act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the purchase, by the Secretary of War, of land for the United States for the p. sites of forts and military posts:" Fort Brown, twenty-five thousand dollars; Fort Duncan, ten thousand dollars; Ringgold Barracks, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That before the payment of the money racks. hereby appropriated, good titles shall be made to the United States for such land as contemplated by said act and said report; and no more than the amount appropriated shall be paid for such sites. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept for the United States, and free of expense to the same, a conveyance of the site of Fort McIntosh.

And the Congressional Printer is hereby authorized to print and bind five thousand additional copies of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion; one thousand of which shall be for the use of the Senate, three thousand for the use of the House of Represent atives, and one thousand for distribution by the Surgeon General of the Army; and the Surgeon General is hereby authorized to continue on duty in his office the Acting Assistant surgeons now employed on said history until the end of the next fiscal year.

. 17,

Fort Brown.
Fort Duncan.
Ringgold Bar-

Proviso.

Fort McIntosh.

Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Re

bellion.

Pedestal for

equestrian statue B. McPherson.

of General James

Proviso.
Design to be ap-

proved.

For the construction of a pedestal for an equestrian statue, to be furnished by the association hereinafter named, of Major General James B. McPherson, who was killed at the battle of Atlanta, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the design of said pedestal shall be approved by the Secretary of War, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and the corresponding secretary of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, or a majority of them: And provided also, That it shall be erected in Scott Square in the city of Washington, on or near its centre, the ground of which shall be adapted to such erection by the Scott Square, &c. discontinuance of the carriage way connecting Vermont avenue now running through said square, and said square shall be hereafter known as McPherson Square.

Proviso.

To be erected in

To enable the Secretary of War to acquire a full and perfect title to Brady collection theBrady collection of photographs of the war," and to secure by pur- of photographs of chase the remainder now in the possession of the artist, twenty-five the war.

thousand dollars.

Buildings and

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHING

TON.

Improvement, repair, and care of public grounds: Of public buildings, grounds in and grounds, and works in the District of Columbia, under the direction of around Washing the Chief of Engineers :

ton.

Grounds south of Executive Man

sion.

Sub-draining,

For filling the ground south of the Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars.

For sub-draining, and repairing, and re-gravelling the walks and roads &c., Smithsonian of the Smithsonian grounds north of the building, and for moving trees grounds. and construction of fountains, ten thousand dollars.

Reservation be

For completing the improvement of reservation between Third and tween Third and Sixth streets, as per plan, ten thousand dollars.

Sixth streets.

Reservation on

For filling and grading reservation on Maryland avenue, lately occuMaryland avenue. pied by the Agricultural Department, eight thousand dollars.

Green-houses and

For ordinary care of, and extension to, green houses, and propagating propagating-gar- garden, three thousand dollars.

dens.

Lafayette

Square.

Removal of fences

from Agricultural grounds.

Fences.
Manure.

Painting iron

fences.

Seats.

Tools.

Trees and treeboxes.

Snow and ice.
Flowers and

flower-pots, &c.
Trees and plants.

Tree-markers.
Sparrow cages.
Nuisances.
Ailanthus-trees.

Fountains.

Reservation No. 3.

Relaying curb, &c., south of Ex

ecutive Mansion.

Cutting down

For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, two thousand dollars.

For removal of fences on the eastern and western sides of the Agricultural grounds during the present fiscal year, one hundred dollars. For annual repair of fences, two thousand dollars.

For manure and hire of horses, and carts, eight thousand dollars.
For painting iron fences, four thousand dollars.

For care and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools, one thousand dollars.

For trees, tree-boxes, lime, and whitewashing, five thousand dollars.

For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars.

For flowers, pots, twine, wire, and for Italian lycopodium, one thousand dollars.

For purchase of young trees and plants for nursery, and care of same, two thousand dollars.

For tree markers and marking the same, one hundred dollars.
For making cages and boxes for sparrows, five hundred dollars.
For abating nuisances, one thousand dollars.

For removing ailanthus-trees from the public grounds condemned by the board of health, five hundred dollars.

For care of and repair to, the various fountains, one thousand dollars

For completing the improvement of reservation numbered three, (Monument Grounds,) as per plan, twenty thousand dollars.

For taking up and relaying curb and flag south of the Executive Mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For cutting down embankment on the nursery, one thousand two nursery embank- hundred and fifty dollars.

ment.

Fountain south For repairing fountain south of the Executive Mansion, and for copof Executive Man- ing and centre piece for same, three thousand dollars.

sion.

Fountains and For fountains and watchman's lodge in Judiciary Square, five thouwatchmen's lodges sand dollars.

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For purchase of three hundred seats for the public grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For improving various reservations, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the Executive Mansion, as follows: For repairs, ten thousand dollars; for refurnishing, ten thousand dollars; for fuel for the same and for the green-houses, five thousand dollars; for care of, and necessary repairs to, the green-houses, five thousand dollars.

Lighting Capitol

Mansion.

For lighting the Capitol and the Executive Mansion, namely: For gas, thirty five thousand dollars; for pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and Executive plumbers, plumbing lamps, lamp-posts, matches, material for the electri cal battery, and repairs of all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars. For new chandeliers for the corridors and passages of the House of Chandeliers for Representatives to correspond with those in the Senate, five thousand dollars.

For fuel for watchmen's lodges, and for the green-house at the propagating-garden, one thousand dollars

For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the springs that supply the Capitol, Executive Mansion, and War and Navy Departments, ten thousand dollars. For annual repairs of bridges, such amount is hereby appropriated as may be turned into the Treasury from the sale of the old Anacostia bridge, on the completion of the new bridge.

House of Repre

sentatives.

men's lodges and

Fuel for watch

green-house. Water-pipes.

Bridges.

Washington

Proviso.

Proviso.

Washington aqueduct: For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dollars; for building an iron truss-roof and for aqueduct. furnishing and setting galvanized-iron cornice on the gate-house at Great Falls, three thousand dollars: Provided, That the lands belonging to the United States and lying around the receiving-reservoir shall hereafter be controlled in connection with the Washington Aqueduct, and shall be under the charge and control of the officer in charge of said aqueduct: And provided further, That the chief engineer is hereby directed to notify the Washington and Georgetown Railway Company to remove their railway track from the Washington aqueduct bridge over Rock Creek, within one year from the date of said notice; and said company shall make such removal within the year aforesaid, and have the right to lay their tracks along Twenty-sixth street from Pennsylvania avenue to M street north, and thence along M street into Georgetown, to connect with their tracks on Bridge street; and said chief engineer may establish and publish regulations prohibiting the passage of heavily loaded wagons and carriages over said bridge.

Seventeenth and

For removing embankment and opening an alley along the west end of the building, corner of Seventeenth and F streets, nine hundred dol- F streets. lars.

NAVY-YARDS AND STATIONS

For the naval station at New London: For labor, materials, and erections, forty thousand dollars

For the navy-yard at Pensacola, Florida: For continuing the rebuilding of the repairing-dock, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the navy-yard at Mare Island, California: For continuation of begun work, two hundred thousand dollars.

New London.

Pensacola.

Mare Island.

League Island.

Proviso.

Commission to

sell lands, docks,

& c., of Philadelphia navy-yard.

For the navy-yard at League Island: For the continuation of work and removal of property from the Philadelphia navy-yard, two hundred thousand dollars; which sum shall be available from and after the passage of this act. Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chief Engineer of the Army, and the chairman of the board of revision of taxes of the city and county of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, are hereby created a commission for the purpose of making sale and conveyance of all the lands, docks, wharves, real property and appurtenances, rights, interests, and privileges of the United States included within the limits of, and known as the navy-yard in, the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania; that for the purpose aforesaid, they shall, if they think best for the pub. lic interest, have the said property divided into lots or plots, and laid out into blocks and streets, conforming, as far as the interests of the Government will permit, to the blocks and streets of the said city in the vicinity of the said navy-yard; and they shall have the said property fairly appraised in such lots or portions as they think best, and shall Appraisal. have power to sell the same, or any portion thereof, at public auction,

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