Office of at Office of the Attorney-General. — For salaries of the attorney-general, assistant attorney-general, and the clerks and messenger in his torney-general. office, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars. For two additional temporary clerks of class one, twenty-four hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of the office of the attorney-general, namely: For fuel, labor, furniture, stationery, and miscellaneous items, four thousand dollars. For purchase of law and necessary books for the office of the attorneygeneral, five hundred dollars. Private land For legal assistance and other necessary special and extraordinary expenditures in the disposal of private land claims in California, five thou- claims in Calisand dollars. fornia. Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. - For salaries of Justices of the chief justice and nine associate justices, sixty thousand five hundred supreme court. dollars. For travelling expenses of the judge assigned to the tenth circuit for attending session of the supreme court of the United States, one thousand dollars. For salaries of the district judges of the United States, one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the associate judges, and judge of the orphans' court, nineteen thousand dollars. District judges. Courts in the District of Columbia. Three hundred For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the Reporter of United States, which is hereby fixed at that amount, two thousand five decisions. hundred dollars: Provided, That said reporter shall within the time now Salary fixed. prescribed deliver to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution, accord- copies of reports ing to existing laws, three hundred copies of such of the annual reports of to be delivered. that court as shall be hereafter published. pay to certain For additional compensation to three clerks in the department of the Additional attorney-general, for extraordinary services under the amnesty proc- clerks for servilamation of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to be ces under amapportioned, one thousand to the principal clerk, and five hundred each to nesty proclamathe other two clerks, two thousand dollars. For compensation of the district attorneys, nineteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. tion. Marshals. Expenses of loans and treas ury notes. Salaries of For compensation of the district marshals, twelve thousand dollars. For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the several acts of Congress authorizing loans and the issue of treasury notes, two million dollars. For salaries and expenses of collectors, assessors, assistant assessors, revenue agents, inspectors, and superintendents of exports and drawback, to- collectors, assesgether with the expense of carrying into effect the forty-fourth section sors, &c. of in of the internal revenue act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 1864, ch. 173, four, and all other expenses of carrying into effect the various provisions 44. of the several acts providing internal revenue, except salaries of commis- Vol. xiii. p. 239 sioner, deputy commissioner, and clerks of internal revenue office, together with rent, dies, paper, and so forth, for stamps, and incidental expenses, ten million eight hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the capitol, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For compensation of four laborers in capitol, two thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the public gardener, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For compensation of a foreman and twenty-one laborers employed in the public grounds, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. ternal revenue. Laborers in capitol. Public gar dener and Gate keeper and watchmen. Policemen, &c. at President's house. Night watch man. Draw-keepers at Potomac bridge. Furnacekeepers. Metropolitan police; increase of pay; how borne. Special tax. Police tele graph. Salary of For compensation of the keeper of the western gate, Capitol Square, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. For compensation of two day watchmen employed in the Capitol Square, one thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of two night watchmen at the President's house, one thousand two hundred dollars. To enable the commissioner of public buildings to pay two policemen at the President's house, twenty-six hundred and forty dollars. To enable the commissioner of public buildings to pay two policemen at the President's house, (one from August twenty-fourth, the other from November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,) two thousand and twenty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. For compensation of the door-keeper at the President's house, one thousand dollars. For compensation of one night watchman at the public stables and carpenter's shops south of the capitol, one thousand dollars. For compensation of two watchmen in reservation number two, twelve hundred dollars. For compensation of eight draw-keepers at the Potomac bridge, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, seven thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents. For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars. For compensation of furnace-keeper under the old hall of the House of Representatives, six hundred dollars. For compensation of furnace-keeper at the President's house, six hun dred dollars. - Metropolitan Police. - For salaries and other necessary expenses of the metropolitan police of the District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. And the compensation of said metropolitan police force, officers, and clerks be and the same is hereby, increased fifty per centum upon the amount hereby appropriated, commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, said increase to be borne by the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, in the proportion equal to the number of patrolmen allotted severally to the city of Washington, to the city of Georgetown, and the county of Washington and Georgetown, and the levy court of said county be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to levy a special tax not exceeding one quarter of one per centum for the purpose aforesaid. For the construction of a police telegraph in the city of Washington, fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth treasurer of the day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the annually salary of the United States established. Appropria tion. Salary of commissioner of public buildings established. Household of treasurer of the United States shall be six thousand five hundred dollars, the additional salary herein provided for, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the salary of the commissioner of public buildings shall be twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and the increase of salary herein authorized may be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby authe President. thorized to appoint a private secretary, at an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars; an assistant secretary, at an annual salary of Assistant twenty-five hundred dollars; a short-hand writer, at annual salary of Private secre tary. secretary. Short-hand writer. Clerks. twenty-five hundred dollars; a clerk of pardons, at an annual salary of two thousand dollars; and three clerks of the fourth class; and a steward of the President's household, who shall receive an annual salary of two dons. thousand dollars, and said steward shall have the custody of the plate, furniture, and other public property in the President's house, and shall give a bond to the United States in such sum as the Secretary of the In- bond of steward. terior shall deem sufficient, and to be approved by him, for the faithful discharge of his trust; and the amount necessary to pay the salaries of the officers and clerks herein provided for, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and also such sum as may be necessary to pay the salaries of said officers and clerks from the date of their appointment to the end of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixtysix, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Appropria tion. Office of assistant solicitor of treasury Salary. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, there shall be an officer in the Treasury Department, to be known as the assistant solicitor of the established. treasury, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars. And the attorney-general of the United States is hereby authorized to employ in his office, in addition to the present force, a clerk to be known as the law clerk, at an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars. And the amount office of attorrequired to pay the salaries of the officer and clerk herein provided for, ney-general. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, Appropriais hereby appropriated. Law clerk authorized in tion. ters established. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the female clerks and counters Pay of female employed in the several departments and bureaus, whose appointments clerks and counare made by the several heads of departments under the provisions of law, and whose legal compensation has heretofore amounted to seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, and the female clerks employed at the Post Office Department, shall, from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, receive in lieu of all other compensation an annual salary of nine hundred dollars each per annum ; and the amount necessary to pay the increased salaries herein provided for, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Appropria tion. Addition of and laborers SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the addition of twenty per centum to the compensation of the females not otherwise provided for, twenty per cent messengers, watchmen, and laborers employed in the several departments, clerks, messento pay of certain and under the commissioner of public buildings and the commissioner gers, watchmen, of agriculture, and at the capitol, by section three of "An act making continued. appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the 1864, ch. 147, § 3. government, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and Vol. xiii. p. 160. sixty-five, and for other purposes," is hereby continued in force, and the Appropriaamount necessary to pay the same for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, tion. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby appropriated. Post, p. 449. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy is au- Additional and other clerks thorized to appoint in the several bureaus of his department, in addition to in Navy Departtheir chief clerks, and in lieu of the clerical force now authorized, clerks ment. as follows, viz: In the bureau of yards and docks, one clerk of class In bureau of four, who shall be the draughtsman, two clerks of class three, two clerks of yards and docks; class two, and one clerk of class one; in the bureau of navigation, one of navigation; clerk of class four, and one clerk of class two; in the bureau of equipment and recruiting, one clerk of class four, two clerks of class three, two clerks of class two, and three clerks of class one; in the bureau of ordnance, one clerk of class four, two clerks of class three, and two clerks of class two; in the bureau of constructions and repairs, one of construcclerk of class four two clerks of class three, two clerks of class two, and tion and repair of equipment and repair; of ordnance; Clerks in and clothing; one clerk of class one; in the bureau of steam navigation, one clerk of bureau of steam class three; In the bureau of provisions and clothing, one clerk of class navigation; of provisions four, three clerks of class three, six clerks of class two, and three clerks of class one; in the bureau of medicine and surgery, one clerk of class four, and one clerk of class three. And the amount necessary to pay the increase of salaries herein provided for, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. of medicine and surgery. Appropria tion. Increase of pay of certain SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act approved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, "increasing customs contin- the compensation of inspectors of customs in certain ports," is hereby continued in force. inspectors of ued. 1864, ch. 71. Vol. xiii. p. 61. accounts of Stewart Gwynn. 1865, ch. 73, § 1. Vol. xiii. p. 458. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That in adjusting the accounts of Adjustment of Stewart Gwynn, under and by authority of "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six," for printing presses, machinery, material, and labor furnished and supplied to the Treasury Department, and for expenditures under the authority of the Secretary, the proper accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized to make said adjustment without deducting for expenditures made by said department, or under authority thereof, upon said presses and ma chinery for the purpose of improving and repairing the same. July 23, 1866. 1862, ch. 130, § 5. Vol. xii. p. 504. See Post, p. 569. visions of act SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the sum of thirty-nine thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to purchase Indian annuity goods for the Indians parties to the treaty of Fort Laramie and for the Blackfoot nation, to replace those destroyed by fire on the steamer Frank Bates, at Saint Louis, April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That in cases in which moneys accruing to the United States from "fines, penalties, and forfeitures," or other sources, have been erroneously received and covered into the treasury before the payment of the proper informers' moieties or other charges legally and justly charg[e]able against the same, so much money as may be necessary to pay said claims, admitted and certified in due course of settlement, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, July 23, 1866. CHAP. CCLX. An Act to amend the fifth Section of an Act entitled "An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," approved July 2, 1862, so as to extend the Time within which the Provisions of said Act shall be accepted and such Colleges established. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time for com- States of America in Congress assembled, That the time in which the sevplying with pro- eral States may comply with the provisions of the act of July two, eighgranting public teen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the lands to States, several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit &c. for agricul- of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby extended so that the ac tural, &c. col leges, &c. extended. Where.terri tory becomes a State, the new State entitled to benefits of act, and how. ceptance of the benefits of the said act may be expressed within three years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said act may be provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the commissioner of the general land office: Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted into the Union, such new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after such acceptance, as prescribed in this act: Provided further, That any States already State which has heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein re- accepting to have five years ferred to shall have the period of five years within which to provide at more within least one college, as described in the fourth section of said act, after the which to provid time for providing said college, according to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired. APPROVED, July 23, 1866. one college An Act to fix the Number of Judges of the Supreme Court of the United July 23, 1866. &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United No vacancy in States of America in Congress assembled, That no vacancy in the office of the office of associate justice associate justice of the supreme court shall be filled by appointment until of supreme court the number of associate justices shall be reduced to six; and thereafter the to be filled until, said supreme court shall consist of a chief justice of the United States Supreme and six associate justices, any four of whom shall be a quorum; and the court thereafter said court shall hold one term annually at the seat of government, and to consist of, &c. Quorum; such adjourned or special terms as it may find necessary for the despatch terms. of business. Circuits SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first and second circuits shall remain as now constituted; that the districts of Pennsylvania, New- established. Jersey, and Delaware shall constitute the third circuit; that the districts of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina shall constitute the fourth circuit; that the districts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas shall constitute the fifth circuit; that the districts of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee shall constitute the sixth circuit; that the districts of Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, shall constitute the seventh circuit; that the districts of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas shall constitute the eighth circuit; and the districts of California, Oregon, and Nevada shall constitute the ninth circuit. APPROVED, July 23, 1866. CHAP. CCXI. An Act to quiet the Title to certain Lands within the corporate Limits of July 23, 1866. the City of Benicia and the Town of Santa Cruz in the State of California. United States to and its succes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right and title of the Title of the United States to the land situated within the corporate limits of the city land in the city of Benicia, in the county of Solano, State of California, as defined in the of Benicia grantact incorporating said city, passed by the legislature of the State of Cali-ed to that city fornia, April twenty-four, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same sors in trust. are hereby, relinquished and granted to the said city and its successors, upon trust, however, that so much of said lands as is in the bona fide occupancy of parties upon the passage of this act, by themselves or tenants, shall be conveyed by said city to such parties: Provided, however, That the relinquishment and grant by this act shall not extend to any lands within said corporate limits occupied as a military depot of the United States, or heretofore reserved by the United States for public purposes; nor shall they interfere with or prejudice any valid adverse right or claim, if such exist, to said land or any part thereof, or preclude a judicial examination and adjustment thereof. Limit to grant. Title of the United States to land in the town SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the right and title of the United States to the land within the corporate limits of the town of Santa Cruz in the State of California, as defined in the act of the legislature of of Santa Cruz that State incorporating said 'own, be, and the same are hereby, relin- granted to that quished and granted to the corporate authorities of said town and their town in trust. successors, in trust for and with authority to convey so much of said lands |