President may appoint an agent for the United States; his pay. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and hereby is, authorized to appoint a suitable person as agent on behalf of the United States to attend the commissioners, to present and support claims on behalf of this government, to answer claims made upon it, and to represent it generally in all matters connected with the investigation and decision thereof; the compensation of such agent, not to exceed four thousand dollars, shall be determined and allowed by the President; and the President is hereby authorized to make [such] provision for the con1870, ch. 251, § 4. tingent expenses of the commission and for the advances contemplated by Post, p. 250. the sixth article of the convention as to him shall appear reasonable and proper. The salaries, expenses, advances, and the compensation to be paid to the umpire, when determined, shall be paid out of any moneys in Appropriation. the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Contingent expenses. Umpire. Rules, &c. for conducting the business of the commission. Secretary of certain papers and records to commissioner. Records, &c. of commission, when terminat ed, to be left with Secretary of State. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner on the part of the United States, in conjunction with the commissioner on the part of Mexico, is hereby authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for conducting the business of the commission; such rules and regulations not contravening the Constitution of the United States, the provisions of this act, or the convention. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State is hereby State to transmit authorized and required to transmit to the commissioner on the part of the United States such papers and records relating to the commission as he may deem proper, or as may be called for by the commissioners; and at the termination of the commission all the records, documents, and other papers which have been brought before the commissioners, or which may be in possession of their secretaries, shall be deposited in the Department of State: Provided, That this section shall not be so construed as to prevent the commissioner on the part of Mexico from depositing in the department certified copies or duplicates of papers produced on behalf of his government instead of originals. Papers produced by Mexico. Testimony of refusing or unwilling witnesses, how to be obtained. that SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That upon suggestion by either party a witness whose testimony is deemed important refuses or is unwilling to testify, it shall be competent for the board of commissioners to issue a commission to some suitable person to take the testimony of such witness, who, if in the United States, may be compelled to appear and testify before such commissioners in the same manner as is now provided by law in the case of commissions issued from the courts of the United States. APPROVED, April 7, 1869. April 7, 1869. CHAP. XIII. - An Act to continue in Force an Act entitled "An Act to extend the Char1868, ch. 48. ter of Washington City," and so forth. Vol. xv. p. 61. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sections one States of America in Congress assembled, That the first and sixth sections and six of act of of the act entitled "An act to extend the charter of Washington city, 1868, ch. 48, to continue in force also to regulate the selection of officers, and for other purposes," of the twenty-sixth [twenty-eighth] of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force for the period of one rest of act re- year and until Congress shall otherwise determine; and that all the other pealed. sections of said act are hereby repealed. one year; April 7, 1869. Commissioner to continue freedmen's hospitals at Richmond, Vicks burg, District of Columbia. APPROVED, April 7, 1869. CHAP. XIV. — - An Act relating to Freedmen's Hospitals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the bureau of refugees and freedmen is authorized and directed to continue the freedmen's hospitals at Richmond, Virginia; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and in the District of Columbia, including the asylum for aged and infirm freedmen and for orphan children: Provided, That the expense thereof Expenses. shall be paid by the commissioner out of moneys heretofore appropriated for the use of the bureau: And provided further, That said hospitals Hospitals to be shall be discontinued as soon as may be practicable in the discretion of the President of the United States. APPROVED, April 7, 1869. discontinued as soon as, &c. CHAP. XV.- An Act making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropria- April 10, 1869. tions for the Service of Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Deficiency appropriation for 1869. Treasury Department. For the pay of superintendent, watchmen, Treasury Department. laborers, and all other employees in the treasury building, and the five Treasury other buildings occupied for the use of the Treasury Department under buildings. the charge of said superintendent, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars. For lighting the above six buildings, three thousand two hundred and five dollars. Furniture. For incidental expenses of the said buildings, three thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture, ten thousand dollars. For salary of temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, at such Temporary rates as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem just and reasonable, thirty-five thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of collectors, assessors, assistant assessors, supervisors, and detectives, together with the expenses of carrying into effect the various provisions of the several acts providing internal revenue, excepting items otherwise provided for, two millions of dollars. clerks. Collectors, &c. of internal rev enue. Detection and conviction of For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, in cases persons violating where such expenses are not otherwise provided for by law, fifty thousand internal revenue dollars. laws. Department. Post-Office Department. - To supply the deficiency (caused by the Post-Office defalcation of E. B. Olmstead, disbursing clerk) in the appropriations for Defalcation of blank-books and stationery, fuel and lights for the general post-office E. B. Olmstead. building, including the sixth auditor's office, repairs of the building, furniture, papering, painting, fitting up permanent cases for filing papers; for pay of engineer, foreman, and laborers; for library purposes, telegrams, and for miscellaneous items, forty-seven thousand dollars. clerks. For temporary clerks for quarter ending thirtieth June, eighteen hun- Temporary dred and sixty-nine, thirteen thousand and eighty dollars. For temporary clerks' salaries for the month of March, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to turn over to the Post-Office Department, which shall receive and use the same, the envelopes printed in the Treasury Department for the deadletter office. House of Representatives. — For compensation of the document file clerk, authorized by resolution of February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the sum of six hundred dollars. That the resolution of the House of Representatives of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, giving Daniel Buck compensation for preparing list of appropriations, and so forth, is hereby extended to his successor in office; and that there be, and is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such a sum as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the said resolution. Envelopes for dead-letter office. House of Representatives. Document file clerk. Preparing list of appropriations. Reading clerks. For additional compensation to the reading clerks, as provided by act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the sum of one thou1869, ch. 121. Vol. xv. p. 285. sand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents; and also Pay of clerk in a sum sufficient to fix the pay of the clerk in charge of the engrossment charge of enand enrolment of the House bills and joint resolutions at the same rate grossing, &c. as that of the reading clerks, covering the same period of their increased pay. Additional For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate compensation to for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the first session of the Forty-first Congress, four hundred dollars each, two thousand dollars. reporters. Pages and mail-boys. Assistant librarian of House. Expenses of joint committee on retrenchment; For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the House for the first session of the Forty-first Congress, four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For pages and temporary mail-boys, six thousand four hundred dol lars. To supply deficiency for the compensation of the assistant librarian of the House from March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty cents. For cartage, five thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the joint committee on retrenchment, the sum of five thousand dollars: Provided, That said appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury on the order of the Secretary of the Senate, and disbursed under, and subject in all respects to, the provisions of the joint resolution of January twenty-second, Vol. xiv. p. 564. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. how drawn and disbursed. For packing-boxes for the Senate, five hundred and forty-four dollars. War Department. For the purpose of paying the premiums awarded to certain architects of the country, for plans submitted by them for a new War Department building, six thousand dollars. Navy Department. For the salary of the solicitor and naval judge advocate general from July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, three thousand five hundred dollars. Miscellaneous. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay G. G. Cushman, in accordance with the act of December fifteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the balance found due him by the fifth auditor of the treasury, nine hundred and forty-eight dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase of Little, Brown, and Company two thousand copies of the fifteenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large for distribution, agreeably to the acts of Congress directing the distribution of the other volumes, seven thousand dollars. For rent of building occupied for government uses by clerks of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as follows, viz: Treasury Department. - For salary of temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, at the same rates prescribed by law for other clerks in said department for like duties, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Office of the first comptroller: tablished. For additional salary hereby allowed to the first comptroller of the Salary of 1st treasury fifteen hundred dollars, and the said salary is hereby estab-comptroller eslished at five thousand dollars per annum from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated up to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy. For six clerks of class four, eight clerks of class three, seven clerks of class two, four clerks of class one, six copyists, one assistant messenger, and one laborer, forty-five thousand and forty dollars. Office of the second comptroller: Office of 2d For four clerks of class four, four clerks of class three, eight clerks of comptroller; class two, and nine clerks of class one, thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars. Office of the first auditor: For one clerk of class four, and three clerks of class two, six thousand dollars. Office of the second auditor: 1st auditor; 2d auditor. Certain clerks in the office of For one hundred clerks of class one, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That all clerks employed in the office of the paymaster- the paymastergeneral, in performing any of the duties transferred by the act of March general not to be third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, from his office to that of the continued after, second auditor of the treasury, shall not be continued after May first, 1869, ch. 121. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Vol. xv. p. 294. Defence of For the payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury or his agents for the seizure of captured and abandoned property in the late insurrectionary districts, and for the defence of the United States against suits for and in respect to such property in the court of claims, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction branch of the Treasury Department: For construction of custom-house at Portland, Maine, seventy thousand dollars. &c. suits for seizures of captured, &c. property. Custom-house at Portland; For completing the custom-house at Ogdensburgh, New York, thirty- Ogdensburg. seven thousand five hundred dollars. Hydraulic weights, &c. Proviso. For removing the hydraulic weights and construction of northwest stairway in the treasury building, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That any portion of the sums appropriated in the three preceding items which may be necessary, and also any portion of the amount appropriated Court-house at for the court-house at Springfield, Illinois, by "An act making appro- 1569, ch. 122. Springfield, Ill. priations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending Vol. xv. p. 306. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, may be expended during the current fiscal year. Heating appa For heating apparatus and repairs of same for public buildings, twenty ratus, &c. thousand dollars. Interior Department. Interior Department. For compensation of temporary clerks in the office of the Indian bureau, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars, ́ Indian bureau. being for one clerk of class three, seven of class two, twelve of class one, and four copyists at nine hundred dollars per annum. For compensation of two additional examiners in the patent office, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars. For twenty-one clerks class two, in the patent office, at fourteen hundred dollars each, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. For fourteen clerks class one, in the patent office, at twelve hundred dollars each, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. - Post-Office Department. For temporary clerks in the Post-Office Department, thirty-two thousand dollars. Patent office. . Post-Office Department. Temporary clerks. House of Rep Document file House of Representatives. For compensation of the document file resentatives. clerk authorized by resolution of February twenty-eight, eighteen hun- clerk. dred and sixty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Reading For increased compensation to the two reading clerks authorized by clerks. 1869, ch. 121. Vol. xv. p. 285. Judges in Idaho; 1867, ch. 150, 3. Vol. xiv. p. 426. in Montana. Legislative assembly of Pub. Res., No. 23. Survey of public lands, &c. in Minnesota. 1869. ch. 122. Vol. xv. p. 307. 1869, ch. 121. Vol. xv. p. 292. sul at Bankok. 1869, ch. 125, §§ 2, 7. act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. Miscellaneous. For salary of chief justice and two associates in the Territory of Idaho, increased by act of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars. For salary of chief justice and two associates in the Territory of Montana, increased by act of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars. For the per diem and mileage of the members of the territorial assembly of the Territory of Washington at its second biennial session which meets on the first Monday in December, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, and for the incidental expenses of the same, twelve thousand dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, "making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," as appropriates twenty thousand dollars for surveying the public lands in Minnesota, is so modified as to appropriate only seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; and so much of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, " making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy," as appropriates two thousand five hundred dollars for clerks in the office of the surveyorgeneral of Minnesota, is so modified as to appropriate in all five thousand dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the salary allowed by law to Salary of con- the consul at Bangkok shall be paid with the limitations contained in the second section of the "Act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, Vol. xv. pp. 321, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, but deducting such sums as may have been heretofore paid on account of salary. 322. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the appropriation of fifteen Appropriation thousand dollars "for continuing the work of grading and filling the for grading, &c. Capitol grounds, Capitol grounds," appropriated in "An act making appropriations for to be expended sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, 1869, ch. 122. eighteen hundred and seventy," approved March three, eighteen hundred Vol. xv. p. 309. and sixty-nine, shall be expended under the direction of the architect of the Capitol extension. by whom. Amendment of act 1869, ch. 123. Vol. xv. p. 311. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, and for other purposes," be so amended as to insert in the second clause of said act after the words "at a salary of one hundred and eighty dollars each per year," and before the first proviso in said clause, the following words: "and such amount in addition to the amount appropriated in an act entitled 'An act making appropriations for the legislative, execuVol. xv. p. 291. tive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy,' approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for fuel, lights, labor, and miscellaneous items, as may be necessary to pay the said employees, is hereby appropriated." 1869, ch. 121. Superintendent of Department of the In terior established; his duties and pay. [Repealed, 1870, ch. 251. Post, p. 243.] SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a superintendent of the Department of the Interior, who shall be ex officio captain of the watch, and who shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of the Interior, and who shall receive the same compensation as is provided by existing laws for the superintendent of the treasury building, and a sum sufficient to pay such salary for the remainder of this and for the next fiscal year is hereby appropriated. |