War Depart ment of ordnance; - Office of Chief of Ordnance. For chief clerk, three clerks of class Office of chief four, two clerks of class three, four clerks of class two, six clerks of class one, and one messenger, twenty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For contingent expenses, viz. stationery, one thousand dollars. Office of Military Justice. - For one clerk of class four, one clerk of class three, one clerk of class one, four thousand six hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, five hundred dollars. military jus Signal Office. tice; signal office; ] dred dollars. Bureau of - For two clerks of class two, two thousand eight hun Office of the Inspector-General. For one clerk of class three, sixteen hundred dollars. Office of the Inspector of the Military Academy. For one clerk of class four, eighteen hundred dollars. For compensation of superintendent of the building occupied by the War Department (two hundred and fifty dollars), four watchmen and two laborers, four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items for the said building, ten thousand dollars. For superintendent of the building occupied by the paymaster-general (two hundred and fifty dollars), and for five watchmen and two laborers, five thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. For rent of building, and fuel and contingencies, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For superintendent of building corner of Seventeenth and F streets (two hundred and fifty dollars), and four watchmen and two laborers, four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. For contingent expenses, viz.: fuel, engineer and fireman, matting and oil-cloth, gas, whitewashing, repairs, and other incidental expenses of said building, seven thousand five hundred dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, eight thousand dol lars For compensation of the solicitor and naval judge advocate general, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk of the Navy Department, at two thousand two hundred dollars; additional to chief clerk, three hundred dollars, to continue while there is no assistant secretary, and no longer; one disbursing clerk, at two thousand dollars; three clerks of the fourth class, four clerks of the third class, two clerks of the second class, three clerks of the first class, two messengers at eight hundred and forty dollars each, and one laborer, twenty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. For stationery, labor, newspapers, and miscellaneous items, three thou sand five hundred dollars. For chief of bureau of yards and docks, civil engineer, chief clerk, yards and docks; draughtsman, one clerk of class four, two clerks of class three, one clerk of class two, one clerk of class one, one messenger, and one laborer, nineteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. equipment and recruiting; navigation. For stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. For chief of bureau of equipment and recruiting, chief clerk, one clerk of class four, one clerk of class three, two clerks of class two, two clerks of class one, one messenger, and one laborer, fifteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For chief of bureau of navigation, chief clerk, one clerk of class three, one clerk of class two, one messenger, and one laborer, nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Navy Depart ment. Bureau of For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. For chief of bureau of ordnance, chief clerk, draughtsman, one clerk of class three, two clerks of class two, one messenger, and one laborer, ordnance; thirteen thousand and sixty dollars. For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dol lars. For chief of bureau of construction and repairs, chief clerk, draughts- construction man, one clerk of class four, two clerks of class three, two clerks of class and repairs; two, one messenger, and one laborer, sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. steam engi For stationery and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. For chief of bureau of steam engineering, chief clerk, draughtsman, one clerk of class two, one assistant draughtsman, one messenger, and neering; one laborer, eleven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For stationery and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. provisions and of class four, two clerks of class three, three clerks of class one, two clothing; For stationery and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. For stationery and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. For incidental labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items for said building, six thousand dollars. JUDICIARY. Office of the Attorney-General- For salaries of the Attorney-General, two assistant attorneys-general, law clerk, chief clerk, four clerks of class four, two clerks of class three, one clerk of class two, one clerk of class one, one messenger, thirty-four thousand five hundred and forty dollars. For one clerk, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of above office, viz.: For fuel, labor, furniture, stationery, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of law and other necessary books for the office, one thousand dollars. --- medicine and surgery. Stationery, &c. Watchmen and laborers. Judiciary. Pay of Attorney-General, assistants, clerks, &c. Law, &c. books. Supreme Court of the United States. For the Chief Justice and nine Supreme Court associate or retired justices, sixty thousand five hundred dollars. For nine circuit judges to reside in circuit, forty-five thousand 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 salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the marshal of the Supreme Court, three thousand five hundred dollars. of the United Reporter. Marshal. For salaries of the district judges of the United States, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. District judges. Judges in the District of Co 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. For salary of the warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars. lumbia. Warden of jail. For compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, eigh- District attor teen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. neys and marshals. Female clerks may be appoint ed to any grades of clerkships, with pay, &c. Number of certain clerks not to be increased. Pay of messengers, assist ants, and laborers and watch men, established. No part of appropriation for contingent, &c. expenses to be paid for clerical, &c. services. All laws, &c. granting extra pay, repealed from July 1, 1870. Express repeal of appropriations made by 1848, ch. 70, § Vol. ix. p. 238. 5. 1867, ch. 33, § 4. Vol. xv. p. 18. 1864, ch. 162. For compensation of the district marshals of the United States, eleven thousand three hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the heads of the several departments are hereby authorized to appoint female clerks, who may be found to be competent and worthy, to any of the grades of clerkships known to the law, in the respective departments, with the compensation belonging to the class to which they may be appointed, but the number of first, second, third, and fourth class clerks shall not be increased by this section. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of all messengers, assistant messengers, laborers, and watchmen (whether day or night) provided for in this act, unless otherwise specifically stated, shall be as follows: For messengers, eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; for assistant messengers, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; for laborers and watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and after the passage of this act no moneys herein or otherwise appropriated, or that may be hereafter appropriated, for contingent, incidental, or miscellaneous purposes, shall be expended or paid for official or clerical compensation; and it shall be the duty of the accounting officers to reject and disallow all such payments as illegal. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all acts and joint resolutions, or parts thereof, and all resolutions of either House of Congress, granting extra compensation or pay, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, to take effect on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, and that the appropriations made by the following parts of acts and resolutions be, and the same are hereby, repealed, to take effect from and after June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, viz. : Section five of the act of June twenty-six, eighteen hundred and fortyeight, being an appropriation for the salaries of special examiners of drugs, medicines, chemicals, and so forth. And said salaries shall, from and after June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, be paid from the appropriation for collecting the revenue from customs. Section four of the act of July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, being an appropriation for the pay and expenses of the commissioners under the treaty between the United States and the republic of Venezuela. Section two of the act of June twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixtyVol. xiii. p. 195. four, being an appropriation for the pay and expenses of the commission under the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies. 1869, ch. 12, § 3. Ante, p. 8. 1866, ch.298, §13. Vol. xiv. p. 330. 1849, ch. 129, §§ 1, 7. Vol. ix. pp. 414, 416. 1861, ch. 21. Section three of the act of April seven, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, being an appropriation for the pay, expenses, and advances on account of the commission under the treaty of the United States and the republic of Mexico. Section thirteen of the act of July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, being an appropriation for salaries and contingent expenses of the bureau of statistics. Sections one and seven of the act of March three, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, being an appropriation to pay for horses, mules, and so forth, lost or destroyed while in the military service. Section one of the act of July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and Vol. xii. p. 276. sixty-one, being an appropriation for refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers during the late rebellion. Estimates to such expenses. Certain appro And hereafter it shall be the duty of the proper department to submit be submitted for estimates for the expenses and expenditures under these several heads, in the usual manner; and the appropriations of the amounts received priations to cease from transfer drafts to the account of contingent expenses of the indepenafter June 30, dent treasury, and of the amounts received from fines, penalties, and for1870. feitures to the account for expenses of United States courts, shall cease from and after June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all balances of appropriations Unexpended balances of spocontained in the annual appropriation bills and made specifically for the cific appropriaservice of any fiscal year, and remaining unexpended at the expiration of tions for any such fiscal year, shall only be applied to the payment of expenses prop- year to be applied only, &c. erly incurred during that year, or to the fulfilment of contracts properly Balances not made within that year; and such balances not needed for the said pur- needed, to go to poses shall be carried to the surplus fund: Provided, That this section surplus fund. shall not apply to appropriations known as permanent or indefinite appro- ply to certain priations. appropriations. This not to ap not drawn SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all balances of appropriations Provision as which shall have remained on the books of the treasury, without being to balances of drawn against in the settlement of accounts for two years from the date appropriations of the last appropriation made by law, shall be reported by the Secretary against for two of the Treasury to the auditor of the treasury, whose duty it is to settle years, &c.; accounts thereunder, and the auditor shall examine the books of his office, Post, p. 601. and certify to the Secretary whether such balances will be required in the settlement of any accounts pending in his office; and if it shall appear that such balances will not be required for this purpose, then the Secretary may include such balances in his warrant, whether the head of the proper department shall have certified that it may be carried into the general treasury or not. But no appropriation for the payment of the interest or principal of the public debt, or to which Congress may have given a longer duration of law, shall be thus treated. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any department of the government to expend in any one fiscal year any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or to involve the government in any contract for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations. not to apply to certain appro priations." No department to expend in any year more than appropriations for that year or, &c. of act SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That section five of an act approved Maximum pay March three, eighteen hundred and forty-one, entitled "An act making of naval officers and surveyors. appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government Construction for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one," shall be construed to have authorized and to authorize the naval officers and surveyors therein mentioned to receive the maximum compensation of five thousand dollars and four thousand five hundred dollars, respectively, as therein named, out of any and all fees and emoluments by them received. 1841, ch. 35, § 5. Vol. v. p. 432. 1871, ch. 117. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United Expeditions to States be authorized to organize and send out one or more expeditions the North Pole. toward the North Pole, and to appoint such person or persons as he may Post, pp. 526,534. deem most fitted to the command thereof; to detail any officer of the public service to take part in the same, and to use any public vessel that may be suitable for the purpose; the scientific operations of the expeditions to be prescribed in accordance with the advice of the National Academy of Sciences; and that the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or such part thereof as may be necessary, be hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the President. APPROVED, July 12, 1870. CHAP. CCLII. Scientific operations, how to be prescribed. Appropriation. An Act to provide for the Redemption of the three per cent. temporary July 12, 1870. Loan Certificates, and for an Increase of national Bank Notes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That fifty-four millions of dollars in notes for circulation may be issued to national banking associations, in addition to the three hundred millions of dollars authorized by the twenty-second section of the "Act to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June three, eighteen hundred and sixty Additional notes for circulation to national banking associations. 1864, ch. 106, Vol. xiii. p. 105. 22. Notes to be given to what associations. 1865, ch. 82. Vol. xiii. p. 498. be deposited to secure such circulation. four; and the amount of notes so provided shall be furnished to banking associations organized or to be organized in those States and Territories having less than their proportion under the apportionment contemplated by the provisions of the "Act to amend an act to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved March three, eighteen What bonds to hundred and sixty-five, and the bonds deposited with the treasurer of the United States, to secure the additional circulating notes herein authorized, shall be of any description of bonds of the United States bearing interest New apportion- in coin, but a new apportionment of the increased circulation herein protionment on ba- vided for shall be made as soon as practicable, based upon the census of eighteen hundred and seventy: Provided, That if applications for the If applications circulation herein authorized shall not be made within one year after the tion are not made passage of this act by banking associations organized or to be organized in one year, it in States having less than their proportion, it shall be lawful for the compmay be issued troller of the currency to issue such circulation to banking associations to, &c. applying for the same in other States or Territories having less than their proportion, giving the preference to such as have the greatest deficiency: And provided further, That no banking association hereafter organized shall have a circulation in excess of five hundred thousand dollars. sis of census of 1870. for such circula No bank hereafter organized to have over Comptroller of the currency to report monthly to Secretary of Treasury the amount of circu sued, &c. Secretary to cancel certain three per cent. temporary loan certificates; may notify SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That at the end of each month after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the comptroller of the currency to report to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount of circulating notes issued, under the provisions of the preceding section, to national lating notes is-banking associations during the previous month; whereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem and cancel an amount of the three per centum temporary loan certificates issued under the acts of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, not less than the amount of circulating notes so reported, and may, if necessary, in order to procure the presentation of such temporary loan certificates for redemption, give notice to the holders thereof, by publication or otherwise, that certain of said certificates (which shall be designated by number, date, and amount) shall cease to bear interest from and after a day to be designated in such notice, and that the certificates so designated shall no longer be available as any portion of the lawful money-reserve in possession of any national banking association, and after the day designated in such notice no interest shall be paid on such certificates, and they shall not thereafter be counted as a part of the reserve of any banking association. holders that they After that time interest not to be paid, &c. Circulating be issued asso SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the deposit of any United notes payable States bonds, bearing interest payable in gold, with the treasurer of the i got my United States, in the manner prescribed in the nineteenth and twentieth ciations deposit- sections of the national currency act, it shall be lawful for the comptroller ing U. S. bonds of the currency to issue to the association making the same, circulating paying interest in gold. notes of different denominations, not less than five dollars, not exceeding Denominations in amount eighty per centum of the par value of the bonds deposited, which notes shall bear upon their face the promise of the association to which they are issued to pay them, upon presentation at the office of the association, in gold coin of the United States, and shall be redeemable upon such presentation in such coin: Provided, That no banking association organized under this section shall have a circulation in excess of one million of dollars. and amount of such notes. Circulation of any such bank Such associa hand not less than 25 per SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every national banking associations to keep on tion formed under the provisions of the preceding section of this act shall at all times keep on hand not less than twenty-five per centum of its outcent. of circula- standing circulation in gold or silver coin of the United States, and shall tion in gold and silver; receive at par in the payment of debts the gold notes of every other such banking association which at the time of such payments shall be redeeming its circulating notes in gold coin of the United States. to receive at par gold notes of other such banks. |