-clerks not to be &c. And from and after April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, no employed in rela- clerk shall be employed or paid in any Department of the Government tion to such fines, for services rendered under any provision of said act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or the acts amendatory thereof. -to draw no And from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sevmoney except enty-five, no money shall be appropriated or drawn for the support and upon annual ap- maintenance of what is now designated by law as the "National Home propriations. for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers," except by direct and specific annual appropriations by law. -estimates, money for. R. S., § 4828. and And it shall be the duty of the managers of said home, on or before manner of drawing the first day of August in each year, to furnish, to the Secretary of War, estimates, in detail, for the support of said home for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July thereafter; and the Secretary of War shall annually include such estimates in his estimates for his Department. accounts and And no moneys shall, after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be drawn from the Treasury for the use of said home, except in pursuance of quarterly estimates, and upon quarterly requisitions by the managers thereof upon the Secretary of War, based upon such quarterly estimates, for the support of said home for not more than three months next succeeding such requisition. And no money shall be drawn or paid upon any such requisition while any balance heretofore drawn or received by said home, or for its use, from the Treasury, under the laws now or heretofore existing, and now held under investment or otherwise, shall remain unexpended. And the managers of said home shall, at the commencement of each vouchers for to be quarter of the year, render to the Secretary of War an account of all rendered, audited, their receipts and expenditures for the quarter immediately preceding, with the vouchers for such expenditures; &c. Enlisted clerks, And all such accounts and vouchers shall be authenticated by the officers of said home thereunto duly appointed by said managers, and audited, and allowed, as required by law for the general appropriations and expenditures of the War Department. [Par. 5.] That the Adjutant-General be, and he is hereby, authorized, &c., in Adjutant- with the approval of the Secretary of War, to continue the services of General's Office not exceeding sixty-seven enlisted clerks, to be employed in copying the continued for special purposes. worn out muster-rolls and records, and in examining war-claims, until R. S., § 169. the said work shall be finished; and of not exceeding sixty enlisted men to be employed as messengers and watchmen until the records of the Adjutant General's Office can be collected in one safe building: Grade of third Provided, That the number of enlisted men hereby authorized shall be reduced as soon as their services can be dispensed with without injury to the public service. [Par. 6.] That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred assistant examiner and seventy-six, the grade of third assistant examiner in the Patent Office shall cease. * in Patent Office abolished. R. S., §§ 169, 476. In Post-Office of classes not to [Par. 7.] That hereafter no payment shall be made as salaries to clerks Department clerks of class one, two, three, or four in said Department, [Post-Office Departbe paid from ap- ment] out of appropriations made for other purposes; propriations for other purposes. R. S., § 167. Estimates for ap SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Execupropriations to be tive Departments, and of other officers authorized or required to make furnished by Oct. 1, and certain ab- estimates, to furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the stracts to be in- first day of October of each year, their annual estimates for the public cluded in Book of service, to be included in the Book of Estimates prepared by law under R. S., § 414, his direction; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit, as a part 1798, 3660, 3669, of the appendix to the Book of Estimates, such extracts from the an3814, 3822. nual reports of the several heads of Departments and Bureaus as relate 1881, Feb. 23, ch. to estimates for appropriations, and the necessities therefor. [March 3, 73, § 1. Estimates. 1875.] CHAPTER 130. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY CIVIL EXPENSES OF THE GOVERN- SECTION 1. Par. 1. National-bank notes to be printed on distinctive paper, &c. Par. 2. Bonds, notes, &c., of United States to -one to be done by bank note com- Par. 3. Rate of compensation for investigat- Par. 4. Salaries and expenses of agents of sealfisheries in Alaska. Par. 5. Mailable matter of third class to pay one cent an ounce. Par. 6. Secretary of State may rent, &c., buildings at Peking for legation. Par. 7. Supervising surgeon of marine hospitals to be appointed by President, &c.; his salary. Par. 8. Light-House Board may lease grounds for light-house service at mouth of Saginaw River. Par. 9. Tolls on vessels entering or clearing Thunder Bay River to cease after completion of light-house. Par. 10. Cost of survey of private land claims not required to be paid before issue of patent. Par. 11. Duties of board of police in District of Columbia extended to public squares, &c. Par. 12. Useless ordnance material of Navy may be sold; appropriation to procure new material, &c. Par. 13. Members, &c., of House whose seats are contested not to be omitted from pay-roll. Par. 14. Restriction upon contracts and expenditures for public buildings and sites therefor. 2. Organization and salaries in Treasury Department. [Par. 1.] That the national-bank notes shall be printed under the di- National-bank rection of the Secretary of the Treasury, and upon the distinctive or notes to be printed special paper which has been, or may hereafter be, adopted by him for on distinctive paprinting United States notes. [Par. 2.] Provided, That the above-named notes, currency, and other securities of the United States be executed with not less than three plate-printings: per, &c. Bonds, notes, &c., of United States to have three plate-print R. S., § 3577. And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have executed one or two of such printings by such responsible and capable one to be done and experienced bank-note companies or bank-note engravers as may by bank-note comcontract for the same at the lowest cost to the Government, and at panys prices not greater than those heretofore paid for the same class of work; no company or establishment executing more than one printing upon the same note or obligation, and the final printing and finishing to be executed in the Treasury Department. [Par. 3.] That the additional compensation authorized by section four Rate of compenthousand seven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, to be sation for investipaid to clerks detailed to investigate suspected attempts of fraud upon gating pension frauds. the Government through and by virtue of the pension-laws, shall be the actual and necessary expenses of transportation, and a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding four dollars per diem. R. S., § 4744. Salaries and ex penses of agents of seal-fisheries, Alaska. [Par. 4.] For salaries and traveling-expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska: one agent at three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one assistant agent at two thousand nine hundred and R. S., §§ 1973, twenty dollars per annum; two assistant agents at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each per annum; and for necessary travel1876, July 31, ch. ing-expenses of agents going to and returning from Alaska, at six 246, § 1. hundred dollars each per annum; 1974. Mailable matter one cent an ounce. And hereafter no payment whatever shall be made for this purpose from indefinite appropriations. [Par. 5.] That section eight of the act approved June twenty-third, of third class to pay eighteen hundred and seventy-four, "making appropriations for the serR. S., § 3878, vice of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Insert the word "ounce" in lieu of the words "two ounces." 3879. 1874, June 23, ch. 456, § 8. 13 Blatch., 207. Secretary of [Par. 6.] That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized State may rent, to rent, furnish, and keep suitable buildings, with grounds appurtenant, &c., buildings at at Peking, for the use of the legation in China, at an annual cost not Peking for lega- exceeding five thousand dollars; that the period of such lease shall be for two or more years, and with renewals, as the Secretary of State shall determine, (1) tion. R. S., § 1680. [Par. 7.] That hereafter the salary of the supervising surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital service shall be paid out of the marine hospital fund, at the rate of four thousand dollars per year; and the supervising surgeon-general shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 1875, March 3, ch. 156, § 7. house service at River. * Light-House [Par. 8.] For erection of range-lights to guide into the cut through the Board may lease outer bar at the mouth of the Saginaw River, in the State of Michigan, grounds for light- and for the construction of a new dwelling-house for the light-house mouth of Saginaw keeper's use, And that the jurisdiction of the Light-House Board is hereby extended so that it shall be lawful for said board to lease R. S., § 4658. the necessary ground for erection and maintainance of the said lights. [Par. 9.] That the portion of the act of Congress entitled "An act entering or clear- making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for ing Thunder Bay the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyter completion of five," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, which light-house. makes appropriation for the construction of a light-house at the mouth 1874, June 23, ch. of Thunder Bay River, in the State of Michigan, be so amended that Tolls on vessels River to cease af 455, par. 7. Cost of survey of private land claims not re the proviso thereto attached shall read as follows: Provided, That when the light-house is completed, from that time and thereafter further collections of tolls from vessels and their cargoes entering or clearing from said river is hereby prohibited. [Par. 10.] That the provisions of the third section of the act entitled "An act to reduce the expenses of the survey of the public lands in the quired to be paid United States," approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtybefore issue of two, requiring that the cost of survey and platting shall be paid by the claimant for any private land claim before a patent therefor shall be issued, be, and the same is hereby repealed. (2) patent. Duties of board of police in Dis * * [Par. 11.] That the duties devolved and the authority conferred upon trict of Columbia the board of metropolitan police by law, for police purposes, in said extended to public District [of Columbia], shall extend to and include all public squares or squares, &c. R. S., § 1819. R. S., vol. 2, Dist. Col., 66 321-438. NOTES.-(1) This same provision is enacted again in the next following act (18 Stat. L., 405). It is not deemed necessary to repeat it in this volume. (2) The provisions of 1862, ch. 86, § 3 (12 Stat. L., 409), here referred to, are incorporated into the Revised Statutes in § 2400, noted in the margin. places; and said board are hereby authorized and required to make appropriate rules and regulations in relation thereto. * Useless ordnance material of Navy may be sold; appropriation to procure new material, [Par. 12.] That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to dispose of the useless ordnance material on hand at public sale, according to law, the net proceeds of which shall be turned into the Treasury; And an amount equal to the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied to the purpose of procuring a supply of material adapted in manufacture and calibre to the present wants of the service; But there shall be expended, under this provision, not more than sev- 3672, 3692. enty-five thousand dollars in one year; And in the case of sale of like materials in the War Department, the proceeds of which shall be turned into the Treasury, an amount equal to the net proceeds of such sale is hereby appropriated for the purpose of procuring a supply of material adapted in manufacture and calibre to the present wants of the war service; And there shall be expended in the War Department, under this provision, not more than seventy-five thousand dollars in any one year. * [Par. 13.] That so much of section thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes as requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives to omit from the pay-roll 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 hereby is repealed. &c. R. S., § 3618, Members, &c., of House whose seats are contested not to be omitted from Restriction upon [Par. 14.] And hereafter no money shall be paid nor contracts made for payment for any site for a public building in excess of the amount contracts and exspecifically appropriated therefor; And no money shall be expended upon any public building on which work has not yet been actually begun until after drawings and specifications together with detailed estimates of the cost thereof, shall have been made by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and said plans and estimates shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Interior, and the Postmaster General; And all appropriations made for the construction of such building shall be expended within the limitations of the act authorizing the same or limiting the cost thereof; And no change of said plan involving an increase of expense exceeding ten per centum of the amount to which said building was limited shall be allowed or paid by any officer of the Government without the special authority of Congress. penditures for pub- Organization Treasury Depart SEC. 2. That on and after July first, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, the organization of the Treasury Department, and the several and salaries in offices thereof, and the annual salaries paid to the persons therein, shall be as follows, to wit: IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: The Secretary, eight thousand dollars; ment. R. S., § 235. Office of Secretary. R. S., §§ 160, 200, Two assistant secretaries, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; 235, 242. One chief of division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations, three thousand dollars; Seven chiefs of division, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each; Eight assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand four hundred dollars each ; Two disbursing clerks at two thousand eight hundred dollars each; Stenographer to the Secretary, two thousand four hundred dollars; Twenty-one clerks of class two; Clerks of Construction Branch. R. S., § 235. - of First Comptroller. R. S., § 235. - of Second Comptroller. R. S., § 235. - of Commissioner of Customs. R. S., §§ 235, 316– 318. Eighteen clerks of class one; Thirty-one clerks at nine hundred dollars each; Eleven messengers; And eleven laborers; One clerk of class four and one clerk of class one, to assist the chief clerk in superintending the building, One captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; One engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; One machinist and gas-fitter, one thousand two hundred dollars; One storekeeper, one thousand four hundred dollars; Sixty watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, and additional to two of said watchmen, acting as lieutenants of watchmen, two hundred and eighty dollars each; Twenty-five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; Nine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; And ninety char-women, at one hundred and eighty dollars each. IN THE CONSTRUCTION BRANCH OF THE TREASURY:— Supervising Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars; One photographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; Two clerks, at two thousand dollars each; One assistant photographer, at one thousand six hundred dollars; IN THE OFFICE OF THE FIRST COMPTROLLER: The First Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand dollars; Four chiefs of division, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; Twelve clerks of class three; Ten clerks of class two; Five clerks of class one; Six clerks at nine hundred dollars each; One messenger; And three laborers, IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECOND COMPTROLLER: The Second Comptroller, five thousand dollars; Deputy comptroller, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Six chiefs of division, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; IN THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS : The Commissioner of Customs, four thousand five hundred dollars; Two chiefs of division, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; Five clerks of class three; Ten clerks of class two; Nine clerks of class one; |