Medical and ment. for distribution to agricultural, scientific, and other associations; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighty-eight thousand dollars. Medical and Hospital Department. — To enable the Secretary of the hospital depart- Treasury to settle the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already made in pursuance of law, which will not involve any actual expenditure, a transfer on the books of the treasury of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby authorized. State penitentiaries. Marine corps. Interior Depart ment. Clerks, &c. Contingent expenses. Maps for statistical atlas of United States. Francis A. Walker. To pay bills for medical attendance and medicines furnished by citizens to officers and men on detached service, such bills not having been presented until after the close of the fiscal year, eight thousand dollars. For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, five thousand dollars. Marine Corps. For a deficiency in the appropriation for clothing for the marine corps, ten thousand dollars. For a deficiency in the appropriation for contingencies in the marine corps, ten thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For clerks, copyists, messengers, and laborers in the office of the secretary, eight thousand dollars. Contingent expenses: For expenses of packing and distributing official documents, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand dollars. For the expense of preparing, engraving, and printing fifty maps for the statistical atlas of the United States, based on the results of the ninth census, to be compiled by Francis A. Walker, and to be published in an edition of three thousand copies, thirty thousand dollars. For compensation of Francis A. Walker, late commissioner of Indian affairs, for extra services and labor performed by him while such commissioner, in finishing the report of the census, fifteen hundred dollars. Public Lands. For office of surveyor-general of Idaho, for fiscal year Surveyor-gen- ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ten dollars and eighty-seven cents. Public lands. eral. Idaho; Oregon; Washington Territory; California. Recorder of land-titles in Missouri. Surveying public lands in Nevada; Montana; Oregon. For office of surveyor-general of Oregon: For clerks in his office, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, one hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-one cents. Surveyor-general of Washington Territory: For clerks in his office, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, sixty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents. For surveyor-general of California: For rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four hundred and eighty dollars and four cents. For recorder of land-titles in Missouri, for fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. per For surveying the public lands in Montana, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, one thousand and eight dollars and fifty-eight cents. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding SESS. III. CH. 228. 1873. fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten seven cents. 537 For surveying the public lands in Wyoming, at rates not exceeding Surveying fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten public lands in dollars for section lines, one hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-eight Wyoming; cents. For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per mile for standard, seven dollars for township, and six dollars for section lines, one hundred and thirty dollars and nine cents. Nebraska: Kansas. Eastern boun For surveying the public lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding ten The ho. Survey of pub ficiencies. For the building for the penitentiary in Wyoming Territory, being Penitentiary amount of deficiency in the proceeds of internal revenue set apart for this in Wyoming Terpurpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, thirteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and ritory. seventy-seven cents. EXTENSION OF CAPITOL GROUNDS. Purchase of Extension of certain land in capitol grounds. Washington. 1872, ch. 140, Ante, pp. 83, 84. Squares six hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred & eighty-eight. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase from the owners thereof all the remaining real estate and improvements thereon in square numbered six hundred and eighty-eight, in the city of Washington, §§ 6-11. necessary to be taken to complete the purchase of said square, and of square numbered six hundred and eighty-seven, in said city, authorized by sections six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes," approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the sum of two hundred and eightyfour thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifteen cents is hereby appropriated: Provided, That such real estate and improvements Prices. shall be purchased at the prices fixed in the report of the commissioners appointed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia to appraise the value of such property, made to said court on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and confirmed by said court on the sixteenth day of October, in said year: Provided further, that the Secre- Certain matetary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell at public auction such rials in the buildmaterials in the buildings in said squares, numbered six hundred and at public auction. eighty-seven and six hundred and eighty-eight, as are not necessary for ings may be sold the public works in this District; and from the proceeds of such sales shall be paid, by the Secretary of the Interior, all actual and necessary charges sales, how to be for advertising, auctioneer's fees, extra clerical labor, services of commissioners for appraising the property aforesaid, and such other expenses as may have been incident to, and occasioned by, the appraisement and purchase of the real estate and improvements in the squares herein before named, and the sales of the materials in the buildings thereon; the remainder of such proceeds, after payment of all such charges and expenses, to be applied to the improvement and extension of the capitol grounds. Proceeds of applied. 1 Elevator in Senate wing of capitol. Expenses of examination of titles, &c. Miscellaneous. Sturges. Alexander Lynch. John G. Merritt. John W. Wright. For an elevator in the Senate wing of the capitol, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the architect of the capitol extension To enable the Secretary of the Interior to defray the expenses incurred in executing the provisions of the eighth section of the act approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one," being for the examination of titles, surveys, plats, and appraisement, forming the basis of the purchase by the United States of squares numbered six hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred and eighty-eight, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated. Miscellaneous. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay Zebulon B. Sturges, assistant secretary to sign patents of public lands for the President, for the months of June, July, August, and September, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, five hundred dollars. To pay Alexander Lynch for services rendered by him as clerk of the select committee to inquire into matters connected with the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Credit Mobilier, appointed pursuant to House resolution of January sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four hundred dollars. To pay John G. Merritt for services as messenger of the Senate from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as authorized by resolution of the Senate passed June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fourteen hundred and forty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay John W. Wright for rent of building, under lease dated May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay John W. Wright for buildings, under lease dated June second, eighteen hundred and seventy, two thousand six hundred Thomas Lewis. dollars; and to pay John W. Wright and Thomas Lewis for rent of buildings, under lease dated June second, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand five hundred dollars, making the total sum of seventeen thousand six hundred dollars. Temporary clerk in pension office. Wagon-road to To enable the commissioner of pensions to employ certain temporary clerks in his office for the remainder of the current fiscal year, twelve thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the conRed Lake branch struction of a wagon-road, by which supplies may be transported from a of agency for point on the Northern Pacific railway, in the State of Minnesota, known Chippewas. as Red Lake Crossing, to the Red Lake branch of the agency for the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi, five thousand dollars. Indian bureau. lands to be transferred to pay for lands bought by the Osages from the Cherokees, and placed to Indian Bureau. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the proceeds of sale of the Osage ceeds of sale of Indian lands in Kansas, made in accordance with the twelfth section of Osage Indian the act of Congress approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, the sum of one million six hundred and fifty thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for lands purchased by the Osages from the Cherokees, and to place the same on the books of his Department to the credit of the Cherokee Indians, the same shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent., in accordance with the act of Congress approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled An act to confirm to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory," and the acts of Congress and treaties therein mentioned and referred to, whenever the amount to be so transferred shall be certified to the said Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of the Interior. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as kees. credit of Chero1870, ch. 296, § 12. Vol xvi. p. 362. 1872, ch. 310. Ante, p. 228. in any manner changing the provisions of section four of the act "making 1873, ch. 138, § 4 appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Ante, p. 462. department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, and for other purposes." Interest to For this amount, to be paid to the Osage Indians, being interest at five per centum per annum, in accordance with section twelve of the act approved Osage Indians. July fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy, upon the net avails of Osage trust and diminished reserve lands sold by the United States prior to November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-one cents. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to make up deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the subsistence and support of "Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux in the State of Nebraska, and Poncas in the great Sioux reservation, and families of Santee Dakota Sioux, who have taken homesteads at or near Flandreau, in Dakota Territory," three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sioux Indians 1872, ch. 233. Ante, p. 182. Indian service For the following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary to meet deficiencies in the appropriations for the year ending June thirtieth, in California, Utah, Nevada, eighteen hundred and seventy-three: For the general incidental expenses Dakota, and of the Indian service in California, ten thousand dollars; in Utah, ten Montana. thousand dollars; in Nevada, ten thousand dollars; in Dakota, five thousand dollars; and in Montana, five thousand dollars; amounting, in all, to forty thousand dollars. For fulfilling treaty with the Menomonee tribe of Indians, being an amount erroneously carried to the surplus fund, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, seven thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars. Menomonees. Purchase of For this amount, or so much thereof as may be required, for the purchase from the Mississippi bands of Chippewa Indians one township of land from Missis land in the White Earth reservation in Minnesota, for the use and benefit Chippewas of the Pembina band of Chippewas, twenty-five thousand dollars. sippi bands of For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to aid and Pembina band assist the Chippewas of the Pembina band in establishing themselves of Chippewas. upon the White Earth reservation in Minnesota, ten thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the Apache Indideficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, ans; eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to subsist and properly care for the Apache Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, who have been, or may be, collected on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona: Provided, That only for those this appropriation shall be expended only in behalf of those Indians who on reservations, go and remain upon said reservations, and refrain from hostilities, one from hostilities hundred and fifty thousand dollars. and who refrain The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to transfer from Stockbridge, the proceeds of sales of public lands, one hundred and seventy-four thou- &c., Indians. sand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty-three cents to the credit of the appropriation, Fulfilling treaty with Stockbridges-proceeds of land," the aforesaid sum having been received from the sale of the Stockbridge and Muusee Indian lands, and having been erroneously covered into the treasury as receipts from sales of public lands. Expenses of Indian hostilities in Montana. To enable the Secretary of War, according to the act upon that subject passed at the present session of Congress, to pay for expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities in the Territory of Montana in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to the persons entitled thereto, the claims reported upon by General James A. Hardie, under the provisions of section ten of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry 1870, ch. 292, § 10. civil expenses of the government, and for other purposes, for the year Vol. xvi. p. 310. ending June the thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy," approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy; and for that purpose there is hereby appropriated, from any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Subsistence, For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the sub&c., of Arickare, sistence, civilization, and care of the Arickare, Gros Ventre, and Mandan Gros Ventre, and Mandan Indians. Indians, at Fort Berthold agency, Dakota, to make up deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seventy-six thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. For introduction of shad into the rivers and lakes of Introduction of the United States, to be expended under the United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, ten thousand dollars. shad. Folding docu ments. Rives and Bailey. Public printing. W. H. Powell. International Prison Reform Congress. Congressional cemetery. Board of health. Columbia Hos For a deficiency in the appropriation for folding documents in the House of Representatives, eight thousand dollars. To pay Rives and Bailey for reporting and the publication of the debates and proceedings of the forty-second Congress, forty-two thousand dollars. For the public printing, fifty thousand dollars. To reimburse S. Wolf, recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, for certain books of record and indexes purchased by him for the use of his office in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-one and eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. To pay the last installment due W. H. Powell for picture illustrative of Perry's victory, nine hundred and five dollars. To pay for five hundred copies of the proceedings of the International Prison Reform Congress which assembled in London in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the use of the commissioner of the United States at said congress, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repair and improvement of the congressional cemetery, to be expended under the direction of and on vouchers to be approved by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds of the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars. To enable the board of health of the District of Columbia to perform the duties imposed upon them by law, thirty-nine thousand three hundred dollars. For completion of the building known as the Columbia Hospital pital for Women. for Women: For a steam-heating apparatus, for remodeling the upper stories in order to have more rooms, and to ventilate the building properly, fifteen thousand dollars. Purchase of city-hall building in Washington. Appraisers. Purchasemoney, how to be applied. Land for new building. Proviso. Purchase and distribution of seeds. For the purchase by the United States of the interest of the District of Columbia in the present city-hall building in Washington, now used solely for government purposes, such sum as may be determined by three impartial appraisers to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, the same to be applied by said District only for the erection of a suitable building for the District offices; and the governor and board of public works are authorized, if they deem it advisable for that purpose, to make arrangements to secure sufficient land fronting on Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues, between Seventh and Ninth streets: Provided, That the government of the United States shall not be liable for any expenditures for said land, or for the purchase-money therefor, or for the buildings to be erected thereon; and no land, or the use thereof, is hereby granted for the purpose of erecting any building thereon, for such building. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, being so much of the appropriation for the Department of Agriculture, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, erroneously carried to the surplus fund, two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars aud ninety two cents. |