ovens, and cooking stoves; life-rafts; heating apparatus for receivingships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Contingent ex

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, namely: For expenses of recruiting, freight, and transportation of penses. stores, transportation of enlisted men, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, stationery, express charges, internal alterations, fixtures, and appliances, in equipment buildings at navy-yards, foreign postage, car tickets, ferriage, and ice, apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in distress, and good conduct badges for enlisted men, seventy-five thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

Bureau of Yards and Docks. General ex

For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For general expenses of the Bureau of Yards and Docks: Freight and transportation penses. of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, including the commandant's office; books, models, maps, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery, and patent-rights to use the same; repairs on steam-engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timberwheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; postage and telegrams; furniture for Government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; fire-engines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; watertax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing-boxes, seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, forty thousand dollars.

At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; assistant cook, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; chief laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; three laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stable-keeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, eight hundred and forty-five dollars; furnaces, grates, and ranges, three hundred dollars; water-rent and gas, one thousand eight hundred dollars; increase of library and car tickets, two hundred and fifty dollars; furniture, and repairing of the same, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; cemetery and burial expenses, two hundred dollars; repairs and preservation, one thousand dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, forty thousand dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval-pension fund.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

For support of the medical department for surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars.

For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens, and farms, twenty thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Contingent ex

penses.

Naval Asylum.

To be paid out of income from naval-pension

fund.

For contingent expenses of the Bureau, freight on medical stores, transportation of insane patients to the Government hospital, advertis ing, telegraphing, purchase of books, expenses attending the naval medical board of examiners, purchase and repair of wagons, harness, purchase and feed of horses, cows, trees, garden tools, and seeds, twenty-five thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

For provisions for the officers, seamen, and marines, one million two hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.

For purchase of water for ships, thirty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses: For freight and transportation to foreign and home stations; candles, fuel; interior alterations and fixtures in inspection buildings; tools, and repairing same at eight inspections; special watchmen in eight inspections; books and blanks; stationery; telegrams; advertising; postage and express-charges; tolls, ferriages, and car tickets; ice; and incidental labor not chargeable to other appropriations, fifty thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postages, three million three hundred thousand dollars.

For salaries of sub-agents and watchmen and miscellaneous expenses incurred in the protection of timber lands, five thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval vessels; and for fitting, repair, and preservation of yard machinery and tools; and for labor in navy yards and stations not before included; and for incidental expenses; and for purchase and preservation of oils, coal, iron, and all materials and stores; and for completing and erecting on board vessels compound engines with boilers, one million eight hundred thousand dollars.

NAVAL ACADEMY.

For pay of professors and others: For two professors (heads of departments,) namely, one of drawing, and one of English studies, bistory and law, two thousand five hundred dollars each; three professors, namely, one of mathematics, (assistant,) one of chemistry, and one of French, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of Spanish, three of English studies, history and law, one of mathematics, one of astronomy, and two of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sword-master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; and assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars, respectively; one clerk to commandant of midshipmen, one thousand dollars; one clerk to paymaster, one thousand dollars; one apothecary, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one commissary, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; one cook, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent, six hundred dollars; one armorer, five hundred and

twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner's mate, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, and one quarter-gunner, four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents each; one band-master, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; eighteen first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; two drummers and one fifer, (first-class,) at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; in all, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars.

Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; four watchmen, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per day, three thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works, at five dollars per diem, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; ten attendants at gas and steamheating works of academy, and at school-ships, one at three dollars and fifty cents, one at three dollars, and eight at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars; three joiners, two painters, and two masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each, eight thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents; in all, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents.

Pay of watchmen and others.

Pay of mechan

Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, eight hundred and twenty-one dol- ics and others. lars and twenty-five cents; one master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents; fourteen laborers to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each and eleven at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem each, nine thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents; one laborer to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen, public grounds, and so forth, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents; four attendants at recitation rooms, library, chapel, and offices, at twenty dollars per month each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; twenty servants to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadetmidshipmen, public buildings, and so forth, at twenty dollars per month each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety cents.

For pay of employees in the department of steam-enginery, for machinists, boiler-makers, and others, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls enclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, for improvements and furniture and fixtures, fourteen thousand dollars.

For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships, fteen thousand dollars.

For general maintenance, forty-one thousand

MARINE CORPS.

Pay of employees in department of steam-enginery.

Repairs.

Fuel, light.

hundred dollars.

General main

tenance.

Marine Corps.

Pay of officers,

For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, and for pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and others of the corps, three hundred and &c. nineteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

For the civil force of the Marine Corps, ten thousand dollars.
For pay of one thousand five hundred privates, and no more, two

hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For provisions, one hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing, one hundred thousand dollars.

Civil force.

Pay of privates.

Provisions.
Clothing.

Fuel.

Military stores.

Transportation

of troops.

Transportation

of officers.

Barracks and

rent of offices.

Forage.

Clothing not

drawn.
Hire of quarters.
Contingent ex-

penses.

For fuel, thirty thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars.

For military stores, namely: For pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, nine thousand dollars.

For transportation of troops, and for expenses of recruiting, five thou sand dollars.

For transportation of officers traveling without troops, five thousand dollars.

For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, ten thousand dollars.

For forage for public horses and horses belonging to field and staff officers, five thousand dollars.

For payment of discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, twenty thousand dollars.

For hire of quarters for officers where there are no public quarters, sixteen thousand dollars.

For contingencies, namely: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; labor; burial of deceased marines; stationery; telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent; barrack furniture; furniture for officers' quarters; bed sacks; wrapping paper; oil cloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters' tools; repairs to fire engines; purchase and repair of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess tables, bunks; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of hand carts and wheel barrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys, cooking stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade grounds; repair of pumps; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars.

Approved, January 18, 1875.

CHAP. 19.— An act to remove the limitation restricting the circulation of bankingassociations issuing notes payable in gold.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section five thousand one hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States as limits the circulation of banking-associations, organized for the purpose of issuing notes payable in gold, severally to one million dollars, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and each of such existing banking-associations may increase its circulating-notes, and new bankingassociations may be organized, in accordance with existing law, without respect to such limitation.

Approved, January 19, 1875.

Jan. 19, 1875.

balls donated to

CHAP. 20.—An act donating condemned cannon to the City of Massillon, Ohio, for monumental purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Condemned can- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, non and cannon and he hereby is, authorized to deliver, if the same can be done without Massillon, Ohio, detriment to the Government, four condemned iron cannon and sixteen and Post 139,Grand cannon balls to each of the following named organizations for the purArmy of Republic, pose of ornamenting the burial grounds of deceased soldiers: To the at Somerville, Mass. City of Massillon, Ohio; To Post No 139, Grand Army of the Republic, at Somerville, Massachusetts.

Approved, January 19, 1875.

CHAP. 22.-An act declaratory of the act entitled "An act to amend the customsrevenue laws, and to repeal moieties," approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

Jan. 22, 1875.

Construing.
1874, c. 391, s. 19;

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing in the nineteenth section of the act entitled "An act to amend the customs-revenue laws, and to repeal moieties," approved June twenty-second, eighteen hun ante, p. 190. dred and seventy-four, shall be construed to affect any authority, power, or right which might theretofore have been lawfully exercised by any court, judge, or district attorney of the United States to obtain the testimony of an accomplice in any crime against, or fraud upon the customs-revenue laws, on any trial or proceeding for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture under said laws, by a discontinuance or dismissal, or by an engagement to discontinue or dismiss any proceedings against such accomplice.

Approved, January 22, 1875.

Testimony of accomplices to frauds

on customs-revenue laws.

CHAP. 23.—An act to provide for compensating the officers of the Government in observing the Transit of Venus.

Jan. 22, 1875.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the regular compensations Compensations, and allowances, to all officers of the Government in the parties engaged &c., of officers enin observing the Transit of Venus, shall be paid from the appropriations gaged in observing for the support of the branches of public service to which the said offi- how paid. cers are severally attached.

Approved, January 22, 1875.

CHAP. 25.-An act to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special

distribution of seeds.

Jan. 25, 1875.

Appropriation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds to the portions of the country which have suffered from grasshopper-ravages during the seeds for sufferers by grasshoppers. past summer.

Approved, January 25, 1875.

Distribution of

CHAP. 26.—An act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to grant a patent for certain land in the Territory of Arizona.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the

Jan. 28, 1875.

Patent of town of

General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized to include, under Yuma to include the patent for the town site of the town of Yuma, county of Yuma, certain lands. and Territory of Arizona, that part of the Fort Yuma military reserva

tion (not exceeding ten acres of land in all,) restored to the public

domain under the act of Congress entitled "An act authorizing the 1874, c. 415; ante,

Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over to the Interior Depart- p. 201.

ment such parts of certain reservations in the Territory of Arizona

as may be no longer required for military purposes," approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

Approved, January 28, 1875.