Utah Territory.

Nevada.

Wyoming Territory.

Examination and

test of field-surveys.

Survey of Indian reservations.

Proviso.

Survey of confirmed private landclaims in Califor

nia.

Colorado Terri

tory.

New Mexico.
Proviso.

1862, c. 86 s. 3, v. 12, p. 409, repealed in part.

Survey of boundary between New

Mexico and Arizona.

Registers and receivers.

Incidental ex

penses.

Depositing mon

eys.

Suppressing dep

For surveying the public lands in Utah Territory, at rates not exceed ing fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands in Wyoming Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard, sixteen dollars for township, and fourteen dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars.

For occasional examinations to test the accuracy of surveys in the field, ten thousand dollars.

For the survey of Indian reservations and subdividing portions of the same, one hundred and ninety-one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars: Provided, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars thereof, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be applicable to the payment of such surveys executed prior to the end of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

For surveying confirmed private land-claims in California at legal rates, including necessary office expenses, twenty thousand dollars.

For surveying confirmed private land claims in Colorado Territory, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile, ten thousand dollars.

For surveying confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile, ten thousand dollars: Provided, 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 United States," approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, 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.

For survey of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona, being so much of the thirty-second meridian west from the Washington observatory as lies between the parallels of thirty-one degrees and twenty minutes and thirty-seven degrees of north latitude, at a rate not exceeding seventy dollars per linear mile, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.

EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC
LANDS.

For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys at ninety land-offices, five hundred and twenty-five thousand and seven hundred dollars.

For incidental expenses of the land-offices, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.

For expenses of depositing moneys received from sales of public lands, thirteen thousand dollars.

To meet the expenses of suppressing depredations upon the timber on redations on public the public lands, five thousand dollars.

timber.

Work on Capitol, care, and repairs. Improvement of Capitol grounds.

CAPITOL EXTENSION.

For work on the Capitol, and for general care and repairs thereof, fifty thousand dollars.

For improvement of the Capitol Grounds, according to the plans and under the general direction of Fred. Law Olmsted, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol, two hundred thousand dollars.

bles, &c., from

And the telegraph-companies having offices in the Capitol are Removal of teledirected to take from the Capitol Grounds, and the streets around the graph poles, railsame, all telegraph poles, and connect these lines with the Capitol by way tracks, stameans of cables laid underground; and further, that the Washington Capitol Grounds. and Georgetown and the Metropolitan Railway Companies are directed to take up such portions of their tracks as may come in the way of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and relay the same as may be directed by the officers in charge of the improvements of the Capitol Grounds. And the architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to move from the Capital Grounds all stables, workshops, and other buildings which may be in the way of the improvements of said grounds.

For stable for mail-wagons, and so forth, for Senate, to be erected on lot at the north of the Capitol, recently purchased by the United States, ten thousand dollars.

For repairing steam-boilers and for steam-traps for Senate wing, three thousand and five hundred dollars.

BOTANIC GARDENS.

For lining with wood the iron ventilators of the conservatory, four hundred dollars; for sash for double glazing for north front of the same, three hundred and fifty dollars; for concrete or other walks for garden, eight hundred dollars; for additional forcing-house, one thousand dollars; for painting and glazing, six hundred dollars; for fence to square on the south side of Maryland avenue, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For building for soil and coal shed on the south side of Maryland avenue, one thousand two hundred dollars; and for filling and grading the bed of the old canal one thousand five hundred dollars

That any moneys appropriated for the purpose of erecting a building on the ground owned by the Women's Christian Association of the District of Columbia, under the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, which may remain unexpended on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, are hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the ensuing fiscal year.

REFORM SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

For the superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant superintendents, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at six hundred dollars each; for medicines and physicians fees, five hundred dollars; gardener, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of work shops, six hundred dollars; laborer, one hundred and forty-four dollars; seamstress, laundress, and servants, five hundred and forty dollars; and for fuel, clothing, and incidentals, two thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars; making, in all, the sum of ten thousand dollars.

METROPOLITAN POLICE

For salaries and other necessary expenses of the Metropolitan Police for the District of Columbia, two hundred and five thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. Provided, That a further sum amounting to one hundred and two thousand six hundred and thirty five dollars shall concurrently be paid to detray the expenses of the said Metropolitan Police force, out of the treasury of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the duties devolved and the authority conferred upon the board of metropolitan police by law, for police purposes, in said District, shall extend to and include all public squares or places; and said board are hereby authorized and required to make appropriate rules and regulations in relation thereto.

To enable the proper-accounting officers to settle the accounts of Binger Herman, late receiver of public moneys at Roseburgh, Oregon, 43-2-PUB 25

Stable for mail

wagons for Senate.

Repairing steamboilers; and for steam-traps, Senate wing.

Patients.

River and bound

ary walls.

Repairs and improvements.

Water.

Payment to State

the sum of five hundred and forty five dollars and seventy seven cents is hereby appropriated, of which the sum of one hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty three cents only may be repaid from the Treasury as balance due him for overpayment on account of sales of public lands

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE

For the support, clothing, medical and moral treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy and revenue cutter service, and of all persons who may have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Government Hospital for the Insane one hundred and fifty thousand one hundred and seventy one dollars

For completing the river wall and raising boundary walls, at their intersection with the same, eight thousand seven hundred and forty eight dollars

For general repairs and improvements, including the main entrance to the hospital, and for coal vault in the rear of the east wing of the hospital building, ten thousand dollars.

For supplying the hospital with water from the Potomac aqueduct ten thousand dollars.

For the purpose of paying the State Lunatic Asylum for insane conLunatic Asylum, viets, at Auburn, New York, for the keeping of George Sheppard and

Auburn.

Support of institution.

Purchase of

ground.

Transient pau

pers.

Soldiers' and

James Blowers, United States convicts who became insane while undergoing sentence, and who were kept and maintained in said asylum after their term of sentence had expired, the sum of five thousand and nine dollars and forty-six cents.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB

For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, the maintenance of the beneficiaries of the United States, and five hundred dollars for the books and illustrative apparatus, forty eight thousand dollars

For continuing the work on the erection, furnishing and fitting up the buildings of the institution, in accordance with the plans submitted to Congress, forty thousand dollars

COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING IN ASSYLUM AND OTHER
CHARITIES.

For the support of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asseylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from pay-patients, twenty-four thousand three hundred dollars.

To complete the purchase of the ground around Columbia Hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars, which shall be available immediately.

For care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington, or in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be formed with such institution, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

For the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Washington City, Dis. Sailors' Orphans' trict of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars.

Home.

Children's Hos

pital.

Freedmen's Hos

To aid in the support of the Children's Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars.

For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum in Washington, District of pital and Asylum. Columbia, namely, for subsistence, salaries and compensation, fuel and light, clothing, rent of hospital-buildings, medicines and medical supplies, forage and transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, forty-five thousand dollars.

For the immediate relief of the suffering poor of the District of Columbia, to be distributed by the commissioners of the said District, ten thousand dollars.

For the National Association for the relief of the Colored Women and Children of the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, twenty thousand dollars.

For fitting up new halls required for the Government collections, ten thousand dollars.

To complete the heating apparatus of the National Museum, two thousand and five hundred dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

For Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:

For shop A: For a wood-working and gun-carriage shop for arsenal, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars.

For shop F: For a rolling-mill and for forging-shop for the armory, seventy-five thousand dollars; and one hundred thousand dollars of said appropriation for shops A and F, shall be available immediately.

For furnishing power to the shops already built, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Rock Island.

Shop A.

Shop F.

Furnishing pow

er to shops.

Rock Island

1868, Res. 60, v.

For Rock Island bridge: For care and preservation of the bridge, thirteen thousand dollars; and this sum and the appropriation for said bridge. bridge for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and 1874, c. 455, ante, seventy-five, shall be expended in accordance with the joint resolution 221. in relation to the Rock Island bridge, approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the contract between the United States 15, p. 258. and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company; and the Secretary of War shall, within six months from the passage of this act, notify said railroad company to remove, from said island and from the Mississippi River, all piers, abutments, embankments, erections, abutments, &c., of structures, or tracks connected in any way with the old bridge or tracks old bridge, &c. of said railroad-company over or across said island or either branch of said river; and in case of refusal of said railroad company to comply with such notice for the period of six months, then it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States to commence, or cause to

Removal of piers,

Proviso.

be commenced, such legal proceedings against said railroad-company as Suit to be brought. may be necessary to protect and enforce the rights of the United States in that behalf: Provided, however, The Secretary of War may permit the north pier of the old bridge to remain, in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

Sewers, roads,

For sewers, building new roads, care and preservation of water-power, painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings and bridges, &c. building fences and grading grounds, and repairs and extension of the railroad, fifteen thousand dollars.

For new machinery and shop-fixtures for shops, ten thousand dollars. For Springfield armory, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery, twenty thousand dollars.

For Benicia arsenal, California: For one carpenter's shop, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For continuing the boring of artesian well, or, if artesian water is procured, for putting down permanent iron pipe and turbine-wheel to force water to reservoir, five thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars.

Machinery and shop-fixtures. Spring field ar

mory.

Benecia arsenal.

Artesian well.

Repairing roads,

&c.

Permanent repairs, &c. Repairs of arse

nals.

Gatling guns. Rifling heavy guns.

Examination and

report of arsenals

east of the Mississippi River.

Useless ordnance, Navy.

New ordnance.

For repairing roads and building sewers and drains, three thousand dollars.

For permanent repairs of post, machinery for shops, and for fences, four thousand dollars.

For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expendi tures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, fifty thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of War to purchase Gatling guns for the Army and Navy, fifty thousand dollars.

For conversion and rifling of heavy guns, seventy-five thousand dollars.

And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause an examination to be made into the condition of the United States arsenals east of the Mississippi River, and to report to the next Congress how many of the same can be sold without interfering with the necessities of the military service, together with an estimate of the amount that can probably be realized from the sale of each of the same whenever such sale shall be directed by Congress.

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 seventy-five thousand dollars in one year; Useless ordnance, 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.

War.

New ordnance.

Observation and report of storms.

Proviso.

ican frontiers.

SIGNAL-OFFICE.

Observation and report of storms: For expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signals, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals, announcing probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life-saving stations and light-houses; for instrument-shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for riverreports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards-of-trade rooms and for distribution; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; thirty thousand dollars of which shall be expended on the Atlantic coast south of Cape Hatteras: Provided, That no expenditure shall be made or obligation incurred for any amount in excess of the sum hereby appropriated.

Telegraph-lines For completing the construction, and for maintenance and use of milon Indian and Mex-itary telegraph-lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers, and for the Connection of connection of military posts and stations, for the better protection of military posts and immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in

stations.

Proviso.

the State of Texas, the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and the Indian Territory, eighty-eight thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay the expenses of Repairs to be operating and keeping in repair the said telegraph-lines out of any money paid out of money received for dispatches sent over said lines; any balance remaining after received for dis- the payment of such expenses to be covered into the Treasury as a mispatches. cellaneous receipt; the money received in any one fiscal year to be used