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of the appropriation of the same character made for the use of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the current fiscal year: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay vouchers for expenditures incurred prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, from appropriations for the present fiscal year, as follows; on account of furniture for public buildings, the sum of five hundred dollars; and on account of repairs and preservation of public buildings, the sum of five thousand dollars, and the same shall not involve any increase of the appropriation specified.

To reimburse the city and county of San Francisco, California, for expenditures made in improvement of the streets, paving & curbing in front of the property of the United States in said city and county, eight thousand two hundred and sixty nine dollars and thirty-three cents.

For the construction and verification of standard weights and measures for the custom houses of the United States and for the several States, and the necessary miscellaneous expenses attendant thereon, four thou sand dollars.

Proviso.

San Francisco.

Standard weights and measures.

Defense of cotton claims, 1872, c. 172, s. 5, v. 17, p. 134.

For the payment of the necessary expenses of defending the United States in respect to claims for net proceeds of cotton, under section five of the act making appropriations to supply deficiencies, approved May eighteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two six thousand dollars. To pay the United States depositary at Buffalo, New York, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eight hundred and Buffalo. ninety-one dollars and two cents.

To pay the amount due David H. Mason, deceased, late United States attorney for Massachusetts, for salary, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, thirty-two dollars and forty-two cents. For printing in pamphlet form the proclamations of the governor of Montana during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and eighteen hundred and seventy four, one hundred dollars.

To pay John W. Wright, for rent of building, corner of G, and Eighth streets, for one year, nine thousand dollars.

Depositary at

David H. Mason.

Printing proclamations of gov

ernor of Montana.

John W. Wright.

Supervisors of

To pay the United States supervisors of the Congressional election held in Philadelphia on the first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred election at Philaand seventy-four, the balance claimed by them, twenty-two thousand delphia. one hundred and fifty-five dollars.

To pay Dawson Tank and Company, of New London Connecticut, for completing the landing dock at Little Gull Island, New York, from the Co. appropriation made by act of June twenty third, eighteen hundred and seventy four, two thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents; which sum is hereby continued & made available for said purpose from the unexpended balance of said appropriation.

For printing illustrations of the results of the Polaris expedition under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay William Syphax in full balance to equalize his pay with that of an assistant messenger, six hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirtyeight cents.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Dawson Tank &

Illustrations of

Polaris expedition.
William Syphax

Incidental ex

ment.

For postage and telegrams or dispatches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department in the penses of Quartererection of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, in the con- master's Departstruction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of May second eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters, and hospital stewards on clerical duty; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing-officers and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontier, or at posts and other

places when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commis. sioned officers and soldiers; authorized office-furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermasters Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight; for the apprehension securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expense incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required by the for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, namely, the purchase of travelling forges blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hiring of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, twenty thousand dollars. For Subsistence of subsistence of regular troops, employees, and Indian scouts, for the curArmy. rent fiscal year, one hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and thirtyAppropriation seven dollars and eighty-three cents: Provided, That so much of the for subsistence ap- appropriation for subsistence of the Army as may be necessary may be plicable to purchase of stores for applied to the purchase of subsistence-stores for sale to officers for the sale to officers, &c. use of themselves and their families, and to commanders of companies or other organizations, for the use of the enlisted men of their companies or organizations, and the proceeds of all sales of subsistencesupplies shall hereafter be exempt from being covered into the Treasury and shall be immediately available for the purchase of fresh supplies. To supply deficiency in the moneys appropriated for support of totally Disabled volun- disabled volunteer soldiers in the National Homes, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary To Robert B. Lacey. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Robert B. Lacey, late captain and and assistant quartermaster of volunteers, the sum of one thousand and forty-three dollars and ninety-one cents, being the amount allowed him by Second Comptroller, and certified to the Secretary of the Treasury, as the amount due him as arrears of pay while on duty, and prior to his final discharge.

Proceeds of sales of subsistence sup

plies, how available.

teers in National Homes.

Dudley Observatory, New York.

Observation and report of storms.

Claims for

ex

penses in suppressing Indian hostilities in Montana.

To the Dudley Observatory at Albany, New York; For the use of the building now occupied by the government for officers for meteorological work, and quarters for signal observers, in the service of the Government and for furnishing and maintaining the same, and also for instruments for astronomical observations, and other necessary incidental expenses, twenty thousand dollars.

For expenses of the Observation and Report of Storms by telegraph for signal for the benefit of Commerce and Agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase or repair of meteorological or other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for the 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 instruments, shelters, for hire furniture and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river reports; for maps, and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and Boards of Trade rooms and for distribution; for books and stationary, and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty-five thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of War 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 Hardee, under the provisions 1870, c. 292, s. 10, of section ten of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for v. 16, p. 310. sundry civil expenses of the Government, and for other purposes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy," approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the fiscal year eight

een hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, fifty-five thousand dol lars

Dempsey &

To enable the Secretary of War to pay the adjusted account of the late firm of Dempsey and O'Toole, five hundred and eighty eight dollars O'Toole. and sixty-six cents

To complete the equestrian statue of Nathanael Greene, including the pedestal for the same, ten thousand dollars.

That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars under the act approved June twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy four for the removal of obstructions in the harbor of New Castle, Delaware, be and the same is hereby continued and made available.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

Statue of Nathanael Greene. Harbor of New

Castle, Del.

1874, c. 457, ante,

p. 240.

For computer and workmen at the Naval Observatory, and for repairs Naval Observaand preservation of buildings for the current year ending June thirtieth, tory. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one thousand dollars.

For the payment during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-five, of Navy pensions, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For clothing to the seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen and boys, enlisting in the navy, ninety thousand dollars

MARINE CORPS.

Navy pensions.

Clothing.

Contingent ex

For gas, water, rent, stationery, repairing, stoves, brooms, buckets, and furniture at marine barracks, Brooklyn, New York, being for the penses at Brooklyn. fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-three cents.

For hire of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, four thou sand five hundred dollars.

For forage for public horses, and for the authorized number of officers' horses, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, three thousand dollars.

For amount found due by the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury in settlement of the claim of Francis Scala, late leader of the Marine band, for commutation of quarters, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty cents.

Hire of quarters.

Forage.

Francis Scala.

For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps for the fiscal year eight- Contingent exeen hundred and seventy-five, five thousand dollars.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Packing and distributing of Congressional documents for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Surveying Public Lands. For surveying the public lands in the following States and Territories, to wit: New Mexico, six hundred and eighty-four dollars and forty-one cents; Oregon, one thousand three hundred and five dollars and twenty-seven cents; Washington, two hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-two cents. Dakota, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-three cents; Montana, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-five cents; Utah, one hundred and fortyseven dollars and seventy cents; Nevada, one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-two cents; in all, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty cents, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five and for prior years, as more fully set forth in the Estimate of Deficiencies, being House Executive Document numbered sixty-nine, Forty-Third Congress, second session.

For rent of offices of surveyors general in Washington Territory, Calfornia, and Oregon seven hundred and eight dollars and sixty-nine cents, for the fiscal year, as more fully set forth in the above named executive document.

penses.

Distribution of documents.

Surveying public lands:

New Mexico.
Oregon.
Washington.
Dakota.
Montana.

Utah.

Nevada.

Rent.

Transportation of supplies for Sioux Indians.

V. 15, p. 635.

Indian service in Montana.

Seminole Nation.

V. 14, p. 785.

V. 14, p. 755.

Indians in Colorado.

Indian Office. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be neces sary to make up deficiency in the general appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for transportation of supplies provided for the Sioux Indians under treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, including the Santee Sioux, the Yankton Sioux, and the Poncas, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For this amount or so much thereof as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the adjusted accounts of the parties named in Executive Document number sixty-nine, submitting estimates for this deficiency bill, due in consequence of deficiencies in the appropriations for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and eighteen hundred seventy-four, for the Indian service in the Territory of Montana, as awarded by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, fourteen thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents.

For this amount, to be paid to the Seminole Nation of Indians being the difference between the amount paid by the United States to the Creeks for the reservation now occupied by said Seminoles by treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the amount deducted for the same from the money due them for their former territory ceded to the United States by treaty of March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, forty thousand dollars; the same to be appropri ated as follows: one half to be applied under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior to the payment of the present debts of said Seminole Nation and the balance to be paid to said Indians per capita in the same manner as annuities are paid.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to reimburse appropriations for the Indians in Colorado, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the amount expended from said appropriations in negotiations with said Indians, in accord1872, c. 115, v. 17, ance with the act approved April twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirteen cents.

p. 55.

Cherokee In

dians.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the costs adjudged against the Eastern band of the Cherokee Indians in the suits at law and in equity between them and William H. Thomas and others, lately determined in the circuit court of the United States for the western district of North Carolina, and including compensation to special counsel, and for other purposes, in pursuance of the act of 1870, c. 296, s. 11, Congress of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, to be expended v. 16, p. 362. under the direction of the Attorney General, fifteen thousand dollars.

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For this amount, to enable the President of the United States to carry out the provisions of the third article of the treaty with the Kickapoo Indians of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to be paid under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to seven Kickapoo Indians who have become citizens of the United States, the same being their proportion of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars provided for said tribe for educational and other beneficial purposes, per treaty of May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-six cents. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell for their benefit United States stocks amounting to three thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents, being the proportion of said persons of one hundred and thirty-seven thousand and four hundred dollars held in trust for the Kickapoo tribe of Indians; the proceed thereof to be paid to the seven persons who have elected to become citizens of the United States as above.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the consent of the citizen class of Pottowatomie Indians, to sell not exceeding twenty thousand dollars worth of their bonds now held

in trust by him, and to apply the proceeds of such sale in the purchase of subsistence, seeds and agricultural implements, and for other beneficial objects for said Pottowatomies.

Choctaw Indians,

That the Secretary of the Interior be and is hereby authorized, with the consent of the Legislative Council of Choctaw Indians, to sell not sale of bonds. exceeding two hundred thousand dollars of the bonds now held in trust by him, and to pay over to the accredited agent of said Choctaw Indians to be designated by the Legislative Council of said nation arising from the proceeds of the sale of said lands.

Removal of Pi

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay deficiencies for expenses contracted by the special commissioners Powell Ute Indians. and Ingles in the removal of Pia Ute Indians in eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as by letter of Commissioner of Indian Affairs and books of said office, fifteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty-three cents.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the balance found due James W. Terrell, for commission on payments made to the North Carolina Cherokee Indians, under his appointment as disbursing-agent of the Treasury Department, dated October twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, in pursuance of the fourth and fifth sections of the act of Congress approved July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, one thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the subsistence and support of Northern Sioux Indians who have been collected on the Red Cloud and Whetstone agencies in Dakota, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

James W.Terrell.

1848, c. 118, ss. 4, 5, v. 9, p. 264. Northern Sioux Indians.

Subsistence of

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet certain liabilities incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, Navajo Indians. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in providing subsistence supplies for the Navajo Indians in New Mexico, seventeen thousand three hundred and sixty four dollars and seventy-one cents.

For subsistence of Apaches of Arizona, one hundred and twenty Apaches. thousand dollars.

Malheur agency,

For this amount, to be applied in the payment of liabilities contracted on account of the service at the Malheur agency, Oregon, during the Oregon. third and fourth quarters, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as per statement of S. B. Parrish, late commissioner in charge, on file in the Indian Office, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, sixteen thousand dollars.

Post-Office De

1874, c. 457, ante,

SECTION 2. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, in addition to amounts appropriated by the act approved partment. June twenty-third eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for service of the Post Office Department, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said Department.

For compensation to postmasters, three hundred thousand dollars. For pay to clerks in post-offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That if the revenues of the Post Office Department together with the amount appropriated by the above mentioned act as a deficiency shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this act, then the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as an additional deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for advertising for service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ninety-five thousand dollars.

p.231.

Postmasters.

Clerks.

Proviso.

Advertising.

Contingent ex

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- penses. five, seventeen thousand dollars.

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