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Wyoming.

. 540.

CH. 540

eighty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty two dollars and forty

two cents.

ARMS FOR WYOMING: For furnishing arms and quartermaster's Arms,etc.,to militia. stores to the State of Wyoming for the equipment of its militia under the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, to provide arms and equipment for the militia, five thousand sixty hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents.

Vol. 24, p. 401.

Navy Department.

Naval establish

ment.

Reimbursement in accounts. Vol. 20, p. 167.

Pay.

Miscellaneous.

Marine Corps.

Bureau of Ordnance.

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.

Contingent.

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

Bureau of Navigation.

Ocean surveys.

Pay.
Longevity, etc.

Travel.

Marine Corps.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.

To be reimburse "General account of advances," created by the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight (twenty Statutes, one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named, in excess of the sum appropriated therefor the fiscal year given, found to be due the "General account" on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:

For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety, thirty four thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and sixty six cents;

For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty eight cents;

For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty two cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and two dollars and two cents;

For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen thousand and forty dollars and seven cents;

For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, four thousand one hundred and ninetyseven dollars and nine cents;

For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, four thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and six cents;

For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-six dollars and ninety-eight cents;

For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nineteen dollars and thirty five cents;

For navigation and navigation supplies, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, eighteen dollars and eighty eight cents;

For ocean surveys, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty eight cents; in all, eighty-nine thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty nine cents.

PAY OF THE NAVY: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of difference of pay and arrears at date of death, under "Pay, Navy," being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ninety-three dollars and seven cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for expenses of travel performed by officers under orders, under appropriation "Pay miscellaneous," being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, fifty three dollars and sixty five cents.

MARINE CORPS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight and transportation, under transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight, under appropriation "Contingent, Marine Corps," being for the serv

ice of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and nineteen dollars and eight cents.

Bureau of Naviga

tion.

Rowland A. Rob

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION: To pay reservation on contract made by the Paymaster-General of the Navy with Rowland A. Robbins, dated September thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, for bins. log lines signal halliards, and so forth, furnished to Mare Island navy yard, one hundred and twenty five dollars and ninety-five

cents.

To pay the amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight, Freight. under appropriation "Contingent, navigation," and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eighty-three dollars and twenty six cents.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: To supply a deficiency in the appropria- Bureau of Ordnance. tion for the contingent service of the Bureau of Ordnance for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight, under appropriation "Contingent, Ordnance," and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and sixty dollars and seventy-two cents.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for freight, under appropriation "Contingent, Equipment," and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and six cents.

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BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY: To pay an amount found due by the accounting officers for medical attendance, under appropriations Medical Department," and being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty nine, twenty-five dollars and fifty four cents.

BUREAU OF PROVISION AND CLOTHING: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for the commutation of rations, under "Provision, Navy," being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen. hundred and eighty-nine, four dollars.

Bureau of Equip

ment.

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing,

New vessels, etc.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY: Toward the construction and completion Increase of the Navy. of the new vessels heretofore authorized by Congress, with their engines, boilers, and machinery being the amount required to carry on work on said vessels, one million dollars.

Joseph A. Smith.
Relieved from

The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to charge to the appropriations for provisions for the Navy for the charge of provisions. years eighteen hundred and eighty three, eighteen hundred and eighty four, and eighteen hundred and eighty five, and for clothing for the Navy, the various sums amounting to sixty-five thousand seven hundred and forty two dollars and one cent, paid by disbursing officers by direction of Pay Inspector Joseph A. Smith when Paymaster-General, and to relieve said Smith from any charge on account of said payments: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that said sums were paid in good faith and that the United States received the full benefit of the same.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Proviso.

Satisfaction of Sec

retary.

Interior Department.

John W. Wallace.
Payment to.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to compensate John W. Wallace for balance claimed to be due him for services rendered and expenses incurred under his appointment as special commissioner, appointed under the act of Congress approved March second, eighteen Vol. 25, p. 994. hundred and eighty-nine, to take testimony and report relative to the rights of freedmen Delaware and Shawnee claimants to share in

the appropriation made by the act of Congress approved October Vol. 25, p. 609. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eighth, and also for expenses incurred and to be incurred in making the payment authorized by

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the said act of October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior, and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry-goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food and shoeing for horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases, cases for drawings, file-holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, five thousand dollars.

For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Survey, fifteen thousand dollars.

PATENT OFFICE: For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates for the Official Gazette, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For photolithographing or otherwise producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies, said photolithographing or otherwise producing plates and copies referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, if it can there be done at reasonable rates; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to make contracts therefor, twenty-one thousand dollars.

EDUCATION OF FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For the amount due the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one and prior years, two thousand four hundred and seventy five dollars and sixty cents.

CAPITOL TERRACES: For paving terrace and completing the interior of rooms and corridors, including steam heating, and for the payment of amounts retained on contracts, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE: For the purchase of additional farm land, ten thousand dollars.

PUBLIC LANDS SERVICE: For clerks in the office of the surveyorgeneral of Montana, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming, Two thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay the account of J. F. Gardner, late United States surveyorgeneral of Nebraska and Iowa, for services as such, from August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to October fifteenth eighteen hundred and eighty-six, inclusive, four hundred and eight dollars and eighty-six cents.

For compensation of registers and receivers of local land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, sixty-two thousand, nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty cents.

For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, twenty thousand dollars;

To pay balance of salary to E. R. Ruggles, custodian of the Fort Sisseton abandoned military reservation in South Dakota, for May, eighteen hundred and ninety, as found due by the accounting officers, fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents.

For care and preservation of abandoned military reservations for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

Port Angeles, Wash.

R.S., 2381, p. 436.

For the appraisement of the lots and blocks within the Port Angeles town-site reservation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, as provided in section twenty-three hundred and eightyone of the Revised Statutes, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary: Provided, That instead of the provi- Provisos. sion contained in the sundry civil act of August thirtieth, eighteen Laws, 1st Sess., 51st hundred and ninety, any person who has actually established a resi- Cong., p. 390. dence upon any one regulation lot, fifty by one hundred and forty feet, and has made valuable improvements upon one such additional lot prior to the date of the passage of this act, and has maintained such residence and improvements to this time shall, upon presenting satisfactory proof of these facts to the register and receiver, after the usual notice of intention by publication, be entitled to purchase the same, at their appraised value, at any time before the day of public sale: Provided, That James Sampson, who settled upon this land in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight and prior to the same being withdrawn as a reservation, shall be entitled to have surveyed for him by the surveyor-general of the State of Washington forty acres upon which he has made valuable improvements, and to enter the same under the land laws of the United States.

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

James Sampson.
Allotment.

Indian Department.

Arizona and New

INDIANS IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO: For this amount to subsist and properly care for the Apache and other Indians in Ari- Mexico. zona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in New Mexico or Arizona, three thousand dollars.

SIOUX OF DIFFERENT TRIBES: For support and civilization of the Sioux as per agreement ratified by act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

INDIAN INSPECTORS: For necessary traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand dollars.

INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT: For necessary traveling expenses of superintendent of Indian schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation: Provided, That he shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and ten dollars and three cents.

For payment to the executors of the estate of Charles E. Hedges, deceased, for subsistence supplies furnished by him in eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, under the direction of the Indian agent, to the Yankton Sioux Indians, as found due by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, eleven thousand three hundred and twentynine dollars.

PENSIONS.

Sioux.

Vol. 19, p. 254.

Indian inspectors.

Superintendent of

schools.

Proviso.

Per diem.

Charles E. Hedges.
Payment to execu

tors.

Pensions.

Provisos.

For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, Army and Navy minor children, and dependent relatives; survivors and widows of pensions. the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and with Mexico, twentyeight million six hundred and seventy eight thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose And provided further, That the amount expended Accounts. under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services rendered within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five hun- geons. dred thousand dollars.

51-2-13

Examining sur

Clerk hire.

Examining surgeons 1890.

Post-Office Depart

ment.

Postal service.

Postal laws, etc.
New edition.

Inland transportation, mail routes.

Postmasters' sala

ries.

Flint and Pere Marquette R. R. Co. Payment to.

O. M. Laraway.
Payment to.

H. Hubert.

Credit in accounts.

Clement A. Lounsberry. Payment to.

L. J. Worden.
Payment to.

Department of Agriculture.

B. F. Fuller.
Reimbursement.

For clerk hire, thirty-five thousand dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of fees of examining surgeons, Army pensions, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and fortyfive cents.

UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.

POSTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS: For printing and publishing a new edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations, consisting of eighty-five thousand copies; such edition to be prepared under the direction of the Postmaster-General, and printed at the Government Printing Office; and the Postmaster-General may authorize the sale of copies of such edition not needed for the use of the Department, to individuals, at the cost thereof, with ten per centum added; the proceeds of such sales to be deposited in the Treasury, as part of the postal revenues, forty thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For inland transportation by railroad routes, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eight-nine; two thousand and nine dollars and twenty-four cents.

COMPENSATION OF POSTMASTERS: For amount to reimburse the postal revenues of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation, one hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents.

To pay the amount certified to be due the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company for additional transportation, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and prior years, fourteen thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.

To reimburse O. M. Laraway for disbursements made by him. while postmaster at Minneapolis in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-two to eighteen hundred and eighty-six, inclusive, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and one cent.

That the proper officers of the Post-Office Department are hereby authorized and directed to credit in the account of H. Hubert, late postmaster at Quitman, Georgia, the sum of one hundred dollars, being the amount of money-order funds remitted by him to Savannah by registered package and stolen at Waycross while in transit without any fault on the part of said postmaster.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Clement A. Lounsberry, late postmaster at Bismarck, North Dakota, for official expenses incurred by him for rent and light during the third and fourth quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and first, second, and third quarters, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as allowed by the Post-Office Department, three hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-five cents.

To pay L. J. Worden, late postmaster at Lawrence, Kansas, for amount expended by him for clerks necessarily employed in said office from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

To reimburse B. F. Fuller, disbursing clerk, for amount expended for investigation in ornithology and mammalogy, in excess of appropriation for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighteen dollars and twenty-five cents.

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