For mounting and dismounting guns and removing the armament from forts being modified or repaired, including heavy carriages returned to arsenals for alteration and repairs, and other necessary expenses of the same character, and for repairing ordnance and ordnance ,stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, and for extra-duty pay for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, twenty-five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of clothingbags, haversacks, canteens, and great-coat straps, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops, seventy-five thousand dollars. For horse equipments for cavalry, harness for field and machine guns, and for cavalry forge-carts, forty thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, twenty thousand dollars. For the purchase of machine-guns suitable for field service, twenty thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at national armories, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than sixty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department, in all its branches, shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department. Approved, March 3d, 1885. [PUBLIC-No. 86.] AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightysix, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas ury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes, namely: For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, fifty-nine million one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriations 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 under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, five hundred thousand dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: Provided, That if twenty or more applicants appear on one day, no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made: Provided, That all applicants for pensions shall be presumed to have had no disability at the time of enlistment; but such presumption may be rebutted. For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. For fees for preparing vouchers, rent, fuel, lights, postage on letters to the Executive Departments and to pensioners, stationery, and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That from and after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the salary and emoluments of agents for the payment of pensions shall be four thousand dollars, and no more, per annum; and of the fees provided by law for vouchers prepared and paid, only so much thereof as may be required for expenses incurred in having said vouchers prepared, as well as the necessary clerical work at the agencies, shall be available. Approved, March 3d, 1885. 11724 [PUBLIC-No. 87.] AN ACT making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the India Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, fo the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for othe purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely: For pay of sixty agents of Indian affairs at the following-named agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely: At the Warm Springs agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Klamath agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; At the Grand Ronde agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Siletz agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Umatilla agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Yakama agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Colville agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Nisqually and S’Kokomish agency, at one thousand two hun dred dollars; At the Quinaielt agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Tulalip agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Round Valley agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Tule River agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Mission agency, at one thousand three hundred dollars; At the Nez Perces agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Fort Peck agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Fort Belknap agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Yankton agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Crow Creek and Lower Brule agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Standing Rock agency, at one thousand seven hundred dollars At the Ouray agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Navajo agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Mescalero agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Southern Ute agency, at one thousand four hundred dollars; At the Omaha and Winnebago agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Santee agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Sac and Fox agency, Indian Territory, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Quapaw agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; and not more than one thousand two hundred dollars of any moneys appropriated by this act shall be expended for clerical labor at this agency; At the Osage agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars; At the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Union agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the White Earth agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Sac and Fox agency, Iowa, at one thousand dollars; At the Green Bay agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Mackinac agency, at one thousand dollars; At the New York agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Colorado River agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; For the Eastern Cherokee Indians, eight hundred dollars; in all, eighty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars; and all provisions of law fixing compensation for Indian agents in excess of that herein provided are hereby repealed. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ some suitable person to take charge of the Indians on Tongue River, at a compensation not exceeding this sum, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the ⚫ discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting. For pay of five Indian inspectors, at three thousand dollars per annum each, fifteen thousand dollars. For necessary travelling expenses of five Indian inspectors, including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, six thousand dollars. Pay of one Indian school superintendent, three thousand dollars. Necessary travelling expenses of one Indian school superintendent, including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation one thousand five hundred dollars. For buildings and repair of buildings at agencies, and repairs of the same, thirty-five thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian service, including travelling and incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and travelling and incidental expenses of five special agents, and for pay of employees |