Watchmen for

For twenty-eight watchmen for the general service of the Interior Degeneral service. partment building, and all the bureaus therein, to be allotted to day or Law creating night service, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, fourteen thou- office of superinsand four hundred dollars; and section seven of the act of April ten, tendent of the Interior Departeighteen hundred and sixty-nine, creating the office of superintendent of the Interior Department, is hereby repealed.

For stationery, furniture, books, and maps for library, and for miscellaneous items, nine thousand dollars.

For expenses of packing and distributing congressional journals and documents, and compiling the Biennial Register, including the salary of the superintendent of public documents, seven thousand dollars. For casual repairs of the Interior Department building, ten thousand dollars.

For fuel, lights, and the salary of the engineer and assistant engineer, eighteen thousand dollars.

ment repealed. 1869, ch. 15, § 7. Ante, p. 12. Stationery, books, maps,

&c.

Distributing

documents. Biennial Regis

ter.

Rent of build

For rent of building on G Street, corner of Eighth Street, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, until the first day of July, ing on G Street. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, at an annual rental of not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum as may be necessary is hereby appropriated.

&c.

For the General Land Office. There shall be paid out of the unexGeneral land office. pended balances heretofore appropriated, as follows: For commissioner Pay of comof the general land office, recorder, chief clerk, three principal clerks of missioner, republic lands, three clerks of class four, twenty-three clerks of class three, corder, clerks, forty clerks of class two, forty clerks of class one, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, two messengers, three assistant messengers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two packers, seven laborers, employed in his office, in all, one hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred

and eighty dollars; also for compensation of additional clerks in the gen- Additional eral land office, viz.: For one principal clerk, as director, one clerk of clerks. class three, four clerks of class two, thirty-five clerks of class one, and two laborers, fifty-two thousand six hundred dollars; also for cash system, maps, diagrams, stationery, furniture, and repairs of the same; miscellaneous items, including two of the city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, advertising and telegraphing; miscellaneous items on account of bounty lands and military patents, and contingent expenses under the swamp land act, ten thousand dollars, making a total appropriated for the general land office of two hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; and the remaining balance, if any there be, shall be, and hereby is, covered into the treasury of the United States, and shall be disbursed only upon a specific appropriation.

Indian office,

Indian Office. For compensation of the commissioner of Indian affairs, chief clerk, three clerks of class four, seven clerks of class three, pay of commissioner, &c. five clerks of class two, — in all, twenty-eight thousand six hundred dollars.

Temporary clerks For one clerk of class three, seven clerks of class two, twelve clerks of class one, and four female copyists, at nine hundred dollars each, in all, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.

For one messenger, one assistant messenger, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one laborer, in all, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.

For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, including two city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, five thousand dollars.

Pension Office. For compensation of commissioner of pensions, Pension office, chief clerk, twenty-two clerks of class four, forty-eight clerks of class three, pay of commissioner, &c. seventy-six clerks of class two, seventy clerks of class one, nine female copyists at nine hundred dollars each, one messenger, five assistant mes

Pension office. sengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and five laborers in his office, in all, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.

Patent office, pay of commissioner, &c. Office of assistant commis

sioner established; his duties, pay, &c.

Contingent expenses.

For stationery, engraving, and retouching plates for bounty-land warrants, printing and binding the same, office furniture, and repairing the same, and miscellaneous items, including two daily newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and for detection and investigation of fraud, fifty thousand dollars; three fifths of which sum may be expended for the last specified object.

United States Patent Office. For compensation of the commissioner of the patent office, four thousand five hundred dollars; for one assistant commissioner, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall act as commissioner in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the commissioner, and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the commissioner, three thousand dollars; for chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; three examiners-in-chief, at three thousand dollars each; twenty-two principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; twenty-one first assistant examiners, at eighteen hundred dollars each; twenty-one second assistant examiners, at sixteen hundred dollars each, two of whom may be females; one librarian, eighteen hundred dollars; one machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of class four, six clerks of class three, forty-five clerks of class two, and forty clerks of class one, — making in all two hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred dollars.

For twelve permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars.

For ten permanent clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars.

For two skilled draughtsmen, at twelve hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For fifteen copyists of drawings, at one thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars.

For fifty-one female copyists, at nine hundred dollars each, forty-five thousand nine hundred dollars.

For one messenger and purchasing clerk, one thousand dollars.
For one skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For ten skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars.

For thirty laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.

For six laborers, at six hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the patent office, namely: For illustrations of annual report, stationery for use of office, furniture, repairing, papering, painting, ice, advertising, books for library, moneys refunded, printing engraved patent-heads, international exchanges, plumbNothing to be ing, gas-fitting, extra labor on indexes and abstracts for annual reports, paid judges of fitting rooms over porticos, temporary clerks, laborers, and draughtsmen, and other contingencies, ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That no moneys shall be paid to the chief justice or associate justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, upon any appeal to either of them from the decision of the commissioner of patents; and section two of the act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, is hereby reVol. x. p. 75. pealed.

supreme court of District of Columbia on appeals from commissioner. Repeal of

1852, ch. 107.

Printing or photographing. Surveyorsgeneral and

For printing or photographing, or otherwise producing copies of drawings, for use of office and for sale, fifty thousand dollars.

Surveyors-General and their Clerks. For compensation of surveyorgeneral of Louisiana, two thousand dollars.

For clerks in his office, two thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Florida, two thousand dollars, and for clerks in his office, two thousand five hundred dollars.

clerks in Louisiana;

Florida;

Minnesota;

For compensation of surveyor-general of Minnesota, two thousand dollars, and the clerks in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Dakota, two thousand dollars, Dakota; and the clerks in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars.

For surveyor-general of Kansas, two thousand dollars, and the clerks in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars.

Kansas;

For compensation of extra clerks in replacing the township plats, descriptive sheets, and so forth, of the land office at Topeka, Kansas, destroyed by the burning of that office, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For surveyor-general of Colorado, three thousand dollars, and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

Colorado;

For surveyor-general of New Mexico, three thousand dollars, and for New Mexico; clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

For surveyor-general of California and Arizona, three thousand dollars, and for clerks in his office, eleven thousand dollars.

California and

Arizona;

For surveyor-general of Idaho, three thousand dollars, and for clerks in Idaho; his office, four thousand dollars.

For surveyor-general of Nevada, three thousand dollars, and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

Nevada;

For surveyor-general of Oregon, two thousand five hundred dollars, and Oregon; for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

For surveyor-general of Washington Territory, two thousand five hundred dollars, and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

For surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, two thousand dollars, and for the clerks in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars.

For surveyor-general of Montana, three thousand dollars, and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

For surveyor-general of Utah Territory, three thousand dollars, and for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.

For salary of United States recorder of land titles at St. Louis, Missouri, five hundred dollars.

Washington Territory;

Nebraska and

Iowa;

Montana;

Utah Terri

tory.

Recorder of land titles at St. Louis.

Surveyor-gen

of commission

For compensation of the surveyor-general of the Territory of Wyoming, three thousand dollars, and the clerks in his office, four thousand eral of Wyoming dollars. Territory. Department of Agriculture. For compensation of commissioner of Department of agriculture, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; agriculture, pay entomologist, two thousand dollars; chemist, two thousand dollars; as- er, &c. sistant chemist, sixteen hundred dollars; superintendent of experimental gardens and grounds, two thousand dollars; statistician, two thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; superintendent of seed-room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; botanist, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks of class four, four clerks of class three, six clerks of class two, seven clerks of class one; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; superintendent of folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of garden and grounds, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of seed-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; three copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; two attendants in museum, at one thousand dollars each; chief messenger, eight hundred and fifty dollars; two assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one carpenter, at nine hundred and sixty dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and eight laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, — making in all, seventy thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.

Collecting sta

For collecting statistics and compiling and writing matter for monthly, tistics and pre

annual, and special reports, fifteen thousand dollars.

paring reports.

Purchase and distribution of

seeds.

Experimental garden, &c.

Stationery, fuel, light, repairs, &c.

Periodicals, works of reference, &c.

Collections.
Analysis.

Apparatus.
Minerals and

ores.

Post-Office Department. Pay of Postmaster-General, assistants, superintendents, chiefs of division, clerks, &c.

1871, ch. 115. Post, p. 519.

Stationery, fuel, &c.

For purchase and distribution of new and valuable seeds, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For expense of putting up the same, for labor, bagging, paper, twine, gum, and other necessary materials, five thousand dollars.

For labor on the experimental garden, and for flower-pots, repairs to greenhouse and heating-apparatus, gravel for walks, and purchase of new plants, and seeds for the same, ten thousand dollars.

For stationery, two thousand dollars.

For freight and charges, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For lights, five hundred dollars.

For repairs of building, furniture, fences, and water, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For keep of horses, fifteen hundred dollars.

For new furniture, one thousand dollars.

For cases for the department museum, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For collecting and model[1]ing specimens of fruit, one thousand dollars.

For cases for the library, one thousand dollars.

For foreign and domestic agricultural and scientific periodicals, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For completing valuable sets of the same, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For current publications and works of reference, five hundred dollars.
For collections for the herbarium, one thousand dollars.

For chemicals and incidentals in analysis, furnaces, fine chemical apparatus, microscope, and Debasque saccharometer for laboratory, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For philosophical apparatus, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For collection of minerals and ores, one hundred dollars.
For incidental and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars.

For paper, twine, gum, and necessary materials for folding room, five hundred dollars.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

For compensation of the Postmaster-General, eight thousand dollars; three assistant postmasters-general, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; superintendent of money-order system, three thousand dollars; superintendent of foreign mails, three thousand dollars; chief of division of dead-letter office, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; three chief clerks, at two thousand dollars each; additional to one clerk of class four, as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; twelve clerks of class four, fifty-one clerks of class three, forty-five clerks of class two, fifty clerks of class one; fifty female clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; ten folders, seven thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; and four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fifteen laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-five clerks in dead-letter office, at eight hundred dollars each,— making in all, three hundred and thirty-two thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

For stationery, nine thousand dollars; for fuel for the general postoffice building, including the auditor's office, seven thousand four hundred dollars; for gas, four thousand dollars; for plumbing and gas-fixtures, three thousand dollars; for telegraphing, three thousand dollars; for painting, one thousand five hundred dollars; for carpets, three thousand dollars; for furniture, three thousand five hundred dollars; for livery, seven hun

dred and fifty dollars; for hardware, eight hundred dollars; for engineer, Post-Office Department. one thousand six hundred dollars; for assistant, engineer, one thousand dollars; for fireman and blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; for two firemen, twelve hundred dollars; for six laborers, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; for one watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for one carpenter, twelve hundred and fifty-two dollars; for three assistant messengers, seven hundred and twenty dollars each; for two female laborers, nine hundred and sixty dollars; for one female laborer, at two hundred and forty dollars; for contingent expenses seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the auditor of the treasury for the Post-Office Charges to Department is hereby authorized to charge to the appropriation for mail special appropriations. transportation the salary and per diem of the assistant superintendents of the postal-railway service; to the appropriation for the money-order bureau the salary and per diem of the special agent detailed for that service; and to the appropriation for the free-delivery system the salary and per diem of the special agent detailed for that service; this provision to apply to the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, as well as to subsequent appropriations for the postal service.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

War Depart

ment.

For compensation of the Secretary of War, eight thousand dollars; Pay of Secrechief clerk, five clerks of class four; for additional to one clerk of class tary of War, clerks, &c. four, as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; for six clerks of class three, three clerks of class two, eight clerks of class one, one messenger; three assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one laborer, forty-six thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars.

Office of ad

Office of the Adjutant-General. For three clerks of class four, nine clerks of class three, twenty-seven clerks of class two, twenty-six clerks jutant-general; of class one, and two messengers, ninety thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Office of Quartermaster-General. - For four clerks of class four, eight quartermasterclerks of class three, twenty clerks of class two, seventy-five clerks of general; class one; thirty copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of the building, two hundred dollars; one messenger, two assistant messengers, and six laborers, one hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. Office of Paymaster-General. - For chief clerk, four clerks of class four, one clerk of class three, twenty-three clerks of class two, twenty-five general; clerks of class one, and two messengers, seventy-four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses, five thousand dol

lars.

--

paymaster

commissarygeneral;

surgeon-gen

eral;

Office of the Commissary-General. For one clerk of class four, one clerk of class three, eight clerks of class two, fifteen clerks of class one, one messenger, and two laborers, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses, viz.: office rent, repairs, and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. Office of the Surgeon- General. For one clerk of class four, one clerk of class three, two clerks of class two, eight clerks of class one, one messenger, and one laborer, seventeen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For contingent expenses, including rent of the surgeon-general's office and army medical museum, eight thousand dollars. Office of Chief Engineer. For four clerks of class four, four clerks of chief engineer. class three, four clerks of class two, four clerks of class one, one messenger, and one laborer, twenty-five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. For contingent expenses, viz.: for stationery, office furniture, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, including two daily Washington newspapers, three thousand dollars.