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prison, and chapel attached; for stockade entrance, to consist of offices, warden's residence, guard-quarters, dining-rooms, and armory; for wall with sentry-boxes to inclose about two acres of land, and for purchase of water-right and twenty acres of land, the cost of said. water-right and land not to exceed five thousand dollars, fifty-five thousand dollars.

PENITENTIARY IN WYOMING TERRITORY: For completion and necessary repairs of penitentiary building, in addition to the amount appropriated in the sundry civil appropriation act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TRAVELING EXPENSES, TERRITORY OF ALASKA: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars.

RENT AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, OFFICE OF MARSHAL, TERRITORY OF ALASKA: For rent of office for the marshal, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars.

EXPENSES OF TERRITORIAL COURTS IN UTAH TERRITORY: For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-five thousand dollars.

DEFENDING SUITS IN CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars.

DEFENSE IN FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS: To enable the Attorney-General to make proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended in his discretion, five thousand dollars.

PROSECUTION AND COLLECTION OF CLAIMS: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars.

PUNISHING VIOLATIONS OF THE INTERCOURSE ACTS AND FRAUDS: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.

PROSECUTION OF CRIMES: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and the United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this

purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty thousand dollars.

SUPPORT OF CONVICTS: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-Gemval, fifteen thousand dollars.

JUDICIAL

UNITED STATES COURTS.

EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS: Foi defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of jurors and witnesses; of suits and preparation for suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; of the safe-keeping of prisoners; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States and of the enforcement of the provisions et title twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely:

For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshal and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being for payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment of such special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars.

For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and five thousand dollars.

For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys who are employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty thousand dollars.

For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any fees to United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal-revenue laws, unless the prosecution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant, or upon sworn complaint by a collector, or deputy collector of Internal Revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon information and belief and approved either before or after such arrest by a circuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed or the prosecution is by indictment.

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For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars.

For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clotning and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, three hundred thousand dollars.

For rent of United States court-rooms, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the Southern district of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals for jurors in United States cases when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars.

For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate justice of the Supreme Court, at a sum not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

UNDER LEGISLATIVE.

BOTANIC GARDEN.

For extension and repairs to heating apparatus; for new sash to rotunda of conservatory, paint and reglaze conservatory and various hot-houses, and general repairs to buildings and walks, including granolithic pavement on First street, leading to Botanic Garden to Capitol, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars.

SENATE.

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who performed the work of arranging and preparing the copy for, and indexing the Executive Journals of, the Senate, from February twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under Senate resolution of June twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States.

To enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to provide suitable rooms for the use of the folders of the Senate, one hundred and fifty dollars, and he is authorized to lease such rooms for the space of four months.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For allowance to the following contestants and contestees in full of expenses incurred by them in contested election cases:

J. B. Morgan, seven hundred and one dollars;

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G. H. Thobe, two thousand dollars;
J. B. White, two thousand dollars;
Robert Lowry, two thousand dollars;

W. O. Arnold, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

F. M. Simmons, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars;
Wm. Vandever, two thousand dollars;

N. E. Worthington, two thousand dollars;
A. C. Davidson, two thousand dollars;
J. V. McDuffie, two thousand dollars;
J. D. Lynch, two thousand dollars;
P. S. Post, two thousand dollars;

Robt. Smalls, two thousand dollars;

J. G. Carlisle, one thousand two hundred and seven dollars and nineteen cents:

Wm. Elliott, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and nineteen cents.

Hereafter no payment shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate unless sanctioned by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, or from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives unless sanctioned by the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives. And hereafter payments made upon vouchers approved by the aforesaid respective committees shall be deemed, held, and taken, and are hereby declared to be conclusive upon all the departments and officers of the Government: Provided, That no payment shall be made from said contingent funds as additional salary or compensation to any officer or employe of the Senate or House of Representatives.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER LEGISLATIVE.

Catalogue of the Congressional Library: To enable the Librarian of Congress to continue the work upon the Catalogue of the Congressional Library, five thousand dollars.

To enable the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the direction of the court, to obtain the oil-portraits of John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, and Morrison R. Waite, to be hung in the robing-room of the court with those of the other Chief-Justices already there, fifteen hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be

necessary.

INDEX TO CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS: To pay for the work done in preparing and completing the Document index of the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses by Alonzo W. Church, three thousand dollars.

To enable the Architect of the Capitol to protect the paintings in the rotunda by suitable railing or wire netting, in his discretion, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the public printing, for the public binding and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for litho-' graphing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the Dis

trict of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million and sixty-seven thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:

For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, eight hundred and two thousand dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer, of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business.

For the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the Treasury Department, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

For the War Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General's Office) and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service;

For the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office;

For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office.

For the National Museum, for printing labels and blanks and for the "Bulletins" and annual volumes of the "Proceedings" of the Museum, ten thousand dollars.

For the United States Geological Survey, as follows:

For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, eight thousand dollars;

For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twentyfive thousand dollars;

For engraving the geological maps of the United States, fiftyfour thousand dollars;

For the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars;

For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars;
For the Agricultural Department, thirty thousand dollars;
For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars;

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