NAVY MISCELLANEOUS.

PAYMENT TO OWNERS OF SCHOONER NELLIE WOODBURY: To pay the owners of the schooner Nellie Woodbury for general average, being the proportion due from the United States, as owners of the cargo, on account of the damage sustained by the collision of said schooner with the schooner Charlie Henley, in March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, while on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, bound for Washington, District of Columbia, laden with old copper and lead, the property of the United States, one hundred and seventyeight dollars and thirty-one cents.

PAYMENT TO OWNERS OF BRITISH STEAM-SHIP KATE FAWCETT: To compensate the owners of the British steam-ship Kate Fawcett for damages sustained by that vessel in consequence of a collision with the United States steamer Atlanta, at the port of Aspinwall, in March, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, under a finding of a board of survey appointed under the regulations of the Navy Department, onehundred and twenty dollars.

PAYMENT TO OWNERS OF THE SWEDISH BARK LIMA: To compensate the owners of the Swedish bark Lima for damages sustained by said vessel by collision with the United States flagship Richmond, in the harbor of Key West, on March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-nine cents.

PAYMENT FOR EXPENSES INCURRED AND LOSSES SUSTAINED BY SINKING OF COAL-BARGE H. E. HART: To pay P. C. O'Rourke, owner of coal-barge H. E. Hart, for expenses incurred and losses sustained by him in consequence of the sinking of the barge at the navy-yard, New York, March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, while in tow of the United States tug Catalpa, three hundred and sixtythree dollars and seventy cents; and to pay E. R. Lowe for services rendered in raising said barge, pumping, and other necessary work in connection with the delivery of her cargo of coal at the navy-yard, six hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents; in all, one thousand dollars and twenty cents.

WHARFAGE, UNITED STATES MONITOR TERROR: To pay William Cramp and Sons for wharfage and for care and protection of the United States monitor Terror, in accordance with letters of the Secretary of the Navy to said firm dated November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three thousand three hundred and fifty-twodollars.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay to the following: employees in the Patent Office the sums severally due them, being the difference between the amounts received by them and the salaries appropriated by law, for the positions to which they had been appointed or promoted without taking the oath of office prior to November, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, namely: W. L. Âughinbaugh, one hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty cents; L. B. Wynne, ninety-nine dollars and forty cents; Jay F. Bancroft, fifteen dollars and twenty cents; T. J. Hudson, forty-five dollars and sixtyfive cents; James R. Rogers, fifteen dollars and twenty cents; Ed-ward B. Moore, thirty-three dollars and twenty cents; W. A..

Cowles, thirty-three dollars and ten cents: Granville Lewis, thirtythree dollars and twenty-cents; A. R. Townshend, fifteen dollars and twenty-five cents; J. McRoberts, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Samuel T. Fisher, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; S. W. Bunyea, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; I. N. Townsend, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; T. J. Hogan, eight dollars and fifteen cents; A. P. Smith, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; M. D. Wires, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; John W. Frost, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Anne L. Somerville, one dollar and ninety-five cents; W. W. Townsend, fifty dollars and sixty cents; M. R. Sullivan, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Amelia Tyler, sixteen dollars and ninety-five cents; W. H. Chadsey, ten dollars and eighty cents; Marie Van Leer, eight dollars and forty cents; Bunyan Olive, sixteen dollars and ninety cents; John I. Brown, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; Lewis Thompson, sixteen dollars and eighty cents; C. F. Randall, fiftyone dollars; F. P. McLean, thirty-four dollars and sixty cents; O. K. Gaantnar, thirty-three dollars and sixty cents; Robert P. Haines, twenty-eight dollars; H. E. Baker, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; Sarah J. Noyes, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; George R. Blodgett, sixty-five dollars; B. N. Morris, twenty-four_dollars and twenty cents; P. E. Clark, sixteen dollars and fifty cents; J. C. Dowell, sixty-five dollars; F. C. Skinner, twenty-four dollars and ten cents; W. B. Greeley, sixteen dollars and fifty cents; Thomas G. Steward, sixteen dollars and forty cents; Charles H. Richardson, twenty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents; George A. Nixon, twenty-four dollars and twenty cents; C. M. Catlin, thirty-three dollars and sixty cents; J. Q. Rice, sixty-five dollars; A. P. Greely, twenty-eight dollars; L. D. Wilson, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; E. R. Tyler, thirtythree dollars and fifty cents; in all, one thousand four hundred and four dollars and ninety-five cents.

That the unexpended balance of the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated by the deficiency appropriation act, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to properly carry out the objects of the act to regulate commerce, be and the same is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

PUBLIC LAND SERVICE.

To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of salary of surveyor-general of New Mexico, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two cents.

To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five dollars and ten cents.

For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, sixty thousand dollars..

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-two cents. For expenses of depositing public moneys received from the disposal of public lands, three thousand dollars.

To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of

expenses of depositing public moneys, one thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of expenses of depositing public moneys, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-two cents.

To pay amount found due by the accounting officers on account of surveying the public lands, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of preservation of abandoned military reservations, nine hundred and seven dollars and sixty-nine cents.

To pay to John W. Gilmore, of Geneva County Alabama, the amount erroneously collected from him by the local land officers at Montgomery, Alabama, on homestead entry numbered twenty thousand and twenty-five, twenty-six dollars and ten cents.

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

WESTERN MIAMI INDIANS: For the payment of Thomas F. Richardville for services and expenses as delegate representing the Western Miami Indians in Washington, one thousand dollars, to be paid out of the appropriation provided for said Indians in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and to be deducted from the amount to be paid said Indians there-under.

KASKASKIA, WEA, PEORIA, AND PIANKESHAW INDIANS: For the payment of John Wadsworth for services and expenses as delegate representing the Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians in Washington, one thousand dollars, to be paid out of the appropriation provided for said Indians in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and to be deducted from the amount to be paid said Indians thereunder.

EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA: For payment to W. B. Ferguson and Frederick C. Fisher, of Waynesville, North Carolina, for services rendered as attorneys for the eastern band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, from October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to November first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of W. J. Hadley, as superintendent of the Indian Industrial School at Chilocco, Indian Territory, from October nine, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to November fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, both dates inclusive, one hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-two cents: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay over to the duly authorized treasurer of the Creek Nation, the sum of eight hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-nine cents now standing to the credit of the Creek Orphan Fund on the books of the Treasury, being the aggregate of the sums due the Creek orphans or their heirs under the treaty of March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the provisions of an act entitled "An act to reimburse the Creek Orphan Fund," approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and that the receipt of the treasurer of the Creek Nation shall be a release of the United States and considered a final settlement of the Creek Orphan matter.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, and fees to United States marshals, attorneys, and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-two cents.

For compensation to postmasters, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and fortyone cents.

For inland transportation, railroad routes, five hundred and sixtytwo thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For compensation to clerks in post-offices, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-one cents.

For transportation of foreign mails from the United States to foreign countries, sixteen thousand dollars.

The foregoing sums for the postal service shall be payable from the postal revenues of the respective years to which they are properly chargeable.

For an additional clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, for duty in the free delivery division, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand dollars.

To enable the Postmaster-General to pay the Assistant AttorneyGeneral of the Post-Office Department for services rendered in the preparation of a new edition of the postal laws and regulations under the act of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one thousand dollars.

That the claim of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company, certified in House Executive Document Number seventy, first session Forty-ninth Congress, shall be paid from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, instead of "from postal revenues of the respective years to which they are properly chargeable, as provided in the deficiency act of February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

To pay the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company interest, as provided by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventyfive (eighteenth Statutes, page four hundred and eighty-one), from September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on the sum of twentyfive thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty cents, withheld from said company pending suit for the recovery of that amount of internal-revenue taxes claimed to be due the United States, judgment having been rendered in favor of the company, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-eight cents.

To pay Thomas L. Hoffman, late postmaster at Fairfield, Iowa, amount paid by him for the United States for rent of the post-office at Fairfield, Iowa, in accordance with the terms of a lease of said premises held by the United States, and in pursuance of the instructions of the Post-Office Department, six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

To pay Thomas F. Gerls, late postmaster at Pontiac, Michigan, amount paid by him for rent of the post-office at Pontiac, Michigan,

in accordance with the terms of a lease of said premises held by the United States, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four hundred dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

IMPROVEMENT OF GROUNDS: To pay amount due John A. Baker, for tools furnished in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, twenty-nine dollars and twentyfive cents.

To pay amount due Joseph Paul for paving with asphalt the roadways in the Agricultural Grounds, by contract with the Agricultural Department, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, seven hundred and eleven dollars.

EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN: To reimburse Norman J. Colman for amount expended for repairs to heating apparatus, and so forth, in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, thirty-nine dollars and three cents.

SILK CULTURE: To reimburse Norman J. Colman for amount paid John H. Wilkinson, for inspecting boiler in silk filature, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five dollars.

To pay W. S. Emans, United States consul at Shanghai, expenses incurred in procuring silk-worm eggs, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, sixty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.

To pay William M. Noyes, for labor in June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at the experimental station, Piedmont, California, being for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twelve dollars.

INVESTIGATING THE HISTORY AND HABITS OF INSECTS: Transportation of agent of Department of Agriculture, being a deficiency on account of the appropriation for investigating the history and habits of insects for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ninety-six dollars and twenty-five cents.

EXPERIMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR FROM SORGHUM AND SUGAR CANE: To pay unsettled accounts against the Department for experiments for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be

necessary.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, HORSES AND WAGONS: To reimburse James M. Ewing, late disbursing clerk, Department of Justice, the amount of voucher number eighteen, third quarter of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for livery of horses for April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, improperly paid from the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, Department of Justice: Miscellaneous items, eighteen hundred and eighty-three," and disallowed by the accounting officers, the said amount having been repaid to the Treasury by James M. Ewing, two hundred dollars.

REPAIRS TO COURT-HOUSE, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: To reimburse James M. Ewing, late disbursing clerk, Department of Justice, amount paid by him for repairs to court-house,