[PUBLIC-NO. 27.] AN ACT to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen. hundred and eighty-four, 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, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and prior years, namely: PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. That from the appropriations for public printing and binding for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the Public Printer is hereby authorized to transfer to the allotment of the Treasury Department an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to the allotment of the Navy Department an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to the allotment of the War Department fifteen thousand dollars, and to the allotment of the Post Office Department an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; but the aggregate amount appropriated for the public printing and binding for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall not be exceeded because of the transfers hereby authorized. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For the transportation of subsidiary silver coin as authorized by law, five thousand dollars. For fuel, lights, water, required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for the following public buildings, namely: For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, thirty thousand dollars; for custom-house at Cleveland, Ohio, five thou sand dollars; for court-house and post-office at Montgomery, Alabama, ten thousand dollars; for post-office and court-house at Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars; and for custom-house and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri, ten thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand dollars and each of said amounts shall be so expended as to complete the furnishing of said buildings; and all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings in said cities, respectively, shall be used as. far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, fifty-six thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For completion of the building, sixty-one thousand dollars. For custom-house at Saint Louis, Missouri: For completion and furnishing of the building, twenty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Albany, New York: For completion of the building, fifty-five thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuation of the building, one hundred thousand dollars. For marine-hospital buildings at Memphis, Tennessee: For completion of approaches, fencing, terracing lot, heating and laundry apparatus, thirty thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. EXPENSES OF THE TENTH CENSUS. For current expenses, twenty thousand dollars. STATIONERY. For stationery for the use of the Department of the Interior in wrapping and mailing the reports of the tenth census ordered by Congress to be distributed by this Department by the act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighteen cents. EXPENSES OF LAND-OFFICES. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, fifteen thousand dollars. For expenses of depositing public moneys, five thousand dollars. PENSIONS. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, five hundred thousand dollars. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, two hundred and fiftythree thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventeen cents, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three. For per diem, when absent from home on duty, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Pension Office detailed for the purpose of making special investigation of matters pertaining to the Pension Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, forty thousand dollars. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to settle and allow, if found correct, the accounts of the disbursing clerks of the Interior Department for the fiscal years, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for disbursements made on account of support of the Freedman's Hospital and Asylum by transfer of any unexpended balance and apply the same to purposes for which the sub-divisions of the appropriations for said institution for the years above mentioned are exhausted. And the payments made to clerks, watchmen, laborers, laundresses and teamsters of said hospital for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighteen hundred and eighty-four, may be allowed and chargeable to the appropriation for clothing, bedding, forage, transportation and miscellaneous expenses for said fiscal years respectively; but the aggregate amounts appropriated for the expenses of the Hospital and Asylum for the above fiscal years shall not be exceeded because of the transfer herein authorized. The amount of said transfers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four shall not exceed one thousand dollars. INDIAN OFFICE. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the employees temporarily employed and rendering service in the Indian Office from January first up to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand one hundred dollars, and hereafter no Department or officer of the United States shall accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property. NAVY DEPARTMENT. BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For expenses of recruiting, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, fifteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau, five thousand dollars. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navyyards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair, and incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. That one thousand two hundred dollars of the sum appropriated by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be, and the same are hereby, transferred from the second to the third school division, without increasing the aggregate expenditure therein provided. For janitors and care of the several school-buildings, three thousand nine hundred dollars; for current repairs to school-buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; one-half of said amounts to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia for the current fiscal year. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To pay Mary E. Herndon, widow of the late Honorable T. H. Herndon, the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unex pired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. To pay the mother of the late Honorable W. F. Pool the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents. To pay the widow of the late Honorable E. W. M. Mackey the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, five thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. To pay the widow of the late Honorable D. C. Haskell the amount of salary and allowances for mileage and stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, six thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-seven cents. To pay the widow of the late Honorable M. E. Cutts the amount of salary and allowances for stationery for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, seven thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay Alexander B. Thomas and Wilson Grice for services rendered under resolution of the House from March fourth to December third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at sixty dollars per month each, one thousand and eighty dollars. Approved, May 1st, 1884. [PUBLIC-No. 46.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the Agricultural Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, 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 Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the objects and purposes hereinafter expressed, namely: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER. For compensation of Commissioner of Agriculture, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk in said Department, who shall be superintendent of the Department building, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division of accounts and disbursing officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant disbursing officer, who shall act as property clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk to disbursing officer, one thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one engraver, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class three, three thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class one, eight thousand four hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand and forty dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars, one engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; superintendent of folding-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants in folding-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; messengers, carpenters, watchmen, and laborers, ten thousand dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. CHEMICAL DIVISION. For compensation of chief chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; for the employment of additional assistance, when necessary, in the chemical division, six thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. ENTOMOLOGICAL DIVISION. For compensation of entomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist, one thousand four hundred dollars; for assistants in entomological division, when necessary, four thousand dollars; for investigating the history and habits of insects injurious to agriculture and horticulture, experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them, for drawings, and for chemicals and travel |