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duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That section three thousand and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the word "paid," in the seventh line, the following: "Together with costs of suit and interest at the rate of three per centum per annum;" but this amendment shall not affect existing suits or demands.

PAY OF ASSISTANT CUSTODIANS AND JANITORS: 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, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-six cents.

REFUND TO J. HART AND COMPANY: To refund to J. Hart and Company the amount of tax and admeasurement fees imposed on the steamship Dawn as an undocumented vessel; said tax and fees having been remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, four hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-six cents.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Charles F. Hopkins and William C. Sollee, of Jacksonville, Florida, the sum of one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ninety-one cents, for surveys made by them in eighteen hundred and eighty-four, of townships fifty south, range thirty-two east; fifty south, range thirty-three east; fifty-two south, range thirty-three east; fifty-one south, range thirty-four east, and fifty-two south, range thirty-four east, Florida, substituted by them for certain other proposed surveys, covered by contract with the surveyor-general of Florida, numbered fifty-two, dated December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, under his verbal authority, which said surveys have been accepted by the Government as though contracted for.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

FOR MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES: For general advertising as follows: To pay Judd and Detweiler balance due for printing arrears of taxes, two thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-one cents; to pay New York Herald, advertising proposals, one hundred and ten dollars and seventy cents; to pay the New York Times, advertising proposals, thirty-one dollars and fifty cents; to pay the Times, advertising proposals, twenty-seven dollars; to pay Public Ledger, advertising proposals, twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents; in all, two thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty

one cents.

FOR PAYMENT OF JUDGMENTS: For the payment of judgments against the District of Columbia as follows:

Georgetown Gas-Light Company, balance due, being error in calculation of interest in estimates of last year, one hundred and seven dollars and twenty-two cents;

John Q. Larman, three thousand dollars, together with fifty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents costs;

Augustus T. Crenshaw, nine hundred dollars, together with sixtyone dollars and thirty cents costs;

Hannah Keeler, six hundred dollars, together with fifty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents costs;

Washington Johnson, two hundred dollars, together with fortytwo dollars costs;

Samuel C. Mills and Maurice F. Talty, one thousand dollars, together with forty-nine dollars and ten cents costs;

Gustavus Sohon, eight hundred and fifty dollars, together with forty-one dollars and ninety-five cents costs;

Charles S. Bundy, one hundred and ten dollars, together with eighteen dollars and ninety-five cents costs;

Frank E. Scott, balance of twenty dollars, together with three dollars costs;

Abram F. Barker, costs fifty-two dollars and ninety cents;

August Sievers and Louis Sievers, trading as Sievers and Brother, sixty-two dollars and fifty-five cents costs;

James F. Brien, forty dollars, together with two dollars costs; A. J. Borland, eighty-two dollars and seventy cents costs; Charles W. Huguely, twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents costs; Lucy Davidson, twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents costs; Maria L. Woodward, twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents costs; The National Metropolitan Bank of Washington, District of Columbia, sixteen dollars and twelve cents costs;

H. B. Claflin and Company, one cent, together with eighty dollars and ten cents costs;

Alexandria Canal Railroad and Bridge Company, forty-six dollars and eighty-five cents costs;

Noble Young, forty-nine dollars and ninety cents, balance of costs; in all, seven thousand six hundred and four dollars and thirty-six cents, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest on said judgments from the date the same became due until the day of their payment: Provided, That no judgment shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

REFORM SCHOOL, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For completion of the new family building and tank-house, eight thousand four hundred and eighty dollars and seventy cents;

To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six as follows:

FOR EXECUTIVE OFFICE: For contingent expenses, such as stationery, repairs to carriage of Commissioners, saddlery for Commissioners, subscription to Washington Post and National Republican, medical treatment of horse of Commissioners, and for shoeing horse of Commissioners, in all, one hundred and twelve dollars and fortytwo cents.

FOR ASSESSOR'S OFFICE: For contingent expenses, to pay the recorder of deeds for daily transfers for the use of the tax office, one hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-one cents.

FOR AUDITOR'S OFFICE: For contingent expenses, to pay the Public Printer for printing and covering the report of Auditor for eighteen hundred and eighty-five, four dollars and twelve cents.

FOR STREETS: For sweeping, sprinkling, and cleaning streets, twenty dollars and sixty-seven cents.

FOR LATERAL SEWERS AND BASINS: For cleaning and repairing, seventeen dollars and seventy cents.

For cleaning tidal sewers, nineteen dollars and seventy-three cents. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE: For contingent expenses, ten dollars and nineteen cents.

FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT: That authority is hereby given to use the unexpended balance of one hundred and sixty dollars of the appro

priation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the purchase of hose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

For repairs to apparatus and new appliances, forty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents.

To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five as follows:

FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT: For repairs to engine-houses, twelve dollars and twenty-five cents; for fuel, thirty-nine dollars and sixty

cents.

FOR MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES: For general advertising, thirty dollars and fifty cents.

To pay to Emily G. Ramsdell, widow of H. J. Ramsdell, late register of wills, for expenses incurred by him in restoring and repairing the records and record-books of his office, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

To reimburse Frederick Douglass for record-books and general indices purchased and paid for by him while recorder of deeds, for use of his office, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars. That one-half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.

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To complete the erection of suitable fish-ways at the Great Falls of the Potomac, authorized by the act entitled "An act to increase the water-supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes, approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twentyfive thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay to Chittenden Brothers, contractors, for money expended in the construction of a dam at the Great Falls of the Potomac, over and above that contemplated in the contract with said Chittenden Brothers, as amended, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, payable from any unexpended balance of money appropriated for the construction of such dam.

To pay D. M. and C. P. Dull the amount ascertained by the Secretary of War to be due them for work done on the Great Kanawha River, West Virginia, and by reason of changes in their contract, and so forth, thirty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty cents.

To pay Charles McCafferty the amount ascertained by the Secretary of War to be due him for work on the Great Kanawha River, West Virginia, and by reason of changes in his contract, and so forth, thirty thousand three hundred and seventy dollars and fifteen cents: Provided, That any contract indebtedness of said McCafferty incurred by subcontract, or for labor or material furnished for the prosecution of the work on which this sum is based, shall be first ascertained and paid by the Secretary of War and the balance paid to said McCafferty. Said amounts shall be received in full satisfaction of all claim under said contract.

SALARIES OFFICE OF QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL: One clerk of class one, nine dollars and seventy-eight cents; four copyists, twenty

nine dollars and thirty-six cents; one watchman, five dollars and eighty-seven cents; in all, thirty-five dollars and one cent.

To the following agents employed by the Quartermaster General in the investigation of claims for settlement by the Treasury Department, under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour: Four agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum, eighty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.

For per diem in lieu of subsistence of the agents while traveling on duty, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation, one hundred and thirty-four dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

TRANSPORTATION: For transportation of men, including their baggage, and for transportation of material, two thousand three hundred dollars.

For renewal of the Signal Service cable at the mouth of the Columbia River, in Oregon and Washington Territory, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part of this money shall be used in laying a new cable at such point until the Secretary of War shall be fully satisfied that it is impossible, with all reasonable and proper efforts, to repair the broken cable at such place, for the repair of which the sum of five hundred dollars of the above amount may be used.

REGULAR SUPPLIES: For commutation of fuel for not exceeding two hundred and twenty men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal stations throughout the United States, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty cents.

BARRACKS AND QUARTERS: For commutation of quarters to not exceeding two hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal stations throughout the United States, three thousand six hundred and ninetysix dollars.

PAY DEPARTMENT.

For mileage to officers when authorized by law, two thousand six hundred and eighty dollars and twelve cents.

That so much of section two of the sundry civil appropriation act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, as provides that amounts due upon certificates issued, or which may be issued, by the accounting officers of the Treasury, in settlement of claims for pay, bounty, prize-money, or othey moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors, or marines, or their legal representatives, shall be paid only to the party named in the certificate, and in current funds or by post-office money-order, and not by check or drafts, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the said claims of colored soldiers, sailors, and marines shall be paid in the same manner as similar claims are paid to white soldiers, sailors, and marines.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

FOR TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES: For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and

Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance-stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draught and pack animals, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; pay of enlisted men on extra duty driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewerage and drainage; and for clearing roads and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment for transportation over any line or lines owned, leased, or operated by the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation created by the laws the State of Kentucky.

MISCELLANEOUS.

NATCHEZ CEMETERY ROADWAY: For completion of the macadamized or gravel road from the city of Natchez, Mississippi, to the national cemetery near that city, six thousand dollars.

ROAD TO CEMETERY, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI: That the citizens of Greene County, Missouri, are hereby authorized to improve or adorn, at their own expense, the road constructed by the Government from Springfield, Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, and said road shall be known and designated as Phelps Boulevard.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.

PAY, MISCELLANEOUS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five hundred and two dollars and sixty-six cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of mileage and traveling expenses of officers of the Navy traveling under orders, and for freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, nine hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifteen cents.

For amount paid by Pay-Director Thomas H. Looker, United States Navy, to Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry R. Smith, United States

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