July 28, 1868. Pensions appropriation. Invalid. Revolutionary, pension agents and expenses of agencies. 1818, ch. 19. 1828, ch. 53. 1832, ch. 126. 1836, ch. 862. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. 1848, ch. 8, 108, 120. 1853, ch. 41. 1858, ch. 85. 1862, ch. 166. 1864, ch. 247. 1865, ch. 84. CHAP. CCXXIX. · An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. 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 not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine: For invalid pensions under various acts, ten million dollars. For pensions of widows, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters of soldiers, as provided by acts of March eighteen, eighteen hundred and eighteen; May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twentyeight; June seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; March third, eighteen hundred and forty-three; June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four; February second, July twentyfirst, and July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, with its supplementary acts; and for compensation to pension agents and expenses of agencies, twenty million dollars. For navy pensions to invalids, widows and children, and other relatives 1866, ch. 106. of the officers and men of the navy dying in the line of duty, now proNavy pensions. vided by law, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid from the navy pension fund. Rate of interest fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the interest on the fund known on naval pension as the naval pension fund shall hereafter be at the rate of three per cent. per annum in lawful money, and shall be applicable exclusively to the payment of the navy pensions according to existing laws. APPROVED, July 23, 1868. July 23, 1868. СНАР. ССХХХ. Association in - An Act to incorporate the "Washington Target-shooting Association," in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Washington States of America in Congress assembled, That Charles Klomann, FredTarget-shooting erick Hügler, Charles Ebel, John H. Stailey, Adolf Cluss, G. Dill, Guscorporated. tav Hartig, B. Henze, John Kessel, Caspar Kneessi, E. L. Schmidt, Richard Wallach, M. Michler, Lewis Clephane, and A. C. Richards, of Washington City, in the District of Columbia, and their associates and successors, be, and are hereby, incorporated and made a body corporate, by the name of the "Washington Target-shooting Association," and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law of competent jurisdiction, and be entitled to use and exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges incident to such corporation, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining, in the District of Columbia, a 66 Park," designated and named the "Washington Schützen-Park," the object of which shall be moral and social, and to acquire proficiency and skill as marksmen. Powers, &c. Capital stock. Directors. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and that the stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and shall be transferable in such manner as the said corporation, by its by-laws, may direct. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the government and direction of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested in a board of directors, not less than nine in number, who shall be elected by the stockholders from among the corporators and their associates and successors, in such manner as the by-laws of the corporation may direct. Seal. Real estate, SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have full power to make and prescribe such by-laws, rules, and regulations as By-laws. they may deem needful and proper for the management of the stock, property, estate, and effects of the corporation, not inconsistent with the laws in force in the District of Columbia; to have and use a common seal, with the privilege of altering the same at pleasure; to purchase, take, and hold, by deed or otherwise, any property, real, personal, or mixed, and the same, or any part thereof, to dispose of at pleasure; and to execute &c. such deed or deeds or other conveyances as may be necessary therefor; to issue stock, and make all suitable and necessary regulations for the purchase, sale, and transfer of the same; to borrow money; to impose fines upon the members, and collect the same as other small debts are collected; to expel members; to make provision for the admission of members, and to provide for the election of such officers as may be deemed necessary for the proper management of the affairs of said corporation; and generally to have and exercise all such other and further corporate powers as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of carrying out effectually the object and purposes of this act: Provided, That the property of the said association, real, personal, and mixed, shall be held for the purposes, and none other, expressed in the first section of this act. Proviso. Members not to exercise in SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the members of said corporation shall have power to exercise in target-shooting at any time they may deem proper, except on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall give to said corporation any banking privileges. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage; and that the same may be altered, amended, or takes effect;may repealed, at the pleasure of Congress. APPROVED, July 23, 1868. When act be altered, &c. CHAP. CCXXXIII. -An Act making Appropriations and to supply Deficiencies in July 25, 1868. the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes. June 30, 1868. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or Deficiencies so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appro- appropriation priated for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending for year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, viz. Legislative. For compensation of the clerks of committees, the additional pay ordered by the resolution of the House of Representatives, twenty-fifth May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars. For pay of additional messengers of the Senate, for the month of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, two thousand two hundred and fortyfive dollars and four cents. Legislative. mittees. Messengers. Additional For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the Senate compensation to for the second session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, Senate and four thousand dollars. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the House for the second session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars. reporters of the House. Official re Globe. A sufficient sum is hereby appropriated to pay the official reporters of the Globe in each house the amount which the comptroller of the treasury porters of the may find severally due to them for services during the sessions of the fortieth Congress, under the eighteenth section of "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending 1866, ch. 296, 18. Vol. xiv. p. 823. Botanical garden. Court of claims. Interior de partment. Pension bu reau. Census office. in West Vir June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes," approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Botanical Garden. - To complete the botanical conservatory in accordance with the estimate of the architect of the Capitol extension, to be expended under the direction of the joint committee on the library of Congress, ten thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents. Court of Claims. For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, and commissioners in said court, fifteen hundred dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Pension Bureau. - For rent of building from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to Jung thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, for the use of the bureau, two thousand dollars. Census Office. For the purpose of paying the amount due to certain United States marshals and their assistants, for services rendered in takEighth census ing the eighth census, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, in the State of West Virginia, five thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and nine cents: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to, or on account of, any claimant who participated in the late rebellion, or gave it any aid or comfort. ginia. Proviso. General Land Office.· For payment of the balance due the architectural iron works company of New York, for work done at enlargement of the congressional library in addition to their contract, such as increasing the length of the northern wing and furnishing four thousand six hundred and fifty-two lineal feet of iron shelving more than required by their contract, five thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars: Provided, That the said bills shall first be examined and approved by the joint committee on the library. For tiles for five thousand eight hundred feet of tiling for the basement stairs of the patent-office building, to complete pavement on the lower floor of the south wing, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per foot, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For fuel and lights for the patent-office building, including the salaries of engineer and assistant engineer and repair of heating apparatus, five thousand dollars. For distribution of congressional journals and documents, two thousand dollars. For this amount, or Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying for blankbooks, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be bound, filed, and preserved for the use of the office, two thousand dollars. Capitol Building. For the payment of outstanding liabilities incurred by the late commissioner of public buildings for materials furnished and labor done in repairing the old portion of the capitol building prior to and during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, five thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-two cents: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid until the said accounts shall have been fully examined and approved by the proper accounting officers of the treasury. For the payment of the superintendent and foreman of the public garden and others employed in the public garden and capitol building and grounds, the sums to which they are entitled under the act of July twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Treasury Department. For temporary clerks in the Treasury Department: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to classify the clerks authorized according to the character of their service — twenty thousand dollars. For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items of the treasury bureau, Furniture, &c. ten thousand dollars. of treasury bu For fuel, labor, lights, and contingent expenses of the Treasury Depart-Fuel, lights, ment building, twelve thousand dollars. &c. For this sum to refund to the appropriation for the treasury extension, Treasury exfor furniture furnished to the following offices from January first, eighteen tension. hundred and sixty-five, to March twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, namely: For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-two cents. For expense in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coin of the United States, and other frauds on the revenue, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand one hundred and three dollars and eighty-six cents. For the office of the first auditor, three hundred and three dollars and ninety-two cents. For the office of the third auditor, four thousand and three dollars and thirty-one cents. Furniture. Office of Secetary of Treasury. Detection, &c. of counterfeiters and those defrauding the revenue. Office of 2d comptroller; of 1st auditor, of 3d auditor; For the office of fourth auditor, five thousand five hundred and ninety- of 4th auditor; one dollars and thirty-eight cents. For the office of fifth auditor, one thousand two hundred and fifty- of 5th auditor; seven dollars and fourteen cents. For the office of sixth auditor, seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-four cents. For the office of the treasurer of the United States, twelve thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-six cents. For the office of register, eleven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents. For the office of comptroller of the currency, four thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents. For the office of the solicitor, four thousand five hundred and sixtyeight dollars and twelve cents. For the office of the first division of the national currency, two thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-five cents. For the office of the lighthouse board, two thousand six hundred and seventy-dollars and forty-one cents. For the office of commissioner of internal revenue, six thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. For the office of the Attorney-General, two hundred and one dollars and eighty cents. of 6th auditor; of treasurer; of register; of comptroller of currency; of solicitor; of first divis ion of national currency; of lighthouse board; of commis sioner of inter- Quarters of For the quarters of the treasury regiment, four hundred and twentytwo dollars and sixteen cents; making in all the sum of sixty-one thou- treasury regisand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents. ment. and Pacific For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States Telegraph beby electrical telegraph, (to supply deficiency for the fiscal year ending tween Atlantic June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,) forty thousand States. dollars. Construction Branch of the Treasury Department. For constructing For constructing the custom-house at Portland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. For constructing the court-house at Pc tland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. For constructing appraisers' stores at Philadelphia, twenty-five thousand dollars. For remodelling the marine hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, fortyfive thousand dollars. To complete the building used for court-house and post-office at Springfield, Illinois, thirty thousand dollars. Construction branch of Treasury Department. Portland. Philadelphia. Chelsea, Mass. Springfield, Illinois. Madison, Wis. Cairo. Chicago. Custom-house building, New York. Repair of iron roofs, &c. War Depart ment. Repair, &c. of public works on rivers and har bors. Proviso. Removal of iron steamship Scotland, in New York harbor. Proposals therefor to be advertised for. Removal of sunken rock in channel of New York harbor. Soldiers' bounties. 1866, ch. 296. Vol. xiv. p. 222. Washington aqueduct. Proviso. Superintendence and repairs; how to be expended. Rock Island arsenal. Interpreter at Bankok. For constructing the United States court-house and post-office at Madison, Wisconsin, fifty thousand dollars. For the work on the public building now being erected at Cairo, Illinois, to be used as a post-office, custom-house, and United States court-house, ten thousand dollars. For necessary repairs of the roof and alterations in the building used for a custom-house and post-office in Chicago, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. To meet outstanding liabilities and complete the repairs to the customhouse building at New York city, forty-five thousand dollars. To repair or replace corrugated galvanized iron roofs of buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, thirty thousand dollars. War Department. For rent, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items in the office of the paymaster-general, eleven thousand dollars. For the repair, preservation, extension, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, one million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That said expenditures shall not be applied to any works not mentioned in the bill "making appropriations for repairs, preservation, and completion of certain public works, and for other purposes," which passed the House of Representatives June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. One hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the removal of the wreck of the iron steamship "Scotland," now on the bar outside of Sandy Hook, near the entrance to the harbor of New York: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall, after notice given in one or more newspapers in the cities of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, receive sealed proposals for the removal of said wreck, and make contract for the same with the lowest bidder therefor. Said contract will in no case exceed in amount the sum herein appropriated. For the removal of a sunken rock in the channel of the harbor at the port of New York, fifteen hundred and thirty dollars. Soldiers' Bounties. To facilitate the payment of soldier's bounties under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as follows: For fuel and gas, seven hundred dollars. For carpeting, two thousand dollars. For fitting house, cases, and so forth, five hundred dollars. For rent, twelve hundred dollars. For fifty chairs, three hundred dollars. For one messenger, three laborers, and two night watchmen, four thousand six hundred dollars. Washington Aqueduct. To meet a deficiency in the cost of completing certain portions of the Washington aqueduct, comprising the Potomac dam, repairs of temporary dam, gate-house at Great Falls, and the connecting conduit at the receiving reservoir, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the sum shall be in full of all claims against the government for work done or damages incurred on the Washington aqueduct. For salary of assistant engineer, superintendence, and repairs, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the immediate direction of the officer detailed to act as superintendent of public buildings and grounds. Rock Island Arsenal. For the erection of a bridge to connect Rock Island arsenal with the city of Rock Island, Illinois,. one hundred thousand dollars, said bridge to be constructed and completed for the sum hereby appropriated. To enable the Secretary of State to pay the costs of interpretation at the consulate at Bankok, in Siam, from the first of July, eighteen |