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from Sioux City, in the State of Iowa, to the mouth of the Cheyenne river, in Dakota Territory.

APPROVED, July 13, 1868.

July 13, 1868.

CHAP. CXLIII.

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- An Act to provide for certain Claims against the Department of Agriculture.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment of claims against States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting the Department officers of the treasury be authorized to audit the claims included in the of Agriculture. schedule following, to wit: W. L. Ellison, one dollar and fifty cents; C. C. Anderson, seven dollars and fifty cents; M. W. Beverage, one hundred and fifty dollars; W. O. Berry, six dollars and forty-seven cents; J. H. Bourne, thirty-five dollars; John Bell, twenty-two dollars; C. J. Brewer, eighty-five dollars; E. Baker, seven dollars; T. L. Boggess, four dollars and fifty cents; J. A. Blake, four dollars; Baltimore Journal of Commerce and Price Current, fifteen dollars; George Brown, one dollar and thirteen cents; L. C. Campbell, two hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-nine cents; G. B. Carrow, eighty-five dollars; Cruit and Campbell, twenty dollars; Carter, Yates, and Wiswell, sixty-three dolls and twenty-five cents; F. W. Christern, two dollars; H. L. Chapin, six dollars and fifty cents; Craigen and Clever, five dollars; Collins, Alderson, and Company, eleven thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and eleven cents; William B. Dana, five dollars; R. P. Eaton and Company, one dollar and fifty cents; Espey and Burdoff, sixty-two dollars; Samuel S. Foss, two dollars; Fisher and Schaeffer, ten dollars and ninety cents; Nathaniel B. Fugitt, three hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-one cents; Fowler and Company, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents; Z. D. Gilman, twenty-two dollars; William Hacker, six thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty cents; Hovey and Company, eighty-three cents; International Exchange, (J. Mudie, agent,) two dollars; Irving and Willey, three hun dred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-five cents; Journal of Com merce, seventeen dollars; A. J. Joice and Company, forty-eight dollars and thirteen cents; Aug. Jordan, twenty-five dollars; J. Knox, fifteen dollars and fifty cents; J. M. Kuester, two dollars; J. F. Luhme and Company, three hundred and ninety-one dollars and five cents; Linton and Company, forty-five dollars; A. M. Lawza, six dollars in gold; D. T. Moore, three dollars; Pascal Morris, thirteen thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-six cents; J. Markriter, ten dollars; W. B. Moses, three hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-five cents; Myers and McGhan, twenty five dollars and twenty-five cents; J. W. Marlin, eighty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents; E. Matlack, twentyfive cents; Munn and Company, three dollars; National Intelligencer, sixteen dollars; Plant and Brother, two dollars; Z. Pratt, ten dollars; Philp and Solomons, fifteen dollars; F. and J. Rives, five dollars; William Smith, six dollars; John Saul, forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents; H. A. Swasey and Company, three dollars; Schaeffer and Karadi, sixtyseven dollars and seventy cents; W. B. Smith and Company, four dollars; E. W. Stewart, sixty dollars; E. Slade, thirty dollars; Stevens Brothers, (London,) fifty-eight dollars and twenty cents; Sibley and Guy, forty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents; J. Turner, one dollar; R. O. Thompson, fifteen dollars; Charles S. Taft, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-seven cents; J. E. Tilton and Company, three dollars; Andrieux, Vilmorin, and Company, twelve dollars and seventy cents; T. B. Winner, one dollar and fifty cents; William Wood and Company twenty-nine dollars; J. B. Ward, thirty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents; G. E. Woodward, two dollars and fifty cents; Samuel Wagner, two dollars; J. F. Wright, one dollar; A. H. Young, forty

eight dollars and seventeen cents; Paschall Morris, twenty dollars; A. Payment of claims against S. Yorke, sixty-five dollars and twenty cents; Stevens and Brother the Department (London magazine), eighty dollars; James Sheehy, six dollars and fifty of Agriculture. cents; R. O. Thompson, eighty dollars; W. C. Lodge, thirty-five dollars; James S. Lippencott, four hundred and twenty-eight dollars; J. F. Walfinger, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; Samuel Ringwalt, one hundred and four dollars; William H. Gardner, twenty dollars; G. Habart Bates, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; William W. Bates, two hundred and four dollars; H. D. Dunn, two hundred and thirty-two dollars; X. A. Willard, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; N. B. Cloud, twenty-eight dollars; S. F. Baird, twenty dollars; H. F. French, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; C. W. Howard, sixtyseven dollars and fifty cents; John White, fifteen dollars and fifty-six cents; Henry A. Dreer, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventyfive cents; Israel S. Diehl, nine hundred dollars; and to allow so much of the same as shall appear upon due proof under oath to be due and unpaid for goods delivered and services rendered to the Department of Agriculture upon contracts made by the commissioner prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, [and] for the payment of the same, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any commissioner or other Penalty upon any officer of the officer of the Department of Agriculture shall hereafter, in the name of Department of the United States, or in the name of said department, contract for any Agriculture congoods or services for the use thereof beyond the amount of money appro- goods or services priated and remaining in his or their hands unexpended at the time of beyond approsuch contract, the officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misde- priation, &c. meanor in office, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. APPROVED, July 13, 1868.

CHAP. CLXXV.-An Act to create the Office of Surveyor-General in the Territory of Utah, and establish a Land Office in said Territory, and extend the Homestead and Preemption Laws over the same.

July 16, 1868. See ch. 263, § 1. Post, p. 234.

Surveyor-general for Utah

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President, by and with the advice [and consent] of the Senate, shall be, and he is hereby, Territory auauthorized to appoint a surveyor-general for the Territory of Utah, whose thorized. annual salary shall be three thousand dollars, and whose power, authority, and duties shall be the same as those provided by law for the surveyorgeneral of Oregon. He shall have proper allowances for clerk hire, office and allowances. rent, and fuel, not exceeding what is now allowed by law to the surveyorgeneral of Oregon.

Salary, power,

Register and receiver, and their powers.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the public lands of the United Utah land disStates within said Territory of Utah, shall constitute a new land district, trict constituted. to be called the Utah district; and the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver of public money for said district, who shall be required to reside at the places at which said offices shall be located, and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States in other Territories.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior is Land offices, hereby authorized to locate said offices of surveyor-general and register how to be loand receiver of public moneys at some suitable place or places in said Territory.

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Contingent expenses; stationery, newspapers.

Globe and Appendix.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the pre-emption, homestead, and other laws of the United States applicable to the disposal of the public lands, are hereby extended over said district.

APPROVED, July 16, 1868.

CHAP. CLXXVI.

An Act making Appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial Expenses of the Government, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, 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 objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, namely:

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LEGISLATIVE.

Senate. For compensation and mileage of senators three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, in addition to any unexpended balance of appropriation for that purpose in the treasury.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz. secretary of the Senate, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, five hundred and seventy-six dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in the office of the secretary of the Senate, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; eight clerks in office of the secretary of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; two messengers, at one thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars each; one page, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars assistant doorkeeper, two thousand and forty dollars; postmaster to the Senate, two thousand one hundred dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars; two mail boys, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of the document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; superintendent of the folding-room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seventeen messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk or secretary to the President of the Senate, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; clerk to the committee on finance, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the committee on claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the committee on printing records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the committee on appropriations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent in charge of the furnaces, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; assistant in charge of furnaces, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; laborer in charge of private passages, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and sixty-four dollars each; chaplain to the Senate, nine hundred dollars; one special policeman, one thousand dollars; making one hundred thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars and eighty cents.

For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz.

For stationery, ten thousand dollars.

For newspapers and stationery for seventy-four senators, to the amount of one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For Congressional Globe and Appendix, twenty thousand dollars.

For reporting and printing the proceedings in the Daily Globe for the third session of the fortieth Congress, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate Additional for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Sen- compensation to ate for the third session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars.

For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding fifteen hundred, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, ten thousand dollars.

For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, twenty-five thousand dollars.

reporters.

Payment to publishers of Globe.

Clerks to com

mittees.

For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, including coal, wood, Heating and and labor, twenty thousand dollars.

For plumbing, gas-fitting and labor, five thousand dollars.
For packing boxes for senators, one thousand dollars.
For furniture and carpets, ten thousand dollars.

For additional laborers and messengers, five thousand dollars.
For folding documents and materials, twenty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand dollars.
House of Representatives.

For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from Territories, one million one hundred thousand dollars.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, viz. clerk of the House of Representatives, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; chief clerk and one assistant clerk, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; twelve assistant clerks, (including the librarian,) at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each, twentyfive thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; one chief messenger, and clerk to the speaker, at five dollars and seventy-six cents per day each, four thousand two hundred and four dollars and eighty cents; for three messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; one engineer, eighteen hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; six firemen, at two dollars and forty cents each per day, five thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars; for clerk to committee of ways and means, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to committee on appropriations, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to the committee on public lands, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; clerk to committee on claims, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; sergeant-at-arms, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to the sergeant-at-arms, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; messenger to the sergeant-at-arms, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; first assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; postmaster, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; first assistant postmaster, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; five messengers, at one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars each; two mail boys, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; chaplain of the House, nine hundred dollars; two stenographers, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars each; superintendent of folding-room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; superintendent and assistant of the document room at five dollars and seventy-six cents per day each, four thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents; eleven messengers, five at eighteen hundred dollars, and six at fourteen hundred and forty dollars; twelve messengers during

ventilation

Pay and mileage of represen tatives;

of officers,

clerks, &c.

Capitol police.

Police to fur nish their uni

forms after June 80, 1869.

Contingent ex

penses.

Clerks to committees.

Globe and Appendix.

Statutes at Large, vol. xiv.

Folding.

Fuel and lights.

Furniture, re

pairs, &c.

Horses and

carriages.

Laborers and miscellaneous.

Stationery and newspapers.

Pages and mail-boys.

Daily Globe.

Stationery.
Proviso.

Additional

the session, at the rate of fourteen hundred and forty dollars per annum, six thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

Capitol Police. For one captain, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; two lieutenants, at eighteen hundred dollars each, thirty-six hundred dollars; thirty privates, at fifteen hundred and eighty-four dollars each, forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; twelve watchmen, at one thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars; one superintendent in the crypt, fourteen hundred and forty dollars; uniforms, forty-six hundred dollars; contingent expenses, five hundred dollars; making in all, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; one half to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate and the other half into the contingent fund of the House of Representatives: Provided, That after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, members of the capitol police shall furnish at their own expense each his own uniform, which shall be in exact conformity to that required by regulations; and all provisions of law requiring an appropriation for such uniforms are hereby repealed.

For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz.-
For cartage, three thousand eight hundred dollars.

For clerks to committees and temporary clerks of the House of Representatives, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the third session of the fortieth Congress, and one hundred copies of the same for the House library, twenty-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding fifteen hundred, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, nine thousand five hundred dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase of Messrs. Little, Brown, and Company two thousand copies of the fourteenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large, for distribution agreeably to the acts of Congress directing the distribution of the other volumes, seven thousand dollars.

For folding documents, including materials, forty-two thousand dol lars.

For fuel and lights, including plumbing, gas-fitting, repairs, and materials, fifteen thousand dollars.

For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes, thirty thousand dollars. For horses and carriages for the transportation of mails and for the use of messengers, ten thousand dollars.

For laborers, eight thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, seventy thousand dollars.

For stationery and newspapers for two hundred and fifty members and delegates, to the amount of one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For twenty-five pages and three temporary mail-boys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, sixteen thousand dollars.

For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the postmaster of the House shall account to the clerk of the House, at the end of each session of Congress, for all stationery by him received and distributed.

For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for compensation to the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the House for the third session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars.

reporters.

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