distinguished conduct and public service in presence of the enemy. And all brevet commissions shall bear date from the particular action or service for which the officer was brevetted.

Approved, March 1, 1869.

[PUBLIC-No. 30.]

AN ACT authorizing certain banks named therein to change their names. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of the "City National Bank of New Orleans" shall be changed to the "Germania National Bank of New Orleans" whenever the board of directors of said bank shall accept the new name by resolution of the board, and cause a copy of such resolution, duly authenticated, to be filed with the Comptroller of the Currency: Provided, That such acceptance be made within six months after the passage of this act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the debts, demands, liabilities, rights, privileges, and powers of the "City National Bank of New Orleans" shall devolve upon and enure to the "Germania National Bank of New Orleans" whenever such change of name is effected.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the name of the "Second National Bank of Plattsburgh" shall be changed to the "Vilas National Bank of Plattsburgh" whenever the board of directors of said bank shall accept the new name by resolution of the board, and cause a copy of such resolution, duly authenticated, to be filed with the Comptroller of the Currency: Provided, That such acceptance be made within six months after the passage of this act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the debts, demands, liabilities, rights, privileges, and powers of the "Second National Bank of Plattsburgh" shall devolve upon and enure to the "Vilas National Bank of Plattsburgh" whenever such change of name is effected. Approved, March 1, 1869.

[PUBLIC-No. 31.]

AN ACT for the repeal of tonnage duties on Spanish vessels.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and the first, second, and fourth sections of the act entitled "An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels," approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and they are hereby, repealed; and that of Spanish vessels coming from any port or place in Spain or her colonies, where no discriminating or countervailing duties on tonnage are levied upon vessels of the United States, or from any other port or place to and with which vessels of the United States are ordinarily permitted to go and trade, there shall be exacted in the ports of the United States no other or greater duty on tonnage than is or shall be exacted of vessels of the United States.

Approved, March 1, 1869.

[PUBLIC-No. 32.]

AN ACT to authorize the county commissioners of Ada county, Idaho, to select a site for a territorial prison.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county commissioners of the county of Ada, in the Territory of Idaho, be, and they are hereby, authorized, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to select a site upon which to erect a territorial prison for said Territory. Approved, March 1, 1869.

[PUBLIC-No. 33.]

AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain drafted men.' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the second section of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain drafted men," approved the twenty-eighth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as provides that said section "shall apply only to claims received at the War Department prior to its passage," be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, however, That all claims under said second section of said act shall be presented and filed within two years from the date of the final passage of this act and not afterwards. Approved, March 1, 1869.

[PUBLIC-No. 34.]

AN ACT to allow deputy collectors of internal revenue acting as collectors the pay of collectors, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any deputy collector of internal revenue who has performed, or may hereafter perform, under authority or requirement of law, the duties of collector of internal revenue in consequence of any vacancy in the office of such collector, shall be entitled to and receive so much of the same pay and compensation as is provided by law for such collector; but no such payment shall in any case be made when the collector has received or is entitled to receive compensation for services rendered during the same period of time. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That those persons who held the office of distillery inspector on the second of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and who continued to perform the duties of that office in ignorance of the repeal of the statute creating it, be paid at the rate of five dollars per day for such time prior to April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as they were actually employed, the amounts so paid to be approved by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and paid out of the appropriation for assessing and collecting the internal revenue. Approved, March 1, 1869.

[PUBLIC-No. 35.]

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 seventy.

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 seventy, namely:

LEGISLATIVE.

SENATE.

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

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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 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; 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 of printing records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to 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 in all one hundred and one thousand and sixty dollars and eighty cents.

For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz:

For stationery and newspapers for seventy-four senators, at the rate

of one hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For stationery, eight thousand dollars.

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

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

For plumbing, gas-fitting, and labor, five thousand dollars.

For furniture and repairs, ten thousand dollars.

For additional laborers and messengers, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For folding documents and materials, twenty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars.

For packing-boxes for the Senate, ten dollars' worth for each member, seven hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That all improvements, alterations, additions and repairs of the Capitol building shall hereafter be made by the direction and under the supervision of the architect of the Capitol extensions, and the same shall be paid for out of the appropriations for the said extensions and from no other appropriation; and that no furniture or carpets for either house shall hereafter be purchased without the written order of the chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, for the Senate, or without the written order of the chairman of the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives, for the House.

CAPITOL POLICE.

For one captain, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; two lieutenants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; thirty privates, at one thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars each; twelve watchmen, at one thousand dollars each; making, in all, sixty-five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars, one-half to be paid into the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, and the other half to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from Territories, one million five 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; twelve assistant clerks, librarian and assistant librarian, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; one chief messenger, and clerk to the Speaker, at five dollars and seventy-six cents per day each; for three messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger in the House library, one thousand and ninety-five dollars; one engineer, eighteen hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; six firemen, at two dollars and forty cents each per day; for clerk to the 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 Committee on Claims, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; Sergeant-at-arms, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to Sergeant-at-arms, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to Committee on Public Lands, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; messenger to 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; four 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; eleven messengers, five at eighteen hundred dollars, and six at fourteen hundred and forty dollars each; twelve messengers during the session, at the rate of fourteen hundred and forty dollars each per annum; making, in all, the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars: Provided, That of the twelve assistant clerks the two designated as reading clerks of the House of Representatives shall receive an annual salary each, beginning with the present Congress, of twenty-five hundred and ninetytwo dollars.

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, thirty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars. For folding documents, including materials, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

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

For packing-boxes for members of the House of Representatives, ten dollars' worth for each member and delegate, twenty-two hundred and sixty dollars.

For newspapers and stationery for two hundred and thirty-three members and delegates, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum, twenty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For twenty pages for the floor of the House and three riding pages, at the rate of two dollars per day while actually employed, eleven thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.

For stationery, ten thousand dollars.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

For compensation of the Congressional Printer, and the clerks and messengers in his office, twelve thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars.

For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For stationery, postage, advertising, furniture, travelling expenses, horses, and wagons, and miscellaneous items, fifteen hundred dollars.

For the public printing, four hundred thousand dollars.