Engineer officers. Antietam battlefield. Burial of indigent soldiers. Yellowstone Park. Volunteer Soldiers' Home. Branch. Congress in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and seventeen, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, one thousand and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents. For payment of Treasury settlements certified to Congress and reported in Senate Miscellaneous Document Numbered Fifty-seven, Fiftythird Congress, third session, eight thousand dollars. For payment of Treasury settlements certified to Congress, Fifty-third Congress, second session, and reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Thirty-three, Fifty-third Congress, third session, nineteen thousand dollars. To pay the claims (Treasury settlements) certified in Senate Executive Document Numbered Ninety-eight, second session Fifty-third Congress, thirty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. To pay the claims (Treasury settlements) certified in House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Fifty-six, third session Fifty-third Congress, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-four cents. ŘELIEF OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, in settling the disbursing accounts of Colonels William P. Craighill and George H. Mendell and of Major James C. Post, deceased, to allow and credit them with the amounts authorized and allowed them by the Secretary of War while traveling on duty in Europe, for rent of rooms not exceeding two dollars per day each for two rooms for the time specified in the orders of the Secretary of War directing them to make the journeys, but which amounts have been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury. BATTLE LINES AND SITES FOR TABLETS AT ANTIETAM: For continuing the work of surveying, locating, and preserving lines of battle of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, at Antietam, Maryland, three hundred dollars. BURIAL OF INDIGENT SOLDIERS: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, seven hundred dollars. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: For repairs and maintenance of existing roads and bridges, and improvement and protection of the park, to be available until expended, five thousand dollars. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS: For conRepairs, Southern struction and repairs: To reimburse the governor (P. T. Woodfin) of the Southern Branch for money paid from his personal funds for repairs to the governor's quarters at that Branch during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand three hundred and nine dollars and ten cents. Marion, Ind. Use of appropriation. l'ost, p. 447. State and Territorial Homes. Vol. 25, p. 450. Road to cemetery, Pulaski County, Ill. That the appropriation of one thousand three hundred dollars in the sundry civil appropriation Act, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes, "For leasing additional ground for the Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Marion, Indiana," shall also be available for the purchase of gas pipe. STATE AND TERRITORIAL HOMES: For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: Provided, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received by the inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ROAD TO NATIONAL CEMETERY, ILLINOIS: For the construction of a graveled road starting at a point on the north side of Cache River, in Pulaski County, Illinois, where the present county graveled road from Cairo, in Alexander County, Illinois, and the bridge across said Cache River terminates, and connecting with the present national graveled road running from Mound City, in said Pulaski County, Illinois, to the Illinois Central Railroad in said county, at or near the national cemetery in Pulaski County, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Said road to be constructed above high-water mark, to be eighteen feet in width on top surface, graveled similar to present national road to said cemetery, and same to be in continuation of graveled road to said national cemetery. Sewer. Proviso. INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA: For the paymentIndianapolis Arse to A. Bruner for the construction of a main sewer in Clifford avenue, adjacent to the United States arsenal grounds, in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, four thousand three hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifteen cents: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not issue a warrant for the payment of said sum until the officer in command of the arsenal at Indianapolis shall certify that the sewer now provided for upon said grounds shall have been constructed by the United States and the same connected with the sewerage system of the city of Indianapolis. PAYMENT TO JOHN FINN: To pay amounts found due to John Finn, under the Act authorizing the Auditor for the War Department to audit certain quartermaster vouchers alleged to belong to John Finn, of Saint Louis, Missouri, approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. RENT OF BELLEVUE RIFLE RANGE: For the payment to Henry T. Clark for the use of Bellevue Rifle Range, in the State of Nebraska, by the United States Army, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six hundred dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. That the title "appointment clerk," office of the Secretary, Navy Department, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read: "Clerk in charge of civil employments and labor regulations at navy-yards, who shall also perform the duties of appointment clerk of the Navy Department, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars." John Finn. Bellevue Range, Nebraska. Rifle Naval Observatory. Expenses, attempted NAVAL OBSERVATORY LANDS: To pay the accounts which are set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of sale of lands. this session, for expenses of attempted sale of Naval Observatory lands, eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. To reimburse "General account of advances," created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the "general account" on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: Naval establish. ment. Advances. For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-four Pay. thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and three cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seventy-two thousand and ninety-eight dollars and sixteen cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy cents; For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred Contingent. and six dollars and twenty-eight cents; For provisions, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; Provisions, Marine Corps. Pay, miscellaneous. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Key West, Fla. Pay. Miscellaneous. Contingent. For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-six dollars and fifty-seven cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty-two cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents; in all, two hundred and seven thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-two cents. NAVAL STATION, KEY WEST, FLORIDA: For additional amount for coaling shed, four thousand dollars, and the appropriation of ten thousand dollars for this object made by the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five is hereby continued available for the same purpose. PAY OF THE NAVY: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Pay of the Navy," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Pay of the Navy" fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay claims hereafter audited by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Pay of the Navy" for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand dollars. To pay claims hereafter audited by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Pay of the Navy" for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five thousand dollars. PAY, MISCELLANEOUS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Pay, miscellaneous" (Navy), for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-three cents; For pay, miscellaneous, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty cents; To pay bill of the Western Union Telegraph Company, for telegraphic services during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents; To pay bill of Henry Hilton for rent of rooms occupied by the Navy pay office, New York, for the quarter ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; To pay claims not yet presented for settlement (estimated), two thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand three hundred and thirtyeight dollars and twenty-eight cents. To pay bill of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company for telegraphic service on account of the appropriation, "Pay, miscellaneous," during year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty-two cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Pay, miscellaneous," for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of transportation of officers traveling under orders, rents of buildings, salaries, and incidental expenses of purchasing pay officers, and any other expenditures chargeable to this appropriation, fifty thousand dollars. CONTINGENT, NAVY: To pay bill of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad, Eugene E. Jones, for transportation of ordnance stores (guns and shell) from the navy-yard, New York, to the national park, Lytle Station, Georgia, in April, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, one thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Navy," for the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three dollars and eighty-six cents. That the Auditor for the Navy Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pass vouchers in favor of the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, of San Francisco, California, for rentals of telephone instruments used in officers' quarters at the navy-yard, Mare Island, California, during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, amounting to three hundred and eighteen dollars, and to relieve Pay Inspector Edward Bellows, United States Navy, of the disallowance of these vouchers in the settlement of his accounts, and further to pay and allow additional vouchers in favor of the same company for similar services for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, aggregating three hundred and seventy-two dollars, out of funds in the hands of Pay Inspector Edward Bellows, under the proper appropriations for the payment of telephone rentals at navy-yards. MARINE CORPS. PROVISIONS: For amount due Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, on account of commuted rations stopped from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, on account of sick in naval hospitals, to be transferred to Naval Hospital fund, three thousand and sixty-five dollars and thirty-five cents. To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractors for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eleven thousand and twenty-one dollars and fifty-four cents. CLOTHING: To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractors for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand and thirty-four dollars and sixteen cents. Marine Corps. Provisions. Clothing. MILITARY STORES: To pay accounts on file for military supplies for Military stores. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents. TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING: To pay amounts on file for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two dollars and eight cents. FORAGE: To pay account and reservation on file due contractors for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents. Transportation and recruiting. Forage. CONTINGENT: To pay accounts on file for freight, straw, gas, water, Contingent. express charges, advertising, and so forth, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand and seventy dollars and forty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Marine Corps," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and five dollars and twenty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Marine Corps," fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and four cents. NAVAL ACADEMY. PAY: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Pay, Naval Academy," for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents. HEATING AND LIGHTING: To pay the accounts for coal set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, one thousand nine hundred dollars and two cents. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. To pay bill of The Corporation of the City of New York, approved by the Paymaster-General August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, for rent of docks at Fiftieth street, North River, New York City, for the months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, ninety-one days, at six dollars per day, for the United States steamship Minnesota, five hundred and forty-six dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-two cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT. To pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, which were not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation "Equipment of vessels" had been covered back into the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety-three dollars and eighty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Bureau of Equipment," for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-three cents. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery," twenty-one dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery," fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and two dollars and eighty-three cents. To pay the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, on account of "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery," fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, ninetyseven dollars and thirty-five cents. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts," fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighty-four dollars and sixty cents. |