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or THE
UNITED STATES
PASS&U At THK
flitST SESSION OF THK FORTY
THIRD CONGRESS*
[General nature —No. 68.]
AN ACT to create an additional land
district in the Territory of Colorado.
H> it enacted by the Senate awl House of
ntatiws vs the United Mates of America
i>, r,„tgn'M assembled*, That All that part of
tin* Territory of Colorado commencing at a
l«.int ou the south boundary line Colorn*
| vj.i Terri tor) between ranges sixty-nine
ami seventy west of the sixth priucipa
meridian; thence rutting north, to the
northern boundary of township twenty
right south, thence west, on a line be
twwii townships twenty-seven and twenty
right south, to the western boundary of
range seventy-three west; thence north, on
said boundary of range seventy-three west,
| to a j*oint where the line between town
ship; forty-eight and forty-nine north,
.Yea Mexico meridian, will intersect the
*ainc; thence west, between said townships
i furty-eight and fortymiue north, to the
western boundary of the Territory; thence
smith, with said boundary line, to the
southwest corner of the Territory; thence
m>t. on the line of the southern boundary
I vs the Territory, to the place of beginning,
(dull constitute a separate land, to bo
rafl.il |i, l Norte land district, the office of
I which shall be located at Del Norte, in
f hnejos County, That the President or
the United Suites may change the loca
tion of slid land office front time to time,
n- the public interest may require.
Bir. I*. That the Preside it shall ap
point. by ami with the advice and consent
of the Senate a register and a receiver of
public nioneyes for said district; and said
officers shall reside in the place where said
land office i.'. located, and shall have the
same jHiwcrs ami shall receive the same
fees ami emoluments as the like officers
now reeoivejiu the other land districts in
t>uid Territory.
Sec. and. That all persons in said district
who, prior to the opening of said Dej
Norte land office, shall have tiled their de
claratory statement or application for pre
emption or homestead rights in any other
land office in said Territory, shall thereaf
ter make proofs ami entries at said Del
Norte land office; ami all unfinished busi
ness in nuy other land office relating ex
clusively to lauds in said Pel Norte land
district shall be transferred to said Del
Norte laud office when notified by the of
fice rs of the opening thereof.
[General nature —No. 60.]
AN ACT to create the Hozeman land
diklrict in the Territory of Montana.
He it enacted by the Senate and House
if Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, 'That all
that |Kirtion of the 'Territory of Montana,
lying east of the range line between ranges
two aud three west of the principal meri
diau and south of the first standard parallel
north of the base line, of the public land
wrv*ya of said Territory, shall be constitu
ted a separate land district, to be knowu
m tha Bozeman land district, the office of
which shall be located at Bozeman, but
may be changed from time to time, by the
direction of the President of the United
States, as the interests of the public service
may require.
Sec. J. That the President shall ap
|*oint. by and with the consent of the Sen
ile. a register and a receiver of the public
moneys of the Uuited States for said dis
trict ; and said officers shall reside in the
place when* the land office is located, and
they shall have the same powers and re
ceive the same emoluments as are or may
Ik> prescribed by law in relation to land
officers of the Uuited States in other Ter
ritories.
Approved. Tune 20,1874:
[General nature —N0,70.]
AN ACT’ fixing the amount of United
States, providing for a re-distribution of
the national-bank curreucy, and lor other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Smote and IJousc of
RepresenUtlives if the United States if
America in. Congress assembled. That the
act entitled “An act to provide a national
currency secured by a pledge of United
States bonds, and to provide for the cir
culation and redemption thereof," approv
ed dune third, eighteen hundred and sixty
four. shall hereafter be known As “the na
tional-bank act.” v
Sue. 2. That section thirty-onb of “the
rational-bank act” be 60 amended that tli e
several associations therein provided for
t-hall uot hereafter be required to keep on
band any amount of money whatever, by
leasou of the amount of their respective
eireulatious; but the moneys required by
•aid section to be kept at all times ou hand
shall be determined by the amount of de
posits in all respects, as provided for in the
e-aid section.
Seo. 3. Unit every association organized,
or to be organised, wider the provisions of ,
the said act, and of the several acts auien- j
datory thereof, shall at all times keep and 1
have on deposit in the treasury of the j
United States, in lawful money of the
United States, a sum equal to five percen
tum of its circulation, to be held and used
f«»r the redemption of such circulation;
which sum shall be counted as ft part of its
lawful reserve, as provided ut section two
of this act; and when the circulating notes
of auv such association, assorted or unas
sorted, shall be presented for redemption,
in sums of one th<?u*a“d dollars, or any
multiple thereof, to the Treasurer of the
United States, the same shall be redeemed
in United States notes. All notes so re
deemed shall lie charged by the Treasurer
of the United States to the respective as
sociations issuing tne same, and he shall
notify them severally, on the first day of
each mouth, of oftener, at his discretion .of
the amount of such redemptions ; and
whenever such redemptions for any asso
ciations shall amount to the sum of five
hundred dollars, such associfttiol so noti
fied shall forthwith deposit with the Trea
surer of the United States a sum in Unit
ed States notes equal to the amouut of its
circulating-notes so redeemed. And all
notes of national banks worn, defaced, mu
tilated, or otherwise unfit for circulation
shall, when reeeived by any assistant trea
surer, or at any designatedd depository of
the United States for redemption as pro
vided herein. And when such redemp
tions have been so re-itnbursed, the circu
lating-notes so redeemed shall be towarded
to the respective associations by which
they were issued; but if any of such notes
are worU, mutilated, defaced, or rendered
otherwise unfit, for use, they shall be for
warded to the Comptroller of the Currency
and destroyed and replaced as now provid
ed by law: Provided, That each of said
associations shall rc-irnbui'se to the Trea
sury the cost of engraViUg such plates as
shall be ordered by each association res
pectively, and the amount assessed upon
each association shall be in proportion to
the circulation redeemed, and be charged
to the fund ou deposit with the Treasurer:
And provided further, That so much of
section thirty-two of said national-bank
act requiring or permitting the redemption
of its circulating-notes elsewhere than at
its own counter, except as provided for in
this section, is hereby repealed.
Bko. 4. That any association organized
under tlii3 act, or any of the acts of which
tills is au amendment, desiring to withdraw
its circulation notes, in whole or in part,
may, upon the deposit of lawful money with
the Treasurer of the United States in sums
of not less than nine thousand dollars, take
up the-bonds which said association has on
deposit with the 'Treasurer for the security
of such circulating-notes; which bonds
shall be assigned to the bank in the man
ned specified in the nineteenth section of
the national-bunk act; and the outstanding
notes of said association, to an amount
equal to the leaul-tehder lutes deposited,
shall be redeemed at, the 'Treasury of the
United States, and destroyed as now pro
vided by law: Provided, 'That the amount
of the bonds on deposit for circulation
shall not be reduced below fifty thousand
dollars.
Sec..*) That the Comptroller of the Cur
rency shall, under such rules and regula
tions as the Secretary of the 'Treasury may
prescribe, cause the charter-numbers of the
association to he printed upon all national
bank notes which may be hereafter issued
by him.
Sec. 6. 'That the amount of United Sta
tes notes outstaudingaud to bo used as a
part of the circulating-medium, shall not
exceed the sum of three hundred and eigh
ty-two million dollars, which said sum shall
appear in each monthly statement of the
public debt, aud no part thereof shall be
held or used as a reserve.
Sec. 7. That so much of the act entitled
“Au act to provide for the redemption of
the three per centum temporary loan cer
tificates, and for an increase of national
bauk uotes” as provides that no circulation
shall be withdrawn under the provisions of
section six of said act, until affer the fifty
four millions granted in section one of said
act shall have been taken up, is hereby re
pealed; aud it shall be the duty of the Comp
troller of the Currency, under the direc
tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, to
proceed forthwith, aud he is hereby au
thorized and required, from time to time,as
applications shall be duly made therefor,
and uutil the full amouut of fifty-five mil
lion dollars shall be withdrawn, to make
requisitions upou each of the national
banks described iu said section, ami in the
manner therein provided, organized in
States having au excess of circulation, to
withdraw and return so much of their cir
culation as by said act may be apportioned
to be withdrawn from them, or, in lieu
thereof, to deposit in the Treasury of the
Uuited States lawful money sufficient to
redeem such circulation, and upou the re
turn of the cireulatiou required, or the de
posit of lawful money, as herein provided, a
proportionate amount of the'bonds held to
secure the cireulatiou of such association
as shall make such return or deposit, shall
be surrendered to it.
Skc. 8. That upon the failure of the na
tional bauks upon which requisition for cir
culation shall be made, or of any of them,
to return the amount required, or to de
posit in the Treasury lawful money to re
deem the circulation required,within thirty
days, the Comptroller of the currrency shall
at once sell, as provided in section forty
nine of the national-currency act approved
Jun?: third, eighteen hundred and sixty
four. bonds held to secure the redemption
of the circulation of the assocaition or as
sociations which shall so fail, to au
amount sufficient to redeem the circulation
required of such association or associations
and with the proceeds, which shall be de
posited in the Treasury oi the United Sta
tes. so much of the circulation of such as
sociation or associations shall be redeem
ed as will equal tire amount required aud
not returned and if there be any excess of
proceeds over the amount required for
such redemption, it shall be returned to
the association or associations whose bonds
shall have been sold. And it shall be the
duty of the Treasurer, assistant Treasurers,
| designated depositaries, and national bank
depositaries ol the United Statee.who shall
be kept informed by the Comptroller of the
1 Currency of such associations as shall fuil
j to return circulation as required, to assort
| and return to the Treasury for redemption
1 the uotts ol such associations as shall
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874.
dortie into thelf hands llHtil the amount
required shall be redeemed, and in like
manned to assort and retuflt to the 'Trea
sury for redemption, the notes of such na
tional banks as have foiled, or gone into
voluntary liquidation for the purpose of
winding up their affairs .attd of such as shall
hereafter so fail or go into liquidation.
Sec. 8. That from llttd after the passage
of this act it shall be lawful for the Comp
troller of the Currency, and he is hereby
required, to issue circulating-notes without
delay, as applications therefor are made,
not to exceed the sum of fifty-five million
dollars, to associations organized, or td be
organized, in those States and Territories
having le3S than their proportion of circu
lation, under an apportionment made on
the basis of population aud of wealth, as
shown by the returns of the census of eigh
teen hundred and seventy; and every asso
ciation hereafter orgauized shall be subject
to, aud be governed by. the rules, restric
tions, aud limitations, aud posesses the
rights, privileges, arid franchises, now or
hereafter to be prescribed by law us to
national banking associations,with the same
power to amend, alter, and repeal provided
by “the nattonal bank act:” Provided,
That the whole amouut of circulation with
drawn and redeemed from banks trasactinsr
bus ; ness shall not exceed fifty-five million
dollars, and that such circulation shall be
withdrawn and redeemed as it shall be ue
cessary to supply the circulation previ
ously issued to the banks in those States
having leis than their apportionment:—
And provided further, That not more than
thirty million dollars shall be withdrawn
and redeemed as herein contemplated du
riug the fiscal year ending June thirtieth
eighteen huudred and seventy-five.
Approved, June 20, 1874.
[General nature— No. 72.]
AN ACT making appropriations to sup
ply deficiencies in the appropriations for
the service of the Government for the fis
cal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three and eighteen
huudred and seventy-four, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
lieprcsenAitices of the Unted States of Ameri
ca in Congress assembled, \ That the following
sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated t
out of any money in the 'Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, to supply deficien
cies in the appropriations for the service of
the Government for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-four, and former years, and for other
purposes, namely .
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
I'* O R KIC. X INTEIt CO C USE.
For rent or court-house and jail, with
grounds appurtenant, in Jeddo, Japan, be
ing a deficiency rot* the fiscal y ar ending
Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-four, five lioUsftUd dollars.
For stationery, book-cases, arms of the
United States, seals, presses, and flags, and
payment of rent, freight, postage, and mis
cellaneous expenses, including loss by ex
change thereon, being a deficiency for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, as per accounts
duly audited by the accounting officers of
the Treasury, six huudred and sixty-eight
dollars and sixty-four cents.
For interpreters to the consulates iu
China, Japan, and Siam, including loss by
exchange, fieing a deficiency in the service
of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as per
accounts duly audited by the accounting
officer of the Treasury, two thousand and
thirty-seven dollars and twenty cents, and
on account of the same for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, one thousand and forty
six dollars and twenty-four cents; in all,
three thousand and eighty three dollars
and forty-four cents.
For expenses for interpreters, guards,
and other matters at the consulates at
Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexan
dria, Jerusalem, aud Beirut, in the Turkish
dominions, being the amount required to
pay accounts adjusted by the accounting
officers of tile Treasury for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, one hundred and forth
right dollars aud eighty-two cents.
For salaries of consuis-general, consuls,
vice-consuls, commercial agents, consular
clerks, including loss by exchange, being a
deficiency in the appropriation for the fis
cal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two,principally neces
sary to effect transfers in accounts based
upon certificates of the accounting officers
of the Treasury, nine thousand one hun
dred and sixty-six dollars and sixty cents.
For salaries of United States consuls for
fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy
two, being amount due F. A. Perkins, late
United States cousul at Tahiti, eighty
nine dollars.
For contingent expenses of United
States consulates for the current fiscal
year for rect arising from the allowance of
twenty per centum provided by act of
February twenty-second, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, instead of ten per cen
tum, as heretofore, thirty-one thousand
eight hundred aud fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses due the late
cousul at La Puz, Bolivia, being a deficien
cy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one
huudred and fifty-five dollars aud forty-two
cents.
That the unexpended balance of the np- (
propriation for a lithographic press and ;
necessary materials, und for lithographic
pressmen aud laborers, in the act making |
appropriations for sundry civil expenses of '■
the Government for the fiscal year eigh- j
teen hundred and seventy-four, and for j
other purposes, approved March third, :
eighteen hundred aud seventy three, is
hereby made available for the purchase of
a second lithographic press and the neces- j
sary materials.
* TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
For contingent expenses uuder tbo act
'THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS RESTOKED,
01* the sixth of AUgUst, eighteen hundred
and forty-six, sos the collection, gaf»j-k “Op
ing. transfer, and disbursement of the pub
lic revenue, being amount required to pay
accounts audited arid fotihd due by the ac
counting officers of the Tresury for the fis
cal year ending Jnna thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seveuty-three, seven hundred
and forty-seven dollars and thirty-four
cents ; and of the unexpended balance of
the appropriation for compensation of de
signated depositaries, made by the act of
March third, eighteen hundred and seveu
ty-three, for ten thousand dollars, the sum
of one thousand five hundred dollars is
hereby authorized to be paid for Services
of the designated depositary at Buffalo,
New York, during the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eightMn huudred and
sevvnty-one-
For contingent expenses under tlie
same act for the fiscal year eighteen hun
dred aud seventy-four, for offices of the
various assistant treasurers and deposita
ries of the Dnited States, eight thousand
dollars.
To pay Charles CliUtdM, for salary as as
sistant treasurer of the Uuited States at
New Orleans, for tlie fiscal year ending
June tnirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, five hundred dollars.
united states mints and assay-offices.
Office of the Director of the Mint:
For salary of the Director irom April
first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy
four, five thousand six hundred and twenty
five dollars.
For salary of examiner for the quartet*
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, five hundred and fifty
dollars.
For amount reqnia'ed to cover loss in
recoinage of abraded gold coins, for the
fiscal year eJding June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-rbree, seven thousand
five hundred dollars.
For the same purpose for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
aud seventy-four, sixty thousand dollars.
Mint at Philadelphia:
Fot 1 wages of workmen and adjusters,
thirty-five thousank dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses’
eight thousand dollars.
For freight ou bullion and coins, five
thousand dollars.
For wastage in refilling sllved, one thou
sand one hundred and three dollars.
Mint at San Francisco:
For wages of workmen, sixty-one thou
sand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
thirteen thousand ddlars.
For incidental ants contingent expenses
of the mint at San Francisco for the fiscal
year eading June thirtieth, eighteen and
seventy-three one thousand one hundred
and sixty-eight dollars and two cents.
Mint at Carson, Nevada:
For wages of warkincn and adjusters,
sixteen thousand six hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
twenty-three thousand four hundred dol
lars.
For new machinery and repairs, twenty
five thousand dollars.
Assay-office at New York:
For wages of workmen, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
thirty-three thousand dollars.
Assay-office at Boise Cito, Idaho Terri
tory:
For incidental and contingent expenses,
being amount required to jneet overpay
ments for the fiscal year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, eight. hundred aud sixteen dollars
and nine cents.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
being amount required to complete the
service of the present fiscal year, one thou
sand dollars.
For amouns required to pay Alexander
Kossi for services as as3ayer during the
months of April and May, eighteen hund
red aud seventy-two, one hundred and
seventy-two, one hundred and eighty-four
dollars.
Territorial.
To proutde for the increased compensa
tion of the governors and secretaries of the
several Territories during the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, authorized by act of Jan
uary twenty.third, eighteen huudred and
seventy-four, authorized by act of January
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seven
ty three. the following sums are hereby ap
propriated, to wit:
For the Territory of Arizona, for salary
of governor, one thousand dollars; for sal
ary of secretary, five hundred dollars: Ter
ritory of Colorado, for salary of governor,
one thoitsaud dollars; for salary of secreta
ry, seven hundred dollars; Territory of Da
kota, for salary of governor, one thousand
dollars; for salary of secretary seven hund
red dollars; Territory of Idaho, for salary
of governor, one thousand dollars; for sal
ary of secretary, five hundred dollars; Ter
ritoro of Montana, for salary of governor*
one thousand dollars: for salary of secreta
ry, five hundred dollars; Territory of New
Mexico, for salary of governor, one thou
sand dollars; for salary of secretary five
hundred dollars; Territory of Utah, for
salary of governor, one thousand dollars;
for salary of secretary, five hundred dol
lars; Territory of Wyoming, for salary of
governor five hundred dollars; for salary of
secretary, seven hundred dollars; Territory
of Washington, for salary of governor, five
hundred dollars; for salary of secretary*
five hundred dollars; in ali, thirteen thou
saud one hundred dollars.
For legislafire expenses of the Territory
of Montana, being defieieucy for per diem j
aud mileage of tlie members, officers, and 1
employees of tbe legislative assembly j
which convened on January fifth and ad- j
joumed on the thirteenth ol Febraary
eighteen hundred and seventy four, five
thousand and firty.two dollars and thirty- !
two cent*. i
for legislative e of the Territo-
ry of Montana, to defray the expenses of
the extraordinary sessiou of the legislative
blvassem convened April fourteenth,
eighteen hundred arid seventy-three for
per diem ane mileage of members, seven
thousand five hundred dollars j;ay of offi
cers and employees, two thousrnd three
hundred and fifty dollars; stationery and
postage, printing laws and journals, copy
ing laws, indexing and clerk hire, and mis
cellaneous, five thousand eight hundred
and severity4vo dollars; for rent, fuel,
lights, iabor, and incidental eXpeiisCs, six
hundred and seventy dollars; in all, sixteen
thousand three hundred and ninety-five
dollars, being deficiency fot* the fiscal year
eighteen hundred and sCVenty-fonr; but
hereafter no extraordinary session of the
legislature of any Territory, wherever the
same is ttotr authorized by law, shull be
called until tlie reasons for thy same hart l
been presented to the President of the
United Btates, and lus apprsval thereof
lias been duly given.
For legislative expenses* required to pay
vouchers in the office of the First Auditor,
being a deficiency for the fiscal year eight
een hundred acd sixty-nine, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and
seventy-five cents; and for the saiite, being
a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen
hundred and sixty eight, three hundred
and sixteen dollar*; arid lor the same, be
ing a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen
hundred aud sixty-seven, two hundred aud
thirty dollars.
For rent of the office of the governor of
the Territory, being a deficiency tor the
fiscal yhars eighteen hundred and sixty
eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
six hundred and seventy-five dollars; and
for the amount due the late secretary of
the Territory for salary from October first'
eighteen hundred and seventy, to January
sixteenth, eighteen aud seventy-one, being
a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen
hundred arid seventy ones five hundred and
eighty-eight, dolliii-s apd eighty-nine cents.
To enable tile accounting officers of the
Treasury to pay George A. Batcheldef,
late secretary of Dakota Territory, for ex
penditures incurred by him during the fis
cal year eighteen hundred and seventy -two
three hundred und forty-five dollars and
thirty-seven cents.
For legislative expenses of Dakota Ter
ritory, for fiscal year eighteen huudred aud
severity-two, being amount required to pay
Brookings and Carney for articles furnish
ed the late secretary of Dakota, as per
finding ot the occoUnting officers of the
'Treasury, seveuty-one dollars.
For amount due by the United States
to the district of Columbia, for one-third
Os the entire cost of maintaining the fire
department from January thirty-first,
eighteeu. hundred and seventy-three, to
June thirtieth, eighteen hpudred and sev
enty-four, thirty-four thousand two hund
red and ninety-one dollars and sixty-six
cents.
For repairing the United .States peni
tentiary building at Laramie City, Wyom
ing Territory, damage by fire in Septem
ber, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
to be expended by the Attorney-General,
two thousand nine huu .red and eighteen
dollars and eight cents.
For the legislative expenses of Idaho
Territory, being for find, rent, and furni
ture for both houses of the territorial as
sembly. light, public and official printing,
stationery, repairing, care of legislative
furniture, stoves, official postage stamps,
and seals, three thousand four hundred anti
twenty-five dollars.
For the legislative expenses of the Ter
ritory of New Mexico, to pay balances due
Juau C. Romero, salary as member of the
assembly, sixty-six dollars; William F. M.
Army, late secretary of the Territory,
ninety-tour dollars and seventy-one cents;
and Henry Wetter, late secretary of the
Territory, one liundrcd and twenty
dollars; making, in all, two-hundred
und eighty dollars and seventy-one
cents, being deficiency for the fiscal year
eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
For the legislative expenses of the Ter
ritory of Utah, to pay balance due Chattn
cey W. West, late member of the assembly,
being a deficiency for the fiscal year eigh
teen hundred and sixty-nine, one hundred
and twenty dollars.
To pay the increased compensation of
members of the assembly authorized by the «
act of January twenty-third, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-three, four thousand
seven hundred and eighty-siv dollars.
For the legislative expenses of Washing
ton Territory, being the amount requited
for the increased compensation of members
of toe assembly outhorized by act of Jan
uary twenty-third, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, one thousand three hundred
and ninety-five dollars and thirty cents.
TREASURY MISCKLLANNOCfI.
For fnruiture and carpets for the Treas
ury Department: For carpets,
tables, chairs, shelving for file-room, boxes
repairs of furniture, cases, oil cloth, mat
ting, rtiSs, chair covers and cushions, re
pairs and laying of carpets, and other mis
cellaneous items of alike character, ten
thousand dollars.
For furniture and repairs of same, car
pets, and similar necessaries for public
buildings under the control of the Treasu
ry Department, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of all pub
lic buihFnga under the control of the
Treusury Department, l§rty thousand dol
lars.
That the unexpended balances of the
appropriations for vaults, safes, nnd locks
for public buildings, and for fuel, lights,
water, and miscellaneous items for the
same, now remaining on the books of the
Treasury Department, and unavailab.'e un
available under the provisions of the fifth,
sixth, and seventh sections of the act of
July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seven
ty are hereby made avaiiabln from and af- ,
ter thepassuge of this act.
For paper, engraving, printing, express '
charges, and other expenses of making and j
issuing the national currency, for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth,eighteen bund
led and seventy-three, eleven thousand
two hundred amt nineteen dollars arid sev
enteen cents*
Fur paper, engraving, printing, express
charges, stud other expenses of making and
issuing the national currency required to
complete the service of the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and severity-four, twenty thousand dollars.
To pay commissions allowed by law to
Collectors of customs acting as -sUperitt
ents of lights, twelve thousand dollars.
For completion of extension and remod
eling the old building for court-ho Use and
post-office at Indianapolis, Indiana, forty
thousand dollars.
For examination of national batiks and
banknote plates, being amount required to
pay C. A,.Meigs, bsfnk-exanmtfr, for ser
vices itl examining savings-banks in the
District of Columbia, six huudred and
thirty-nine dollars.
For continuing the introduction of shad
into the rivers and lakes of t,he United
States, to be expended under the direc
tion of the United States Commissioner
of Fisli and Fisheries, fifteen thousaud
dollars, which shall be available also for
! the ensuing fiscal year*
To pay Thoriitts J. Drirarit balarico due
him uuder contract with Joint Committee
ou tlie Revisions of the Laws, for the
preparation of the report of the late com
missioners on the revision, cuiuplatiott of
Indian treaties, post-road bill, and the bill
regaining the punishment of military offi
enses three thousand otic hundred and sev
enty-five dollars and three cents*
To enable the proper accounting officers
of the 'Treasury to pay the amouut found
due the United States associate just'eo for
the Territory of montana for the fraction
tional part if the the third quarter of tlie
year eighteen hundred arid severity-two,
eighty-one dollars and fifty-two cents, or so
much thereof as may be necessary!
To enable the Secretary of the "Treasury
to adjust the account of the expenditure
for dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal
Revenue Department for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, a transfer on the books
of tlie Treasury of erich sums as may be
necessary is hereby authorized : Provided,
That the same shall not involve atty actual
expenditure of money from the 'Treasury*
To pay John Cooper, of the John Cooper
Engine Manufacturing Company, for tools
and work done on tlie South West Pass
llgllt-housc in eighteen hundred and severi
ty-two, five hundred aud fourteeu dollars
and twenty-nine cents*
WAR DEPAR 7 MEN T.
QUARTERM ASTER’S D El*A RTMENT*
Regular supplies : For fuel for officers,
enlisted men, guards, store-houses, and offi
ces, forage fot* the horses, mules, und oxen
of tlie Quartermaster's Department at the
several posts aud stations, and With tlie
armies in the field, and for horses of the
several regiments of cavalry and batteries
of artillery, and such companies of infantry
and scouts as may be mounted, and for the
authorized number of officers’ horses, in
cluding bedding for the animals, straw for
ssldiera’ bedding, stationary, including
blank books for the Quartermasters’s De
partment, certificates ofdischatged soldiers,
blank forms for the Pay arid Quartermas
ter’s Departments, and for the printing of
division and department orders and reports,
being for the service of the fiscal year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For incidental expenses, consisting of
postage and telegrams oi* dispatches re
ceived and sent on public business, extra
pay to soldiers employed Under the direc
tion of the Quartermaster’s Department in
the erection of barracks, quarters, store
houses, and liospita3; in the construction
of roads and other constant labor, for pe
riods of not /ess than en days, including
those employed as clerks at division and
department headquarters, and hospital
stewards on clerical duty; expenses of ex
presses to and from the frontier posts and
armies in the field ; of escorts to paymas
ters and other disbursing officers, and to
trains, where military escorts cannot be
furnished; expenses of the interment of
officers killed in action, or who die when
on duty in the field or at posts on the
frontier or other places, when ordered by
the Secretary ot War. and of non-commis
sioned officers and soldiers, authorized
office furniture ; hire of labor in the Quar
termaster’s Department, includinir the hire
of interpreters, spies, and guides for the
Army; conqiensatlon of clerks for officers
of the Quartermaster’s Department; com
pensation of forage and wagon masters;
for the apprehension, securing and deliver
ing of deserters, and the expenses incident
to their pursuit; and for the following ex
penditures, required for the several regi
ments of cavalry, the batteries of light
artillery, and such companies of infantry
and scouts as may be mounted, namely: the
purchase of traveling forges, black-
[CONTINUED on THIRD PAGE.)
General Nature*— No. 71.
AN ACT to provide for the establishment
of life-saving stations and houses of refuge
upon the sea and lake coasts of the United
States, and to promote the efficiency of
the life-saving service.
Be it enacted by the Senate awl House
of Representatics of the United States of
Amet'cta in Conyress a&sembbnl, That
the Secetary of the Treasury is hereby au
thorized to establish life-saviug stations’
j life-bot stations, and houses of refuge, for
} the better preservation of life and prujierty
from shipwreck, at or in the vicinity of the
following named points upon the sen and
Like coasts of the United Stales, namely: j
ox thk coast or okLawabc. j
1 Cape Henlofa-n, a complete life-saving j
station: Indian Jtivor, a complete Me-tsaviug j
station.
OX rue (OAST OF MABTt.AXb.
Green Jinn Inlet, a complete life saving
station.
[Terms, Two Dollars a tear, iti Advance,
ON TUB COAST OK YlH'ilMlA.
Chincoteagtie, a complete lifesaving sta
tion; Watchapreßgfte Ittlet, a complete life-*
saving station; Hog Island. a complete life*
saving station; Balidy Hlhtftl Island, a eoiih
jilete life-saving station; Smith’s Island, a
Complete life-sttVing station.
ON TIIK COAST OK KI.OUW.t.
eighteen miles north of Indiatt
Rivet Inlet, a house of refuge; Hilbert’s I tar
a house of l’efuge; near Orange Grove, it
house of refuge; bet weed Hillsborough and
News River Inlet, a house of refuge; about
ten iniles south of NoW River lnlet.ahoiustJ
of fefitge.
ON TUB COAST 01* tVARATNdtOX TERKtTOA*
Xeali Hay, a life-boat station; Bhoalw*Uii
Bay, a lffe-boat station; Capo Disappoint
nient, a life boat station,
-V- 0N v tlllf COaSF UK mfojr>X;
Cape A rago, a life boat station.
ON THE COAST OK CAUKOIIMA.
Humboldt Bay. a lifa-boat station; Point
Reyes, a life-boat station; between Point
I/jbos and Point Han P*dro, a life-boat sta
tion: Point Ctencepcion, near the light-house,
a lift* boat station.
on fireCpASf OKHtkti oUtahio.
Mexico Bay, about seven miles westward
of Stony Point, a complete life saving*
station Mexico Bay, about seven miles east
ward of Nine Mile Point, ti complete life
saving station; Oswego, a life-boat station;
Charlotte,a life-boat station,
ON TUB COAST OK UKH KltlK.
Buffalo, a life-boat station; Presque Isle,
a complete life-saving station; Fab-port, a
life-boat statiou; Cleveland, a life-boat sta
tion; Marblehead (Sandusky.) a life-boat
statsoii,
Ox the CoAst ok Lake ltrr.ox.
Point aux BarqUea, a complete life-sa
ving station, Tawas, a complete life saving
station; Sturgeon Point, u complete life,
saving station; North Point, Thunder Bay
life-boat station* Fofty-Mile Poiiu, a com->
plete life-saving station.
OX TUB coast of L.vltte MtCtllUA*.
Beaver Island, a life .boat station; Nortll
Manitoit Island, a life-boat station. Point
ftdi Bee Scies, a complete life-saving sta
tion; Grande Polnte an Bable, a complete
life-saving station, Grand Haven, a life
boat statiou; Saint Joseph*, a life-boat sta
tion; Chicago, a life-boat station; Grosso
Point, a complete life-saving station; Rao
ine, a life-boat station; Milwaukee;.a life
boat station; .Sheboygan, a life-boat station;
Twin Rivdrs Point, a life-boat station.
ON THE COASf OF LAkn St. KEHIOIt,
Between White Fish Point and Point
au Sable, four complete life saving stations
Sec. 2. That tile Secetary of the Treas
ury is hereby authorized, whenever, in his
opinion, it may become necessary for the
proper administration of the life-saving ser
vice, and the protection of the public prop
erty at the stations ami houses of refuge
herein authorized to bo established, to ap
point olle superintendent for the coasts of
Delaware ttnd Virginia, one for the coast 1 1
Florida, Oiie tor the Coasts of Lakes Frio and
Ontario, one for the coasts of Huron
find Superior, andolie for the coast of lake
Michigan, and also a keeper for each of
said stations and houses of refuge; and the
said superintendents shall have the powers
and perform the duties of inspectors of
customs,
Sec, 3. That the compensation of each
of the superintendents, to be appointed
del the provision of the preceding section,
shall hot exceed otie thousand dollars pec
annum; and the compensation of the keep,
era shall not exceed two hundred dollars
per annum, except that those employed at
the houses of refuge on the Florida coast
shall reside in said houses and receive a
compensation at the fate of forty dollars
per mouth*
Sue. 4. That the Secetary of the Trea*
ury is hereby authorized to upyoint an as
sistant to the superintendent of the coast
of Lo>ig Island and Rhode Island, who
perform the duties required of the super,
intendrnts at the life-saving stations within
the State of Rhode island, and reside on
Block Island, and for his services he shal
receive an animal salary of fivo hundred
dollars.
Sec. 5. That the Secetary of the Treas
ury Is hereby authorized to employ crews
of experienced surfmen ut such of the sta
tions herein denominated complete stations
and at such of the life-beat statiots on the
Pacific coast as he may deem nocessary and
proper, for such periods, and at such com
pensation, not to exceed forty dollaus j»er
month, os lie may deem necessary and Teas'
enable.
Bbc. 6. That the Fecrtary of the Treas
ury may accept the services of volunteer
crews of any of the life-boat stations here
in authorized, who shall be subject to the
rules and regulations governing the life-sa
ving service; and a list of the names of each
crew shall be kept in the office of the Fec
etary of the Treasury. Fuch volunteers
shall receive no compensation except a sum
of not more thntl ten dollars each for every
occasion upon which they shall have been
instrumental hi saving human life, and such
of the medals herein authorized as they
may be entitled to under the provisions
hereiuafter made: provided, That no pay
ment shall be made to any [lerson who shall
not have acutally participated in the efforts
to save the life or lives rescued.
[CONTINUED ON TUI BO RAGE. ]
Call for a Convention in Macon
Macon, Gh., Aug. 25,1874.
To the Republicans <f the Sixth Conyrs
sional District :
In pursuance of a resolution this day
adopted l»y the delegates assembled in con
vention. 1 call n convention to meet in
Macon on the 17th day of September next,
for the purpose of nominating u candidate
j for representative in the 44th Congress,
| and for transacting such other business ns
| may be necessary.
The failure of a majority or the counties
to send delegates makes it necessary to re
n.-w the call. It i* hoped that active
measures will bo taken to reorganize tho
party for the coming election.
Sam F. Gove,
C hair man To/). Co"<j. Com. 6/4 JJi*t
Buiubridje -Sun'’ please copy.
NO. 11.