For fitting house, cases, and so forth, five hundred dollars. For fifty chairs, three hundred dollars. For one messenger, three laborers, and two night watchmen, four thousand six hundred dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. To meet a deficiency in the cost of completing certain portions of the Washington aqueduct, comprising the Potomac dam, repairs of temporary dam, gatehouse at Great Falls, and the connecting conduit at the receiving reservoir, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the sum shall be in full of all claims against the government for work done or damages incurred on the Washington aqueduct. For salary of assistant engineer, superintendence, and repairs, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the immediate direction of the officer detailed to act as Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds. ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL. For the erection of a bridge to connect Rock Island arsenal with the city of Rock Island, Illinois, one hundred thousand dollars, said bridge to be constructed and completed for the sum hereby appropriated. To enable the Secretary of State to pay the costs of interpretation at the consulate at Bankok, in Siam, from the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to meet the expenses of defending suits brought against parties for executing the orders of government during the late rebellion, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To supply a deficiency for reporting and printing the proceedings of the Senate in the Daily Globe, fifteen thousand dollars. To repay to the judiciary fund the sum of five thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-eight cents, being amounts expended by order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in carrying into effect the provisions of an act, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." To reappropriate an unexpended balance of an appropriation made by act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, "to refund to the State of California expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities," said balance having lapsed and been covered into the treasury on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ten thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-three cents: Provided, That nothing shall be paid except subject to existing provisions of law and upon the finding and certificate of the Third Auditor that the same is actually due. For the payment to the Territory of Colorado for the services of the first regiment of the Colorado mounted militia, called into the service of the United States on the requisition of Colonel Thomas Moonlight; and for the services of any other militia forces of the said Territory which were employed in the service of the United States, on the call of the governor of the Territory, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents, being the amount found to be justly due and recommended to be allowed on the account as presented by Thomas M. Vincent, assistant adjutant general, in his letter to the Secretary of War, dated Washington, October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven : Provided, That said amount shall be taken and deemed to be in full satisfaction of the claims of the said Territory: And provided further, That no money shall be paid from the treasury on said account until the public property issued to the forces shall have been properly accounted for to the satisfaction of the proper officers of the treasury. For deficiency in the appropriation for salaries and other expenses of local and supervising inspectors, appointed under act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, twenty thousand dollars. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For overland mail and marine service between New York and California, nine hundred thousand dollars. For deficiency for steamship mail service between the United States and Brazil during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. RECONSTRUCTION. For deficiency under the reconstruction acts for the several military districts for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight: For the first district, six thousand dollars; For the second district, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; For the fourth district, fifty-three thousand two hundred dollars; For the fifth district, forty-five thousand dollars. For the following amounts estimated as necessary in carrying out the reconstruction acts from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight: For the first district, ninety-three thousand dollars; For the second district, fifteen thousand dollars; For the third district, fifteen thousand dollars ; For the fourth district, seventy-five thousand dollars; PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. To supply deficiencies in appropriations for public buildings and grounds, viz: For additional labor cleaning the centre building of the Capitol, repairing the Washington statue on the east grounds of the Capitol, cleaning and repairing columns in the building, laying a new brick pavement on the west front, and repairing fountains, fifteen hundred dollars. For continuing the filling and grading of the Capitol grounds, under the direction of the architect of the Capitol extension, ten thousand dollars. For taking care and improvement of reservation number two and Lafayette square, five hundred dollars. For care and improvement of grounds south of the President's House, one thousand dollars. For continuing the grading of Virginia avenue, to pay cart hire-labor having been furnished by the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, when the original appropriation was exhausted, to continue the work--the hire of carts to be paid by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand dollars. For cleaning sewer traps on Pennsylvania avenue, five hundred dollars. For repairs of water pipes, three hundred dollars. For removing snow and ice from pavement[s] and public walks, two hundred dollars. For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and keeping it clean and free from dirt, two thousand five hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the President's House, including the payment of bills approved by the joint committee of Congress appointed to audit the bills for repairing and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars. For removal of foot-bridge from Maine avenue to Third 'street west, seventyfive dollars. For improvement and taking care of the Circle, on Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-third street west, one hundred and fifty dollars. To supply deficiency in payment for material for gates for Judiciary Square Hospital, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For deficiencies in appropriations for feeding destitute friendly Indians, under act of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in accordance with recommendations of the Indian peace commission, one hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars and eleven cents: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated for this purpose shall be paid until the accounts for feeding such destitute Indians shall be fully investigated by a commission to consist of Lieutenant General William T. Sherman, Major General P. H. Sheridan, and Major General C. C. Augur; and the said commission is hereby authorized, for the purpose of such investigation, to call and examine witnesses in this behalf, and only the amount that said commission shall certify to be equitably and justly due shall be paid. And said commission shall sit at Leavenworth, Kansas, and shall have power to appoint à clerk at a salary of five dollars per day for the time actually employed; and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for clerk hire, travelling and incidental expenses of the commission, is hereby appropriated. CITY OF WASHINGTON. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Chief Engineer of the army shall reimburse to the corporation of the city of Washington for expenses incurred in improving the property of the general government in said city, under provisions of act of May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of War, in book of estimates of appropriations, pages two hundred and forty-four and two hundred and forty-five, two hundred and ninety-six thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents: Provided, That section fifteen of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Washington and to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that purpose," approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty; and section three of an act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to amend An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty,'" are hereby repealed; and no improvements of the streets, alleys, avenues, or other property of the United States, in the city of Washington, authorized by said act, which is to be paid for by the United States, shall hereafter be made until an appropriation shall have been made therefor, and such appropriation, when made, shall be expended under the direction of the Chief Engineer of the army. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter no contract shall be entered into for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building, or for any public improvement whatever, which shall bind the government to pay a larger sum of money than the amount in the treasury appropriated for the specific purpose. And if any officer of the government shall knowingly contract for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building, or for any public 1 improvement which shall bind the government to pay a larger amount than the specific sum appropriated for such purpose, such officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than two years, and shall pay a fine of two thousand dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws making an appropriation for the payment of the salaries of the solicitor, assistant solicitor, and deputy solicitor of the Court of Claims, and of the assistant attorney general, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and that there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the salaries of two assistant attorneys general, one clerk, and two clerks of class four for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twelve thousand four hundred dollars. Approved, July 25, 1868. [PUBLIC-No. 86.] AN ACT for the relief of the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to adopt and ratify the compromise and agreements entered into and executed on the twentieth and twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, between the legally authorized representatives of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians, and the legally authorized representative of the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, claimants under the forty-ninth article of the treaty of April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, as a full and final settlement of all claims under the aforesaid article of said treaty. And the amount as stipulated in the aforesaid agreements to be paid to the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw claimants, to wit: The Choctaw claimants the sun of one hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and eight cents, and to the Chickasaw claimants the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be paid by the Secretary of the Interior to said claimants, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States belonging to, or held in trust for, said nations of Indians; but in case there is not a sufficient amount of money in the treasury of the United States belonging to, or held in trust for, said nations of Indians to discharge their respective obligations to the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, (claimants,) or in case the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians shall request it, then the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to sell such bonds or other securities held in trust by the United States for the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians as may be necessary to discharge their respective obligations to the aforesaid loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw claimants, as stipulated in the aforesaid compromise and agreements: Provided, That no bonds or securities shall be sold for less than par: And provided further, That no payments shall be made nor bonds delivered under the provisions of this act except in every case to the person actually entitled in his own right to receive the same; nor shall any contract or power of attorney relating to the same be regarded or held as of any validity unless signed and executed after the passage of this act: And provided also, That the bonds of the State of Indiana held by the United States shall not be sold under the provisions of this act. Approved, July 25, 1868. [PUBLIC-No. 87.] AN ACT to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the United States described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the twenty-seventh meridian of longitude west from Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, and running thence west to the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude, thence south to the forty-first degree of north latitude, thence east to the twentyseventh meridian of west longitude, and thence north to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, organized into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Wyoming: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians: Provided further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to inhibit the government of the United States from dividing said Territory into two or more Territories, in such manner and at such times as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion thereof to any other Territory or State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the executive power and authority in and over said Territory of Wyoming shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. The governor shall reside within said Territory, shall be commander-in-chief of the militia thereof, shall perform the duties and receive the emoluments of superintendent of Indian affairs, and shall approve all laws passed by the legislative assembly before they shall take effect, unless the same shall pass by a two-thirds vote as provided in section six of this act; he may grant pardons for offences against the laws of said Territory, and reprieves for offences against the laws of the United States, until the decision of the President can be made known thereon; he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under the laws of said Territory, and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a secretary of said Territory, who shall reside therein and hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States, with the consent of the Senate; he shall record and preserve all the laws and the proceedings of the legislative assembly hereinafter constituted, and all acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department; he shall transmit one copy of the laws and one copy of the executive proceedings on or before the first day of December in each year to the President of the United States, and, at the same time, two copies of the laws to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate for the use of Congress; and in case of the death, removal, resignation, or other necessary absence of the governor from the Territory, the secretary shall have, and he is hereby authorized and required to execute and perform, all the powers and duties of the governor during such vacancy or absence, or until another governor shall be appointed to fill such vacancy. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the legislative power and authority of said Territory shall be vested in the governor and legislative assembly. The legislative assembly shall consist of a council and house of representatives. The council shall consist of nine members, which may be increased to thirteen, having the qualifications of voters as hereinafter prescribed, whose term of service shall continue two years. The house of representatives shall consist of thirteen members, which may be increased to twenty-seven, possessing the same qualifications as prescribed for members of the council, and whose term of service shall continue one year. An apportionment shall be made by the governor as nearly |
