47TH CoNGRESs, } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. { Mrs. Doc. 2d Session. No. 36. APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, ETC. SHOWING I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. II. OFl!'ICES CREATED AND THE SALARIES THEREOF. HI. THE OFFICES THE SALARIES OF WHICH HAVE BEEN INCREASED, WITH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH INCREASE, DURING THE SAME PERIOD. MARCH 3, 1883. ;pREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE AND CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SIXTH SECTION OF THE "ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE AP­ POINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL PAYMASTERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," APPROVED JULY 4, 1836. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRIN'l'ING OFFICE, 1883. APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, ETC. 3 By the act making appropriations for the payrnent of invnlid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, and for othe1· pm:poses. For Army pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of 1812 ............................................... $&'>, 000,000 00 And any balance of the appropriation for the lik-e purpose for the current fiscal year that may remain unexpended on the 30th of June, 1883, is hereby reappropri­ ated, and made available for the service of the year ending June30, 1884: Provided, That the amount expended for each of the above items shall be accounted for sepa­ rately. For Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives.......................................................................................................................... 1, 000,000 00 And any balance of the appropriation for the like purpose for the current fiscal year that may remain unexpended on the 30th of June, 1883, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the service of the year ending June 30,1884: Provided, That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: And pro­ vided further, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be ac­ accounted for separately. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons................................................................. 275, 000 00 And of this sum $50,000 shall be immedidiately available. For pay and allowances of pension agents for salary, fees for preparing vouchers, rent, fuel, lights, and postage on letters to the executive departments and to pen- sioners........................................................................................................................... 290, 000 00 For contingent expenses of pension agencies.................................................................. 10, 000 00 And of this'sum $5,000 shall be immediately available. Total. ....................................................................................................................... 86, 575, 000 00 By the act making appropriations for the st~pport of the :Military Academy fo1· the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, and for other pu1:poses. For pay of professors ....................................................................................................... 25,500 ()() For one commandant of cadets, in addition to pay as captain in the line ...................... 1,200 00 For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering, in addition to pay as first lieutenant..................................................................................................................... 900 ()() For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery, in addition to pay as first lieutenant .............................................................................................................. 900 00 For pay of eight assistant professors, in addition to pay as first lieutenants ................. 4,000 00 For pay of three instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, in addition to pay as second lieutenants ............................................................................................ 1,500 00 For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, com- manding companies, in addition to pay as second lieutenants ................................... 2,400 ()() For pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieuteuant....................................... .. 300 00 Provided, That the sum paid to said officer shall not exceed $1,800 per annum. For pay of one master of the s'vord ............................................................................... 1,500 00 For pay of cadets ............................................................................................................. 160,000 00 And no cadet shall receive more than at the rate of $540 a year. Ft~r pay of the teacher of music ...................................................................................... 1,080 00 For pay of the Military Academy band ......................................................................... .. 9,240 00 Which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June 30, 1884, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. For additional pay of professors and to officers (on increased rank) for length of serv- ice ................................................................................................................................. 8, 912 50 For current expenses, as follows: For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, hoards, joists, wall-strips. laths, ~:~hingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, sct·ews, locks, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lin'le, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting-powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and for pay of citizen mechanics and labor employed upon repairs and improve- ments that cannot be done by enlisted men ............................................................... .. 11,000 00 For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, and fixtures. fire­ bricks, clay, sand, and repairs of stea1n-heating- apparatus, grates, ranges, furnaces, and stoves ...................................... ..... ........................................................................ 12,000 ()() For gas-pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repair;; of the same ............................................................................................................................ .. 900 00 For fuel for cadet~:~' m.ess-hall, shop;;, and laundry.......................................................... 3,000 ()() For postage and telegr:uns .............................................................................................. 300 00 For stationery, blank books, paper, enYelopes, quills, steel-pens, rubbers, erasers, pen­ cils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, pen-holders, tape, blotting-pads, and rubber bands .......................................................................... 600 00 For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages .................................. 1, 750 00 For printing: For type, mate;·ials for oflice, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents ....................................................................... 1,000 00 For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster.................................................. 1, 200 ()() For clerk to adjutant, in charge of cadet records .......................................................... 1, 200 00 For clerk to treasurer .................................................................................................... .. 1,200 ()() For department of instruction in mathematics, namely : For repairs and materials for preservation of models and instruments, $50; text-books, books of reference, and stationery for instructors, $150; binding books of reference, t,50; two sets drawing instruments, $50; in all ................................................................................................. 300 ()() For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase andre­ pairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of in- structors, and contingencies, $500; for continuing preparation of text-books, for special instruction of cadets, $500; in all.. .................................................................... 1,000 00 For extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman ............................................. 100 00 Carried fonYard 232,982 50 4 APPROPRIATIONS, NBW OPFICE8, ETC. Appropriations, g·c.-Continuecl. Brought for·ward .............................................................................................. $252,982 50 For department of chemistry, mineralogy and geology: For chemicals, chemical ap­ paratus, !!:lass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, ores, photographic ap­ paratus and materials, $500; rough specimens, fossils, tiles, alcohol, lamps, blow­ pipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, $400; repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, $750; in all ................................................................................................ .. 1,650 00 For pay of mechanic employed