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 308 FORTY—FIRS'1‘ CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 292. 1870. _ sioner for the examination of the first ten miles of the Minnesota Valley }2£·°hB;g• railroad, in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, under the appointment of the ’ P`Secretary of `the Interior, four hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents. _Psi·d<>¤ H· For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the §I$lfg'{1§:;°dl°m account of Pardon H. Sibley for his per diem and mileage in attending the session of the board of government commissioners. directors, and engineers assembled by the Secretary of the Interior at Washington, for the purpose of establishing a standard for the Pacific railroad, two thousand and sixty-three dollars. William Sy- For additional pay heretofore withheld from William Syphax, to Ph”‘ equalize his compensation with that of an assistant messenger, two thousand one hundred and eivhty dollars. Eclipse of the To enable the superiiitendent of the coast survey to make observa- §)‘;:_"£,£f‘°°“" tions in Europe on the eclipse of the sun next December, twenty-nine ’ thousand dollars. b&Ij;>Yg:£m To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse the owners of the Nor- Bimhlfor {mu, wegtan bark General Birch for the expenses incurred by them in the or master and rescue and care of thirty-four American citizens, master and crew of the %”;’;;;§O;l;m American ship Dreadnought, wrecked on Cape Penas, on the fourth of Jlply, eighteen hundred and stxty-nine, three thousand two hundred and t irty-nine dollars, in gold. G. B. H. Fos- To pay C. B. H. Fessenden for amount found due him as collector of “°°d°“· the port of New Bedford, for commissions on lighthouse disbursements putsidedof his district, three thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars an seventeen cents. _Supr¤mc and For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and district courts g::°'Q}°;Q,_‘;‘:,“'° °f of the United States, including_the District of Columbia, and also for States, jurors, jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and Wll¤°”°°· &°· forfeitures, in the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and Expenses or seventy-one, and previous years, and likewise for defraying the expenses °“““= Sw- of suits in which the United States are concerned, including legal assistance to the Attorney-General, and other special and extraordinary expenditures in cases of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offenses committed agipnst the hUnpedd States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, one mi ion two un re thousand dollars. Bronze eques- To secure the making of a contract b the Secret f Wh M s f _ y ary o I ar wit wf:n¤iE°gg°‘:t_ Henry K. Brown, of Newburg, New York, for a bronze equestuan statue 1>`?3, 1:o;.;, oS£rcve;.0IG;autenant-General Wijnfiegd Scott, fifteen thousand dollars, in · · · · a 1 ion e sum appropriate y tie joint resolution for that purpose g,,,,,;,; ,,9,,,, approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. i g¤:_lg:};l%:;$ For special agent to report on the trade between the United States and I_,}m°%cu_ the tdepepdencies of Gpept Britain in North America, as provided for hy ub. e¤.No.80. Join reso utiou approve une twenty-three,eighteen hundred and seve t PW. D- 381- four thousand dollars. y g n yi wcspzeylt gpg.- Migogsigzpmgalphicg1lmsprvelysdead mili:la1éyl;·econnois[s]ances west of the als. . i _ H1, un re iousan dollars. iigséahvsg lo enable the Secretary of lVar to defray the necessary expenses ot' orgzzgieafmpi the bureau of: ordnance and its officers, in connection with the court of' qw} inquiry, held in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and eighteen hundred l and sixty-nine, and of which Major-General George H. Thomas was presim£¢;f£:¤;;$+ dent, five thousand dollars. my 0mg6C0n_ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no advertisement, notice, or ppcagelggpauécthe proposal for any executive department of the government, or for any pmmm wha bureau thereof; or for any office therewith connected, shall be publishedpubtmwd in my ;_H tllly D€VVS[l¤}l£tl` whatever, except in pursuance of a. written authority Egwtslggpf ¤¤- or such publication from the head of such department; and no bill, for 5,], not to be any suchludvertising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be prepaid unless, Geo. sented, with such bill, a copy of the written authority aforesaid.