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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 415. 1872. 867 the second section of chapter two hundred and thirty of the statutes of 1866,ch.230,§2. the United States for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and at rates VOL XW- P- 221- 0f compensation therefor to be established by the Postmaster-General: Provided also, That whenever any telegraph company shall have Bled its written acceptance with the I’0stmaster·General, of the restrictions and obligations required by the act approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled, "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the government the use of the same, for postal, military, and other purp0ses,”if such company, its agents, or employees p(,,,,]ty ,,1,,,, shall hereafter refuse or neglect to transmit any such telegraphic communi- °¤¤’t¤*¤ §¢l¢g¤¤Ph cations as are provided for by the aforesaid act, or by the joint resolution §f;frf°;2;°fr§':`s_"` approved the ninth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy, “ to mit certain comauthorize the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteorological obser— ".‘§“”i°“*l°"°· vations at the military stations and other points of the interior of the con- °I' xv1'p` M9' tinent, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and seaboard of the approach and force of storms," such telegraphic company shall forfeit and pay to the United States not less than one hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars for each refusal or neglect aforesaid, to be recovered by an action or actions at law, in any district court of the United States. Jmscellamouc Oéjecls. — To provide for the payment under existing M;m11,m0u,_ laws for horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service _ Prvvenjtg lm of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. ;‘;t@‘;B{“’ my Secret-service fund: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle secret service the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already made in pur- fum suauce of law, which will not involve any actual expenditure, but merely a transfer on the books of the treasury, fifty thousand dollars. To provide for the payment to Benn Pitman for a transcript of his Benn Pitman. pbonograpbic copy of the record and proceedings of the court of inquiry iz'} ¤h-2?é$1- in relation to the conduct of General D. C. Buell, while in command °’ p` of the army in Kentucky and Tennessee, the sum of twelve hundred dollars. Military convicts at State penitentiaries: For payment of costs and _Mi1imry cancharges of State penitentisries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and “°*;'¤ ¤*P¤!W medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, p°°"°°°mm°°' sixty-five thousand dollars. Refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers: To in- Refunding to demnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, §t§m;i;;Pj;f;’;_ and transporting troops for the defence of the United States during the mm, late insurrection, five hundred thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to pay the expenses incurred, on the Arbitration bepart of the United States, in the arbitration had between the United SSS: ihedliaifei States and the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company, thirteen thou- Gm: E;),, ssc_ sand. seven hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-seven cents. Canal cs. ’ To provide for the erection of head-stones upon the graves of soldiers Headstones upin the national cemeteries, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. gQ‘m€8"‘§;’ °‘“ ’° ‘ For the establishment of an astronomical base, and continuance of mill- Sul·veys &c., tary and geographical surveys and explorations west of the one hundredth gzsliglfgod west meridian of longitude, under the direction of the Secretary of War, seventy- g °‘ five thousand dollars. For the purchase and preparation nf instruments for a proper observe- Transit of tion of the transit of Venus, which is predicted to occur 011 the eighth of V°““’· December, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, fifty thousand dollars, to be _ _ expended under the direction of a commission, to be composed of the g<>m1g1¤¤:¤<>¤éu superintendent and two of the professors of mathematics of the navy at- °° °°*p‘ tached to the naval observatory, the president of the national academy of sciences, and the superintendent of the coast survey: Provided, That no Pmvim contracts or engagements shall be made for such instruments to an amount exceeding the sum hereby appropriated. I For pedestal for the equestrian statue of General Wmiield Scott, au- Pcdestulto