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 418 FORTYTHIBD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 131. 1875, And to enable the accounting officers of the Government to settle the accounts of certain registers and receivers of the United States laudoffices, a transfer got involving any appropriation of money out of the Treasury) of a su cient sum, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, 18 hereby authorized. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Claims for cx- For payment of unsettled claims now pending before the Department P¤¤¤°¤ °f °°“l“· for defrayin g expenses of United States courts, being for the servree of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy one, and prior years, twenty thousand dollars. B¤ii§i¤€¤ M Sw And the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars “ for the con- A“t°m°‘ struction of depot-buildings including shops, offices, and commissary 1B'/3.¢·297»V-IV, and quartermasters store-rooms at San Antonio, Texas/’ made by act l’· 5% of March third eighteen hundred and seventy three, _1s hereby contm. ucd and rendered available for the purpose originally intended. Use of *ll'P'°l“'i‘ Sec. 5. That whenever it may be necessary in the ettlement of the “‘“°‘fm   fg accounts of disbursing officers of the Government for expenditures ggsgemgnt 0{ di,- already made in pursuance of law, to use appropriations carried to the burning accounts. surplus fund under section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen 1874, c. 328, cme, hundred and seventy-four the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby aup. 110. thorized to make the necessary entries on the books of the Department Pr<>vi¤<>· to effect such settlements, Provided, That such entries shall not involve the expenditure of any moneys from the Treasury. B=¤l=¤¤¤¢<l¤¤F¤¤¤- Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury, through the proper ac- 0%; Lé‘1;‘g£§;¤ zi} counting oiilccrs, bc, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to apply yp0g,,} S_Gm,,,,_ the balances of two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and two cents, and one hundred and eightytwo dollars and forty-nine cents, now standing to the credit of Francis M. Lamper late receiver of public moneys and disbursin g agent, respectively, on the books of the Treasury Department, in partial payment to the legal holders thereof of certain checks, amounting to the sum of five hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents, drawn by Roger S. Greene, judge of the second judicial district, Washington Territory, on the First National Bank of Portland, Oregon, against a deposit made with the said Francis M. Lamper, late United States depositary at Olympia, \Vashington Territory, May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the credit and subject to the order of the court, and which said Lamper was supposed to have transferred to the First National Bank of Portland at the time of the of the discontinuance of the Olympia depositary, but failed to account for: and that the said balances of two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and two cents, and one hundred and eighty two dollars and forty-nine cents, due to the said Francis M. Lamper, as late receiver and disbursing agent, respectively, together with the additional sum of one hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-eight cents requiredto cover the full amount of said checks, be paid the proper holders of said checks, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. John G. Hosmer. To enable the Department of Justice to settle with and pay John G. Hosmer, latesherilf of Cayuga County, New York, the disbursements and reward paid in the capture of the notorious counterfeiter, Thomas Ballard, three hundred and thirtyeight dollars. Commissionersto Sec. 7. That the Secretary of State is authorized to pay, out of any V*°¤¤*’·E¤P°¤m°¤- balance now remaining unexpended, of the monies appropriated in joint resolution approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy 1873,Res. No. 3, three entitled f‘ Joint Resolution to enable the people of the United V- 17·P·€*`*"· States to participate in the advantages of the International Exposition to be held at Vienna in eighteen hundred aud’ seventy three " the sum of five hundred dollars to each of the fifteen commissioners, appointed under authority of said joint resolution, who, in addition to undertaking reports upon special subjects at said exposition, either served upon international jurie or were detained in Vienna by reason of assisting in