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 FORTTFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105. 1877. 357 of January eighteen hundred and seventy seven by the Third Auditor of the Treasury as allowed by the Second Comptroller and part; of thirty thousand dollars. reported by the Secretary ol' the Treasury on the sixth of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to Congress for payment, one thousand five hundred and sixty-tive dollars. To pay the expenses of a commission of three skilled entoinologists, Commission m to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to report upon the *°P°l‘° 9** NOW? depredations of the Rocky Mountain loeusts in the Western States and M"““‘“‘“ 1°°“““· Territories and the best; practicable methods of preventing their recurrence, or guarding against their invasions, who may be attached to the United States Geological and Geographical Surveys of the Territories, eighteen thousand dollars. To pay W. A. Britton, late United States marshal, western district of W- A- Britton- Arkansas, two thousand dollars and seventy four cents, amount expended by him in fitting up a building for the use of the United States court in said district. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to send a steam revenue vos- Rovei_iuosi¤amoi— sel to the seal islands of Alaska. and maintain the same in cruising in ut “°“1‘S1°“‘l*’· those waters, for the protection of the sea-other hunting grounds and the seal lislieries of the United States, eighteen thousand dollars. To pay expenses incurred by the two voluntary committees in obtain- Copies of eviing copies of evidence tiled before retyurning-boa.rd of Louisiana wlricli <> l¤>Y<>1‘¤ M- has been printed by order of the Senate, two thousand four hundred ig;;,;;',;?' b°“"l* dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. ` To pay Morgan Envelope Company for stationery furnished the Post Morgan Enve- Oiiice Department for the fiscal year ending Julie thirnieth, eighteen ***1* Collllmlly- hundred and seventy-six, two hundred and cwentsy-nine dollars and twenty cents. ‘ For expenses necessarily incurred in the removal of the Bureau of Eriivoiises ol' rc- Education, with its documents, library and papers, and for preparing “‘°"'“f»E%*°·_{ clk" the new rooms for the reception and care ot" the same, and {br the dis- mw ° um w"' tribution of the reports and publications of bureau, wrapping paper, twine, wrapping and mailing the same, one thousand five hundred dol- _ urs. For the necessary clerical force to enable the Commissioner of the Clerical a»i·oo,ror General Land-Oihce to carry into effect the act; of Congress approved salo¤1`1u¤<ls in Ar- June twont-y second; eighteen hundred and seventy six, for bringing k“{g%’»°f°·16r into market the public lands in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis- A""; gl; "’ _ sissippi, Alabama, and Florida, ten thousand dollars, to be available ’ from and after the passage of this act For the publication of proelamations relating to the sales of public Publishing proc- · lands in the dillercnl. States and t.erritories, as authorized by section two l*"'{*l'l°ll¤ ’°l¤**¤E of an act entitled °‘An ncl; providing for the sale of saline lands" ap- °°1°,Q§S($;{ lf1g1GB` proved Jainuary Lwelftili, eiglitoon liandred and seventy seven, and an m,mQQ2i_. act entitled "An act ico repeal section twenty three hundred and three 1876, eh. 165, of the Revised Statutes oi' the United States making; restzrietions in the ¢*"l”·7i’· disposition of the public lands in the States of Alabama., Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida., and for other purposes," approved · July fourth eighteen hundred and seventy six, such sum is hereby appropriated as may be necessary to pay for the same _ To proteec the piers at the draw of the bridge across the Mississippi T°_P”°*°°* l’l°*`¤ river at Rock Island Illinois owned by the United States, by the ereo- ‘f,f,d1§§°k IS1‘"‘d t-ion of booms, be be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Q ` War, fifteen thousand dollars, and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacitie Railway company is 1·•—quii·0d to 1'(‘l·l1ll(l to the Treasury of the United States, one half of the said sum, and the Secretary ol' the Treasury is hereby directed to entbrce this condition To pay be the assignee of the Dominican Republic, the sum of sixty- limb of bubv WM tive thousand dollars, rent: for the occupation of the bay and peninsula °f$“‘“"““‘ of Samaria, until December eighteen hundred and seventy-one, by the United States as a coaling-station, pursuant to a convention between