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 FORTY -F OUBT11 CONGRESS; Sess. II. Ch. 105. 1877. 361 GENERAL MISCELLANEOUS. To pay Shephard S. Everett for clerical services in the Committee on Shephiml S- EV- Wa.r Claims of the_House of Representatives, rendered necessary by $"°°°‘ reports of the Commissioners of Claims four hundred dollars. To pay George P. Bradstreet for clerical services to the committee on G<>¤Ps¤ P- Bwithe part of the Senate to devise a plan for counting the electoral votes, “°’°°*· and for a settlement of questions arising thereon, one hundred dollars. To pay M. H. Northrup for clerical services to the committee on the M- H- N<>rthr¤1>- part of the House to devise a plan for counting the electoral votes and for a settlement of questions arising thereon, one hundred dollars. To pay to the widow of Hon Urris S Ferry, late a Senator of the oms s. Fmy, United States from the State of Connecticut, the sum of two thousand tive hundred dollars To enable the clerk of the House to pay the clerk of the Committee Clerk ofCommit. on Invalid Pensions of the Forty fourth Congress the same co1npensa— t9<=<>¤ Inv=>.1i<1 Puntion irom the_time of his appointment as is now allowed by law to the S‘°““· clerks of the Committees of Claims and War Claims and for the same length of time, deducting such sums as have already been paid him. ’l`o enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay bills for Printing bills of printing necessarily done at a private establishment on the order of the 9$f'“"“',*°° Q“L°“· chairman of the committee investigating the election in Louisiana three mum m°°m°"' thousand two hundred and ninety dollars to be approved by the Cominittee on Accounts. To pay Frank W Miller, page to Sergeant at Arms room, House of the Frank W. Mm.-i· House of Representatives from the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy six to March fourth eighteen hundred and seventy seven, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day, two hundred and twenty seven dollars and fifty cents _ _ That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be P‘}M‘§}‘“‘é€ @6* and are hereby authorized and directed to audit and pass the accounts r of such newspapers as published an advertisement for proposals for ’ ' Indian goods, medical supplies, and groceries, in August and September eighteen hundred and seventy six, on the basis of the agreements made with the publishers of those newspapers by the‘Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the time the insertion of the advertisement was ordered; and that the amounts thus found to be due be paid out of the appropriations for the support of the Indian service for the current fiscal year available for payment for advertising. _ To pay William C. Nicholls, late assistant treasurer at Chicago, Illinois, William C- Nichat the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, for the first twenty-seven °1lS· days in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, less the amount paid him as cashier for that period, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and eighty four dollars and ninety-tour cents. · To enable the clerk of the Committee on the Public Lands, of the C°“*°“““*U““d· House Representatives to revise, correct, and continue the land map map` (known as the Centennial map) prepared for the use of said committee, one thousand dollars, and said clerk shall supervise the publication and. sale of said map at cost price. To pay S. S. Strachan for services under the Doorkeeper of the House S- S- Slmcllsufor the month of August eighteen hundred seventy four to be paid out of the contingent fund of the House, one hundred and eleven dollars and sixty cents. That six thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, of }¤$i>¢¤S¤¤<>ff¤<>¤¤- the sum appropriated by the act of March third eighteen hundred and m‘“€;i’)“‘{" 1**; l}?;;;: seventy five ll making appropriation for sundry civil expenses " and so 2OT,.,m§f I forth" for the year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and 1§75,ch. 130, seventy-six; to pay the expenses of the commissioner appointed by the 19 S¤¤¤·.390· President, under joint resolution approved February sixteenth, eighteen }S7gé£°**;g,i · _ · . . », ·J . hundred and seventy-tivo to attend the inte1 national prison congress is