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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 359. 1878. 209 otherwise provided by law; and to require the Washington Gas-light Salaries. Company to light the city lamps at such price as shall to the said Com- Ugh""!- missioners appear tobe just and reasonable. And all expenses heretofore Eq,,,,,,,,,_ incurred by the general government for the board of health, for the metropolitan police, and for gas inspection, shall hereafter be a charge upon the government of the District. For the support of the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, Nati on a1 Sol- Washington City, District of Columbia, including salaries and incidental d i M'}-' ¤*¤·» Orcxpenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Ph;,';?, Egfgg Interior, there is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance which 19 S{,,t_;349f may remain of the appropriation of ten thousand dollars for the nscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight: Pro- Dawn5W4m.,;; vided, That the institution shall be closed up and discontinued during the ensuing fiscal year, and the title to the property, real and personal, shall be conveyed to the United States before any further payments are made to the trustees of the said institution. That a sum not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars he appro- workmen Om. priated to pay the workingmun employed in the public improvements played undo r under the late board of public works of the District of Columbia-, or the ¤·;r·1 °f Puuw contractors of the same, whose claims for work and labor are due w" “‘ and unpaid from contractors whose accounts against the government of the District of Columbia had been paid prior to the passage of the act 18y4,,,b_455, of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy four, entitled 18 Stat., 210. •‘An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive, and for other purposes ": Provided, That such claims shall Pr¤viv<>· be severally audited and paid by the proper accounting and disbursing (ii""' W`; ’“’“’ officers of the Treasury, and that the amount found to be due to each pa workman shall only be paid to him in person if living, or, in case of non-residents of the District of Columbia, by draft on the Treasury of the United States to his or their order, or to his legal representatives if dead: And provided further, Klhat if said sum of seventy-tive thousand Proviao. dollars shall not be sufficient to pay all such claims filed prior to first day of December next in full, then there shall he made the required pro rata deduction on each claim, and the amount to be paid on each claim shall be paid and received in full discha.rge of the claim of such workman : Provided further, That no such claims shall be received or audited by Provieo. the accounting-ofiicers of the Treasury subsequent to the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and that one-half the whole amount paid under this paragraph shall be paid by the United States and one-half shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia other than that portion which is derived from the United States. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Court-house and postoffice, Atlanta, Georgia: For completion of Public buildbuilding, sixty thousand dollars. i¤i¤hmm_ Custom-house and post-onice Albany, New York: For continuation of Au,,my;’ building, fifty thousand dollars. Post-office, Baltimore, Maryland: And the Secretary of the Treasury, Baltimore; the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and the engineer officer in charge of the fifth lighthouse district, are hereby authorized and directed to examine into and report to Congress at its next session 1,,,,,,,., to 0,,,,, upon the necessity of a building for a post-ofiice in Baltimore, Mary- gym, land, the price for which a site for the same can be obtained, and the cost of such a building thereon as the needs of said city may require. Custom·house and sub-treasury, Chicago, Illinois: For continuation Chicago; of building three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That p,,,,,,,,, the Supervising Architect be, and he is hereby, required and instructed to finish the parts of the building for the circuit and district courts of xx-—]4