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 FOR.TY=F1FTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. C11. 359. 1878. 237 twenty-tive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided, That said expenses and emoluments shall Promo. be paid after they have been audited and allowed, upon suitable · vouchers, by the proper accounting-officers of the Treasury. SENATE. Contingent fund of the Senate: For miscellaneous items, four thou- Mi¤¤¢>U¤¤¤<>¤¤- sand dollars, being a deticiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, Dofiviouoy- eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. For payment of S. B. Pennebaker, George McNeir, Thomas Bailey, S- B- Pounp- E. P. Holcombe, and William Dorrell McGowan, for services as pages },¥‘k‘i;`;,£,· M‘i,N°g· of the Senate during the present session, at one hundred and seventy H'Olc0},,b§" vi: D` dollars each, eight hundred and fifty dollars. McGowan; For payment to James W. Richardson for services as a page of the J. W. Richma- Senate, from April twelfth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and S°“- seventy-eight at two dollars and fifty cents per day, two hundred dollars. For payment to James W. Hurley, a page of the Senate, for eight J. W. Hur1ey. and one-half month’s service as such page, six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and dfty cents. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the additional expenses Monetary Cu u of the United States Monetary Commission, provided for by the joint ¤¤i¤¤i<>¤· resolution of August fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-six, five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That there be paid, out of the contingent funds of the respective Pu diomto clerk.; houses, the usual per diem allowance to all clerks of committees not ¢¢M¥1¤¤0¢·¤- having a yearly salary, and to the pages, for the period of thirty days from the adjournment of the present session of Congress. For the purchase of an additional water-tank, pipes and steam·pump Water-tank, ctc. for the Senate wing of the Capitol three thousand dollars. For the purchase of a new feed-water heater for the Senate boilers, Foo d-we t or one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. h°“*·°’· To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Jacob J. Noah for serv- J. J. Noah. ices rendered the Senate as clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia at the special session of the Senate from March ninth to March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy five, inclusive, being sixteen days, at six dollars per diem, the sum of ninety-six dollars. For the pay of six watchmen, at six hundred and sixty dollars per Watchmon in year, to be employed day and night on the Capitol Grounds; the same C?-1**01 é.’F°¤¤d¤· to be under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For the purchase of two of Martin’s stationary tire-extinguishing _M=¤j**¤’¤ iw6X- apparatus, to be placed in the lofts of both wings of the old part of the *‘“g“‘“h°'“‘ Capitol building, including the pipe connections and hoseattachments necessary to make this apparatus available for the extinguishment of tire at the library and all parts of the roof and lofts of the center building, to be erected under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For payment of Howard French as clerk in the Sergeant-at-Arms’ H·F'°“°h· office during the first and second sessions of the Forty-nfth Congress, at the same rate as committee clerks; such sum as may be necessary for that purpose is hereby appropriated. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Henry Cook the differ- H·C°°k- ence between his pay as skilled laborer and that of a messenger of the Senate of the United States from October fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, three hundred and ninety dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George T. Howard the G- T- Howarddiiference between his pay as skilled laborer and mail-carrier, and that of a messenger of the Senate of the United States from July first, eighteen