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 FORTY—FIFTII CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 359. 1878. 239 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents. To pay John H. Dougherty for services- under the Doorkeeper from J. H.Doug1¤orty. September iirst to December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, three hundred and forty-two dollars. To pay J. G. Houston for services under the Doorkeeper during the J. G. Houston. second session of the Forty fourth Congress, two hundred and ninety- five dollars and thirty three cents. To pay Edward F. Riggs for fifty eight days’ service as page in tho E- F- Riggs- Clerks office, said service terminating on the twenty eighth of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-five dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay claims examined and found E”*£l°Y°°** *****1*** to be just by the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service to certain D°°" °°p"' persons for services rendered the House of Representatives under the late Doorkeeper John W. Polk, and the presentDoorkeeper and Sergeantat-Arms, amounting to seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy said claims; which sum is hereby appro- Hawpaid. priated, to be paid only on approval and order of the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, and said amount to be available immediately. To pay J. C. Kondrup for services as messenger to the official re- J. c. Kondrup. porters of debates during the present session, five hundred and eighty- tour dollars and twenty-tour cents. To pay William P. Thomas for services as messenger under the Door- W- P- Themeskeeper during April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and seventy- seven, one hundred and eighty dollars and four cents. To pay Asher Barnett for services as clerk to the Committee on Ex- A- B=¤‘¤¤¤¤· penditures in the Navy Department from October thirty-first, eighteen hudred and seventy-seven, to March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight seven hundred and sixty two dollars. To pay J. B. Holloway for services as clerk to the Committee on Ex- J- B- H01I0W3N- penditures in the Department of Justice from November first, eighteen hudred and seventy seven, to March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the time he actually entered upon duty as such notwithstanding his failure to he sworn until a later day, seven hundred and sixtytwo dollars. CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase works of Works of art. art for the Capitol building, fifteen thousand dollars. _ To purchase portraits of the President, three thousand dollars. id£;’g'¤*”°fPM· - For three additional assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars _A¤¤i¤*¤¤* libre each per annum, to be employed in the Library of Congress, three "“"“‘ thousand six hundred dollars. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to cause to be W"k¤0f¢"‘H° W removed from the Capitol, within thirty days from the close of this "‘”"'”"’d‘ session of Congress, all works of art which have not been purchased or accepted by Congress, excepting Troye’s equestrian painting of General Winfield Scott, and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to remove the same from the basement and hang it in an appropriate place in the Capitol. VARIOUS. That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and di- Lig1‘;mRi;;',:“R¤9f rected to pay to the Quartermaster’s Department the sum of sixteen way C0mp,my_“‘ ` thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents, on account of mail service performed· by the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy- two; and the said sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.