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 240 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 359. 1878. Cempeueetien of To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the compensation of P°S*‘“‘”"°"’· postmasters for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Postal revenues- To supply deficiencies in the postal revenues for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. T. A. Kenuig. To pay T. A. Kendig for carrying the mails in Louisiana from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to June thirtieth. eighteen hundred and sixtyseven (routes numbered eight thousand one hundred and eight and eight thousand one hundred one hundred and nine), being adetlciency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, tour thousand and ninety-nine dollars and forty four cents. Uniform mm:- That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to adept ivy ink in pew! a uniform canceling ink or other appliance for cancling stamps which ’°""”°°· experiments and tests have proved or may prove to be the most practicable and the best calculated to protect the revenues of the department from the frauds practiced upon it, to be used in all the post-otiices where stamps are canceled, and he is hereby authorized to distribute said canceling ink or other appliance in the same manner as other supplies are now distributed to the different post-oiilces in the United States; and to this end the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to use any funds p,.,,,,,,,,_ of said department heretofore applicable: Provided, The same shall not increase the expenditures of said department for the purposes named in this section. Department of For the Department of Agriculture, namely: For labor, manure, re- Agiieulture. pairing and extending concrete, purchasing new tools, and repairs of machinery, six thousand five hundred dollars. For investigating diseases of swine and infectious and contagious diseases to which all other classes of domesticated animals are subject, ten thousand dollars; to be expended under and by the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture. To continue and complete the work of the United States Entomological Commission attached to the United States Geological and Gographical Survey of the Territories, in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper, the sum of ten thousand dollars; to be immediately available. Hiekey*s Consti· Sno 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to purchase tutieu- fifteen hundred copies of Cummings’ edition of Hickey’s Constitution of the United States; four hundred copies of which shall be for the use of the State Department, with which to furnish United States legations and consulates, four hundred copies thr the use of the Senate, and seven hundred and twenty copies for the use of the House of Representatives · and the sum of two thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for that purpose. Fisheries award. Sec. 3. That the sum of ive and one-half million dollars, in gold coin, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed under the direction of the President of the United States, with which to pay to the Government of Her Britianic Majesty the amount awarded by the Fisheries Commission, lately assembled at Halifax, in pursuance of the Treaty of Wash- W;,.,.,,;,, 1,.,1,,,% ington, if, after correspondence with the British Government, on the subject of the conformity of the awards to the requirements of the treaty and to the terms of the question thereby submitted to the commission, the President shall deem it his duty to make the payment without further communication with Congress. Approved, June 20, 1878.