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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1880. 27 9 dollars- for the Department of Justice, ten thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eleven thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States thirty-four thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims ten thousand dollars; and for the Library of Congress, nineteen thousand dollars. " For the annual rental and necessary repairs of the telephones and 'lelophones. lines connecting the Capitol with the Government Printing Office and the several executive departments, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That lot subdivision nfty-five, in square six hundred and twenty-four, Piirchm or 1ot fronting on H street, in the city of Washington, adjoining the lands on ¤•l.i<>i¤i¤s_G<>v_<>r¤- which the Government Printing Office building is situated, shall be pur- ggm p"‘ “ “‘ “F? chased for the use of the United States; and it shall be the duty of the °°' Secretary of the Interior to purchase said lot, the value thereof to be paid to the owner, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of the said Secretary of the Interior: Pro- Iwviao. vided, That before such payment shall be made the owner of said lot shall, by a good and sufficient deed in fee simple, to be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, convey the said lot to the United States for the purpose aforesaid. That to ascertain the value of said lot it shall be the duty of the Sec- veiueorionnow retary of the Interior to make application to the supreme court of the ¤S¤<·rf·¤·i¤¤<¤<1- District of Columbia, by petition containing a particular description thereof by metes and bounds, with the name of the owner and his residence, and the said court is hereby authorized and required, upon such application, in such mode, and under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, after notice to the owner of said lot by summons, to appoint three commissioners, freeholders of the District of Columbia, acquainted with the value of real estate in Washington City, to make, under oath, a just and equitable appraisement of the cash value of said lot and the improvements thereon, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and required to pay to the owner ot said lot the amount specified in the appraisement so made, or he may deposit said amount for said owner with the court in payment thereof. The said court may direct the time possession of the said lot so condemned may be taken, and may, if necessary, enforce any order or issue any process necessary to give such possession. The eost occasioned by the appraisement and purchase shall be taxed and paid as the court may direct. SEN ATE. Senate. For improving and repairing the heating apparatus of the Senate 'M'B°°u“”°°“°· Chamber, for additional registers in floor and gallery, and for small sky- lights in roof and ceiling, and for one vacuum-pump, ten thousand dollars. For- clerk to Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate, two thousand mglgzkotg g,;;';, two hundred and twenty dollars. M~,,,m_ To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the assistant librarian d£*S‘S;;“jf m’*“‘ of the Senate from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, to June ’ P ‘ thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. soggggcgf R°P’°‘ That the parties named below be allowed the amounts set opposite t,‘g°§“izt:l°°‘ their names in full of expenses incurred by them respectively in con- xp ' tested-election cases: Joseph Mason, two thousand dollars. J°S°Pl{ M’:g°; . ,S6b¤StiH»n Duify, two thousand dollars, _ p Sebastxandli y. J. M. Bradley, one thousand five hundred dollars. J· M' Bm °y‘