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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 133. 1881. 453 INDIAN AFFAIRS. Expenses of the Ute Commission: To meet necessary expenses of the Ute Commission. Ute Commissioners appointed by the President under section two of 1880, ch- 233- the act approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, fifteen A"**’»2°2· thousand dollars. For the payment of the expenses of the Miami Indian delegation nom Miami Indians. the In lian Territory now or recently in Washington, to be immediately available, to be deducted from the funds of said Miami Indians held in trust by the United States, one thousand five hundred dollars. That from the funds on hand and belonging to the Peoria, Wea, Kas- Peoria, Wea, Kaskaskia and Piankeshaw Indians there is hereby appropriated the sum of kiiskiav md. Pi**¤· one thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be immediately avail- k°Sh°’w I“d""““‘ able ; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same over to the delegation of Indians now or recently in Washington, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said delegation. UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Refitting rooms Post-Office Department building: For ilooring over Rsntting moms and reconstructing the gallery in dead letter office, and for iile-cases for ie P<>¤i·0 °° D°· dead-letter office gallery, nve thousand dollars. Pmm°”I°‘ MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. For the purchase and distribution of seeds, under the direction of the Distribution of Commissioner of Agriculture, to settlers on the public lands in the new ¤°°d¤- States and Territories whose crops were destr·oyed during the past year by drought and grasshoppers, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. MISGELLANEOUS. I Expenses of Territorial courts of Utah Territory: For defraying the Tciritoriaicourts, contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of United States dis- Utah T<>¤¤*°W· trict attorney and his assistants; the fees and per diems of United States commissioners and clerks of the courts, and the fees, per diem, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoening witnesses; of arrestmg, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and order of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and Certified, twenty-six thousand dollars. _ _ _ Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying Defcndlng Sum the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia pending in any department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be elxpended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand 0 ars. P1‘0Secution and collection of claims: For expenses to be incurred in c01;1E<>;<;<>&'°;;;°g°:gt:•f m' and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds m committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended_ by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, lurors, marshals, and agents, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars. ·