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 FORTYEIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 332. 1884. 225 low Hartford, in eighteen hundred and eighty-two and eighteen hundred and eighty-three, under the advice and by the recommendation of the United States engineer officers in charge, six thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-two cents. _ To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York Transportation Company for money expended in maintaining a temporary light on the breakwater at the mouth of the Connecticut River from February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, while the work was in progress, and under an arrangement with the United States engineer ouicers in charge of the work, the same to be paid from the unexpended appropriation for the erection of a Government light there, made in eighteen hundred and eighty- two, and to be immediately available, two thousand one hundred and twenty four dollars. SENATE To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to J. P. Voorhees, H. G. J. P. Voqi-ness. Williams, and C. B. Lapham, clerks during the second session of the H·1§*·Il”m~¤¤m¤· Forty seventh Congress to the Select Committees of the Senate on Ad- C' ‘ “Ph"‘“" ditional Accommodations for the Library, on the River Front of Washington, and on Woman Suhrage, respectively, an amount sufficient to make the compensation of each equal to that paid to per diem clerks of other committees during said session, the same being the difference between the sum paid to said clerks by way of compensation during said session and the allowance under the legislative bill of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, construing the words “ during the session ” to mean four months; and a suilieient sum is hereby appropriated and made immediately available. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Mrs. Mary Boss, M¤¤.vR<>¤¤- widow of James Ross, deceased, late an employee of the Senate the sum of ntty-one dollars, due him for services rendered in the foldingroom of the Senate. To pay W. C. Frye, assistant conductor of the elevator, one hundred W. G.Fryc. and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents being the difference between t-he pay of a laborer and that of a skilled laborer from October fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-four. To reimburse Benjamin Durfee for money advanced by him and to Benjamin Ducompensate him for labor bestowed in the compilation of the tarif sta- fwtistics of the United States (Senate Report Number Twelve Forty-eighth Congress iirst session), in pursuance of Senate resolution otz March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Joint Committee on Public Printing to complete the 01¤¤¤iii¤d, wr-. preparation, proof-reading, and indexing of the classihed, analytical, gg?-}?;$‘° °:,g°" and descriptive catalogue of Government publications, and of publica- tions_P °°` tions of public interest purchased by the United States for use or distribution, four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the final completion of the work which may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For six hundred copies of volume two of Lewis Heyl’s work entitled nsyrs United “ United States Duties on Imports," edition of eighteen hundred and 22m! D°“°° °¤ eightyfour, one thousand five hundred dollars; one copy for each Sen- Pm" ator, Representative, and Delegate, and the residue for the use of the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. To pay J. C. Courts for clerical services rendered to the House mem- ·7·C·C<>¤¤¤· bers of the Joint commission to consider the question of the salaries of the officers and employees of the House and Senate, authorized by the x x ll i--1.3