Salaries of designated depositaries.

Life-saving Service, contingent expenses.

Expenses of Revenuecutter Service.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Amount due Thomas Steel, late surveyor of customs and desig
nated depositary at Pittsburgh, Pa., on account of commissions
for receiving, safe-keeping, and disbursing public moneys,
under act of March 2, 1853, as per letter of the First Comp.
troller of the Treasury, being for the service of 1874, and prior
years

To adjust the settled accounts of Thomas Steel, late surveyor of
customs and designated depositary at Pittsburgh, Pa., involv-
ing no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the
service of 1874, and prior years, $2,666 14.
Amount due B. C. Sparrow, superintendent life-saving station,
2d district, East Orleans, Mass., for travelling expenses, as
per certificate of the accounting officers of the Treasury De-
|partment, being for the service of the fiscal year 1875.

For the payment of amount due Harrison Loring, of Boston,
Mass., for repairs to the revenue-steamer "Levi Woodbury,'
in December, 1873, $250.

NOTE.-This amount was chargeable to the appropriation for
1874, but the balance of the appropriation for that year reverted
to the surplus fund June 30, 1876, and was reappropriated for
the service of the fiscal year 1877 by act of July 31, 1876, (19 Stat.,
page 107.) Authority of law is requested, therefore, to pay the
amount of Mr. Loring's bill from the unexpended balance reap-
propriated for the fiscal year 1877.

Compensation in lieu of For compensation, in lieu of moieties in certain cases, under the
moieties.

Customs Service

customs-revenue laws, $10,000.

NOTE.-The cases accruing in 1875, and previously, which have
not been settled, and in which informers' claims are pending,
require about ten thousand dollars. As the appropriation of
$200,000 for the fiscal year 1876 is believed to be sufficiently
large to admit of the payment of these unsettled claims there-
from, authority of law is requested for the use of the appropria
tion for 1876, for the payment of claims which accrued in 1875,
and previously, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, ($10,000.)

For the settlement of balances due disbursing officers for ex-
penditures made by them in pursuance of law, on account of
the following appropriations:

Salaries of light-house keepers, fiscal year 1871, and prior

March 3, 1873

years...

July 15, 1870

16

303

Salaries of light-house keepers, fiscal year 1873.

June 10, 1872

17

356

Supplies of light-houses, fiscal year 1872.

March 3, 1871

16

507

Revenue-cutter Service, fiscal year 1872.

March 3, 1871

16

496

1

Preserving life and property from shipwrecked vessels,

fiscal year 1874

March 3, 1873

17

510

1

180 00

7,006 45

Estimates of balances of appropriations carried to the surplus fund, &c.-Continued.

Customs Service-Continued.

Inquiries into the causes
of steam-boiler explo-
sions.

MISCELLANEOUS-Continued.

Preserving life and property from shipwrecked vessels, fiscal year 1874.. contingent expenses,

Life-saving Service, fiscal year 1875.

To meet the expenses attendant upon experiments made as to
the causes of steam-boiler explosions, it is desired by the
Boiler Commission that the balance ($4,064 96) of the appro
priation made by the act of March 3, 1873, be continued and
made available for said purpose

Refunding moneys for Refunding the principal and interest of the purchase-money of

lands redeemed.

Repayment for lands sold for direct taxes.

lands redeemed after the sale of the same, under "An act fur-
ther to amend an act entitled An act for the collection of direct
taxes in the insurrectionary districts within the United States,
and for other purposes,"" approved June 7, 1862, as follows:
To pay George Billow the sum of $410, with interest from
December 28, 1864, to date of payment..

To repay to purchasers evicted through failure of title from
lands sold to them in insurrectionary districts for direct taxes,
as follows:

To Julia D. Evans, $775; to James Garibaldi, surviving partner of Garibaldi & Veil, $4,000..

Refunding taxes illegally To refund to persons money collected from them without war. collected. rant of law, as in payment of dues under the direct-tax laws...

Refunding taxes illegally
collected, (Internal
Revenue.)
Redemption of stamps,
(Internal Revenue.)

To refund and pay back taxes erroneously or illegally assessed
or collected under the internal-revenue laws..

To repay the amount or value paid for stamps which may have
been spoiled, destroyed, or rendered useless or unfit for the
purpose intended, or which, through mistake, may have been
improperly or unnecessarily used.

R. S. 1015 5218

6,440 74 (Indefinite.)

420 00

114, 252 56

1,456, 321 40

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Reappropriation of balance of $100,000, appropriated by act of June 10, 1872.

General object.

(Title of appropriation.)

References to
Statutes at

Estimates of balances of appropriations carried to the surplus fund, &c.-Continued.

Pay, &c., of the Army..

WAR DEPARTMENT-CONTINUED.
Reappropriation of balance of $10,000, appropriated by act of
March 3, 1875.

Appropriated. 18 461

1

$851 56

$851 56

Reappropriation of balance of $25,000, appropriated by act of
June 22, 1874..

Appropriated. 18 199

3

5, 000 00

5,000 00

Reappropriation of balance of $6,644 80, appropriated by act of
March 3, 1875..

NOTE.-These items were carried to the surplus fund June
30, 1877, by surplus-fund warrant No. 247.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department for pay, travelling, and
general expenses of the Army, being for the service of the
fiscal year 1874.

NOTE.-For schedule of claims, see Appendix, marked "A."

Medical and Hospital de. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting
partment.
officers of the Treasury Department for medical and hospital
supplies and incidental expenses of the Medical department
of the Army, being-

For the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years.
For the service of the fiscal year 1872

For the service of the fiscal year 1875

NOTE. For schedule of claims, see Appendix, marked "A."

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department for payment of costs and
charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, mainten
ance, and medical attendance of United States military con-
victs confined in them:

For the service of the fiscal year 1872
For the service of the fiscal year 1873
For the service of the fiscal year 1874

NOTE. For schedule of claims, see Appendix, marked "A."
For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department for expenses of the draft
and for the procuration of substitutes:

For the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years.
NOTE. For schedule of claims, see Appendix, marked "A."
To pay claims of enlisted men of the volunteer service, or their
widows and legal heirs, for bounty certified to be due them by
the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for
the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years

NOTE. For schedule of claims, see Appendix, marked "A." |
For payment of amount certified to be due Charles Werneke,
private Fifth California volunteers, by the accounting officers
of the Treasury Department:

For the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years..
For payment of amount certified to be due George Hey, for sub-
sisting volunteer recruits in 1863, by the accounting officers of
the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal
year 1871, and prior years..

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the
Army, being-

For the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years.
For the service of the fiscal year 1873

For the service of the fiscal year 1874

For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by
the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for
transportation of the Army, being for the service of the
fiscal year 1874.

NOTE. For schedule of claims, see Appendix "A." The
claims included under the appropriation for 1873 are printed in
Appendix "K" of the deficiency estimates.

Jan.

16, 1864

July 22, 1861