I FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 287. 1876. 143 CHAP. 287.———An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judi- Aug. 15, 1876. cial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- ~—···r;·— dred and seventy seven, and for other purposes Post, pl QM, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, E f*}’}’f‘{{"`;.““"’f‘*’ and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas c(;,;{“,€’,;B ?{,:H(3,,(Q§; ury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation, for the service of cial oxnonses. the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- Seven, ior the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: LEGISLATIVE. SENATE—For compensation of Senators, three hundred and seventy Senate, componthousand dollars ; ¤Ml<>¤· For mileage of Senetors, thirty thousand dollars. Mi1<¤¤K<=>- For compensation of the ofheers, clerks, messengers, and others re- 0mm1s and Om eeiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, namely : For Seo- n1<>y6¤- retary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing-oilioer, four thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars, and for hire of horses and wagons for the Secretary’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars, and the additional sum of one thousand dollars while the said office is held by the present incumbent, and no longer; principal clerk, principal executive clerk, minute and jonr— nal clerk, and finaneialclerk in the oithee of the Secretary of the Senate, two thousand nve hundred and ninetytwo dollars each ; librarian, and seven clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerk of printing records two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; five clerks two thousand one hundred dollars each; keeper of the stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars und forty cents; one messenger, one thousand two hundred and ninetysix dollars; tour laborers in the office of the Secretary of the Senate; seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one special policeman, one thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars; chaplain, nine hundred dollars; secretary to the Vice President, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and torty cents; clerk to the Committee on Finance, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Uomniittee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Ooninnittce on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars ; clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant keeper of the stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Sergeant-at-Arms and Door-keeper, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; assistant door-keeper, two thousand five hundred and ninetytwo dollars; acting assistant doorkeepervtwo thousand five hundred and ninetytwo dollars; three ihessengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each ; postmaster to the Senate, two thousand one hundr·ed dollars; assistant postmaster and mail-carrier, two thousand and eighty eight dollars; four mail-carriers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ;·superintendent of the documentrooin, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each ; superintendent of the folding-room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant in the told- 4 ingroom, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-one, messengers, one of whom shall act as upholsterer under direction of the Sergeantat- Arms, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; one laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand tour hundred and forty dollars each; assistant engineer in charge of the Senate elevator, one thousand
