3Q FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34, 35. 1879. of the current year is hereby authorized and appropriated for, namely: One clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; and three female clerks, at nine hundred dollars per annum each; in all, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. D;,,.,,,m, of (10- For the continuance of the investigation of the diseases of swine, and mestic animals. infectious and contagiou diseases to which all other classes of domesticated animals are subject, ten thousand dollars. R_ S_ ,,,7, Sec. 3. That sections forty-seven hundred and seventy-one, forty-seven R. S. 4772; hundred and seventy-two, and forty-seven hundred and seventy-three of R- S- 4773- the Revised Statutes of the United States, providing for biennial ex- ”"1’“"""· aminations of pensioners, are hereby repealed: Provided, That the Itmaminelivn of Commissioner of Pensions shall have the same power as heretofore to P”'“'*‘”'“i’· order special examinations, whenever, in his judgment, the same may be necessary, and to increase or reduce the pension according to right and justice; but in no case shall a pension be withdrawn or reduced except upon notice to the pensioner and a hearing upon sworn testi- Fhwzumal cur- mony, except as to the certiiicate of the examining surgeon. In order "°M?/ '*”°"”°· to provide for the speedy payment of arrearages of pensions, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue immediately in payment thereof, as they may be adjusted, the legal-tender currency, now in the United States Treasury, held as a special fund for the redemption of fractional crnrency under section one of joint resolution number seventeen of the Congress of the United States, approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and fractional currency presented for redemption shall be redeemed in any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Pay of wamhmm SEO. 4. That the pay of assistant messengers, Bremen, watchmen, ¢wdv¢7wr•· and laborers provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated in particular cases in the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which it continues and makes available (except as doclared in the iirst section of this act), shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, six hundred and sixty dollars per- annum each; and a sufficient amount to meet the provisions of this section is hereby appropriated. Approved, June 21, 1879. June 23, 1879, CHAP. 3§.—An act making appropriations for the sup ort of the Army for the fiscal -·———-———·-—-i year ending June tlnrtieth, eighteen hundred and eighlty, and for other purposes. _ Be tt enacted_by_the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and Military ¤°¤"1°<>- the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury notntherwisc appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year , ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, as follows: orgguzzéahzdggen- huggpcréxpgiigrizlof the commanding genera.1’s office, two thousand live Rscmiting. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, seventy-five thousand dollars. And no money approprirhfgm ber of re- ated by this act shall be paid for mounting the Army beyond the number ° “‘ · of twentyfive thousand enlisted men, including Indian scbuts and hospital stewards; and thereafter there shall be no more than twenty-five thou- E V t _ sand enlisted men in the Army at any one time, unless otherwise author- SW2, ggorxgzrs in rgzcld py law. N othing however, in this act shall be construed to prevent In s ments for the Signal Service, which shall hereafter be maintained, gsunggsgorganmfed ailid as provided by law, with a force of enlisted men have Gxiejrglg our undred and fifty, after present terms of enlistment
